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Not sure how George would feel being featured on a youtube channel called “Royalty Now.”
I liked it. Thanks for posting it.
Good documentary. There’s an exhibit which shows roughly what George would have looked like at Mount Vernon.
Wow. Very well done. Thanks for posting!
Its a real shame the Tricorne hat went out of fashion. Very stylish
“several members of the English royalty, the most significant of whom was the great king Charlemagne”
Uh, Charlemagne was french, or more specifically, a king of the franks.
George, we could really use you right now.
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Thanks for a great post.
Enjoyed and thx!
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In the capitol building in Richmond, Virginia, there is a statue of George Washington. It is life-sized and the face was done from a life mask. He was a good looking guy.
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Funny. It's like how the Founders knew the secret formula for turning lead (Pb) into gold (Au), without the gold losing any value at all: a king 👑 on every corner.
Born in a pub, the Green Dragon Tavern:
A REPUBLIC
(if you can keep it... a secret)
Not only did this new gold not "plummet" in value for its becoming so common, it became even more valuable, because... how much more can any Average Joe -- free to pursue his good dream -- accomplish, over one high and mighty man who sits idle on a throne, barking out orders?
Now *that's* ingenuity.
A king in the mold of all the other nations is downright unAmerican.
Righteous "dude" [דוד]:
1 Samuel 16
11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he:
"Father of the Nation"