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Old 11-19-2010, 12:09 PM
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Re: Founding Father George Washington

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I didnt know this frightening fact about our Founding Father:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture...12/12slave.htm
In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw--having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves.


Makes one wonder about their Christian mindsets at the time of this nations founding.
Did the founding fathers believe in racial purity?
Hmmm...I've heard that GW actually had some wooden teeth! Don't know if it's true or not.
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