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E Pluribus Unum (ē pl  r`ĭbəs y `nəm) [Lat.,=one made out of many], motto on the Great Seal of the United States and on many U.S. coins. Although selected in 1776 by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson for the Continental Congress, it was not officially adopted as a national motto until six years later.e pluribus unum motto of the U.S.: Latin ’one out of many.’ [Am. Culture: RHD, 481]
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The motto on the actual seal reads E pluribus unum, Latin for "Out of many, one. In an impressive use of multimedia by Brian Nishii/Westwell Productions, a stream of video images projected onto a dancer's pregnant belly reminded us all the potential e pluribus unum holds for a fractured world. Vice President Gore, in what may have been a Freudian slip of the tongue, or a political calculation or a simple error, interpreted e pluribus unum as "from one, many", rather than "from many, one. |
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