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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: jtyangel on February 13, 2008, 08:27:34 AM
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I just think this is wild! How neat is that?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/10/national/a113430S70.DTL
It might be the strangest way to spend Presidents Day.
For the first time, The Academy of Natural Sciences is displaying a scrapbook that has locks of hair from the first 12 U.S. presidents. It will be on view Feb. 16-18.
The presidential "hair album" was assembled by Peter Arvell Browne, a Philadelphia attorney and scholar of the natural sciences who collected thousands of samples of animal fur and human hair in the 1840s and 1850s and organized them in a dozen leather-bound volumes.
Browne also wrote to presidents still living during his lifetime — 1762-1860 — and to the families of those who had died. His letters and their responses are included in the book along with the strands of hair.
His requests for hair weren't considered odd, as saving a loved one's locks in a family "hair album" was popular in the 19th century.
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It might be the strangest way to spend Presidents Day.
It's not the strangest way. It could be toenail clippings.
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Maybe they grow them back, ala "Starman."
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Maybe they grow them back, ala "Starman."
That might not be a bad thing when you consider all the rinos and libs around us.
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Maybe they grow them back, ala "Starman."
That might not be a bad thing when you consider all the rinos and libs around us.
I am afraid if they were brought back to life they would immediately die when they saw the Socialists we have running for President now and the way we have shredded the Constitution.
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Y'all don't find that kinda creepy.
"It puts the lotion on it's skin!"
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Maybe they grow them back, ala "Starman."
That might not be a bad thing when you consider all the rinos and libs around us.
I am afraid if they were brought back to life they would immediately die when they saw the Socialists we have running for President now and the way we have shredded the Constitution.
either that or the socialists would faint when they heard what the founding fathers really intended the Constitution to mean.
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Y'all don't find that kinda creepy.
"It puts the lotion on it's skin!"
No, not particularly. I have a lock of my children's hair from the first time it was cut and it is in their baby book with their haircut pictures.
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Y'all don't find that kinda creepy.
"It puts the lotion on it's skin!"
No, not particularly. I have a lock of my children's hair from the first time it was cut and it is in their baby book with their haircut pictures.
My Mom has one of mine, but then again I'm HER child. I'm not George Washington.
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As a history buff, I love this stuff. What is really cool is the old Civil War uniforms that still has blood stains and sweat stains. Very, very cool. :hyper:
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As a history buff, I love this stuff. What is really cool is the old Civil War uniforms that still has blood stains and sweat stains. Very, very cool. :hyper:
As long as it's Yankee blood. :uhsure:
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I kept my kids umbilical cord stumps when they fell off. :-) I am weird that way though.
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As a history buff, I love this stuff. What is really cool is the old Civil War uniforms that still has blood stains and sweat stains. Very, very cool. :hyper:
As long as it's Yankee blood. :uhsure:
Of course. :uhsure: