For some unknown reason, Thomas Jefferson is preoccupied this morning with recording the temperature.
He writes that upon awaking at 6 AM, the temperature is a pleasant 68.0 degrees Fahrenheit, but that it is creeping up toward 70.
On his way to Congress, Jefferson purchases a thermometer. It costs three pounds and 15 shillings.
No-body knows why he is so concerned with the temperature today, especially, and for what reason he desires an accurate read.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Theodore Roosevelt
John Adams, writing to Abigail, about the Continental Congress' vote in favor of independence on July 2, 1776:
"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. -- Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."
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Ed Oliver on TJ Parker: “Oh. I'll tell you one. I seen him on film the other day chasing a running back and I said, ‘who the f*ck?’I mean, ‘who the heck is that matching the running back step for step?’ I was like, oh, he a cheat code. So as the more I start to watch film and, you know, learn my teammates and start to watch them, and you know, everybody in the league is freaky in their own way. But he was chasing the running back. I was like, he is really matching the running back step for step. So that's just one of the things, that he's just explosive, fast, a young kid.”
Chatted with Josh Allen about this $17M figure.
One mother approached him this offseason to say equipment purchased through the Patricia Allen Fund saved her child's life: https://t.co/uS2gLDkNib
The Patricia Allen Fund, fueled by Bills quarterback Josh Allen’s leadership and over 60,000 donors and Bills fans, announced that in just over five years, more than $17 million now has been raised for Golisano Children’s Hospital of Buffalo.