#July 4

[ceilingstar07]

What a week:(

Monday, July 4): US Independence Day! Fireworks and Fun!

Also another devastating mass shooting in the US: Highland Park parade shooting.

July 6: 40+ U.K. MPs resign

July 7: Boris Johnson resigns (basically the UK government collapsed)

July 8: Former PM of Japan, Shinzo Abe is assassinated

There was an internet outage across Canada

July 9: After protestors stormed the Sri Lankan president's house, the president and PM resign.

Elon Musk backs out of Twitter deal

Ex-president of Mexico dies at 100

Meanwhile the war in Ukraine is still ongoing

What a wonderful time it is to be world leader. For the first time, the BBC's homepage isn't just full of America's problems

#this week #not great #uk politics #july 4 #shinzo abe #Canada #world events #war in ukraine #sri lanka #bbc #boris johnson #members of parliament #2022

[dailykafka]

— July 4. 1912 / Franz Kafka diaries

#July 4 #july #1912 #franz kafka #daily kafka #franz kafka diaries #quotes #alt text

[swirling-orbs-of-disorder]

Blue Angels in Mt. Rushmore flyby

#military #aircraft #mountains #monument #america #july 4

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Cover by Ilonka Karasz for The New Yorker, July 6, 1957.

Photo: Condé Nast Store

#vintage New York #1950s #Ilonka Karasz #July 4 #4 July #vintage July 4 #New Yorker #magazine cover #illustration #fireworks

[90s-2000s-barbie]

#Britney Spears #2000 #july 4 #fourth of july #America #American flag #y2k #2000s #2000s nostalgia #2000s kids #2000s style #y2k nostalgia #00s #y2k aesthetic #y2k style #2000s kid #britney jean spears #rolling stone magazine #00s kid #y2kcore #00’s #00s aesthetic #00s core #00score #90s #1990s #2000s fashion #1990s kid #90s kid #00s fashion

[fuckthispost-andhappybirthday]

July 04: Happy Birthday Princess Sally Alicia Acorn (Sonic the Hedgehog)!!!!

She will be born in the year 3220, exactly 1197 years from now!

#sally acorn #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic satam #satam #archie sonic #sonic archie #happy birthday #fourth of july #4th of july #july 04 #july 4 #4 july #04 july #fuck this post and happy birthday

[beardedmrbean]

#fourth of july #independence day #declaration of independence #july fourth #july 4

[todaysdocument]

Happy Independence Day! 

Record Group 360: Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention

Series: Miscellaneous Papers of the Continental Congress

Transcription: 

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.____________ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.__ That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security. __Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. _________ He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good._______ He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.________ He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only._______ He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. _______He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.______ He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. _____He has endeavored to prevent the Population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. ______He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.________ He has made judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the Amount and Payment of their salaries. ________ He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance. ____He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislature._____ He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. _______He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:__For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:__For protecting them, by mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:__For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:__For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:__For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:__ For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:___ For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these Colonies:___ For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:____For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.__ He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us._____He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.____He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.____He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.____He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions, We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends._____

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which the Independent States may of right do. ___ And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Button Gwinnett Wm Hooper John Hancock Rob Morris Wm Floyd Josiah Bartlett

Lyman Hall Joseph Hewes Samuel Chase Benjamin Rush Philip Livingston Wm Whipple

Geo Walton John Penn Wm Paca Benj Franklin Fran Lewis Sam Adams

Tho Stone John Morton Lewis Morris John Adams

Edward Rutledge Charles Carrol of Carrollton Geo Clymer Rob Treat Paine

Ja. Smith Elbridge Gerry

Geo Taylor Step. Hopkins

Tho Heyward Jnr James Wilson Rich Stockton William Ellery

Thomas Lynch Jnr George Wythe Gro. Ross Jn Witherspoon Roger Sherman

Richard Henry Lee

Arthur Middleton Th Jefferson Ceasar Rodney Fra. Hopkinson Sam Huntington

Benj Harrison Geo Read John Hart Wm Williams

Th Nelson jr. Tho M Kean Abra Clark Oliver Wolcott

Francis Lightfoot Lee Matthew Thornton

Carter Braxton

#archivesgov #July 4 #1776 #1700s #Independence Day #Fourth of July #Declaration of Independence #American Revolution

[mysharona1987]

#Denmark #denmark politics #democrats #republicans #politics #july 4

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 27, 4 juillet 1869, Paris. Toilettes de Melles Raboin, 67 r. Neuve des Pts. Champs. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Description de toilettes (Bibliothèque Forney):

Robe de dessous en foulard bleu vif, entièrement recouverte de volants à tête. Trois de ces volants (ceux du bord inférieur) ont chacun 7 centimètres de hauteur, les trois suivants chacun six, les cinq suivants chacun cinq centimètres de hauteur. Tunique à corsage ouvert en carré, et manches longues. Cette tunique est faite en gaze de soie, à rayures blanches et maïs; elle est ouverte par devant, drapée par derrière de chaque côté, de façon à former un pouffa et garnie de trois petits volants coupés en biais. Ceinture bleue, pareille à la robe de dessous, nouée par derrière. Chemisette montante en mousseline blanche bouillonnée et manches assorties, également bouillonnées.

