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George Washington, we’ve all heard of him but few people can fully understand him and what he did for our great country. He is said to have had wooden teeth, but he really didn’t, they were just cow’s teeth and ivory. They were less comfortable than wood though, and they distorted the shape of his mouth. One of George Washington’s many quotes was this “ It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”(George Washington)(Brainy Quote)

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Wakefield, Virginia. He was born to Augustine Washington, and Mary Ball and he had nine other siblings. Some of his favorite foods were cream of peanut soup, mashed sweet potatoes with coconut, and string beans with mushrooms. He also bred hound dogs which he treated as family. He’d give some of them rather strange names such as, Tarter, True Love, and Sweet Lips. He had an interest in arithmetic from an early age. He was mainly schooled by his father. At the age of 15 he stopped his schooling because his mother couldn’t afford to send him to college. George's father died when he was only eleven and his eldest brother, Lawrence, took over the care of the family. Not long after the death of his father, his brother Lawrence became sick with tuberculosis and soon died from it leaving George as the head of the household. At six feet, two inches tall, and 200 pounds, he was one of our biggest presidents.(Facts about George Washington)

Father of his Country, The American Cincinnatus, The Sage of Mount Vernon, The Old Fox, and The American Fabius are some of George Washington's nicknames. He was a member of an Anglican Church and during his public statements and private letters frequently makes references to both God and the Bibl...

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