Equality Fraternity facts
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The guy who wrote the US Pledge of Allegiance was a socialist, and wanted to include "equality and fraternity" but omitted them because the, "state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans."
France's motto is "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" which means Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
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The original motto used to be "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death". The "death" part was later dropped for being too strongly associated with the excesses of the French Revolution.
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Fraternal polyandry was traditionally practiced among Tibetans in Nepal, parts of China and part of northern India, in which two or more brothers are married to the same wife, with the wife having equal "sexual access" to them
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The Smoot, a unit of distance equal to roughly 5 feet 7 inches. It came to be when Oliver Smoot laid end-to-end on the Harvard Bridge in Boston, had a mark drawn, and moved up again in order for his fraternity to measure its length. It was listed as being 364.4 Smoots "plus or minus one ear".
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The French revolutionary motto was originally Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort (liberty, equality, fraternity or death) but the death part was dropped because of the many executions during Frances "reign of terror"
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The Pledge of Allegiance was originally written by Francis Bellamy, a "Christian Socialist" who believed that Capitalism was rooted in greed and had initially considered adding the words equality and fraternity
