Viewing the 1776 sky in the Wayback Machine
Thursday, July 5, 2012
First of all, Happy 236th Birthday to the Good Old U.S. of A. On the hot, steamy, almost overbearing summer afternoon of July 3, 1776, the men who sat in the chamber of the Continental Congress agreed on a document that would declare that the colonies (which would be called the "United States" were free of control from England.