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What You Might Not Know About the Declaration of Independence

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Even if you’ve memorized the Declaration of Independence, the more interesting story happened around the document. The real men of the Second Continental Congress dealt with the monumental task of rallying the American colonists, justifying treason, and setting the foundation for a brand-new nation in a simple document they could all agree on.

However, in order to get all the colonies to agree, any reference to slavery was deleted. This only postponed the settlement of the matter for a few decades, in a war which claimed the lives of 750,000 soldiers (and quite a few civilians).

Historian Kenneth C. Davis looks beyond the words to the men who came up with them in this timely TED-Ed animation. See the full lesson here. -via Laughing Squid


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In junior high I always looked forward to Friday lunches because it was a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. I loved the soup because they made it with water -not milk- and then boiled the hell out of it so it got this wonderful rich tomato tasting flavor. Yum!
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Fast food in schools sounds fine to me... They can't screw up any worse than schools did. I remember frozen pepperoni pizzas cooked harder than crackers, egg rolls burnt to a crisp, and horrid low grade hamburger meat between stale buns, and NOTHING ELSE... Not a slice of tomato, lettuce, zip. This for nearly $2, back when fast food dollar menus were respectable, and shortly before McDonalds introduced their $0.29 hamburgers. Oh, and I forgot to mention the lines... I actually had days where I got in line a couple minutes after the bell, and was several spots back when lunch ended. I hated school lunches with a passion, and can't imagine any changes could possibly be bad...
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Our high school in the 70's was still strict. We did have the choice of a salad bar or cafeteria made hamburgers/hot dogs. However, the soft drink machines in the school were turned off during lunch hours so that milk would still be the only drink available.
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