Entertaining, but pretty typical History Channel crap:
Brad Meltzer's Decoded: The Declaration of Independence | Full Episode | History
Posted on 07/19/2020 4:49:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
1. The Declaration of Independence wasn't signed on July 4, 1776.
On July 1, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence. The delegates then spent the next two days debating and revising the language of a statement drafted by Thomas Jefferson. On July 4, Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence, and as a result the date is celebrated as Independence Day. Nearly a month would go by, however, before the actual signing of the document took place. First, New York's delegates didn't officially give their support until July 9 because their home assembly hadn't yet authorized them to vote in favor of independence. Next, it took two weeks for the Declaration to be "engrossed" -- written on parchment in a clear hand. Most of the delegates signed on August 2, but several -- Elbridge Gerry, Oliver Wolcott, Lewis Morris, Thomas McKean and Matthew Thornton -- signed on a later date. (Two others, John Dickinson and Robert R. Livingston, never signed at all.) The signed parchment copy now resides at the National Archives in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, alongside the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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Entertaining, but pretty typical History Channel crap:
Brad Meltzer's Decoded: The Declaration of Independence | Full Episode | History
from the FRchives:
/sarc
Of course it wasn’t signed on the fourth. It was a holiday.
//joking
LOL!
Sounds like what the academics are teaching. Poor Howard Zim, he didn’t go far enough!
Great, I love it!
My birthday!
Yes! Set off fireworks for the whole month!(/S)
This was a great post, SC, thanks!
I had to print it up, but I also have a question. Is it just me, or did you go from #4 to #6 when you posted the links? Where was #5?
‘Face
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4 to 6? I took a look, because I tend to screw up links sometimes due to a marked decline in my eyesight.
Would be great if true.
That would make you, probably, one of the oldest posters on this forum.
And was it me? Did I miss #5? I’m thinking it probably doesn’t matter if all the information is there that you wanted to include, but I was just curious.
My eyesight needs help, too. I need to get the cataract lased in my right eye. It was actually removed, but it seems “scar tissue” or some such has begun to impede my vision again. I can’t get it done until winter (cooler weather) because the doc only does this stuff on Wednesday afternoons, and the desert is hot this time of year. My old truck has no A/C (never installed) and the engine will overheat on the way home.
I only included #1, so...
the doc only does this stuff on Wednesday afternoons
And people complain about bankers' hours... :^)
Sounds about right -- it wouldn't have been of interest to that Hanoverian douchebucket.
You should have heard me when I found out I was being held hostage by a wealthy person that can't gain anything by being arbitrary with my appointment. ;o]
Sometimes it feels that way LOL.
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