An international fleet of tall ships arrived on the shores of New Jersey to celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary
It’s like going back in time
It was a historical location gathering, "Nearly 250 years ago, it was here at Sandy Hook that George Washington's army drove the British from New Jersey” - Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a former naval officer
“It was from this day that the last British ships of the Revolutionary War departed."
The site is also home to America’s oldest continuously lit lighthouse, which has guided maritime navigators since 1764
Some think that monsters are European imports. After all vampires, werewolves, dragons; all are from the Old World.
But America has its own nightmares. Homegrown horrors from deep woods and lonely highways. Entities that shouldn't exist in the land of the free.
As the guy who designed Call of Cthulhu, I've spent decades turning folklore into games to scare players. Tonight I’m counting down 10 American "monsters", drawn from cryptids, myths, and outright terrors. They deserve a spot in your next RPG session; or your next nightmare.
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So Pope Leo XIV, despite his American origins and an invitation to today’s 250th US anniversary celebrations, said no
Instead, he went to Lampedusa 🇮🇹 — standing on a rock like a seagull, papal skullcap in the wind — to honor migrant victims and send a strong message to Europe…
On this day in 1778, a 25-year-old frontiersman conquered a huge chunk of what would become the American Midwest on Independence Day, and he did it without firing a single shot. Almost nobody knows his name, and he may have doubled the size of the country.
His name was George Rogers Clark, older brother of the Clark who would later lead the Lewis and Clark expedition. With only about 175 men, he made a grueling secret march through the wilderness to a French village called Kaskaskia in the Illinois country, then held by the British. He arrived at night on July 4 and slipped in completely undetected.
Here's the genius part. The village was full of French settlers, and Clark was carrying a piece of news they hadn't heard yet: France had just allied with the Americans against Britain. Instead of storming the place, Clark told them. He promised them freedom of religion and won over the local priest, Father Pierre Gibault. The stunned villagers rang the church bell in celebration, a bell now remembered as the "Liberty Bell of the West," and swore allegiance to Virginia. The next day his men took the nearby town of Cahokia the same bloodless way.
That quiet Fourth of July night helped pry the entire Illinois country loose from British control. When the war ended, American claims to the vast Northwest Territory, the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, rested heavily on what Clark had grabbed out here. One young man, 175 tired soldiers, and a well-timed piece of news, and the map of America changed forever.
Confused little homosexual Sneako:
"This is the Islamic Republic of New Yorkistan, Islam will be in every household, Inshallah, the whole world will become Muslim, welcome to Mamdani’s New York"
San Francisco (July 2) — A black man confronted a group of Trantifa militants who had surrounded and harassed a woman documenting a court hearing for two of their extremist comrades who allegedly attacked the public space during the Trans March.
‘BRITISH’ POLICE OFFICER CAN BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH 😳
Call me crazy but I believe if you can’t speak fluent English, you have no right being a British police officer.
No wonder our police force is a total joke and laughing stock.
We have incompetent officers all over Britain and some of the incompetence leads to more harm than good. Or in some cases, the death of our own people and children… 🕊️
🚨 JUST IN: This German World Cup fan has gone famous for CRYING ON-AIR after he realized the anti-USA propaganda he was fed is WRONG — after an American man named Bob RESCUED him when he got stranded
"I was scared of the US...shootings, criminals."
"I've FALLEN IN LOVE with this country. This was so emotional. I even cried in the stadium." ❤️
Sebastian thought Americans were rude, mean and COLD
"Strangers offered him a ride to his hotel," after he was stranded with no way to get back!
"I LOVE USA...I had tears in my eyes."
The man even got more sad about having to GO BACK to Germany than his team, Germany, losing in the World Cup!
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PERFECT TIMING with America 250!
Happy 250th Independence Day! 🇺🇸
July 4th, 1776:
56 delegates from 13 colonies signed the Declaration of Independence, formally breaking ties with Britain and proclaiming the birth of a new nation grounded in liberty.
Penned primarily by Thomas Jefferson, it boldly declared the self-evident truth that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This radical document ignited the American Revolution and became the moral foundation of the freest, most prosperous nation the world has ever known.