US Presidents with the Strangest Hobbies
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Wrestling on the American frontier during Lincoln's era wasn't a strange activity at all, it was pretty widespread. People in just about all walks of life used to wrestle in their spare time, be it for honor, bragging rights, to settle a personal dispute, money, or all of the above. Crowds of onlookers within the community would be attracted and would bet on the result. Most of the leading wrestlers of the nineteenth century had ongoing day jobs because a wrestler's earnings were entirely made from side bets.
The above was particularly true of residents living within farming communities, which was also where almost all of the wrestling talent of the 19th century came from. Farm folk were often from rougher and hardier stock, and therefore more likely to take up a practice such as wrestling to test one's manhood from a very young age and determine one's position in a social hierarchy.
Thus, the happenstance of a wrestler in America really started as a pastime and developed gradually into a trade as the side bet game became more lucrative. Naturally, this led to professional wrestling becoming incredibly crooked, as by the late 19th century it had become commonplace for wrestlers to meet in fixed matches, with one winning, but in actuality both of the two splitting the purse (unbeknownst to the individuals betting on the match.
Also worth noting: In Lincoln's day, there were no enormous sports arenas. Abe Lincoln never wrestled in front of crowds of thousands of people for the kind of match stakes wrestlers received just decades later. His actual day-to-day jobs most often took priority over his wrestling matches.
As an example, as a soldier in the Blackhawk War, Lincoln once had a dispute with a man over a prime camping spot. They settled the dispute by wrestling.
And of course, the squared circle as it is understood in modern parlance, didn't exist in professional wrestling at all until a few years after Lincoln's assassination. The ring itself was actually a boxing innovation that wouldn't become widespread in wrestling until the early-1900s. In Lincoln's time, wrestlers would pretty much just go where the action took them, which could of course get chaotic. One wonders why a ring wasn't adopted within wrestling sooner than it was, yet there were no governing bodies, and really no true wrestling industry (at least in the modern sense) in those early days, so there you go.
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Wrestling on the American frontier during Lincoln's era wasn't a strange activity at all, it was pretty widespread. People in just about all walks of life used to wrestle in their spare time, be it for honor, bragging rights, to settle a personal dispute, money, or all of the above. Crowds of onlookers within the community would be attracted and would bet on the result. Most of the leading wrestlers of the nineteenth century had ongoing day jobs because a wrestler's earnings were entirely made from side bets.
The above was particularly true of residents living within farming communities, which was also where almost all of the wrestling talent of the 19th century came from. Farm folk were often from rougher and hardier stock, and therefore more likely to take up a practice such as wrestling to test one's manhood from a very young age and determine one's position in a social hierarchy.
Thus, the happenstance of a wrestler in America really started as a pastime and developed gradually into a trade as the side bet game became more lucrative. Naturally, this led to professional wrestling becoming incredibly crooked, as by the late 19th century it had become commonplace for wrestlers to meet in fixed matches, with one winning, but in actuality both of the two splitting the purse (unbeknownst to the individuals betting on the match.
Also worth noting: In Lincoln's day, there were no enormous sports arenas. Abe Lincoln never wrestled in front of crowds of thousands of people for the kind of match stakes wrestlers received just decades later. His actual day-to-day jobs most often took priority over his wrestling matches.
As an example, as a soldier in the Blackhawk War, Lincoln once had a dispute with a man over a prime camping spot. They settled the dispute by wrestling.
And of course, the squared circle as it is understood in modern parlance, didn't exist in professional wrestling at all until a few years after Lincoln's assassination. The ring itself was actually a boxing innovation that wouldn't become widespread in wrestling until the early-1900s. In Lincoln's time, wrestlers would pretty much just go where the action took them, which could of course get chaotic. One wonders why a ring wasn't adopted within wrestling sooner than it was, yet there were no governing bodies, and really no true wrestling industry (at least in the modern sense) in those early days, so there you go.
