"Christo's Gates" February 2005 NYC

The happy couple holding a small piece of artistic history. Fabric from Christo's Gates, Centrl Park, NYC. February 20, 2005.

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Neo-Victorian America

In 1776 Americans revolted, less against taxes than against what those taxes were designed to enforce: triangular trade. Americans were required to sell raw materials to England, and buy from the rest of the world from British monopoly companies. The Tea Tax sparked the Boston Tea Party, not because it increased the price of Tea, but because it blocked Americans from entering into the lucrative tea market. Americans resented selling raw materials to England, having the English manufacture them into more valuable goods that were sold around the world, and then use the profits to buy spices, slaves and tea for sale in America. England became addicted to triangular trade, preferring war with its American colonies to negotiated peace. click the link for the entire article:http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052205A.shtml