Monday, July 4, 2005
![Liberty Bell Ringing](gif-ani/liberty_bell_ringing_md_clr.gif)
Independence Day
![Ben Franklin points to Declaration of Independence](gif-ani/franklin_feather_declaration_lg_clr.gif)
[1776 - American colonies declare their independence from Great Britain]
![Ranger Recruiting Poster](pix/ranger-seamen.jpg)
[1777 - John Paul Jones hoists first Stars and Stripes flag on Ranger at Portsmouth, New Hampshire]
![Stephen Foster](pix/foster-stephen.jpg)
[1826 - Stephen Foster, song writer, born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania]
![Whitman's Leaves of Grass](pix/whitman-leaves.jpg)
[1855 - Walt Whitman publishes first edition of Leaves of Grass in Brooklyn, New York]
![Rube Goldberg](pix/goldberg-rube.jpg)
[1883 - Rube (Reuben Lucius) Goldberg, author, Pulitzer Prize cartoonist, born in San Francisco, California]
Well, Bread
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.
![Signing The Declaration of Independence by Trumbull](pix/signing-declaration-trumbull.jpg)
Rose it up in revolution.
Baked in war's oven, a Constitution!
William's Whimsical Words:
No mention of God in my copy of the Constitution.
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