#julia dent grant

[historyandchill]

Ulysses and Julia hello ??

[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

How I imagine Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant when they are described together. Julia is the fashionable extrovert and Ulysses is dressed kinda shabbily and is probably hiding behind her.

[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

OH MY GOODNESS THE GRANT ONE IS PERFECT

GRANT FAINTS WHEN ANY VIOLENCE IS MENTIONED

AND JULIA IS THERE

PERFECT

I just found out 44 Plays for 44 Presidents is a thing??? Hello???? Anyways........does anyone have a script or a recording👀👀👀

[helenewate]

The last of The First Four Hundred

Julia Dent Grant (granddaughter of President U.S. Grant, age 16)

[chrismcleaneatspants]

So, do you feel that Wayne and Raj come off as a tad dumber in season 2? Sure they weren't the brightest in season 1, but they were at least a lot more competent and capable of leading their team through their leadership. Not to mention having moments of showing their more mischievous sides such as insulting the Ferocious Trout a few times in the first two episodes and fondly reminiscing pulling a sports tape prank on their hockey teammate.

Compared to season 2 where after Bowie's elimination, Raj and Wayne get reduced to being a lot more idiotic with far more moments of incompetence in challenges, notable in episode 7 (failing to get ingredients and breaking the eggs Julia got), 8 (Wayne drifts out to sea for half the episode), 9 (Raj stupidly eating expired food despite being warned not to and being the only one who didn't even make a dent in their object), and 10 (having awful memories and getting most of the questions wrong). Granted they do gain some competence back in the final 3 episodes (which is when they become relevant again in the main story) with coming up with good ways of avoiding dogs (only losing thanks to Julia's sabatoge in the cabin), Wayne conquering his fears better than the rest of the final 4 (only losing because Chris got bored with Wayne conquering his fears too easily), and Wayne winning the season but there's still a bit of a lull in their relevance between Bowie's elimination and the final 5.

Granted they had a good thing going with the story arc of Wayne and Raj opposing Julia and MK's cheating in the pre-merge, but that kinda fell by the wayside after Bowie's elimination with Raj and Wayne generally not showing much of a grudge against Julia and MK for cheating and getting Bowie out with Wayne still being as friendly as ever to Julia in the season finale (even admitting he isn't really angry at Julia when she argues with Caleb at the start of the episode).

I will be fair and say the Hockey dudes were some of the more consistently entertaining characters in season 2. Just about every joke they made landed for me.

This being said, they were absolutely dumbed down in season 2 and I wish they had a lot more of that mischief and competitive edge they had last season.

Also, they basically just wasted the idea of them being separate since Raj left so late it didn't really matter. If there is a season 3, I hope they'll actually commit to it (though based on everything season 2 did, season 3 has a lot of uphill battles ahead of it)

[xtruss]

President-elect Donald Trump and War Criminal President Barack Obama shake hands after a meeting in the Oval Office, 10 November 2016. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

US Presidential Transition Meetings Through The Years – In Pictures

It is Traditional in the US for the Outgoing President to Receive the President-Elect at the White House Before their Inauguration to Prepare for a Smooth Transition. Donald Trump Broke with this Tradition in 2020 in Disputing the Election Result. As Trump meets Joe Biden in 2024, we Take a Look Back at Past Transition Meetings

— Matt Fidler | Wednesday 13 November 2024

Top: The president-elect, Donald Trump, and War Criminal & Genocidal President Joe Biden talking in the Oval Office of the White House, 13 November 2024. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Bottom: Two War Criminals: President George W Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office, 10 November 2008. Photograph: Eric Draper/Reuters

President-elect Bill Clinton is greeted by War Criminal President George Bush (Now Resting, Rotting and Burning 🔥 in Hell Forever) at the White House, 18 November 1992. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

President-elect War Criminal President George Bush (Now Resting, Rotting and Burning 🔥 in Hell Forever) and President Ronald Reagan, accompanied by their wives, head for the Oval Office, 9 November 1988. Photograph: Bettmann archive

Top: President Jimmy Carter and President-elect Ronald Reagan shake hands in front of their wives on the White House’s South Portico, 20 November 1980. Photograph: Arnie Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images

Bottom: Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon talk in the Oval Office about the transition of power prior to Nixon’s resignation after the Watergate scandal, 9 August 1974. Photograph: Consolidated News Pictures/AFP/Getty Images

Top: President-elect Richard Nixon and President Lyndon B Johnson confer on the orderly transition of power, 12 December 1968. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Bottom: President Dwight D Eisenhower greets President-elect John F Kennedy on the North Portico of the White House, 6 December 1960. Photograph: Bettmann archive

Top: Vice-president Harry S Truman and President Franklin D Roosevelt, 1945. When Roosevelt died in office in 1945, Truman took over. Photograph: Universal history archive/Getty Images

Bottom: President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt holds a telegram of congratulations from President Herbert Hoover, 8 November 1932. The transition between Hoover and Roosevelt was not a smooth one, with FDR refusing Hoover’s requests for meetings to calm investors amid a financial crisis. Photograph: Bettmann archive

President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, left, and his successor, President Warren G Harding, in the back of a carriage on inauguration day, 1921. Photograph: Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images

President William Howard Taft (left) and his successor, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in Washington, 23 March 1913. Photograph: Trampus, from L’Illustrazione Italiana/Bibioteca Ambrosiana/De Agostini/Getty Images

An illustration of the former first lady Julia Dent Grant entertaining President Rutherford B Hayes and his wife at a party in the White House after Hayes’s inauguration, 1877. Photograph: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images

[limotes786a]

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President Ulysses S. Grant was married to Julia Dent who famously had crossed eyes. When he became president she was distressed that her appearance may be a hindrance to her role as First Lady and contemplated having surgery to correct it. Ulysses would hear none of it. “Dear Julia, I don’t want to have your eyes fooled with. They are all right as they are. They look just as t

[valkyries-things]

JULIA GRANT // FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES

“She was the first lady of the United States and wife of President Ulysses S. Grant. As first lady, she became a national figure in her own right. She hosted parties frequently, including gathering Union Army Officers, and orchestrating elaborate and lavish dinners for politicians and guests. She was the originator of the State Dinner at the White House, which honored King Kalākaua of the Kingdom of Hawai'i. Grant was the first First Lady recorded on film. Grant was the first First Lady to write a memoir, though she was unable to find a publisher, and had been dead almost 75 years before The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) was finally published in 1975.”

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.26

Beer Birthdays

Frederick Yuengling (1848)

Carl Dinkelacker (1862)

Ralph Olson (1951)

Bob Uecker; Miller Lite pitchman (1935)

Florian Kuplent (1974)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Scott Glenn; actor (1941)

Stephane Grappelli; jazz violinist (1908)

Wayne Gretzky; hockey player (1961)

Paul Newman; actor (1925)

Huey "Piano" Smith; jazz pianist (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Anita Baker; singer (1958)

Sal Buscema; comic book artist (1936)

Angela Davis; political activist (1944)

Ellen DeGeneres; comedian (1958)

Mary Mapes Dodge; writer (1831)

Philip Jose Farmer; writer (1918)

Jules Feiffer; cartoonist (1929)

Julia Dent Grant; First Lady (1826)

Claude-Adriene Helvetius; French philosopher (1715)

Polykarp Kusch; nuclear physicist (1911)

Joan Leslie; actor (1925)

Douglas MacArthur; World War II general (1880)

Sean MacBride; statesman, co-founder of Amnesty International (1904)

Gene Siskel; film critic (1946)

David Strathaim; actor (1949)

Bob Uecker; baseball player, actor (1935)

Roger Vadim; film director (1928)

Eddie Van Halen; rock guitarist (1955)

Jimmy Van Heusen; songwriter (1913)

Maria von Trapp; singer, inspired "Sound of Music" (1905)

Lucinda Williams; blues singer (1953)

[pranklinfierce]

I remember this talk I watched last year being interesting.

Something I find interesting is that people repeat the "fun/funny fact" that Lincoln said, "to Hell, I suppose," when asked where he was heading to on his wedding day. But the context is lost, making it seem as though he was miserable when entering his own marriage (comparing it to Hell.) However, it's possible that he said that because he thought he had syphilis, and felt guilty at the prospect of passing the disease to Mary. For that reason, he may have thought that in agreeing to marry a woman, knowing his affliction, he was deserving of Hell. Turns out he didn't even have syphilis.

Apparently Todd was desired. Her appearance, her stoutness, was desired at the time. And apparently Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln shared a sense of humor (doing impressions of people?) Their marriage certainly wasn't happy and she was disliked by many - the reason the Grants weren't at Ford's theater was partially due to Mrs. Julia Dent's dislike of the woman - but she deserves pity, in my opinion, for the mental illnesses that she inherited from the many others in her family suffering from the same.

To my understanding, she was very irresponsible with money, could be unpleasant in her manner, and was depressive and paranoid. Many problems were exacerbated after facing family tragedy, Abraham's death being no exception.

this is going to make some folks MAD but my Roman Empire is the fact that these three are behind the false and INCREDIBLY biased narrative vilifying Mary Todd Lincoln as an abusive wife and bad mother figure in her marriage with Abraham Lincoln.

