flag day

It is estimated, at the end of the day, a man born runty between the United States National holiday. Hundred and fifty years after the original foundation, do not expect cookout on the flag, or send a holiday greeting card for science. No one gets a long weekend away in office. Suppliers and even customers-hungry cars are advertised for sale on the flag.
Today, exactly 150 years later, he knew that for the first time, almost no one seems to be the anniversary said. Search for "fifty per cent, after a day of science and other similar words to the zero. , However, the opening day of 1861 with promises of binge drinking festivals ancient Rome to compete with dinner and dancing, garlands flowers and happiness in this world, idyllic towns of New England. Also started between one of the exciting and turbulent period of American history: the beginning of civil war. Turning point in the definition of national identity and science itself. It seems that this happens - like many American cultural phenomena, such as seeds idealism and trade, support negotiable and developed by the journalists.
It began editing the Hartford Evening Press. A piece of the author's editor Charles Dudley Warner, who would eventually be recognized co-author, his friend Marc pair .1871 book "Golden Age" (It was, Warner, a well-known remark is often mistaken to be two: "Everybody complains about the weather But no one has anything about it ") and Warner thinks editing, and request the bank, and a friend of the heart of trade unionist named Jonathan Morris flint.