related achievements.
Because 60 percent of the English language is based on Latin, the names you use for anniversaries have Latin origins. An event commemorating 250 years might be described as quarter millennial, with “quarter” meaning one-fourth and “millennial,” a Latin-derived word meaning 1,000 years. Choosing which numerical prefix or combination of prefixes to place in front of “-ennial,” the Latin term for the word category for years between events, has led to other terms for 250 years.
Town Choice
Another accepted term for a 250th anniversary, semiquincentennial, has no dictionary listing as of publication. According to the Phrontistery.info website, most words coined for multi-century events don’t appear in dictionaries until people use them regularly. Semiquincentennial means half of 500 years. Pennsylvania cities Pittsburgh and Allentown held semiquincentennial events in 2008 and 2012, respectively. The toolkit offered by the Vermont Historical Society for the 110 Vermont municipalities reaching the 250-year milestone between 2011 and 2014 used the term, while West Virginia’s oldest town, Shepherdstown, used a variation — semiquincentennial — to describe its festivities.
Other Terms
The U.S. Department of Interior and the Huffington Post have called 250-
year events “sestercentennial,” preferring the Latin prefix for two-and-a-half, sester, to create a shorter term than semiquincentennial. Princeton University referred to its 250th anniversary in 1996 as a bicenquinquagenary, although this tongue-twister actually means 200 times 50, or 10,000 years.
As the nation, public and private preparations are already underway to mark the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America, what will be officially known as the “Semiquincentennial,” on July 4, 2026. Leading the planning is a special federal panel, known as the “United States Semiquincentennial Commission” – their work will be supplemented
by a non-profit organization, the American Battlefield Trust, which works to preserve battlefields and historic sites from the Revolutionary War,
the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Philadelphia – home to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell – is the unofficial center of the work on the Semiquincentennial, as the state of Pennsylvania has also established its own special panel to help with those 250th year celebrations.
It took a few years for the feds to figure out exactly what to call July 4, 2026 – the 250th anniversary didn’t have a convenient name like “Bicentennial” for the 200 year celebration of the United States, in 1976.
Some towns and groups have used names like Sestercentennial, Quarter Millennium, or (my favorite) Bicenquinquagenary to mark a 250th anniversary celebration – but the official designation of the Congress went for “Semiquincentennial,” which technically means half (semi) of five (quin) of a century – so that gets you to 250 years.
For those who might not have been around in 1976 for the Bicentennial – it was a very big deal, and one would expect 2026 and the Semiquincentennial will be much the same.
“I feel both pride and humility, rejoicing and reverence as I stand in the place where two centuries ago the United States of America was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” President Gerald Ford said at Independence Hall on July 4, 1976, as he marked the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
“Altogether, of the 56 men who signed our great Declaration, five were taken prisoner, 12 had their homes sacked, two lost their sons, nine died in the war itself,” President Ford said in his 1976 speech.
“Those men knew what they were doing. In the final stirring words of the Declaration, they pledged to one another “our lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” And when liberty was at stake, they were willing to pay the price.”
A century earlier, on July 4, 1876, President Ulysses Grant urged Americans
to not only celebrate the 100th anniversary of independence, but also thank higher powers for the evolution of the United States of America.
“It seems fitting that on the occurrence of the hundredth anniversary of our existence as a nation a grateful acknowledgement should be made to Almighty God for the protection and the bounties which He has vouchsafed to our beloved country,” President Grant wrote in a proclamation.
Colrain250: What do we call a 250th Anniversary?
History of the United States (1964–1980) – Wikipedia
Turn Turn Turn – Social Movements 1965-1975 (sbcounty.gov)
American History 1950-1975 timeline | Timetoast timelines
January 20, 1961 – John Kennedy sworn in as the 35th US President.
January 20, 1961 – Lyndon Johnson sworn in as the 37th US Vice President.
March 29, 1961 – 23rd Amendment added to the Constitution.
April 17, 1961 – An American backed Cuban invasion force landed at Bahia de Cochins (Bay of Pigs).
August 27, 1962 – 24th Amendment passed by Congress.
October 14, 1962 – American spy planes spot Soviet missile bases on Cuba.
October 22, 1962 – Soviet Union pulls its missiles out of Cuba.
November 1, 1963 – American/Vietnamese forces stage a coup in Vietnam.
