Happy 4th of JULY
July 4 isIndependence Day!
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There are 11 U.S. locations with the word "independence" in their names. The largest is the city of Independence, Missouri. Thirty have "liberty" in their names, including four towns in Iowa alone.
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In 1989, an Adamstown, Pennsylvania flea market shopper purchased a $4 painting only to discover it hid an original 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence, which Sotheby's auctioned in 1991 for $2.42 million. It auctioned again in 2001 for $8.1 million.
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Calvin Coolidge is the only U.S. president to be born on July 4 (1872). John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, and James Monroe died July 4, 1831.
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There are 11 U.S. locations with the word "independence" in their names. The largest is the city of Independence, Missouri. Thirty have "liberty" in their names, including four towns in Iowa alone.
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In 1989, an Adamstown, Pennsylvania flea market shopper purchased a $4 painting only to discover it hid an original 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence, which Sotheby's auctioned in 1991 for $2.42 million. It auctioned again in 2001 for $8.1 million.
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Calvin Coolidge is the only U.S. president to be born on July 4 (1872). John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, and James Monroe died July 4, 1831.
posted by Big Cheese at
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