red, white, and blue. The inaugural ceremony was performed onWall Street, near the spot now marked by John Quincy Adams Ward’s statue of Washington. A great crowd broke into cheers as Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall, took the oathadministeredby ChancellorRobert Livingston...
George Washington (1732 – 1799) was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783 and subsequently the first President of the United States from 30 April 1789 to 4 March 1797. Born in the colony of Vi
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Also Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, and Little Brother Montgomery, as well as blues pianists in New Orleans, such as Archibald, Sullman Rock, Kid Stormy Weather, Robert Bertrand, and the great blues and jazz pianist Isidore 'Tuts' Washington (1907-1984); as well as New Orleans music in ...
Bush was 52 and once again without a job or an apparent political future. He had never won election to anything bigger than a seat in Congress, and he had been no more than mildly successful at the Washington appointments game. He returned to Houston to accept an executive position with Fi...
“Indeed George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly,or bug,had begun to eat the leaves before I left home. But the father of America was not the father of bug.When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as b
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oath, leading to a frantic, last-minute scramble to locate one. A Masonic lodge came to the rescue by providing a thick Bible, bound in deep brown leather and set on a crimson velvet cushion. By the time Washington appeared on the portico, the Bible rested on a table draped in red. ...
family estate (later known as Wakefield) in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Of a wealthy family with firm roots in the Old Country, Washington embarked upon a career as a planter and in 1748 was invited to go with the party that was to survey Baron Fairfax's lands west of the Blue Ridge...
Sunday,/By the blue/Purple yellow red water On the green/Purple yellow red grass, Let us pass through our perfect park [. . .], Through arrangements of shadows Toward the verticals of trees/Forever … [. . .] On an ordinary Sunday … (pp. 127, 128) Then, at the play’s finale...