July 3, 2016 (185/366)
"Whiz go the rockets into the air with many a snap, crack, and whir!
Some shower silver stars, others red
- as if a cherubim had thrown away a handful of rubies -
perhaps green, orange, and blue. How magnificent the spectacle!"
~ Henry Howard Paul, Fourth of July in the United States 1851
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