The US celebrates Presidents’ Day to honour its president who didn’t celebrate his birthday
While the first POTUS himself was not keen on celebrating his birthday, nearly 300 years after his birth Americans continue ...
Michael Peregrine: Why we must continue to venerate George Washington
As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...
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The Painful History Of George Washington’s Teeth — And The Gruesome Truth Behind Them
George Washington suffered severe teeth issues his entire life, and by the time he became president in 1789, he had just one ...
How George Washington’s birthday became a national holiday
George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating ...
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Washington’s Birthday celebrations were useful to both sides in Civil War, and huge in Cambridge
George Washington was born in the Colony of Virginia on Feb. 22, 1732, and, within his lifetime, his birthday had become a ...
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Piecing together presidential history
After taking measurements of the 200-year-old suit, Philip De Paola assembled a mock-up, or toile, in muslin and then ...
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Why is Washington's birthday a holiday? How Presidents Day came to be. | Opinion
The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.
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How One President’s Day Became Presidents’ Day
The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the ...