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unusual facts about Fourth of July



Ah, Wilderness!

The play takes place on the Fourth of July, 1906, and focuses on the Miller family, presumably of New London, Connecticut.

Before Our Hearts Explode!

Before Our Hearts Explode! is the second album by Lawrence, Kansas-based band, Fourth of July.

David Francey

His 2004 album, The Waking Hour, is a collaboration with traditional country artists Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin, and includes some of his darker material, including "Wishing Well" about the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and "Fourth of July", a political commentary on the post-September 11 United States.

Everson Griffen

On July 4, 2009, at Fourth of July party on Nantucket island, Griffen and teammate, linebacker Jordan Campbell, were cited by the Nantucket Police Department for a noise violation; no charges were filed and the two agreed to write a letter of apology.

Fourth of July on the Plains

Fourth of July on the Plains is the debut album by Lawrence, Kansas-based band, Fourth of July.

Garden State Fireworks

2012: A Fourth of July display in San Diego, California called the Big Bay Boom, billed as one of the largest in the United States, was ruined when all 7,000 fireworks from four barges and a pier went off early in a single simultaneous explosion.

Merrimack, New Hampshire

As a large, suburban community located directly between the state's two largest cities, Manchester and Nashua, Merrimack plays a disproportionate role to its size every four years in the New Hampshire primary; in almost every Fourth of July preceding a presidential election, every presidential candidate will march or have a float in the town's Fourth of July parade.

MITES

The students also participate in activities such as a Fourth of July barbecue, a trip to Martha's Vineyard, a tour of Boston, a tour of the MIT Museum, a trip to labs in fields of vanguard research, a dinner with the Director of Admissions at MIT, a talent show, a college fair, a Dining Cruise, and a variety of speaker's luncheons with people such as the new Dean of Science at MIT and Eric Lander.

Myrtle Edwards Park

From 1964 until 2008 the park was the site of the annual Fourth of Jul-Ivar's celebration — one of Seattle's large Fourth of July fireworks shows.

Snowbird, Utah

Snowbird usually closes on Memorial Day in late May while the occasional ski year can last as long as the Fourth of July.


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Anson S. Marshall

On the fourth of July, 1874, Marshall, his wife and son were setting up a picnic lunch at Penacook Lake in West Concord when his wife heard the sound of bullets over their heads.

Elihu Palmer

Palmer kept writing until the end of his life and published a number of different written works including "A Fourth of July Oration" (1797), and was also the author of The Principles of Nature, or A Development of the Moral Causes of Happiness and Misery among the Human Species.

Faith, North Carolina

The Faith Fourth achieved national visibility in 1992, when President George H. W. Bush not only made a speech praising small town virtues, but also participated in the traditional Fourth of July softball game.

Mungo Thomson

In 2012 Thompson created a helium-filled copy of a sculpture by Michael Heizer, for an official Fourth of July float for the Aspen Art Museum.

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Platoon was based on Oliver Stone's own experience in Vietnam and Born on the Fourth of July was based on the experiences of veteran Ron Kovic.

WPRJ

The station garnered some attention over the Fourth of July weekend in 2008 by playing "Veggie Radio," featuring nothing but VeggieTales skits and songs.