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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Splashdown on March 22, 2010, 10:02:46 AM
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Heh.
One helluva anniversary. I'm not sure if this anniversary--coupled with the health "care" debacle--should give me hope or depress me.
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Don Cook's book, The Long Fuse, has an excellent summary of the Stamp Act and it's effect on the English colonies. Here is part of it.
In March, the Stamp Act is passed by the English Parliament imposing the first direct tax on the American colonies, to offset the high costs of the British military organization in America. Thus for the first time in the 150 year old history of the British colonies in America, the Americans will pay tax not to their own local legislatures in America, but directly to England.
Under the Stamp Act, all printed materials are taxed, including; newspapers, pamphlets, bills, legal documents, licenses, almanacs, dice and playing cards. The American colonists quickly unite in opposition, led by the most influential segments of colonial society - lawyers, publishers, land owners, ship builders and merchants - who are most affected by the Act, which is scheduled to go into effect on November 1.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm
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Heh.
One helluva anniversary. I'm not sure if this anniversary--coupled with the health "care" debacle--should give me hope or depress me.
Took about 10 years to get the people really fired up.....2020 Pinky, we take over the world.
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It was just a bunch of white greedy slave owners who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes. All their wealth was stolen from the natives anyway. [/dump mode]
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Many revolutions, resistance, and revolts were a work of a few people.
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Many revolutions, resistance, and revolts were a work of a few people.
Tell us, grampy Ptarmy, how many were involved in the Great Ptarmigan Uprising? :-)
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Tell us, grampy Ptarmy, how many were involved in the Great Ptarmigan Uprising? :-)
It took a few ptarmigans to rise up against the bunnies. It took a few greedy bunnies to start the Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War.
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It took a few ptarmigans to rise up against the bunnies. It took a few greedy bunnies to start the Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War.
Who won? Bunnies = lagomorphs. Ptarmigans = Lagopus. :lmao:
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Who won? Bunnies = lagomorphs. Ptarmigans = Lagopus. :lmao:
You didn't see anything. Move along! I am no self-hater just because my genus is Lagopus. Yes, Lagopus means "rabbit" or "hare" feet. :doh: