Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful
Detectives say someone swiped an original painting of President George Washington from a home in Sarasota.
The work is by James Sharples, who made several portraits of Washington in the late 1700's.
While the actual value of the work is undetermined, experts say it would be very high. The owner says the portrait was likely stolen in early September.
Anyone with information should contact the Sa
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Yes! Yes! After decades of excavations, archaeologists have now found George Washington’s childhood home!
Who was George Washington?
If you don’t know who George Washington was, you really need to go back to school and brush up on your American History. Everybody should know who George Washington was; he was the first Preside
The USS George Washington (SSBN 598) was the world’s first nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine. High Resolution Image Arguably, it can be considered the submarine that has most influenced world events in the 20th Century. From its launching on June 9th 1959, at Groton, Conn, to its entry into service in December the United States instantly gained the most powerful deterrent force imagi
I found a really cool link. You’ve all seen the “Motivational” posters of people conquering mountains with words like “Perseverance” or “Determination” underneath them? They then go on to describe what “Perseverance” or “Determination” is and what it should mean to you. They’re actually really kind of cool. Therein lie
I took these in Alexandria Virginia at the George Washington Masonic Memorial. It is a beautiful structure that towers more than 300 feet into the sky. You can take a tour of the building that has 9 floors. The elevators are tilted in a 7.5 degree angle and start out about 50 feet apart and on the 9th floor are no more than 10 feet between them. You do not notice the angle as you go up. We di
Have you ever gotten one of these before? I've had a few over the years, but was always too lazy to look them. That changed today though.And i have to tell you, it's a pretty damn good way to blow through some time :)While the site itself was kinda all over the place, the actual content was killer! I say this for two reasons:1) You get to see where YOUR bill came from! It takes a few seconds to en
4 hairs went for a whopping $17,000 to a Richmond man! The owner said the hair had been handed down and the historical Society of Montgomery County, Pa gave it the go –ahead! The weird crazy thing is, it has not even been tested for DNA. Supposedly it was cut back in 1837 from George Washington’s head!
Estaba mirando en el History Channel, un documental sobre George Washington Carver, un ciudadano negro estadounidense que nació como esclavo huérfano y le descubrió dos mil ochocientos usos a la soja -exagero, pero fácil ochenta usos sí le encontró-.Cosas que descubrió, antes de la I Guerra Mundial, fue cómo hacer harina de soja, y se utilizó como alimento para los soldados de EEUU y los aliados en forma de pan. A su vez, hizo pintura de soja, plástico de soja, combustible con soja -lo que es el BioDiesel-, entre un montón de cosas más. Hasta Ford hizo autos hechos con metal de soja, supuestamente más resistente a golpes y abolladuras.Lo que destacaban cada dos minutos es que el tipo era humilde porque llevaba un traje arrugado, y si le preguntaban el por qué cuando daba las
In honor of President's Day (originally designated in honor of George Washington's birthday) we are posting coloring pages of the first President of the United States, Mr George Washington.Besides printing these pages out to have fun coloring, they may also be helpful with projects your children may have in school or any other organizations they may belong to.George Washington - young George riding a horseGeorge Washington - signingGeorge Washington - with horse and carriageGeorge Washington #1George Washington #2George Washington #3George Washington #4George Washington #5George Washington #6George Washington #7George Washington - with General Casimir PulaskiGeorge Washington - with Thomas JeffersonGeorge Washington - young George with cherry treeFun 4 The Children blog has downloaded and
Digital ID: cph 3b37001. Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-90652 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,845 kilobytes)TITLE: National picture. Behold oh! American, your sons the greatest among men / O. Knirsch, Chgo. ; lith. by Chas. Shober, Chicago. CALL NUMBER: PGA - Shober--Behold (C size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-90652 (b&w film copy neg.)SUMMARY: One of the numerous patriotic apotheosis scenes produced in the months following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. (The Library's impression of "National Picture" was deposited for copyright on July 18, 1865--three months after Lincoln's death.) As in many of these p
In his 1796 farewell, Washington warned: “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.” Also includes passages about foreign wars and fiscal responsibility.read more | digg [...]
Yesterday I wrote this post about a conservative group at George Washington University who were targeted by liberals on campus with phony fliers which basically called the group a bunch of racists. The conservative group was hosting an event called Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, and liberals couldn’t deal with the idea that there are dome Muslims who want to kill us, so they perpetrated a smear campaign against the conservative group.
