http://harrisonlives.com Railing Against the Setting Sun Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://harrisonlives.com/2009/04/16/giving-tea-a-bad-name-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2009/04/16/giving-tea-a-bad-name-politics-today/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:46:10 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=149 The Boston Tea Party events took place on December 16, 1773. After officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The Party arose from two issues confronting the British Empire that year: the financial [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2009/04/16/giving-tea-a-bad-name-politics-today/feed/ 1