Posted on 04/01/2023 6:35:25 AM PDT by daniel1212
Actually it was very commonplace. People didn’t have a lot of extra beds in their small homes and the homes were cold. That is why the beds were near the chimneys in the center of the house. They had bundling boards so a male and a female could sleep together but there was a big board between them.
I should have added, there were many illegitimate births back then. Ask anyone who does genealogy.
I should have added, there were many illegitimate births back then. Ask anyone who does genealogy.
Sally Hemmings had a child, most likely by Thomas Jeffersons brother or father. The DNA tests were not conclusive re President Jefferson.
The results weren’t conclusive to the other Jeffersons either.
The story now is that Grover may have been a a rapist. I can’t say if that’s true, but he was a shadier character than people knew.
Horsefeathers. The press defended The Hero of the Bay of Pigs because he was their ideal of the picture perfect president, young, urbane, sophisticated, sufficiently liberal. The fact he was an incompetent twit who constantly betrayed Jackie was never a factor in the MSM's portrayal of the absolutely wonderful Jack. Same with his drug addiction and his chronic back problems.
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