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List of Martha Jeffersons Schoolmates at the Abbaye Royale de PanthemontOn July 5, 1784, Patsy and her father finally left for Europe, accompanied by James Hemings, a Monticello slave and likely the mixed-race son of Patsy’s maternal grandfather. Arriving in Paris in August, Patsy soon entered the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont, a prestigious convent boarding school that educated mainly daughters of Catholic aristocrats. Largely because of her schooldays at the Panthemont, Martha considered the...

SUMMARY Sally Cottrell was an enslaved maid and seamstress. Born sometime around 1800, she served as a maid to Ellen Wayles Randolph at Monticello from 1809 until 1824, after which Randolph married and moved to Boston. Cottrell was then hired out to a University of Virginia professor, who later purchased her with the intention of freeing her. It is unclear whether Cottrell was ever officially freed, but by early 1828 she was working on her own as a seamstress. She was baptized in Charlottesvill...

environmental protection agency. if youre a rancher youre being put upon by the interior department like never before. we have private property owners under attack all over this country. we have businesses, small businesses, too, under attack in every direction, and at it getting much and much worse, and then we hear these politicians talking about you have to have skin in the game. i think, is that what we were founded for to have skin in the game? no, we were founded for them to make...

theres a book that i was really fond of and circulated the pentagon called the gates of fire and one of the best historical novels about the battle where you had 300 us martin warriors defend against 100,000 or more persian soldiers coming through that gap and those 300 warriors, the spartans, they were picked not only for their courage and to devotee because they were basically capable, they were picked based upon the courage of the spartan wives, and i think about carolina. she had b...

the little boy handed of the parachute back to the priest and said not to worry, father, the smartest man in the world just took off with my backpacked. [laughter] let me talk briefly about my new book, quote cohen in defense of thomas jefferson." thank you for coming. i really appreciate that. i believe my book once and for all proves that the saudi -- sally story is certainly not historical fact or science. in mauney view it reflects recycled in accuracy that has metastasized book to...

everyone has been very, very gracious to me. and colonial williamsburg, so thank you for coming out today. as john told you, i am a lawyer by trade, but, please, do not hold that against me. [laughter] [laughter] .. >> unfortunately, there were only three parachutes remaining. the doctor grabbed one and said im a doctor, i save lives, so i must live and jumped out. the lawyer then said, im a lawyer, and lawyers are the smartest people in the world. so i must live, and he jumped out. he...