Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have a likelihood of showers this Labor Day, with a high of eighty.
Do peacocks fly? Yes, and they come when called, too:
On this day in 1775, King George refuses the Olive Branch Petition from America:
Richard Penn and Arthur Lee were dispatched by Congress to carry the Petition to London, where, on August 21, they provided Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies, with a copy, followed on September 1 with the original. However, the King refused to see Penn and Lee or to look at the Petition, which in his view originated from an illegal and illegitimate assembly of rebels.[6]
Instead, on August 23, in response to the news of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the King had issued the Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition, declaring the North American colonies to be in a state of rebellion and ordering “all Our officers … and all Our obedient and loyal subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion.”[6] The proclamation was written before Lord Dartmouth had received the Petition. Because the King refused to receive the Petition, the Proclamation effectively served as an answer to it.[7]
Google-a-Day asks a geography question:
The European country that has a half-submerged church in the middle of its largest artificial lake is located in what peninsula?