If you were born in America, you’re an American. You have a right to live here. Unless of course you’re American. In which case you’re living on stolen land.
To break a deadlock in the Continental Congress’s vote for independence, Delaware delegate Caesar Rodney rides through a thunderstorm all night and arrives in Philadelphia in muddy clothing just as voting begins.
Unfortunately, the first vote does not pass, which was unexpected.
The vote that would create the United States was deadlocked, and the man who could break the tie was eighty miles away, dying of cancer, on the wrong side of a thunderstorm.
His name was Caesar Rodney. On the first of July 1776, while Congress argued itself toward independence in Philadelphia, he was stuck back in Delaware. He was tamping down Loyalist trouble, in constant pain from the cancer eating at his face and fighting for breath due to his asthma.
Then the letter came. Delaware's two delegates in Congress were split. One for independence, one against. Without a tiebreaker, the colonies would not stand united. And a divided front was exactly what the Crown was counting on.
He did not hesitate. He climbed onto his horse near midnight and rode straight into the storm. Lightning split the sky. The roads turned to sludge. A journey that normally took two days but he made it in eighteen hours. He stopped only to change horses, soaked with every mile.
He reached Independence Hall on the morning of July 2 just as the vote was called, still in his boots and spurs. Caked in mud. Thomas McKean never forgot the sight of him standing in the doorway.
Rodney walked in and cast his vote for independence. It broke Delaware's tie, and with that, not a single colony stood against the break from Britain.
On this day, 250 years ago, a dying man rode all night through a storm so America could be born.
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I love that for them.
Fahrenheit is based on human experience:
0° is fucking cold. 100° is fucking hot.
Celsius is based on at sea level water:
Water freezes at 0° and boils at 100°
A. Celsius is flawed because water freezes and boils at different temperatures depending on altitude.
B. When I ask what the temperature is, I’m asking for myself. I don’t give a fuck how water feels about the weather.
Plymouth, a sub-brand of Chrysler that has been in production since 1928, shuts down as the final Plymouth car, a Neon, rolls off the assembly line at Belvidere, Illinois.