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Should there be discussion in the article of the possibility that Garfield's doctors actually killed him? He apparently actually could have survived being shot but over-aggressive medical attention was the proximate cause of death. -- 19:08 Jan 23, 2003 (UTC)

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I couldn't resist adding the link to Mathworld. It is very incidental to history, but Garfield is, AFAIK, the only President of the United States to have a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (or any theorem for that matter) to his name. 20:15, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Wrote with both hands...


The old book: Incredible But True states that Garfield could write with both hands at once. He would dazzle people by writing with both hands in Latin and Greek. That is too awsome to skip over. Things like that get people interested in history and it sure would dazzle a teacher if some young lad put that on his school paper. Garfield was an amazing man, and yes his theorem proof should be noted too! If someone can find a good source please help me out with this one! 11:20, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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