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City in Westchester County, New York, United States
Many people can plausibly claim descent from medieval figures like Brian Boru or Otto I because elite lineages and their descendants intermarried and multiplied; specialists note that European monarch...
Freemasonry features prominently among U.S. presidents: at least a dozen presidents from George Washington through Gerald Ford were Freemasons, and historians trace Masonic membership and Enlightenmen...
George Washington did write a small number of discrete, practical comments that mention "Mahometans"—notably a 1784/1785 instruction about hiring laborers for Mount Vernon in which he said he did not ...
George Washington was the central military leader of the American Revolution—appointed Commander‑in‑Chief of the Continental Army in June 1775—and he later became the first President of the United Sta...