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A Doctor Tried to Resurrect George Washington From the Dead

When George Washington died on December 14, 1799, the nation mourned the loss of its first President and the heroic general of the American Revolution, but one man didn't accept the President’s death.
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Fort Ligonier to host 'immersive' history event on George Washington's 'brush with death'

This past Wednesday marked the anniversary of an event, from 267 years ago, that could have drastically altered the course of ...
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Mourning pictures: How women used embroidery to memorialize George Washington, family, and friends

The trauma of losing its first leader, George Washington, was greatly felt by a new nation. Ezra Stiles, a pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island, and later president of ...
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I'm Weirdly Fascinated By Presidential Graves And Tombs, So Here's What The Grave Of Every Single President Who's Died Looks Like

George Washington died in 1799 from acute epiglottitis, a throat infection. 2.John Adams' grave in Quincy, Massachusetts: Alamy Stock Photo John Adams died from natural causes in 1826.
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The Reinvention of George Washington’s Mother, From Paragon of Virtue to Greedy Shrew to Widow Striving for Independence

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743 Rebecca Brenner Graham - ...