True story.
I don't think that they did that for Liberty, but I know it was a real (gross/weird) thing that they used to do.
True story.
Somewhere there is a Kardashian desperately looking for a video camera.
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I don't think that they did that for Liberty, but I know it was a real (gross/weird) thing that they used to do.
Somewhere there is a Kardashian desperately looking for a video camera.
Not sure if this is true (I've done 0 research) but I def also heard they shipped it here in stages and I think they displayed the various parts. Like the arm and torch were on display before they put it all together.
This is a fascinating read and a really interesting part of our history that basically sowed the seeds of revolution in the hearts of the colonial public.
And it's written in a way that isn't totally painful to read today.
I've made it to the:
And it's written in a way that isn't totally painful to read today.
I've made it to the:
THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
section so far.
1776: Paine, Common Sense (Pamphlet) | Online Library of Liberty
Related Links: Collections: The American Revolution and Constitution Thomas Paine Source: Thomas Paine, The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 1.
oll.libertyfund.org
TLDR.This is a fascinating read and a really interesting part of our history that basically sowed the seeds of revolution in the hearts of the colonial public.
And it's written in a way that isn't totally painful to read today.
I've made it to the:
THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
section so far.
1776: Paine, Common Sense (Pamphlet) | Online Library of Liberty
Related Links: Collections: The American Revolution and Constitution Thomas Paine Source: Thomas Paine, The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 1.oll.libertyfund.org
Let me know if there is a treasure map on the back. I may revisit it.
Okay. Well I read through how I started this thread.
I didn't mention John Adams. Do you guys know his story? It's fucking amazing.
He defended the British who shot all the colonists during the Boston massacre and he got them off.... Freaking shocking..... In front of a colonist jury he got the British off like he got them acquitted.
Then the stupid fucking British said yeah every trial from now on is going to be tried in England. So John Adams was like fuck that, why did I just do all that work if king George is gonna straight up fuck me? So then he became a patriot and became a founding father who fought to get us our freedom.
That is a very elementary explanation of it but it's basically how it happened.
I didn't mention John Adams. Do you guys know his story? It's fucking amazing.
He defended the British who shot all the colonists during the Boston massacre and he got them off.... Freaking shocking..... In front of a colonist jury he got the British off like he got them acquitted.
Then the stupid fucking British said yeah every trial from now on is going to be tried in England. So John Adams was like fuck that, why did I just do all that work if king George is gonna straight up fuck me? So then he became a patriot and became a founding father who fought to get us our freedom.
That is a very elementary explanation of it but it's basically how it happened.
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This was funny!
Wish you could watch it too IRBS. It skewers the American weights and measurements systems.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I watched a good chunk of SNL from the local provider here (Global TV) and caught the weights & measures skit. Pretty funny. Actually the whole show wasn't that bad. But my God they have a big cast.
Exactly 250 years ago today, June 28th 1776, the committee of 5 Sherman, Livingston, Adams, Franklin and Jefferson presented their final draft of the Declaration on Independence to the Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philly. It was still the Pennsylvania State House back then.
I have hanging on my wall paintings depicting Adams, Franklin and Jefferson writing the document and right under it the presentation of it to Congress.
It's pretty freaking cool.
The committee to draft it was formed June 11th and of course it was ratified on The 4th of July. So it took these guys under a month to create what is perhaps the most important document in our nation's history. That's amazing to me and part of why it hangs on my wall all year long.
Also the bottom painting of the Committee of 5 presenting the document is hanging in the Capitol rotunda.
I have hanging on my wall paintings depicting Adams, Franklin and Jefferson writing the document and right under it the presentation of it to Congress.
It's pretty freaking cool.
The committee to draft it was formed June 11th and of course it was ratified on The 4th of July. So it took these guys under a month to create what is perhaps the most important document in our nation's history. That's amazing to me and part of why it hangs on my wall all year long.
Also the bottom painting of the Committee of 5 presenting the document is hanging in the Capitol rotunda.
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I'm probably not the only one here who finds it ironic that you have so much reverence for the documents that once defined our country.
I'm very much hoping the Supremes shoot down the current administration's want to more or less invalidate the 14th amendment. We'll find out by the end of this current session. While I do not think nearly enough has been done to curtail the alien invasion, I also think messing around with the Constitution (other than for slavery, which is why we have the 13th and 14th) is never a good idea.
I assume that's what you were referring to but IDK and if it's not I don't really want to know unless you want to get into it through DM's. I wrote an innocuous, patriotic post about a 250 year anniversary that helped create our nation. You made it personal and took it in the direction of current day politics, not I.
I assume that's what you were referring to but IDK and if it's not I don't really want to know unless you want to get into it through DM's. I wrote an innocuous, patriotic post about a 250 year anniversary that helped create our nation. You made it personal and took it in the direction of current day politics, not I.
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