Captain_Scarlet wrote:well Mr Rotten is right I just thought it odd that USA national holiday was so random with respect to its foundation
What's so random about it? The date of the holiday was chosen to commemorate the official adoption of the final revision of the document (i.e. that point at which the declaration was made). Seems a very logical date to choose.
July 1-4 Congress debates and revises the Declaration of Independence. July 4 Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence in the morning of a bright, sunny, but cool Philadelphia day. John Dunlap prints the Declaration of Independence. These prints are now called "Dunlap Broadsides." Twenty-four copies are known to exist, two of which are in the Library of Congress. One of these was Washington's personal copy. July 5 John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, dispatches the first of Dunlap's broadsides of the Declaration of Independence to the legislatures of New Jersey and Delaware. July 6 Pennsylvania Evening Post of July 6 prints the first newspaper rendition of the Declaration of Independence. July 8 The first public reading of the Declaration is in Philadelphia. July 9 Washington orders that the Declaration of Independence be read before the American army in New York July 19 Congress orders the Declaration of Independence engrossed (officially inscribed) and signed by members. August 2 Delegates begin to sign engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence. A large British reinforcement arrives at New York after being repelled at Charleston, S.C.
John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776, everyone else signed on July 9th. In other words today. I don't know where every one's getting this August crap form.
Martin Ronne wrote:John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776, everyone else signed on July 9th. In other words today. I don't know where every one's getting this August crap form.
Martin Ronne wrote:John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776, everyone else signed on July 9th. In other words today. I don't know where every one's getting this August crap form.
Marty check again
Scarlet check again. Your probably thinking of Revisionist History.
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Johann Sebastian Bach wrote 6 Brandenburg Concertos. However, he did not finnish them in the order in which they were started. What is the order in which he finished them?
Martin Ronne wrote:Johann Sebastian Bach wrote 6 Brandenburg Concertos. However, he did not finnish them in the order in which they were started. What is the order in which he finished them?
4, 3, 5, 1, 2, 6
If I get it right, I am the greatest guesser on earth.