Can you work it out? *In this case, Washington isn’t the state, but the president—and he died in 1799. It’s useless to send him a telegram because he’s dead.

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Richard "Dana" Moore, a war memorabilia collector from Virginia, recently lend a piece of one of George Washington's tents to a Philadelphia museum. He bought the piece for $1,300.

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home.

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Washington was born Feb. 22, 1732, on Popes Creek Plantation near the Potomac River in Virginia. Washington’s birthday was celebrated by his peers in government when he was president — mostly.