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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip – Balcony of the Old State House, Boston, 1776 On July 18, 1776, exactly two weeks after the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, Colonel Thomas Crafts stepped out onto the second-floor...
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Before an audience of more than 250 Orange Countians of all ages at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Dr. Benjamin Franklin and General George Washington engaged in a riveting, lively, and sometimes humorous conversation about their individual...
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Writing to newspaperman and publisher Hezekiah Niles in February 1818, former President John Adams asked and responded to his own question. “What do we mean by the American Revolution?” he asked. “Do we mean the American War? The Revolution was effected...
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The City of Villa Park has creatively added patriotic USA250 Villa Park markers to some of its street signs. Boasting two American flags and the city’s 250th logo, they look great as people pass by and remember that our country’s 250th birthday is just around the...
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USA250-OC has taken as its basic philosophy a simple but profound observation – that America is the perfect idea: the United States of America is a work in progress. It pits the ideal against the real; principles against human action; the perfect against...
