2011年10月27日星期四

A connoisseur of European wines

Monticello was also filled with Jeffersons uniqueand often ingeniousinventions Rosetta Stone V3. These included a revolving bookstand, a copying machine, a spherical sundial and a toenail clipper, among dozens of other devices.Monticello's GardensIn addition to its architecture, Monticello is renowned for its extensive gardens, which Jefferson, an avid horticulturist, designed, tended and painstakingly monitored. Every year that he resided at Monticello, he kept a log of its floraas well as the insects and diseases that ravaged themin a diary known as the Garden Book. He grew hundreds of varieties of fruits and vegetables there, using cultivation techniques that were revolutionary for his time. A connoisseur of European wines, Jefferson also attempted to plant a number of different grape varietals at Monticello; although his vines largely failed to thrive, he developed a reputation as Americas first serious viticulturist.Monticello Rosetta Stone Spain Spanish the PlantationMonticello was not just a residence but also a working plantation, home to roughly 130 enslaved African Americans whose duties included tending its gardens and livestock, plowing its fields and working in its on-site textile factory. One of these slaves was Sally Hemings, who as a teenager accompanied Jefferson and his young daughters to Paris and later served as a chambermaid and seamstress at Monticello. For nearly two centuries, it has been speculated that Jefferson and Hemings had as many as six children together. These claims were bolstered by a 1998 DNA study that revealed a genetic link between their respective descendants (although some have argued that Jeffersons younger brother, Randolph, could also have been the father).While the true nature of Jeffersons relationship with Sally Rosetta Stone English V3 Hemings may never come to light, it would be impossible to tell the story of Monticello without acknowledging the irony of a home whose library shelves overflowed with the great works of the Enlightenment yet were dusted by slaves.

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