Happy 4th!
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..and many more... ;D
JR
PS: We usually end up on pretty friendly terms after the wars are over (Germany, Japan, UK). Too bad just declaring the middle east fighting over unilaterally didn't work.
We'd all be friends by now. ISIS just killed 115 in a suicide bombing in Bagdad. The world needs to hurry up and bury those pukes.
JR
PS: We usually end up on pretty friendly terms after the wars are over (Germany, Japan, UK). Too bad just declaring the middle east fighting over unilaterally didn't work.
We'd all be friends by now. ISIS just killed 115 in a suicide bombing in Bagdad. The world needs to hurry up and bury those pukes.
pucho812
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happy 4th everybody.
Stay safe out there and hopefully you end up with the same amount of limbs, fingers, toes and head that you started with.
Stay safe out there and hopefully you end up with the same amount of limbs, fingers, toes and head that you started with.
I expect to... back when i was a kid (before most of you were born), a kid in my home town blew off a finger trying to squeeze loose gunpowder inside a C02 cartridge, He must have made a spark. :pucho812 said:
Lesson learned (mostly).
JR
ruffrecords
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PRR said:
We invaded you in the 60s; we can do it again!
Happy 4th of July to all our US cousins,
Cheers
Ian
Gene Pink
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I once asked a good friend from Birmingham, how the brits felt about the USA celebrating the fourth of july.
In typical English sarchasm, he replied " We celebrate it too, except we call it 'good riddance day' "
Gene
In typical English sarchasm, he replied " We celebrate it too, except we call it 'good riddance day' "
Gene
pucho812
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oh here is a good 4th of july story
http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/stravinskys-illegal-arrangement-of-the-star-spangled-banner-1944.html
I like his arrangement and it's not as out there as I would have expected.
http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/stravinskys-illegal-arrangement-of-the-star-spangled-banner-1944.html
I like his arrangement and it's not as out there as I would have expected.
> The war that made Maine a state
Indeed. Most US folks don't know what-all happened around 1812. In part because everybody on both sides was messed-up.
In short-- at the time of the Treaty Of Paris, 1783, ending the revolt started ~~1775, upper inland Maine was deep woods, poorly explored, just starting to be exploited. Boundary line was not clear. As both the US and (what became) Canada grew, it became disputed. For her own reasons, England claimed and occupied large areas of what the US thought was its own. Major naval battles on inland lakes. The burning of our national capitol.
Much "US pride" comes from snippets of the 1812 war. Many of our stirring patriotic quotes come from that period. The "Star Spangled Banner" is not about 1776, it celebrates a minor moment in the 1812 war. There was some tradition of gunpowder for 4th July, but the navy vs fort confrontations around 1812 really firmed-up the fireworks tradition.
Everybody was profit-taking. England took the Customs House at Castine Maine, charged so much duty on goods obviously being smuggled into the US that they founded a college with the proceeds. Smugglers even hired an English war-ship for escort and mock battle. Messed-up all around.
Other historians count 1812 as a minor side-plot of the Napoleonic Wars. Here in Maine (and such of the US which knows), we consider 1812 as a direct attack on "us".
Indeed. Most US folks don't know what-all happened around 1812. In part because everybody on both sides was messed-up.
In short-- at the time of the Treaty Of Paris, 1783, ending the revolt started ~~1775, upper inland Maine was deep woods, poorly explored, just starting to be exploited. Boundary line was not clear. As both the US and (what became) Canada grew, it became disputed. For her own reasons, England claimed and occupied large areas of what the US thought was its own. Major naval battles on inland lakes. The burning of our national capitol.
Much "US pride" comes from snippets of the 1812 war. Many of our stirring patriotic quotes come from that period. The "Star Spangled Banner" is not about 1776, it celebrates a minor moment in the 1812 war. There was some tradition of gunpowder for 4th July, but the navy vs fort confrontations around 1812 really firmed-up the fireworks tradition.
Everybody was profit-taking. England took the Customs House at Castine Maine, charged so much duty on goods obviously being smuggled into the US that they founded a college with the proceeds. Smugglers even hired an English war-ship for escort and mock battle. Messed-up all around.
Other historians count 1812 as a minor side-plot of the Napoleonic Wars. Here in Maine (and such of the US which knows), we consider 1812 as a direct attack on "us".
We need to hold in perspective that we are only celebrating 240 years (?) or so, as a nation.
War of 1812 was the first urban renewal project for Washington, DC
Studying american history makes me believe in good luck. We could have lost almost every conflict we were in... but luckily didn't (or haven't so far). 8)
JR
War of 1812 was the first urban renewal project for Washington, DC
Studying american history makes me believe in good luck. We could have lost almost every conflict we were in... but luckily didn't (or haven't so far). 8)
JR
