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What Did George Washington Look Like?
ABC News ^ | 2/19/06 | ABC News

Posted on 02/20/2006 9:46:42 AM PST by FormerACLUmember

George Washington is known as the father of our country, but he might also have been the original American hunk.

The History Channel decided to try to figure out what the first president looked like. A team of artists, anthropologists and forensic scientists used cutting-edge technology to reconstruct Washington's looks. The result was a whole new look for a familiar figure.

"The most difficult part of the challenge in a way was morphing backwards when there are no images of the 19-year-old," said recreation team member, Ivan Schwartz. "Our 19-year-old mystery man — the man who would become leader of the country."

The team recreated Washington at age 57 when he was president; at age 45 when he commanded troops in the Revolutionary War and as a teenage surveyor.

The three life-size figures will be displayed in the new $95-million museum and education center in Washington's home, Mount Vernon, which is scheduled to open in October.

A Real Person

"When we ask people they say, 'Well Washington was great, but he's stiff, he's formal, he wears that white wig, he's got bad teeth,' " said James Rees, the executive director of Mount Vernon, which is located outside the nation's capital. "He's a darn good looking guy. And you're going to be shocked, I think, to see Washington looking like a movie star."

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KEYWORDS: georgewashington; presidents; washington
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To: Pharmboy

You are correct. Trenton: 1776, Valley Forge: 1777


101 posted on 02/20/2006 2:57:14 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: Caramelgal
Actually I was thinking more of Jeff Daniels and his excellent portrayal of George Washington in A&E Network’s “The Crossing”.


102 posted on 02/20/2006 3:26:54 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The best service a retired general can give is to...mothball his opinions. – Omar Bradley)
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To: FormerACLUmember
I dont understand. Washington had a life mask done. So why all the effort to show what he looked like when you have the nearest thing to a photograph right here.
103 posted on 02/20/2006 3:33:15 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Albion Wilde
I always thought Daniels was a dead ringer for this fellow.

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104 posted on 02/20/2006 3:41:28 PM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

You could pick one up for about 400 bucks (not uncirc).


105 posted on 02/20/2006 4:09:35 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: mware

You mean Joshua Chamberlain? I think so too. In fact, that was Jeff Daniel's best role, IMO.


106 posted on 02/20/2006 5:32:30 PM PST by wayoverthehill
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To: wayoverthehill
Agreed. He did an outstanding job in that role.

One of the few things that Ted Turner did right was making that movie.

107 posted on 02/20/2006 5:35:31 PM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: SJackson

God like though he may be ;-)


108 posted on 02/20/2006 6:41:53 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality) - ("Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Yeah, yeah, I tell you every TING.


109 posted on 02/20/2006 6:44:36 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: bigsigh
Hey, it was the least I could do. After all, that woman restored dignity to the name, "Monica." well...

maybe a little trashy... but in a nice way.

Still can't figure why this picture popped up when I googled "Monica bellucci, though:


110 posted on 02/20/2006 9:50:30 PM PST by dangus
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To: Izzy Dunne

lol


111 posted on 02/21/2006 6:31:04 AM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion have been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: VanDeKoik

That life mask makes him look like the pederast actor who played the teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.


112 posted on 02/21/2006 6:36:31 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: VanDeKoik

It sounds like they were trying to guess what he looked like when he was a very young man, long before he'd had a life mask or any portrait done.


113 posted on 02/21/2006 6:37:43 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: dangus

the guy looks like and Italian Howard Stern. Monica looks well................


114 posted on 02/21/2006 9:46:42 AM PST by bigsigh
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To: bigsigh

BUMP


115 posted on 05/22/2006 9:03:56 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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To: Dick Vomer

LOL. good one. this gets me. why is it "historians" can never take existing evidence at face value but keep trying to answer questions to which the answers are already so painfully obvious? I guess all those paintings of George don't count for much.


116 posted on 05/22/2006 9:09:58 AM PDT by applpie
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To: FormerACLUmember

Everyone at his funeral said he looked just like himself. Just sleeping.


117 posted on 05/22/2006 9:12:07 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: N. Theknow

lol


118 posted on 05/22/2006 11:43:47 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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