Saturday, July 04, 2009

Happy Independence Day

For Independence day, the BBC posted a list of ten good things that America has brought the world. I'll quote one of them:

Item Number Four is aviation. America did invent the aeroplane but it was rather a dull device at first and spent its early years being flown short distances in wobbly straight lines by plucky pioneers.

Before long though, America had invented barnstorming, and intrepid entertainers were performing the Charleston on the wings of bi-planes as they were flown under low bridges. A pointless but brilliant feat.

I put it down to the manner in which the Declaration of Independence promises the right to the pursuit of happiness.



The list includes such other classics as ice cubes and American cheese. You can read the article here.

2 comments:

Shana said...

Wow, foreign media saying awesome things about America. That's great.

Rachel Helps said...

Hey, thanks for the comment, and that article is amusing.