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Happy Birthday to US(A).
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July 4, 2008 In the summer of 1776, it was not all that clear that the American colonies were to be independent from England. This was new age thinking, this freedom talk, even though Americans had been mostly self-governing themselves for about 150 years at this point. But a series of events, Common Sense, the Stamp and Tea Act, the the Boston Massacre all contributed to an atmosphere that England did NOT like. A few years earlier, England called Benjamin Franklin on the red carpet and gave him a Royal ass-chewing, which he supposedly took stoically for over an hour.
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