Toilette de demi-deuil. Robe en popeline grise, garnie de six biais en crêpe gris, posés deux par deux, et séparés par un liséré de taffetas blanc. Confection en poult de-soie-noir, fendue derrière et sur les côtés, afin de former des revers doublés de satin gris; mêmes revers aux manches et sur la poitrine. Ceinture très-large, bordée de biais de satin gris, lisérés de blanc; tout le contour de la confection est également liséré de blanc. Chapeau rond en tulle noir, avec une grande hirondelle. Voile de tulle blanc. Gants gris.

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Bright blue foulard underdress, fully covered with head ruffles. Three of these flounces (those on the lower edge) are each 7 centimeters high, the following three each six, the following five each five centimeters high. Tunic with an open square bodice and long sleeves. This tunic is made of silk gauze, with white and corn stripes; it is open in front, draped from behind on each side, so as to form a puff and trimmed with three small ruffles cut on the bias. Blue belt, similar to the dress below, tied behind. Rising chemisette in bubbled white muslin and matching sleeves, also bubbled.

Half-mourning ensemble. Dress in gray poplin, trimmed with six gray crepe bias binding, placed two by two, and separated by a border of white taffeta. Made of black silk poult, slit behind and on the sides, to form lapels lined with gray satin; same lapels on the sleeves and on the chest. Very wide belt, bordered with gray satin bias, white borders; the entire outline of the garment is also edged in white. Round hat in black tulle, with a large swallow. White tulle veil. Gray gloves.

#La Mode illustrée #19th century #1860s #1869 #on this day #July 4 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #color #description #rijksmuseum #Forney #dress #underdress #mourning #ruffles

[aintinacage]

Steve Rogers (July 4, 1918)

#happy birthday #july 4 #july 4th #Steve Rogers #Chris evans #captain america #captain america winter soldier #captain america 2 #captain america civil war #avengers 3 #avengers infinity war #infinity war #marvels avengers #avengers 1 #avengers #avengers endgame #marvels endgame #endgame #avengers 4

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

North American Brown Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)

(Photo by Jean Beaufort)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Alaska; Western Canada; Northern Canada

Size (Weight/Length)- 300 kg; 2.5 m

Diet- Large mammals; Fish; Fruits; Grasses; Roots; Nuts; Carrion; Insects

Cool Facts- Also known as the grizzly bear, the North American brown bear is the third largest brown bear subspecies in the world. Grizzly bears are mostly solitary outside of large gatherings for feeding during the salmon run or mating. Grizzly bears play a massive role in ecosystem health including helping to spread plant seeds by eating fruit and distributing nutrients by dragging salmon into the forest. They also help in reducing grazing animal numbers, keeping meadows lush and forests full. Originally spanning from Arizona to Alaska, starting from colonialism and ending in 1975, North American brown bear range fell by 98%. Luckily, through extensive protections in the USA and Canada, grizzly bear populations have skyrocketed. Efforts continue to reintroduce larger populations of these bears to the lower 48 states.

Rating- 13/10 (An American icon.)

#animal of the day #animals #mammals #bears #tuesday #july 4 #north american brown bear #brown bear #grizzly bear #biology #science #conservation #the more you know #fourth of july #4th of july

[dailykafka]

— July 4, 1916 / Franz Kafka diaries

#my man you are hungover #birthday boy drank too much last night i guess #franz kafka #july #July 4 #1916 #franz kafka diary #the diaries of franz kafka #daily kafka #id #id text #quotes

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The IRT reminds kids to mind their manners on the subway during July 4 celebrations, ca. 1924.

Photo: americainclass.org

#vintage New York #1920s #Subway Sun #July 4 #4 July #vintage July 4 #subway #vintage NYC #NYC subway #vintage subway

[chalamet-chalamet]

Happy 4th of July! 🎆✨🎇✨🎆

#timothee chalamet #taylor russell #sorry for the dark gifs #bones and all #4th of july #independence day #lee and maren #July 4 #timothée chalamet #fireworks

[thelifeofniy]

#mannn my locs are thriving.. i love it here #july 4 #2023 #p #☆