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At the closing banquet celebrating the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a Philadelphia matron rushed to the side of the convention's most senior member and gushed, "O Mister Franklin, what have you gentlemen wrought?" The 81-year-old Franklin is said to have paused, adjusted his glasses and solemnly replied, "A republic madam; if you can keep it"
The first reading of the Declaration of Independence in Boston, July 18, 1776. Tichnor Brothers Collection, Boston Public Library via Digital CommonwealthMany Americans of the founding era denounced government tyranny, celebrated the Declaration of Independence – and favored lockdowns and mass inoculations to combat a viciously contagious disease. Unchecked, smallpox kills more than one in 10 of its victims, leaving many of the rest blind, disfigured and sometimes sterile. Many historians say th
Honor the 4th “as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty …” asJohn Adams suggested.
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Stockton Rush, 61, the late Titan submersible explorer, was an American character who stepped straight out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. I know whereof I