Bonus Facts: 1  Marilyn Monroe in 1945 Posing For YANK Magazine. 2  The words âblondâ and âblondeâ are not wholly synonymous. 3  Monroe reportedly kept a small library of around 400 books, largely non-fiction. 4  Veronica Hamel and her husband purchased Monroeâs Brentwood home in 1972 and attempted to have the roof replaced.
The Continental Congress, also known as the Philadelphia Congress, was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies. It became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution. The Congress met from 1774 to 1789 in three incarnations. The first call for a convention was made over issues of the blockade and the Intolerable Acts penalizing the Province of Massachusetts, which in 1774 enabled Benjamin Franklin to convince the colonies to form a represen
In response to the British Parliamentâs enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenterâs Hall in Philadelphia.