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Grand Central in NYC. This view is no longer possible, for neighboring building block sunlight from entering higher windows like this. Also, smoking restrictions prevent the haze seen here. 1929.
Samuel Sprague (1753-1844) was one of the few participants in the Boston Tea Party to have been photographed later in life. Below is Sprague, age 89, in 1842.
As the United States nears its 250th year of existence, it is still a young nation in the grand scheme of things. The Roman Republic, for instance, existed for nearly five centuries (509 BC - 27 BC).
If the United States survived as long as the Roman Republic, it would cease to exist in the year 2258.
If it were to become an empire and survive as long as the Western Roman Empire, it wouldn’t fall until 2760.
If the United States instead survived as long as the Eastern Roman Empire, it would fall in the year 3737.
Daguerreotype of Albert Gallatin, only photograph taken of him. Gallatin served as a Senator during George Washington’s second term. Photo c. 1844–1849
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787
July 2, 1937 — Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
July 2, 1921 — World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
July 2, 1900 — An airship designed and constructed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany made its first flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen.
41 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence owned enslaved people... or about 73% of them.
Those who owned slaves in 1776 have their faces covered: