• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Back then everybody swam naked in the Potomac. Ben Franklin is another one with written records about it.

      If you see the Potomac River today, you’d wonder what the hell happened, it is absolutely filthy and not even a rat would swim in it. well maybe a rat would drown & die in it.

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      7 months ago

      That was John Quincy Adams. I remember because I also learned that he did this nude, an image I’ve been trying to get out of my head for 30 years.

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        7 months ago

        You’ve been trying to get that image out of your head for 30 years? How often do you have to try hard not to picture John Quincy Adams naked?

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      7 months ago

      John Quincy Adams.

      Every day, at about 5:30 in the morning, totally naked.

      Anne Royall, one of the first female journalists, allegedly forced Adams to do an interview with her by taking his clothes and refusing to give them back to him until he answered all his questions.

      Andrew Jackson for his inauguration party invited literally anybody who showed up to attend, and a bunch of people got roaring drunk and wrecked up the place.

      The fuck happened to us man