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Finally, the bald eagle is our national bird. Here is the history of the symbol
In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the Great Seal of the United States and Americans just assumed it was our national bird − wrongly it turned out. While the U.S. had a national mammal (bison) and ...
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Why It Took 248 Years for the Bald Eagle to Become America's National Bird
perhaps due to at least one of the Founding Fathers opposing the bald eagle as a U.S. symbol. Benjamin Franklin had clashed with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson over which bird should be included ...
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ESPN writer David Fleming’s ‘Who’s Your Founding Father?’ gives a fascinating look at the first Declaration of Independence
as a symbol of the American Revolution. Meanwhile, Fleming’s research and writing in Who’s Your Founding Father? highlights the case for the Mecklenburg Declaration (henceforth, MecDec ...