President James Garfield, who was our first left-handed president*, could write with both hands at the same time in two different languages. In one hand he would write Ancient Greek, and in the other he would write Latin!
*President Garfield actually may have been ambidextrous. He may have been either, that part will have to be corrected by another contributor.
James Garfield used to do this trick on occasion,
James Garfield could write in latin in one hand and greek in the other.
James Garfield could write Greek . Jefferson, Madison and Polk also studied classical Greek . John and John Quincy Adams probably knew some classical Greek as well.
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James Garfield was able to write Latin with his left hand and Greek with his right... ..AT THE SAME TIME
the right or power of a president or governor to reject bills
Yes, they could. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are two examples of slave owners successfully running for president. A slave owner had just as much right to run for president you or me, but in order to even hope of winning they would need to know a lot about government and politics.
Congress denied President Wilson the right to do what with merchant ships?
Same as the president. The president has the right to change who the person is in the second term.
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James Garfield was able to write Latin with his left hand and Greek with his right... ..AT THE SAME TIME
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the right of the United States to intervene in Latin America in his 1904 corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. This corollary, known as the Roosevelt Corollary, expanded on the original Monroe Doctrine and asserted the US's authority to intervene in Latin American countries to preserve stability and protect its interests.
He reserved the United States' right to interfere in Latin American affairs.
Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, and Persian. In some occasions, Greek, Latin, Chinese, and Japanese are written right to left. Writing right to left is more common in the Middle East.
Some cases, the president could. Actually, the president has a right to recommend other cases to the entitle who could postpone the carrying out of a sentence. The entitle is national parliament.
Poly is the greek stem which indicates "many", as in polygamy which means many wives.
In the beginning, right after the split, many in the Balkans spoke Latin, the people in greece and western Turkey spoke greek, and in eastern Turkey Armenian was dominant. Since the empire was centered in greece, greek became the dominant language in the empire, used by the nobility and clergy. Justinian the Great was the last Emperor of Byzantium to speak latin.
Vice is Latin for "in place of." A vice president acts as president when the president resigns, is ill or dies.And for a bit of grammar, the word vice as a noun means an evil or immoral habit. But as a preposition, it means "in place of." Quite the difference, right?
'Left' in Latin is 'Sinister' and 'Right' is 'Dexter'
It's derived from the English words copy and right; in the most basic sense, it is the right to copy.Copy is from the Latin copia, an abundance (as in copious), and right is from the Latin rectus.
the right or power of a president or governor to reject bills