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It is 250 years since that pivotal year,
that year that 13 American colonies declared independence from Great Britain, 1776, the year that everything changed.
Everything changed for them, for the actual people doing the signing.
Everything changed, of course, on that continent, but also everything changed, you could argue, for the whole world.