The Capitol Architect Wanted to Reanimate George Washington’s Dead Body (Zombie President?)

IO9.com Secret History ^ | Jan 28, 2012 | Lauren Davis

[wally_bert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOr11W8Lm6I&feature=related

[Salamander]

Stole that!

:D

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** developed a fever and a sore throat. When his condition became so bad that Washington could no longer swallow the concoctions of vinegar, molasses, and butter with which he was trying to treat himself,***

My doctor diagnosed me with quinsey thirty five years ago. He also said this is what killed George Washington.

It was great knowing I was going to die! Tonsillectomy stopped that!

[x]

Thornton secretly included a burial vault in his designs for the Capitol, hoping that it would be Washington's final resting place.

Pretty sure that wasn't any lurid secret.

Congress expected Washington to be buried in the Capitol burial vault, but Washington's own will provided for interment at Mount Vernon.

[DogByte6RER]

Abe Lincoln Ben Franklin Thomas Jefferson

[Slings and Arrows]

On the bright side, they can testify before SCOTUS on original intent.

[null and void]

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

you really didn’t have to post those pics. Really, you didn’t.

[Pharmboy]

Well, other than the Thornton stuff that I had never seen before, everything else as reported goes along with what I know, so it is in all likelihood accurate.

[garjog]

It took a couple hundred years, but medicine can now revive people who have died if their body temperature is taken down to something like 40 degrees.

People who drown in icy water can be dead for many minutes and can be brought back to life.

[RandallFlagg]

Thanks to Darksheare for the ping.

[bigheadfred]

The Capitol Architect Wanted to Reanimate George Washington’s Dead Body

I got a question.

How do you reanimate a live body?

Don't answer if it's gonna cost me extra.

[Grizzled Bear]

I, for one, welcome our newly awakened undead Commander-in-Chief.

...at least he’s a patriot...

[Grizzled Bear]

You can’t fool me! That isn’t Thomas Jefferson; clearly, that’s Christopher Walken!

[Grizzled Bear]

Ummm...why would you want to reanimate a “live body?” Come back with a dead one and then we can talk!

[SunkenCiv]

Cue the Bee Gees...

[SunkenCiv]

William must have been Billy Bob’s ancestor.

[SunkenCiv]

It all came about because of his eerie false teeth.

[bigheadfred]

Sometimes a writers rite doesn’t seem right. Not, though, like I would kick a dead carcass, cadaver, stiff....

[SunkenCiv]

:’)