#independence day
Happy Independence Day, Philippines!!
And big shout out to Jonathan Ventura.
https://www.instagram.com/jonathancventura/
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Forgot to upload this to Tumblr… D:
Happy 4th of July everyone!
What’s a good day to celebrate Independence Day? Going out for a BBQ of course!
Seems like Michelle has more than enough food to enjoy!
Just a quick drawing I wanted to do so the style’s a bit different! O:
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I’m currently doing some ink drawings for my first ever art festival! It’s happening later this month. But the 4th of July is a good time to share this portrait of Capt. Edith Standen, a member of the MFAA.
I feel she must have been quite the individual as most of the Monuments Women were. I admire her sense of justice and her willingness to stand up if someone transgressed it no matter who that someone was. For example, she was one of the MFAA officers who signed the Wiesbaden manifesto on Nov 7, 1945. The manifesto was an act of protest against orders by the U.S. government to send German owned art to the United States. It was called “the only act of protest by officers against their orders in the Second World War,” and it declared,
“We wish to state that, from our own knowledge, no historical grievance will rankle so long or be the cause of so much justified bitterness as the removal for any reason of a part of the heritage of any nation even if that heritage may be interpreted as a prize of war.”
She didn’t stop at just signing the manifesto though, she also distributed it to various offices after the art had gone. After a long three years the paintings were sent back.
And I think that this is a good reminder to Americans about what makes America great. It’s not our money, nor our weapons, it’s the amount of discourse we can have with the government and the government listens, even if it takes three years. Without a government that listens we have nothing.
Happy 4th of July to all the fellow Americans out there! Be safe and be sane,
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Happy Independence Day to my American audience!The one thing that get’s old Ben Franklin “up”: young women.
Howard Da Silva and Blythe Danner in 1776 (1972).
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Happy Independence day, May God bless and protect the USA!!! #FourthofJulyDollsfromheaven.com
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The American Continental Congress actually voted for and declared independence on July 2nd. John Adams, in a letter to wife Abigail, thought this date would become a special holiday:
But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.
I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. [x]
He was technically right…just off by two days! July 4th was the date written on the final copy of the Declaration, and it stuck. The signing was staggered, complicated by the fact that all the delegates were never in the same room at the same time. Most signed on August 2nd, but the last signature was not placed until 1777. [x]
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Liam Hemsworth
July 4, 2007. “July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C." Highsmith, Carol M., photographer. Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Happy 4th of July!!
If you’re a genealogist or just interested in history and family, check out the new video created by Ancestry.com. The video shows the descendants of the signers and places them into the positions from the famous painting by John Trumbull.
The video is short but to the point. Very nicely done Ancestry.com !
Here is a link to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/R1PMt8bnz34
Or go to Ancestry.com at: http://www.ancestry.com/cs/declaration?o_iid=80349&o_lid=80349&o_sch=Web+Property
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Happy 4th of July! The Jewish Museum is closed on Wednesdays and will reopen on Thursday at 11 am. Florine Stettheimer, Fourth of July, Number 1 (1927) from our exhibition last summer Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry.
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