Monday, June 30, 2008

Top 5 Myths About the Fourth of July!

Top 5 Myths About the Fourth of July!: "Hanging in the grand Rotunda of the Capitol of the United States is a vast canvas painting by John Trumbull depicting the signing of the Declaration. Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams wrote, years afterward, that the signing ceremony took place on July 4. When someone challenged Jefferson's memory in the early 1800's Jefferson insisted he was right. The truth? As David McCullough remarks in his new biography of Adams, 'No such scene, with all the delegates present, ever occurred at Philadelphia.'"

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