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	George Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Modern day doctors now believe that Washington died from either a streptococcal infection of the throat or, since he was bled as part of the treatment, a combination of shock from the loss of blood, asphyxia, and dehydration.
		Washington was a cricket enthusiast and was known to have played the sport, which was popular at that time in the British colonies.
		Washington set many other precedents that established tranquility in the presidential office in the years to come and is generally regarded by historians as one of the greatest presidents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Washington (3775 words)

	George Washington
		Washington's long journey from his home, Mount Vernon to New York City, the temporary capital was a triumphal procession with roaring cannons, pealing bells and shouting from citizens.
		Under Washington, the first tarif law, a low one of about 8 percent on the value of dutiable imports was speedily passed in 1789 by the first Congress.
		Washington, fearing a devastating war for the United States issued his Neutrality Proclamation of 1793, shortly after the break of war with Britain and France.
	www.course-notes.org /biographies/georgewashington.htm (1150 words)

	American Revolution - George Washington - Father of Our Nation
		Whatever public criticism attended the debacle, Washington's own military reputation was enhanced, and in 1755, at the age of 23, he was promoted to colonel and appointed commander in chief of the Virginia militia, with responsibility for defending the frontier.
		From his correspondence during these years, Washington can be seen evolving from a brash, vain, and opinionated young officer, impatient with restraints and given to writing admonitory letters to his superiors, to a mature soldier with a grasp of administration and a firm understanding of how to deal effectively with civil authority.
		Washington, whose policy of neutrality angered the pro-French Jeffersonians, was horrified by the excesses of the French Revolution and enraged by the tactics of Edmond Genet, the French minister in the United States, which amounted to foreign interference in American politics.
	www.americanrevolution.com /GeorgeWashington.htm (3016 words)

	Washington DC - The Rotunda
		Washington gave him several sittings, attired in full uniform as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and many other distinguished persons represented in the series were painted from life.
		Washington and her grandchildren are represented among the spectators.
		Washington consented to the proposition, but after her death Washing-ton's heirs decided that by the terms of his will the body must remain at Mount Vernon.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles08/washington-dc-8.shtml (1120 words)

	Apotheosis of George Washington
		The "apotheosis" served as a powerful symbol of the immortalization of the country's hero.
		Paintings and sculptures of Washington's celestial rise were soon to be found in living rooms and civic halls across the country.
		After his death, the moral educators of the early 19th century crowned Washington as the ultimate symbol of virtue: an honest mortal worthy of imitation.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/gw/gwmain.html (360 words)

	100 Years Carnegie: George Washington
		George Washington was born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family and was raised in the tradition of an 18th century gentleman.
		Washington initiated a tactic of avoiding direct combat, instead using guerrilla-like tactics similar to those he had observed among Native Americans in the French and Indian War.
		Although not a brilliant military leader, Washington was successful in holding his poorly-trained army together, continuing to demoralize the British with hit-and-run tactics.
	www.departments.bucknell.edu /History/Carnegie/washington/index.html (420 words)

	George Washington - ExampleProblems.com
		Washington\'s goal at the outset of his military career had been to secure a commission as a British officer—which in the British colonies was a big step-up from being a mere colonial officer.
		Modern doctors believe that Washington died from either a streptococcal infection of the throat or, since he was bled as part of the treatment, a combination of shock from the loss of blood, asphyxia, and dehydration.
		Washington set many other precedents that established tranquility in the presidential office in the years to come and is generally regarded by historians as one of the greatest presidents.
	www.exampleproblems.com /wiki/index.php/George_Washington (4522 words)

	beliefnet: George Washington, President's Day, religion and politics, prayer
		The painting, “The Apotheosis of Washington,” reminds us of a special challenge when assessing the faith life of George Washington: he was deified so early that it’s nearly impossible to separate fact from wishful thinking.
		For instance, it turns out that the source for the story about Washington praying on bended knee at Valley Forge – which inspired many a patriotic painting – was the biography by Parson Weems, the same creative fellow who made up the fictitious tale about young GW chopping down the cherry tree.
		Washington was raised in an Anglican family along the Potomac River in Virginia.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/212/story_21221.html (976 words)

	Lonely Planet World Guide \| Destination Washington DC
		To some, Washington means white marble, verdant lawns, and the colourful, ritualistic pageantry of American politics: the Capitol dome gleaming against an azure sky; limousine processions on Inauguration Day; the mournful, sombre, stately changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery.
		Washington is plonked down in the District of Columbia, a little enclave chopped from the state of Maryland.
		Washington is ringed by a freeway bypass called the Beltway, which divides the urban insiders from the suburbanites.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /destinations/north_america/washington_dc/printable.htm (3675 words)

