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This president said bathing his feet in cold water every morning at Monticello kept him from getting colds |
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FEETNOTES IN HISTORY |
2025-03-13 |
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While president in 1806, he began construction of his octagonal house at his retreat, Poplar Forest |
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BUILT IN THE 1800s |
2021-12-23 |
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The rotunda at the Univ. of Virginia, designed by him; completed in 1826 for $60,000 but a bargain at any price! |
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CENTURY 19 REAL ESTATE LISTINGS |
2018-12-14 |
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"Sally Hemings: A Novel" is a fictional account of this president & his mistress/slave |
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HISTORICAL NOVELS |
2011-11-24 |
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His collection of books suffered disastrous fires at the home called Shadwell in 1770 & at the Library of Congress in 1851 |
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HISTORIC AMERICANS |
2009-12-09 |
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Replacing Franklin as Minister to France, this future president said, "I succeed him; no one can replace him" |
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18th CENTURY AMERICAN QUOTES |
2006-01-10 |
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William Safire's "Scandalmonger" exposes James Callender, who gossiped about this president & Sally Hemings |
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HISTORICAL NOVELS |
2003-03-10 |
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U.S. President:1801-1809 |
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HISTORIC LEADERS |
2000-02-28 |
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William Wells Brown's "Clotel; or, The President's Daughter" is about the kids this man allegedly had with a slave |
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19th CENTURY LITERATURE |
1999-10-22 |
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The 1853 novel "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" alleges that this man had an affair with a slave |
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19th CENTURY FICTION |
1997-09-24 |
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He called his beautiful hilltop estate Monticello, which is Italian for "little mountain" |
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HISTORIC AMERICANS |
1996-11-15 |
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He built Poplar Forest, a home near Lynchburg, Virginia, as a retreat from the hubbub at Monticello |
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HISTORIC HOMES |
1996-05-10 |
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During the last years of the revolution, he worked on his "Notes on the State of Virginia" |
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18th CENTURY AMERICANS |
1995-11-13 |
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Before he was president, he was elected governor of Virginia in 1779, succeeding Patrick Henry |
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HISTORY |
1993-06-15 |
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This author opened the Declaration of Independence with "When in the course of human events..." |
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REVOLUTIONARY WORDS |
1991-02-22 |
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This Virginian was the pen of the Revolution |
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HISTORIC NICKNAMES |
1990-09-13 |
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