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Virginia State Plate Tag Dont Tread on ME

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Released:
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Origin:
Nevada, United States
Recently Spotted:
In Im grünen Tal

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Dont tread on mepaint

You found it. Yes thats right you tread on me and the snake can bite you. That is Bite the Government

The timber rattlesnake and eastern diamondback rattlesnake both populate the geographical areas of the original thirteen colonies. Their use as a symbol of the American colonies can be traced back to the publications of Benjamin Franklin. In 1751, he made the first reference to the rattlesnake in a satirical commentary published in his Pennsylvania Gazette. It had been the policy of Britain to send convicted criminals to America, so Franklin suggested that they thank the British by sending rattlesnakes to England.[1]

Benjamin Franklin's "Join, or Die" cartoon

In 1754, during the French and Indian War, Franklin published his famous woodcut of a snake cut into eight sections. It represented the colonies, with New England joined together as the head and South Carolina as the tail, following their order along the coast. Under the snake was the message "Join, or Die". This was the first political cartoon published in an American newspaper.

When American colonies came to identify more with their own community and liberty than as vassals of the British empire, icons that were unique to the Americas became increasingly popular. The rattlesnake, like the bald eagle and American Indian, came to symbolize American ideals and society.[2][3]

As the American Revolution grew, the snake began to see more use as a symbol of the colonies. In 1774, Paul Revere added it to the title of his paper, the Massachusetts Spy, as a snake joined to fight a British dragon.[4] In December 1775, Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit:

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Dropped Off 3/3/2024 Die Haiderosen placed it in Im grünen Tal Thüringen, Germany - .5 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/3/2024 Die Haiderosen took it to Bornshain #10 Facta, non verba! Thüringen, Germany - .24 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/3/2024 Die Haiderosen took it to Bornshain #9 Exercitatio artem parat Thüringen, Germany - 61.03 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/3/2024 Die Haiderosen took it to Bornshain #1 Inter folia fructus Thüringen, Germany - .16 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/3/2024 Die Haiderosen took it to Bornshain #2 Ora et labora Thüringen, Germany - .16 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/3/2024 Die Haiderosen took it to Bornshain #3 in vino veritas Thüringen, Germany - 30.83 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/30/2024 Die Haiderosen took it to Lücke für Enkel gefunden Sachsen, Germany - 65.16 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 1/28/2024 Die Haiderosen grabbed it   Visit Log

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TFTC sagen DIE HAIDEROSEN

Visited 1/25/2024 ganyaa took it to Segelflugplatz Blasewitz Sachsen, Germany - 65.83 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/13/2024 ganyaa took it to Snudra 6 (Wasserschloss Audigast #1) Sachsen, Germany - 36.56 miles  Visit Log
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