December 27

If you have ever lived in a building that had low water pressure, or shared a home with one and a half bathrooms, you may have encountered the problem of someone flushing while you were in the shower, the result of which drenched you with very hot water. The first reaction is to lash out at the offending individual who flushed offering strong arguments justifying the flusher’s placement in a spot on the food chain beneath amoebas. The Flushing Remonstrance is, however, a bird of a different feather. It is a document crafted in the 17th century. The Flushing Remonstrance was signed on the 27th in 1657. The document was intended to be a protest against the religious persecution carried out by Peter Stuyvesant in the Dutch settlement in what is today the county of Queens in New York City. It is considered by many to be one of the seminal documents drawn on by the Founding Fathers when they drafted the United States’ Constitution.