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Folks, welcome to the program.

It is the time for me to give you an update, a super centennial update. In case he didn't know, the 250th anniversary of America will be next year. I remember the bicentennial, the 200th. I was a kid. And it was such a huge, amazing celebration. So to think that this is the 250th, the word for the 250th is semi-quincentennial.

No one is going to say it.

Nobody is going to remember it.

So I have come up with a term, which I hope catches on, because I think you need a term, tricentennial, bicentennial, those are good terms,

semi-quincentennial, not a good term. And the 150th is sesquicentennial. No, not a good term.

The 250th, here's my term. We should call it the supercentennial. America is celebrating its super centennial next year,

2026, 250 years. And so, as you may know, I'm working on a book on the American Revolution.

And I am actually next week, or no, well, yeah, I think this Sunday I'm going to be filming something for the White House.

They're producing a number of videos for the 250th.

And they've asked me, since I'm writing this book on The Revolution, to speak in this video about the Battle of Long Island, which is the Battle of Brooklyn,

which happened August 27, 1776, and then also to speak about what happened five months later,

the crossing of the Delaware, the Battle of Trenton, this triumphant moment.

So I've been working on those chapters in my book,

and there's so much there. Oh, my goodness. And so the question is where to start. Well,

I think I've spoken about the Battle of Long Island, the Battle of Brooklyn on the program.

But what happens following that, just so you know, so this is August 27th, 1776.

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