Wiki down in protest. Thank goodness for The World Almanac

While the battle over intellectual property rages in Washington, thousands, if not millions of people today will be shut out of free websites such as Wikipedia. Sensing a vacuum in the information continuum, the Blogster opens his fresh, new 2012 World Almanac and Book of Facts, semi randomly, the find a nugget for the word-starved. So on page 478 is the list of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. To help you declare independence from Wiki laziness, signers from Connecticut included Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams and Oliver Woolcott.

The Blogster will try to file other salient facts during the rest of the day.