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Happy Father’s Day

  • June 16, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Researchers say the first known description of George Washington as the “Father of His Country” was in a 1779 calendar with his picture. He fathered no children of his own, but adopted the two children of widow Martha Dandridge Custis when they married in 1759.

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