The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. It met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after the British Navy instituted a blockade of Boston Harbor and Parliament passed the punitive Intolerable Acts in response to the December 1773 Boston Tea …

Look up second, seconds, or 2nd in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A second is the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI). Second, Seconds or 2nd may also refer to: Mathematics. 2 (number), as an ordinal (also written as 2nd or 2d) Second of arc, an angular measurement unit, 1 / 3600 of a ...