	Education World ® - Lesson Planning: George Washington Lives! -- On the Internet! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Washington used the room as her office "...from which she would oversee the household, the laundry and the kitchen, as well as teach her grandchildren and some of the slave children to sew and read." George Washington died in this bedroom.
		George and Martha Washington are buried in a tomb on the grounds of Mount Vernon.
		The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is a 550-foot-tall marble obelisk.
	www.education-world.com /a_lesson/lesson051.shtml (2150 words)

	Showman-Statesman To Have a Grand Exit (washingtonpost.com)
		He believed big government was the bane of the nation, and he preferred weekends at Camp David in the Maryland mountains to the whirl of the great federal city.
		But this week, the Washington where he almost lost his life to the bullet of an assassin will give former president Ronald Reagan the ceremonial farewell reserved for the best and most beloved of the country's citizens.
		The funeral is a uniquely Washington event, the first in more than a generation, a rare and exquisitely scripted goodbye that the former actor would have understood.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A20712-2004Jun6.html (967 words)

	The Portrait - George Washington: A National Treasure
		Apotheosis of Washington, engraving by David Edwin, circa 1800, referring to the glorification of Washington as an ideal
		Washington had to impress on the states that the federal government was supreme.
		Washington’s successful leadership through two terms as President gave the nation renewed hope and faith in its young government.
	www.georgewashington.si.edu /portrait/rainbow.html (415 words)

	Papers of George Washington
		Washington also owned slaves, so my will stated that my slaves would be free when she passed away.
		Washington's grand-daughter, Nellie Custis, who was only a small child, saw me layed out on a table when the cast was being made and became frightened and thought I was dead.
		Washington closed the master bedroom for the remainder of her life and retired to a room on the third floor.
	gwpapers.virginia.edu /articles/knauft.html (7682 words)

	Apotheosis
		Apotheosis is most commonly used to refer to the Roman pagan process whereby an Emperor was made into or recognized as a deity.
		As apotheosis became a part of Roman political life in the late Republic and early Empire, it began to be treated in literary contexts: In the Aeneid, Vergil depicts Aeneas' deification, saying he will be taken up to the stars of Heaven, and mentions Caesar's apotheosis.
		The notion of apotheosis was parodied by Lucius Annaeus Seneca in his Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii (The Pumpkinification of the Emperor Claudius), in which Claudius is transformed, not into a god, but into a pumpkin.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/Apotheosis.html (615 words)

	apotheosis - Auctions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Apotheosis of Homer by Ingres CANVAS - $1.73
		Apotheosis of Reign of Catherine II Guglielmi canvas - $1.73
		The Apotheosis of the Slavs 1926 Mucha canvas repro - $0.99
	www.nationalstate.com /s/apotheosis/index.html (181 words)

	The re-apotheosis of Washington - exhibitions commemorating George Washington's 2nd centennial death anniversary ...
		Images of Washington were affixed to anything and everything: memorials stitched by schoolgirls, silk handkerchiefs, glass flasks, painted portraits by both academic and untutored artists, and engravings depicting him rising to heaven atop billowing clouds.
		Washington's domestic life is evoked by such objects as what are said to be his wife Martha's wedding slippers (illustrated above) and a baby cap she made, presumably for her first great-grandchild, who was born in 17%.
		Relics associated with Washington are also on view, including a desk, a lock of his hair, and even a piece of wood taken from his coffin when he was reinterred at Mount Vernon.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_1_155/ai_53590429 (728 words)

	Exhibition Text - George Washington: A National Treasure
		George Washington was born in Virginia in 1732, the son of a planter who died when George was eleven.
		When Washington died two years later, fellow patriot Henry Lee declared him “first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Those words are as relevant today as they were then.
		Here is a George Washington for the ages, resolute in the face of the multiple crises of our nation’s beginnings; grand in the tradition not of a king but of democracy’s representative; civilian rather than military in his authority; and above all, the embodiment of a nation both stable and free.
	www.georgewashington.si.edu /exhibition/text.html (1410 words)

	Internet Public Library: POTUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Washington posed for Stuart's portrait, which is now on the one dollar bill.
		Washington has the distinction of being the only president to be elected unanimously by the electoral college.
		Washington had one remaining tooth at the time of his inauguration.
	ipl.si.umich.edu /div/potus/gwashington.html (772 words)

	biography george short washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hall of Fame inventor profile : George Washington Carver Hall of Fame inventor profile : George Washington Carver This is a biographical sketch of George Washington Carver.
		WASHINGTON, George, (granduncle of George Corbin Washington), a Delegate from Virginia and first President of the United States; born at "Wakefield," near Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Va.,...
		George Washington was commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution and first president of the United States (1789-97).
	www.biography-search.com /5/biography247.html (370 words)

	History 17a - Related Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Here Washington is shown sitting in majesty, flanked on the right by the Goddess of Liberty and on his left by a winged figure of Fame sounding a trumpet and holding a palm frond aloft in a symbol of victory.
		In effect, the public's worship of Washington led to a nearly religious worship of the man himself.
		Washington, in effect, was seen as a god.
	instruct.westvalley.edu /gallup/17arelated06.html (371 words)

