Current Events > I want to know what George Washington's pores looked like.

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And his voice. And everything about these little intricacies of history shitty technology robbed us of.

Its like hearing Hitler's natural speaking voice. Its fascinating as hell and if time travel ever is a thing that's probably whats going to fascinate the masses. (if the masses are permitted to make trips to observe).

And, on voices of historical figures, it'd be nice to see the question of Lincolns voice settled. What is meant by the description of his voice as "high pitched"? Is it almost girly? Or is it just not the almost stereo-typically deep, James Earl Jones like tones we might associate with him? WHo knows!

Anyone ever listen to the voices of the Presidents going back to when we could record people? The early ones sound pretty strange, even despite the crappy audio.
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I want to know which of the founding fathers had the biggest D. I'm guessing Ben Franklin.
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CommonJoe posted...

it'd be nice to see the question of Lincolns voice settled.

Just listen to his recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqNeskjjQrQ" data-time="
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RiderofHogs posted...

CommonJoe posted...

it'd be nice to see the question of Lincolns voice settled.

Just listen to his recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqNeskjjQrQ" data-time="

That's not him. Recorded voice wasn't invented until 12 years after he got shot.

Benjamin Harrison is the earliest President to have a recording of his actual voice.
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Depending on the timeframe, you would hear varying levels of physical pain in his voice due to his mouth rotting out and being replaced with all manner of attempts at what constituted dentistry back then, including jagged metal, animal bones, and slave teeth.
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SmidgeIsntBack posted...

Depending on the timeframe, you would hear varying levels of physical pain in his voice due to his mouth rotting out and being replaced with all manner of attempts at what constituted dentistry back then, including jagged metal, animal bones, and slave teeth.

We often look back to the Civil war as a nightmare medicinally but its interesting to wonder how bad it had to be even before that. Civil War medicine was probably utopian compared to even a hundred years prior, much less a thousand, or several thousand.
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The Dollop put it best. There were no doctors back then, just "weird guessers."

The way Washington died also falls into this category. 40% of his blood was removed over 12 hours, and that's maybe the least crazy of the attempts made to cure what we would probably diagnose today as pneumonia or epiglottitis.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vGQDBbO-fg" data-time="

wtf was Roosevelt doing on his second inauguration lol.
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