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Geertje Dircx (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣeːrcə ˈdɪr (ə)ks]; c. 1610-1615 – c. 1656) was the lover of Rembrandt van Rijn after the death of his wife Saskia. She was hired as a nurse to the painter's son Titus, but lived with Rembrandt as his lover for several years.
Sep 20, 2016 · Fun U.S. Presidential Election Fact. Step into the shoes of Lincoln, Reagan, and others to discover the quirky world of elections with this list of interesting presidential election facts.
- George Washington's Birthday Was Not February 22, 1732.
- No One Will Ever Rank Higher Than Him in The U.S. Military.
- George Washington Made A Pretty Hefty Salary ...
- He Was One of The Sickliest Presidents in history.
- He May Or May Not Have Died as A Result of Medical Malpractice.
- George Washington Might Have Been Infertile.
- Washington's Body Was Almost Buried in The Capitol.
- He Was Not Very Religious.
- He Never Chopped Down That Cherry Tree.
- He Was An Inveterate letter-writer.
Washington was actually bornon February 11, 1731, but when the colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar from the Julian calendar, his birthday was moved 11 days. Since his birthday fell before the old date for New Year’s Day, but after the new date for New Year’s Day, his birth year was changed to 1732.
In 1976 Washington was posthumously awarded the highest rank in the U.S. military—ever. According to Air Force Magazine: So, a law was passed to make Washington the highest ranking U.S. officer of all time: General of the Armies of the United States. Nobody will ever outrank him.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, in 1789, Washington's presidential salarywas 2 percent of the total U.S. budget.
Throughout his life, Washington sufferedfrom a laundry list of ailments: diphtheria, tuberculosis, smallpox, dysentery, malaria, quinsy (tonsillitis), carbuncle, pneumonia, and epiglottitis—to name a few.
On the day he died—December 14, 1799—Washington was treated with four rounds of bloodletting, which removed 5 pints of blood from his body. It seems that it proved to be too much. In 1999, The New York Timeswrote:
Washington had no children of his own. In 2007, John K. Amory of the University of Washington School of Medicine proposed that Washington was infertile. Armory goes through a number of possible reasonsfor Washington’s infertility, including an infection caused by his tuberculosis:
Washington requested that he be buried at Mount Vernon, and his family upheld his request, despite repeated pleas by Congress. They wanted to put his body underneath a marble statue in the Capitol.
As Edward Lengel, writer of the George Washington biography Inventing George Washington, told NPR in 2011, "He was a very moral man. He was a very virtuous man, and he watched carefully everything he did. But he certainly doesn't fit into our conception of a Christian evangelical or somebody who read his Bible every day and lived by a particular Ch...
Parson Weems, who wrote a myth-filled biography of Washington shortly after he died, made up the cherry tree story. The Mount Vernon Digital Encyclopedia identifies that book, The Life of Washington, as " the point of origin for many long-held myths about Washington."
We don’t have an exact number, but the best estimates seem to put the number of letters he penned somewhere between18,000 and 20,000. If you wrote one letter a day, it would take you between 50 and 55 years to write that many.
3 Awesome Facts About US Presidents! Think you know everything about U.S. Presidents? Get ready to be surprised! From George Washington’s whiskey empire to A...
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
Nov 12, 2018 · What did they eat at the first Thanksgiving? Which president made Thanksgiving a federal holiday? Get Thanksgiving trivia to share around the table.
Feb 17, 2020 · 1. Washington had only a grade-school education. The first president’s formal schooling ended when he was 11 years old, after his father died. That event cut young George off from the...