	The Mystical George Washington
		To my astonishment I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other.
		He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was ye Crisis and the cause of the country, of humanity and of the world.
		Washington is not free from these baseless attacks.
	www.reversespins.com /mysticalwashington.html (1070 words)

	The Apotheosis of Washington
		Photographs of the inner dome and canopy (41k) and of the canopy fresco (42k) are available, as are photographs of individual groupings:
		In the central group (37k) of the fresco, Brumidi depicted George Washington rising to the heavens in glory, flanked by female figures representing Liberty and Victory/Fame.
		A rainbow arches at his feet, and thirteen maidens symbolizing the original states flank the three central figures.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/index.cfm (534 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino Brumidi is 180 feet above the floor of the rotunda in the eye of the Capital dome.
		Liberty and Fame are sitting on the rainbow and clouds next to Washington as he rises to the heavens.
		This early 19th century bust of Washington by an unknown artist was placed in the Capitol in 1966.
	home.hiwaay.net /~jalison/dc2.html (475 words)

	Architecture of the United States Capitol - Washington, DC, United States of America
		Like many other buildings in Washington, DC -- and in capitals around the world -- the U.S. Capitol is based on ancient Greek and Roman designs, as much of our culture, law, and language is. The south wing of the building contains the chambers of the House of Representatives.
		The cornerstone of the Capitol was laid 18 September, 1793 by President George Washington.
		Before there was a capitol in Washington, DC, congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Baltimore, Maryland; Lancaster, Pennsylvania ; York, Pennsylvania ; Princeton, New Jersey; Annapolis, Maryland; Trenton, New Jersey; and New York, New York.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /US/DC/CapitolBuilding.html (1383 words)

	Apotheosis of Washington
		Apotheosis means elevation to divine status, or deification.
		The United States capitol dome interior has an overhead painting in the "heavens." Figures in the overhead painting - an allegorical glorification of the first President - were drawn as much a 15 feet high to seem life-size from the Rotunda floor 180 feet below.
		The "Apotheosis of Washington" covers 4,664 square feet of concave surface.
	secular.embassyofheaven.com /usa/apotheosis.htm (187 words)

	POTUS -- President George Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Washington posed for Stuart's portrait, which is now on the one dollar bill.
		Washington has the distinction of being the only president to be elected unanimously by the electoral college.
		Washington had one remaining tooth at the time of his inauguration.
	www.potus.com /gwashington.html (755 words)

	CAPITOL DOME
		The average daily temperature in Washington is approximately 56°F (13.3°C), the highest temperature ever recorded being 106°F (41.1°C) and the lowest -15°F (26.1°C).
		Assuming the dome was built during a period of average temperature, the maximum changes in temperature that the dome has been subjected to are a positive 50°F (27.8°C) change and a negative 71°F (39.4°C) change.
		According to the Washington, DC, building code, the District of Columbia is in seismic zone 0-that is, low hazard, with Av (the effective peak velocity-related acceleration coefficient) equal to 0.05.
	www.egypteng.com /history/cap.asp (3708 words)

	Reagan Apotheosis Update
		Yesterday, Conspiracy Nation had reported that "the apotheosized god Washington stands ready to embrace the soon-to-be-deified Reagan." ("Roman Reagan Holy Week," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Reagan2.htm) Later, in that same report, Conspiracy Nation noted the Capitol ceiling painting, "The Apotheosis of George Washington," by artist Constantino Brumidi.
		In that case, as in the "Rome on the Potomac" (Washington, DC), certain mortals are elevated in post-mortem status.
		Part of George Washington's apotheosis involved the divine feat of his throwing a silver dollar all the way across the Potomac River.
	www.trend-one.com /new-1328139-4509.html (819 words)

	ABC News: Painter Who Decorated Capitol Celebrated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brumidi, the political refugee from Italy who painted "The Apotheosis of Washington" in the eye of the dome of the U.S. Capitol.
		WASHINGTON Jul 26, 2005 — Leaders of Congress on Tuesday celebrated the 200th anniversary of artist Constantino Brumidi in the Capitol Rotunda as they stood beneath one of his best-known works, "The Apotheosis of Washington."
		The son of a Greek father and an Italian mother, Brumidi came to the United States in 1849 and three years later was working on the decoration of the Capitol.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=979535 (414 words)

	An Apotheosis of Franklin
		This work reflects Wyeth's vision of Franklin and the stature he held in the eyes of his contemporaries; apotheosis is the process of deification.
		The "Apotheosis of Franklin," a mural by the American artist Newell Convers Wyeth, was presented to the University of Pennsylvania on January 17th, 1990 by the Independence Hall Association.
		The IHA acquired "Apotheosis," which means the process of deification, in the mid-1970's.
	www.ushistory.org /franklin/essays/apotheosis.htm (850 words)

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