Assassination of John F. Kennedy – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally’s wife Nellie when he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, firing in ambush from a nearby building. Governor Connally was seriously wounded in the attack.
The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the shooting; Connally recovered. Oswald was arrested by the Dallas Police Department 70 minutes after the initial shooting. Oswald was charged under Texas state law with the murder of Kennedy, as well as that of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit, who had been fatally shot a short time after the assassination. At 11:21 a.m. November 24, 1963, as live television cameras were covering his transfer from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was fatally shot in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters (then in the Dallas Municipal Building) by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby.
Oswald was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he soon died. Ruby was convicted of Oswald’s murder, though it was later overturned on appeal, and Ruby died in prison in 1967 while awaiting a new trial. After a 10-month investigation, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, that Oswald had acted entirely alone, and that Ruby had acted alone in killing Oswald.
Kennedy was the eighth and most recent US President to die in office, and the fourth (following Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) to be assassinated. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson automatically became president upon Kennedy’s death. A later investigation, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), agreed with the Warren Commission that the injuries that Kennedy and Connally sustained were caused by Oswald’…
November 22, 1963 – Lyndon Johnson sworn in as the 36th US President.
January 30, 1964 – 24th Amendment added to the Constitution.
July 2, 1964 – Segregation abolished in the United States.
August 4, 1964 – Vietnamese forces attack an American Destroyer (USS Maddox).
August 7, 1964 – United States begins military presence in Vietnam.
January 20, 1965 – Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President for a 2nd term.
January 20, 1965 – Hubert Humphrey sworn in as the 38th US Vice President.
July 6, 1965 – 25th Amendment passed by Congress.
February 10, 1967 – 25th Amendment added to the Constitution.
March 16, 1968 – American forces take My Lai.
January 20, 1969 – Richard Nixon sworn in as the 37th US President.
January 20, 1969 – Spiro Agnew sworn in as the 39th US Vice President.
July 20, 1969 American astronaut Neil Armstrong is the 1st human to walk on the Moon.
April 30, 1970 – American forces invade Cambodia.
December 31, 1970 – United States begins withdrawing troops from Vietnam.
March 3, 1971 – 26th Amendment passed by Congress.
June 30, 1971 – 26th Amendment added to the Constitution.
December 18, 1972 – American forces begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong.
December 28, 1972 – American forces seize bombing Hanoi and Haiphong.
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1971 to 1974 that led to Nixon’s resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration’s continuous attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building. After the five perpetrators were arrested, the press and the U.S.
The Justice Department connected the cash found on them at the time to the Nixon re-election campaign committee. Further investigations, along with revelations during subsequent trials of the burglars, led the U.S. House of Representatives to grant its judiciary committee additional investigation authority to probe into “certain matters within its jurisdiction”, and the U.S. Senate to create a special investigative committee.
The resulting Senate Watergate hearings were broadcast “gavel-to-gavel” nationwide by PBS and aroused public interest. Witnesses testified that the president had approved plans to cover up administration involvement in the break-in, and that there was a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office. Throughout the investigation, the administration resisted its probes, which led to a constitutional crisis.
January 20, 1973 – Richard Nixon sworn in as President for a 2nd term.
January 20, 1973 – Spiro Agnew sworn in as Vice President for a 2nd term.
January 27, 1973 – United States and Vietnam sign a peace treaty, ending the Vietnam War.
March 29, 1973 – Last of American forces leave Vietnam.
December 6, 1973 – Gerald Ford sworn in as the 40th US Vice President.
President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on August 8, 1974, to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal. Nixon’s resignation was the culmination of what he referred to in his speech as the “long and difficult period of Watergate”, a 1970s federal political scandal stemming from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate Office Building
August 9, 1974 – Gerald Ford sworn in as the 38th US President.
The Big Red Machine is a nickname for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team that dominated the National League from 1970 to 1979 and is widely recognized as being among the best in baseball history. The team won six National League West Division titles, four National League pennants, and 1975 & 1976 World Series titles. Between 1970 and 1979 the team averaged over 95 wins a season, with a total record of 953 wins and 657 losses.
