The Cyrus Cylinder was unearthed roughly about 100 years after the United States Declaration of Independence was published.

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The founding fathers of the U.S. have probably captured these truths better than anybody, and codified them into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.

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France's yearning for a European declaration of independence from the United States seems to be shared by the German and Russian governments and most of the European left.

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People like Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the Declaration of Independence and became the third president of the United States, had to rely on Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a reference for the life and leadership of the Persian king.

BBC: Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence had not yet been signed, and there was no United States of America.

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The tower's builders say it will surpass Chicago's Willis Tower as the tallest building in the United States, with a final height of 1, 776 feet -- a nod to the year of the Declaration of Independence.

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