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Allan
Abe Lincoln was approached after winning a wrestling match by a man who then asked Abe what he wanted to do with his life & Abe said, that he would like to become an attorney, so the man loaned Abe the money & Abe got a horse & some books & became an attorney & ultimately the President of the United States. The lore of the story is that Abe repaid every penny of that loan. Abe also won a murder trial, successfully defending his client by proving the witness was a liar.
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Abe Lincoln was approached after winning a wrestling match by a man who then asked Abe what he wanted to do with his life & Abe said, that he would like to become an attorney, so the man loaned Abe the money & Abe got a horse & some books & became an attorney & ultimately the President of the United States. The lore of the story is that Abe repaid every penny of that loan. Abe also won a murder trial, successfully defending his client by proving the witness was a liar.
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Lincoln would also test-fire rifles on the front lawn of the Whitehouse. There was a funny moment where him and a guy from the Henry firearms company were testing a new Henry lever action on the front lawn and a cop came by to tell what he thought were a couple troublemakers to stop firing. Apparently the cop saw it was Lincoln himself and immediately pulled a 180 and dipped
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Lincoln would also test-fire rifles on the front lawn of the Whitehouse. There was a funny moment where him and a guy from the Henry firearms company were testing a new Henry lever action on the front lawn and a cop came by to tell what he thought were a couple troublemakers to stop firing. Apparently the cop saw it was Lincoln himself and immediately pulled a 180 and dipped
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The Wisconsin Auto Museum, where I work, has an Amphicar, though it is not the one Johnson owned, I do like to tell visitors about the one Johnson owned, and how he would drive it towards a lake pretending the brakes were out. Given the car has sixty-some-odd points that need grease and lube every time the car goes into the water, might as well have some fun and a laugh.
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The Wisconsin Auto Museum, where I work, has an Amphicar, though it is not the one Johnson owned, I do like to tell visitors about the one Johnson owned, and how he would drive it towards a lake pretending the brakes were out. Given the car has sixty-some-odd points that need grease and lube every time the car goes into the water, might as well have some fun and a laugh.
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Eric
Obama also liked to brew a good ale me too! This is all thanks to a law that Jimmy Carter overturned that was a hang over of the prohibition era. I actually think that thanks to this law being overturned we had the explosion of micro breweries in the U. S. Cool stuff. Thanks for the video. It gave me a good laugh.
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Obama also liked to brew a good ale me too! This is all thanks to a law that Jimmy Carter overturned that was a hang over of the prohibition era. I actually think that thanks to this law being overturned we had the explosion of micro breweries in the U. S. Cool stuff. Thanks for the video. It gave me a good laugh.
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Mike
That's-Cool! -That Richard Milhous Nixon! -Loves POKER&Is A Card Shark! -So Do I! &I've Won! -14 Times/Total! &Usings Card Protectors! The Poker Rooms-Also! &That Includes-No Limit-Texas Holdem-'THE CADILLAC OF POKER'! &Good Luck! -Everyone! -Raymond Mike Hong! &(POKER! -Improved-My Life&Health! -Mike!
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That's-Cool! -That Richard Milhous Nixon! -Loves POKER&Is A Card Shark! -So Do I! &I've Won! -14 Times/Total! &Usings Card Protectors! The Poker Rooms-Also! &That Includes-No Limit-Texas Holdem-'THE CADILLAC OF POKER'! &Good Luck! -Everyone! -Raymond Mike Hong! &(POKER! -Improved-My Life&Health! -Mike!
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Steve
You should do a story about what really happens at the cemetery in modern times. I was a cemetery worker for three and a half years and I can tell you some methods that maybe the family would not want to know about and are kind of secrets that we were told not supposed to share.
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You should do a story about what really happens at the cemetery in modern times. I was a cemetery worker for three and a half years and I can tell you some methods that maybe the family would not want to know about and are kind of secrets that we were told not supposed to share.
