View Full Version : Happy 237th, 'merica!
Sledgehammer
07-04-2013, 12:16 PM
Down with the British!
Wish everyone a happy 4th of July.
Steve McQueen seems fitting
The Great Escape - 4th of July - YouTube
Ferrer
07-04-2013, 12:25 PM
I couldn't reach the colleagues in New York I needed to talk to today because they were in holiday.
Bugger.
Happy birthday USA!
Matra et Alpine
07-04-2013, 01:05 PM
Thank you France :)
Kitdy
07-04-2013, 04:32 PM
Y'all have fun now!
Kitdy
07-04-2013, 06:45 PM
We turned 146 on the 1st, for anyone that is interested. Germany is only 142 (technically)...
pimento
07-04-2013, 08:24 PM
On this day 237 years ago, a bunch of tax evaders decided to abandon links with the most powerful nation in the world.
Or something. :p
Ferrer
07-04-2013, 10:37 PM
We turned 146 on the 1st, for anyone that is interested. Germany is only 142 (technically)...
We are somewhere between 896 and 730 years old.
(According to teenagers, that is)
Cobrafan427
07-05-2013, 11:00 PM
It really bothers me that people from other nations know about US history and us as Americans don't give a damn about anyone else. Is US history an optional course in other countries?
Matra et Alpine
07-06-2013, 07:40 AM
Not really, it's more that other nations teach world history, so we all know a little and the key points of most countries.
The US education system is very insular tho' :(
pimento
07-06-2013, 10:55 AM
We don't need to take any educational course to know about murrican history, we have hollywood for that.
Ferrer
07-06-2013, 11:41 AM
We don't need to take any educational course to know about murrican history, we have hollywood for that.
This.
And all of the TV series from the good ol' US of A.
Kitdy
07-06-2013, 12:57 PM
It really bothers me that people from other nations know about US history and us as Americans don't give a damn about anyone else. Is US history an optional course in other countries?
Being your brothers and sisters from the north, it is quite alarming how much we know about you and your history. It is only a few notches down from what born and bread Yankees know.
American History and State Capitals on Jeopardy still often kick my ass.
Bonus challenge for UCP: Name a Canadian Prime Minister that wasn't either the first or one of the last 3 without research.
Go on!
f6fhellcat13
07-06-2013, 06:21 PM
Trudeau/Wayne Gretzky
Kitdy
07-06-2013, 11:16 PM
Trudeau/Wayne Gretzky
2/2. 5char
Cobrafan427
07-07-2013, 06:01 PM
Wayne Gretzky
Winning
jcp123
09-24-2013, 01:23 AM
I learned more about US history through my own research than through school, even college. That's a shame.
Kitdy
09-24-2013, 06:18 PM
#illuminati