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"Snooze" wrote:

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In the movie 'Amistad' President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) has a
scene
where he is showing an 'african violet' to a native african. Did Adams
really
have african violets and if so is there anyway of finding out the
varieties that
were available at that time? I'm thinking it was just a hollywood fantasy.


African violets were discovered by Europeans in the late 19th century.
John Quincy Adams would have never seen one.