Historical Image of the Day

Based on a couple requests for more context for these photos, I am at least occasionally going to write an explanatory sentence or two.

George Mason (1725-92). Writer of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, advocate for the Bill of Rights, general important figure of the American Revolution.

Also, at least according to Wikipedia, Mason is Paris Hilton's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather. He'd probably regret pushing for such a democratic government if he knew this.