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Happy 4th America!

by Victoria Revay | July 3, 2007 at 01:14 pm

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Happy Independence Day America! This July 4th marks the 219th birthday for our friendly neighbours and all the blogs are going absolutely ballistic with pride and joy to celebrate. Check out this funny medley mix the LAist found, courtesy of JibJab.
It's all the past Presidents singing the Star Spangled Banner in a medley type of a way. The Houstonist was very clever and created a downloadable iTunes Mix for the long weekend that really rocks. Some favourite activities for sure will be going camping, having a BBQ and getting out of town. How will you celebrate?[q
url="http://houstonist.com/2007/07/03/houstonist_imix_5.php"]Tons of
good, new music on July's iMix: including Scottish band The Fratellis,
the latest (and catchiest) single from Australia's John Butler Trio,
and a track from Ryan Adams' new album Easy Tiger (which was just
released last week). [/q]

America, of course, was "born" as a country on the day the U.S. Constitution became effective, which according to its terms was when the 9th state ratified it.

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THE BATES FAMILY

at 13:56 on July 3rd, 2007

Thank you for iviting us to Now Public, we will start adding stuff as we go and using your site more often.

Sincerely,

Kevin & Debbe Bates

petelav

at 03:10 on July 4th, 2007

Isn't it the 231st birthday? 1776 - 2007? Not sure where someone got 219. Maybe their math question was diferent ;-)

Victoria Revay

at 08:35 on July 4th, 2007

*America, of course, was "born" as a
country on the day the U.S. Constitution became effective, which
according to its terms was when the 9th state ratified it.
That state was New Hampshire, and the date it ratified the document was
June 21, 1788 -- America's actual birthday. So by celebrating its
birthday on July 4th America is actually two weeks late, and this year
it turns 219 years old -- not 231 years, as they July 4th date implies
(July 4, 1776, was the date the Declaration of Independance was signed,
but America didn't become a country then nor when it later won the
Revolutionary War in 1781 -- at that time nationhood was rejected by
the people of the country, fearing that a new central government would
mean a new dictatorship, and only accepted years later as the threat of
new invasion by Britain loomed; the British did in fact invade in
1812).