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Ben Franklin's bifocals Saturday, July 4, 2009

July Fourth Flag Liberty Bell Ringing fireworks bursting
Independence Day

Ben Franklin points to Declaration of Independence

[1776 - American colonies declare their independence from Great Britain]


Sloop of War Ranger   Ranger Recruiting Poster
[1777 - John Paul Jones hoists first Stars and Stripes flag in USS Ranger at Portsmouth, New Hampshire]

Writer Nathaniel Hawthorne
[1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, born in Salem, Massachusetts]

Song Writer Stephen Foster
[1826 - Stephen Foster, song writer, born
in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania]

Whitman's Leaves of Grass
[1855 - Walt Whitman publishes first edition of Leaves of Grass in Brooklyn, New York]

Producer Louis B. Mayer
[1882 - Louis B. Mayer (Lazar Meir), film producer,
born in Minsk, Belarus]

Rube Goldberg
[1883 - Rube (Reuben Lucius) Goldberg, author,
Pulitzer Prize cartoonist,
born in San Francisco, California]

Senator George Murphy
[1902 - George (Lloyd) Murphy, dancer, actor,
politician, born in New Haven, Connecticut]

Spirit of '76


Well, Bread

Jean-Jacques Rousseau  John Locke

Rousseau and Locke prepared the seed.
Colonists in the New Land planted.
The grain grew tall until the harvest.
Shaped by men who saw the farthest.
Leavened it with freedom's yeast.
A Declaration proclaimed the feast. Declaration of Independence

Rose it up in revolution.
Baked in war's oven, a Constitution!

Voting on the Constitution at the Convention


William's Whimsical Words:

No mention of God in my copy of the Constitution.

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