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DandelionDreamer
I love the idea of some guy walking in on a president riding a mechanical childrens horse in a cowboy costume and having to come up with an explanation of not only why its normal but also medically good for him, poor guy
what a job, had to laugh
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I love the idea of some guy walking in on a president riding a mechanical childrens horse in a cowboy costume and having to come up with an explanation of not only why its normal but also medically good for him, poor guy
what a job, had to laugh
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Alex
Teddy Roosevelt played a very important role in creating the us national parks and protecting millions of acres of land for wildlife. If you could do a video on teddy Roosevelt protecting wildlife that would be great and educational: )
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Teddy Roosevelt played a very important role in creating the us national parks and protecting millions of acres of land for wildlife. If you could do a video on teddy Roosevelt protecting wildlife that would be great and educational: )
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Feared
I heard that somewhere in the presidential archives is a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to a friend. In it, he said his favorite leisure activity was sitting on the back porch of the White House playing an autoharp and smoking hemp.
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I heard that somewhere in the presidential archives is a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to a friend. In it, he said his favorite leisure activity was sitting on the back porch of the White House playing an autoharp and smoking hemp.
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rodzandz
Obama's biggest hobby was destroying the country inside out, corrupting, politicizing and militarizing what were independent agencies like the CIA, FBI, DOJ, NSA, as well as grossly enriching himself and his family while at it.
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Obama's biggest hobby was destroying the country inside out, corrupting, politicizing and militarizing what were independent agencies like the CIA, FBI, DOJ, NSA, as well as grossly enriching himself and his family while at it.
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Albertina
Because of the economic crisis that always comes up the best thing to be on every wise individuals mind or list is to invest in different streams of income thats not depending on the government to generate funds.
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Because of the economic crisis that always comes up the best thing to be on every wise individuals mind or list is to invest in different streams of income thats not depending on the government to generate funds.
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education
The only and one shared hobby of all of them is being puppies with their tales swinging for the big corporations, American tobacco, big pharma, Pfizer, etc porn industry have their dildos in their butss also. .
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The only and one shared hobby of all of them is being puppies with their tales swinging for the big corporations, American tobacco, big pharma, Pfizer, etc porn industry have their dildos in their butss also. .
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unluckystreak
Hey, I like the Royal Gift as a name. Now everyone will know how special the animal is instead of some generic pet name. You might have lots of pets but not many pets that are royal gifts.
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Hey, I like the Royal Gift as a name. Now everyone will know how special the animal is instead of some generic pet name. You might have lots of pets but not many pets that are royal gifts.
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Basha
Very interesting, but can you use another pic of LBJ, rather than the one right after JFK's assassination? The joking LBJ face in that setting is very inappropriate.
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Very interesting, but can you use another pic of LBJ, rather than the one right after JFK's assassination? The joking LBJ face in that setting is very inappropriate.
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robert
The piledriver shown on screen wasn't a Tombstone it was a normal piledriver. With that said Lincoln has sometimes been credited with coming up with the chokeslam.
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The piledriver shown on screen wasn't a Tombstone it was a normal piledriver. With that said Lincoln has sometimes been credited with coming up with the chokeslam.
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talfacprez
Abraham Lincoln is the only US President to hold a Patton. It was something Nautical. An Idea he got while he worked on ships in his much younger days.
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Abraham Lincoln is the only US President to hold a Patton. It was something Nautical. An Idea he got while he worked on ships in his much younger days.
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SuperMasterTurtle
Wrestling is not weird, it's actually a relief to know a President is doing something good for his health that isn't criminal or immoral.
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Wrestling is not weird, it's actually a relief to know a President is doing something good for his health that isn't criminal or immoral.
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talfacprez
LBJs car wasn't a submarine, is was amphibious, It could drive to a body of water and drive right in and become a boat but not a submarine.
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LBJs car wasn't a submarine, is was amphibious, It could drive to a body of water and drive right in and become a boat but not a submarine.
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Stevie
Mules are not native to anywhere. They are a man made breed mixing a different donkey and a horse. They are sterile and can not reproduce.
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Mules are not native to anywhere. They are a man made breed mixing a different donkey and a horse. They are sterile and can not reproduce.
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