Today the George Washington University administration is taking action, against the conservative group that was smeared. The Young America’s Foundation (YAF) is the conservative group who is the victim here. Liberal conservo-phobes posted a flier all around campus that said “HATE MUSLIMS? SO DO WE!!!”, along with other anti-Muslim remarks, the YAF did not put up these filers, however the administration is treating them as if they did.
Administrators at a university in Washington, D.C., are “on a rampage” against a
This is a typical example of what happens when someone on the right dares to speak against something such as Islamo-fascism. The left tries to portray the right as bigots, they will not or cannot accept the fact that you can talk about a specific group of hateful Muslims without condemning all Muslims. I will use the line so many others have used before, all Muslims are not terrorists, but ALL the terrorists are Muslim.
The story linked to above is about a George Washington University student group called the Young America’s Foundation. This is a conservative group who was holding an event called “Islamo-fascist Awareness Week”. You can guess what happened next, but in case you can’t, I will tell you what happened. Or better yet I will also show you what happened next: (more…)
Just had to get a close up portrait of George Washington on the dollar bill before I head out this evening. You can even see the red security threads in his eye and on his lips.Photo by Jerry Reynolds - Fargo ND
Since it is America’s Birthday tomorrow, I thought I would post a portrait from the dollar bill of George Washington, America’s first president.
Photo by Jerry Reynolds - Fargo ND
Washington in action
Who:
Soldier, father of nation, all around good guy.
Why:
An obvious choice for my new pantheon, George Washington was, in the truest sense of the word, an amazing man. A consummate man of action, Washington wasn't an inventive genius in the manner of a Franklin or a radical intellectual like Thomas Paine. Nor was he a necessarily a man of reflection like Jefferson. All Washington did was win the War of Independence and steer the radical experiment that was the United States for its first eight years. In other words, others talked, and Washington did (although talking has its place too).
Character was Washington's calling card. How important is character in a leader?
Consider that Washington's greatest achievement isn't what he did; it's what he didn't do. Although encouraged by many close to him, Washington refused to be the first King of the United States. In a move unprecedented in world history (except for maybe St. More), Washington gave up con
“[B]y an intermixture with our people, [immigrants], or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people.” —George Washington...
If someone sent me George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation, I admit it would bore me, but I would not consider myself victimized.But, I am not a professor at the Glendale Community College in Arizona.Last Thanksgiving a rather dweeby tenured professor spammed his colleagues with an e-mail containing the first president’s proclamation, along with a link to the site he snagged it from, which happened to be that of snarly old Pat Buchanan.Math Prof Walter Kehowski is now on the verge of being fired.It seems several of his colleagues were profoundly disturbed by the e-mail. Five even went so far as to file harassment charges , claiming his message was "hostile" and "derogatory."Kehowski was put on administrative leave pending a final determination of this serious matter.Once it was pointed out the whole thing was really not all that hositile, and since an e-mail is something you can just choose to ignore, it can not really be considered harassment, that aspect of the charge was
TITLE: [George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, seated on steps (bottom center), facing front, with staff], CALL NUMBER: LOT 13164-C, no. 103 [P&P]REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05633 (digital file from modern print), No known restrictions on publication.Digital ID: ppmsca 05633 Source: digital file from modern b&w print Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05633 (digital file from modern print) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve higher resolution JPEG version (147 kilobytes)MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: [ca. 1902], CREATOR: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published works before 1923 (THIS IMAGE) are now in the public domain.NOTES: Title devised by Library staff. Reference copy (modern print) in BIOG FILE - Carver, Ge
TITLE: Paintings. George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, Andrew Mellon collection. CALL NUMBER: LC-H834- P01-016 [P&P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-H834-P01-016 (b&w glass neg.)Digital ID: thc 5a35730 Source: intermediary roll film Reproduction Number: LC-H834-P01-016 (b&w glass neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (140 kilobytes)MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. CREATED, PUBLISHED: ca. 1920-ca. 1950. CREATOR: Horydczak, Theodor, ca. 1890-1971, photographer.PART OF: Theodor Horydczak Collection (Library of Congress) Horydczak, Theodor, ca. 1890-1971.This image is a faithful reproduction of a two-dimensional work of art and thus not copyrightable in itself in the U.S. as per Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.; the same is also true in many other countries, including Germany.The original two-dimensional work shown in this image is free content because:This image (or other media f