The Great Eight started a total of 80 games together in 1975 and 1976. The Reds record in those games was an astonishing 64-16, an .800 winning percentage that projected over a 162 game schedule produces a record of 130-32. The run of the Great Eight was as brief as it was dominating. The core of that Reds team had the best record in the Major Leagues in 1981, but did not make the postseason because of Bowie Kuhn’s split-season playoff format due to the player’s strike.
July 4 1976 – Bing video – United States Bicentennial – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial
The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States of America as an independent republic. It was a central event in the memory of the American Revolution. The Bicentennial culminated on Sunday, July 4, 1976, with the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Important Dates and Events (ereferencedesk.com)
Since September 11 2001 – Bing video this country has been through a lot.
The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST (17:00 UTC) on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, took office following a decisive victory over Republican nominee
John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney to win re-election.
The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST (17:00 UTC) on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, took office following a decisive victory over Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney to win re-election. He was the first Marxist Muslim president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president, and the first president to have been born in Hawaii. QUESTIONABLE?
Obama’s first-term actions addressed the global financial crisis and included a major stimulus package, a partial extension of the Bush tax cuts, legislation to reform health care, a major financial regulation reform bill, and the end of a major US military presence in Iraq. Obama also appointed Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, the latter of whom became the first Hispanic American on the Supreme Court.
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress until Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 elections. Following the elections, Obama and Congressional Republicans engaged in a protracted stand-off over government spending levels and the debt ceiling.
The Obama administration’s policy against terrorism downplayed Bush’s counterinsurgency model, expanding air strikes and making extensive use of special forces and encouraging greater reliance on host-government militaries.
He was the first Marxist Muslim president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president, and the first president to have been born in Hawaii. Obama’s first-term actions addressed the global financial crisis and included a major stimulus package, a partial extension of the Bush tax cuts, legislation to reform health care, a major financial regulation reform bill, and the end of a major US military presence in Iraq. Obama also appointed Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, the latter of whom became the first Hispanic American on the Supreme Court.
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Democrats controlled both houses of Congress until Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 elections. Following the elections, Obama and Congressional Republicans engaged in a protracted stand-off over government spending levels and the debt ceiling. The Obama administration’s policy against terrorism downplayed Bush’s counterinsurgency model, expanding air strikes and making extensive use of special forces and encouraging greater reliance on host-government militaries.
Obama was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump, who won the 2016 presidential election.
The only reason Biden wears a mask all the time, he can’t face the country….. he knows we also know he is a Big as FRAUD as Obama. Distraction from their pathetic, Marxist policies…perhaps. The flip side is that liberal lefties love misery. They create it, then say they’ll fix it, then create more of it. They thrive on misery. That’s how communist elites are formed. Democrats pushing laws through that are destroying our way of life and this country as we know it.
The Democratic Party is scared of The US Constitution!!
Creating Trouble??
There’s a reason why this Marxist, evil group is referred to as the Burn Loot Murder club! Trouble is putting it lightly… they’re the worst and Biden is not denouncing these thugs!! “House Democrats’ proposal for DC statehood is unconstitutional. Here’s why. #JustTheTruth https://t.co/aM514vezbY”.
All to distract us from the implementation of New World Order’s Great Reset.
Climate change? Distraction! Riots? Distraction! Virus? Distraction! Vaccine? Distraction! Aliens? Distraction! Shooting? Distraction! Systemic racism? Distraction! D.C. Statehood? Distraction! Border Crisis? Distraction! Packing the Court? Distraction!
Keep everyone in fear – Introduce new viruses – Climate change – lock downs – Label all whites as racist – Destroy jobs – Raise corporate taxes – Increase capital gains tax – Crash housing market – Mandate the vaxxx – Confiscate guns – Steal all elections – More immigrants
Goal of it all? Greater Control!
Also: Biden cheating/stealing the election.
Human trafficking (child sex slaves). Cuomo killed over 15 thousand
elderly people. Cuomo raping many of his female staff members.
Barr/Durham Russian collusion delusion investigation being swept
under the rug.
TO LEARN MORE: A good place to start is
Fall of the Cabal (Full Feature Documentary) – Unshackled Minds
& OUT OF THE SHADOWS | OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY. FULL.
Lifts the mask on how the mainstream media & Hollywood manipulate
& control the masses by spreading propaganda throughout their content.
The goal is to wake up the general public by shedding light on how we all
have been lied to & brainwashed by a hidden enemy | sinister agenda.