Eating the 'Carolina Reaper' pepper is 'like eating molten lava'. Reapers-pretty-boys.jpg. Ed Currie named these peppers âCarolina Reapersâ for the sickle-like tails that stick out the ends. The first time Ed Currie tasted the Carolina Reaper, a fire-engine red chili pepper the size of a golf ball, âit knocked me to my knees,â he says.
Independence Day, or the Fourth of July, celebrates the adoption by the Continental Congress of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. On the 236th birthday of the United States, explore nine surprising facts about one of Americaâs most important founding documents. 1. The Declaration of Independence wasnât signed on July 4, 1776. On July 1, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Leeâs motion for independence.
Publisher. A+E Networks. On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and its king.n July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to approve a Virginia motion calling for separation from Britain. The dramatic words of this resolution were added to the closing of the Declaration of Independence.