Accurate history would indicate that we should actually be celebrating on 2 July, not 4 July, but bureaucracy was alive and well back then as well.......
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Happy Independence Day USA!
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kelticheart
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Happy 4th of July!
Cheers!
KH
Cheers!
KH
Blood_Hawk23
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Well, I have to work and Hurricane Arthur is paying us a visit later. All rain I hope. So the festivities will have to wait. I hope everyone here in the States has a safe and Happy Independence Day. 
Happy Independence Day!
Arthur just left BH. Not a very big deal except on the outer banks above Cape Lookout. Some trees down, and power outages and minor flooding. Pretty standard stuff for "Hoy Toyders". Thats High Tiders to us non-outer banks residents. Most of the people I know never left the beaches south of Lookout. Hope Arthur doesn't spoil your plans for the 4th.
Arthur just left BH. Not a very big deal except on the outer banks above Cape Lookout. Some trees down, and power outages and minor flooding. Pretty standard stuff for "Hoy Toyders". Thats High Tiders to us non-outer banks residents. Most of the people I know never left the beaches south of Lookout. Hope Arthur doesn't spoil your plans for the 4th.
Shadow Wolf 07
SOH-CM-2025
Have a happy Independence Day USA! Arthur bypassed us here in the Yorktown VA area - just a little rain, just a little wind, in fact, the sun is already shining. We were fortunate. 
ce_zeta
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Dude, Independence Day only in USA not in the entire America! (America is a continent)Good afternoon,
We're looking for Arthur this evening. Happy birthday, America!
Happy independence day
Blood_Hawk23
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Yup North and south.
ce_zeta
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Nopes. It's not a absolute definition about this point. In some countries, they only define America as a continent...In other countries, they define South America and North America.Ce_zeta,
Actually, it's two continents.
But in the whole marble...America is not the name of any country.
Shadow Wolf 07
SOH-CM-2025
yup, but in every language I know, "United Statsians" are called "Americans."
miamieagle
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Happy Birthday America
In my opinion the Greatest Nation in the World!
In my opinion the Greatest Nation in the World!
Roxane-21
SOH-CM-2023
Nopes. It's not a absolute definition about this point. In some countries, they only define America as a continent...In other countries, they define South America and North America.
But in the whole marble...America is not the name of any country.
Well, I've always learnt America is only one continent, with 3 different sub-continents :
> North America : Canada / USA / Mexico
> Central America : Guatemala / Belize / Honduras / Salvador / Nicaragua / Costa Rica / Panama
> South America : everything else that is south of Panama
To this we can add the Caribbean which are part of the American continent too.
ce_zeta
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Yes, because is not wrong.
You are American. But a Mexican, a Canadian, a Chilean, a Brazilian, a Venezuelan, a Colombian....are Americans too.
In the same way, you are a North american, But Mexicans and a Canadians are too North americans.
You discover what is the problem..."United Statsians"....you have not a word to define the inhabitants of your country.
In spanish, we have a word for this purpose 'Estadounidense', surely in other languages they did the same.
I use the same definition, but in other parts of the world, they don`t use our definition.
misson
Charter Member
Its not a definition, it is only a way to say it that comes from movies of many years ago.
Happy birthday UNITED STATES
Roxane-21
SOH-CM-2023
I don't know which movies you are talking about, but I would be curious to know.
To my knowledge, this definition of the American continent (with 3 sub-continents) is the one used by the UNO.
misson
Charter Member
I meant that the global name referring to America like United States is influenced by movies from the last century, where the northmericans define themselves as Americans.
Blood_Hawk23
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So the fireworks will be tonite. Too bad I have to work. They have a founders day next weekend in the next town over. they are better then some of the Fourth of July's fireworks. so we'll go see that.
Sorry but there is a country called America. We are the United States of America. That is the whole name. Hence the USA for abbreviation. We are called Americans. United States is just the short title.
In any geography book there are two continents North America, which includes the USA, Canada, and Mexico down to Panama. South America starts after Panama. Its all relative anyways.
Sorry but there is a country called America. We are the United States of America. That is the whole name. Hence the USA for abbreviation. We are called Americans. United States is just the short title.
In any geography book there are two continents North America, which includes the USA, Canada, and Mexico down to Panama. South America starts after Panama. Its all relative anyways.
Blood_Hawk23
Charter Member
Lets not forget that the Confedrate states of America were also Americans.
The United in the title just explains that there are a group of state joined to a larger governing body. It was the same for the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
Maybe the will help explain things. Than again maybe not.
The United in the title just explains that there are a group of state joined to a larger governing body. It was the same for the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
Maybe the will help explain things. Than again maybe not.