American Revolution

The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.

Starting in 1765, members of American colonial society rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them without colonial representatives in the government. During the following decade, protests by colonists—known as Patriots—continued to escalate, as in the Boston Tea Party in 1773 during which patriots destroyed a consignment of taxed tea from the Parliament-controlled and favored East India Company. The British responded by imposing punitive laws—the Coercive Acts—on Massachusetts in 1774, following which Patriots in the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts. In late 1774 the Patriots set up their own alternative government to better coordinate their resistance efforts against Great Britain, while other colonists, known as Loyalists, preferred to remain aligned to the British Crown.

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Iranian fighter jet crashes in the country’s south, killing 2 pilots

Wtop 05 Dec 2024
State television identified the pilots as Col. Hamid Reza Ranjbar and Col ... Iran’s air force has an assortment of U.S.-made military aircraft purchased before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Tomcat F-14 is American-made ... Source ....
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YouTube’s Success Is ‘Inextricably Intertwined’ With Creators After $70 Billion Investment, Exec Says | Video

The Wrap 05 Dec 2024
Larson made the comment while speaking at the 2024 Power Women Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday ... Execs Leading the Creator Revolution,” which was moderated by Jo Cronk, the North American president of Whalar. Khare has more than 4.8 million subscribers on the platform ... Khare added ... Execs Leading the Creator Revolution presented by Whalar’ ... ....
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Shadrach Bond Chapter hosts Illinois DAR State Regent

The Hawk Eye 04 Dec 2024
The Shadrach Bond Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) welcomed a special guest to its Friday, Nov ... The American Indian Minute summarized the life of John Killbuck, a principal Delaware Indian chief who supported the patriots in the Americans Revolution....
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Congress must reject presidential immunity | GUEST COMMENTARY

Baltimore Sun 04 Dec 2024
Such immunity is indistinguishable from “the King can do no wrong” tyranny that provoked the American Revolution ... The cause of the American Revolution from Bunker Hill to Valley Forge to Yorktown was to support the principle that the rule of law is king, and the king is not law....
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Mesquite community invited to honor local veterans at historic cemetery

Carrollton Leader 04 Dec 2024
The Richard Bard Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is hosting its first Wreaths Across America ceremony at Mesquite Cemetery on Dec. 14. The event will honor 277 veterans ... Winston Henvey is the reporter for the Mesquite News, Allen American and Plano Star Courier ... .......
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The dawn of the anti-woke era

New Statesman 04 Dec 2024
Fewer than a quarter of Americans (23 per cent) support allowing transgender athletes to play on women’s teams ... This particular social revolution owes most of its energy to a revulsion against woke ... Donald Trump’s industrial revolution] ... All Americans, Republican and Democratic, have been surprised by a revolution that is social more than political....
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Rescuers reassess safety in search for woman they think fell into a Pennsylvania sinkhole

Journal Gazette 04 Dec 2024
how America's farming revolution affects your plate and wallet ... how America's farming revolution affects your plate and wallet. In an era of rapid technological advancement and environmental change, American agriculture is undergoing a revolution that reaches far beyond the farm gate ... A Lifeline for American Farms....
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Iranian fighter jet crashes in the country's south, killing 2 pilots

Newsday 04 Dec 2024
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian fighter jet crashed in the south of the country Wednesday, killing the two pilots, state media reported ... Iran’s air force has an assortment of U.S.-made military aircraft purchased before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Tomcat F-14 is American-made ... 'There's no place in American for this kind of violence'....
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Christmas event at Mount Union Church

Daily American 04 Dec 2024
Snow started to fall Thursday afternoon in Meyersdale ... This wave came through around 1 p.m. UPPER TURKEYFOOT TWP ... Sunday. The Rev ... Wreaths Across America ... The Great Crossings Daughter of the American Revolution will be laying wreaths at the Ream Cemetery in Ursina and at the Mount Union Cemetery....
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Outlander Season 7 Episode 11 Release Date, Time, Where to Watch Online

Coming Soon 04 Dec 2024
Photo Credit. Starz ... and the U.K.. The upcoming episode 11, titled ‘A Hundredweight Of Stones,’ has got fans buzzing about what’s coming up in this historical romance time-travel saga ... Outlander Season 7 continues the thrilling saga of Claire and Jamie Fraser as they cross the tumultuous landscape of the American Revolution ... ....
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There's only one way to defeat Trump's billionaires boys club

Alternet 04 Dec 2024
... working class Americans ... The Powell Memo and the Court’s Bellotti decision (written by Powell) set the stage and outline the battle plan for the Reagan Revolution, an all-out declaration of class war against average Americans and the Democrats who’d historically defended them....

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