[araiz-zaria]

Jesse's antics while in kilt

...don't worry, the tam doesn't end up unworn and languishing someplace else 😅😆, here it is! 😉😏↓

[thewarriormaid]

Ulysses and Julia Grant

[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

I tried to find Julia Grant's height but the only website that had it listed tried to give me viruses. I couldn't even see what they had listed because of the pop-ups. How is a nerd to survive in a world like this?!

[tiny-librarian]

Photograph of Julia Dent Grant,  Princess Cantacuzène. The granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, she married a Russian Nobleman and wrote multiple books relating to Russia and the Russian Revolution. 

[bardengarde]

ahh you already have My Dearest Julia? YES it is by far one of my favs, particularly the parts where Grant is writing to Julia from Mexico...he's so in love, it's amazing

I do!!! I kinda picked it up by accident the last time I went to a bookstore and all it took was for me to read a little excerpt from one of his letters on the back (which I think was a mexico one!!) for me to realize I Needed It. I haven't read it yet, but I'm very excited to and hhhhhhh I have a feeling I'll cry for a good amount of it because I know he loved Julia so much and I saw your post with some of your favorite parts about it and Wow..... is all I can say. Wow...

[lincolncollection]

Remembering More Ladies

During the 19th century, women claimed fame through a variety of means—as reformers and writers, as performers, as nurses, and, more traditionally, through their association with famous men. The popularity of cartes-de-visite photographs made it possible for the public to see these women. Here are some examples from the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection.

Among the most celebrated performers of the era was the “Swedish Nightingale,” Jenny Lind (1820-1887). Lind toured the United States during 1850-1852, first under the sponsorship of P.T. Barnum and then under her own management. Public enthusiasm ran so high that Barnum sold tickets to her performances by auction and newspapers dubbed the phenomenon “Lind mania.”

A number of women performers famous in their own right also had surprising links to President Lincoln. Perhaps the performer most closely associated with Abraham Lincoln is actress Laura Keene (1826-1873), who was onstage on April 14, 1865, when Lincoln was shot. In the confusion following the shooting, Keene hurried to the presidential box where she attempted to comfort the mortally wounded Lincoln.

Another famous actress was Charlotte S. Cushman (1816-1876), best known for her Shakespearean roles, especially Lady Macbeth. She spent most of the 1840s and 1850s performing and living in Italy. During the 1860s, she returned to the United States and spent time in Washington, D.C., where her friend Secretary of State William Seward introduced her to President Lincoln. The president told her he hoped to see her perform in Macbeth, his favorite Shakespearean play. In 1863, the Lincoln family saw her perform as Lady Macbeth at Grover’s Theatre in Washington. 

Opera singer and actress Felicita Vestvali (1829-1880) performed in both Europe and the United States, where she was known as “Magnificent Vestvali.” When President Lincoln saw her performance in the musical play Gamea, or the Jewish Mother, he was so impressed that he returned to see the play a second time and then attended two of her other musical dramas during the next week.

Nurse Rebecca Pomroy’s fame and her link to President Lincoln were of an entirely different sort. Pomroy (1817-1884) served as an army nurse in Washington, D.C., under Dorthea Dix from 1861 to the close of the war. In February 1862, shortly after Willie Lincoln’s death, Lincoln asked Dix to send a nurse to the White House to care for Tad, who was still sick with typhoid, and Mary Lincoln, who was left prostrate by Willie’s death. Dix sent Pomroy. As Tad improved, Pomroy continued to care for Mary, who remained ill and severely depressed. She finally returned to work at the army hospital that summer. Then in July 1863, she was called back to the White House to care for Mary, who had been seriously injured in a carriage accident. Lincoln, grateful for Pomroy’s skill and support, told her, “Tell your grandchildren how indebted the nation was to you in holding up my hands in time of trouble.”

During the Civil War years, the Northern public was interested in the wives of Union generals. Who were these women “behind” the military men fighting to save the Union? Cartes-de-visite gave people a glimpse. Here are cartes-de-visite of Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck (1835-1884), wife of Gen. Henry Halleck;

Ellen Marcy McClellan, wife of Gen. George B. McClellan;

Jessie Benton Frémont, wife of Gen. John C. Frémont; 

and Julia Dent Grant, wife of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

Then as now, scandal could also make a lady famous and pique the public’s curiosity. A prime example was Josie Mansfield, whose fame (or infamy) arose from the fact that one of her wealthy lovers murdered the other. Mansfield was at the center of romantic and legal battles between financier and railroad titan James (”Diamond Jim”) Fisk, Jr., and oil refinery operator Ned Stokes. On January 6, 1872, Stokes ambushed Fisk on the stairs of New York’s Grand Central Hotel and shot him. Fisk died of his wounds. The scandal and notoriety followed Mansfield for the rest of her life.