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Name: Charles Downing
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Relation: Single
Hometown: North Carolina
Occupation: Freelance Graphic/ Web Designer and Photographer
Companies: DowningGraphix
Schools: Langley HS & RIT/ NTID alumini
Interests and Hobbies: America History, World History, Politics, Amateur Photographer, and Artist - Illustration, Oil and Watercolor Painting, love to look artworks from 1st Century to 19th Century. Huge Detroit/ Michigan sports fan and NASCAR. Hiking, Skiing, Climbing, Fishing and Camping.
Favorite Movies/Shows: Ghost Hunter, The Patroits, and John Adams HBO movie. Any comedy shows will laugh my ass off.
Favorite Music: Pink Floyd the Wall, Avril Lavigne, ZZ Tops, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol
Favorite Books: Walt Whitman, Ralph Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickenson, Jane Austin, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickenson, Thomas Paine and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

About Me:

Direct Descendant of Sir George Downing (1624-1684). England On November 9, 1666, renowned diarist Samuel Pepys wrote that he had seen politician Sir George Downing using sign language to talk with a deaf employee of his spy network. Although Downing - for whom London's Downing Street was named - was hearing, he grew up in an area of Kent known as the Weald. This region had a very large deaf population, and because of this all of the hearing residents learned sign language. The high number of deaf people there was caused by a genetic mutation early in the seventeenth century, which resulted in a recessive gene for deafness being passed down for generations. It was Downing's contemporaries who eventually became the ancestors of a large deaf population on the Massachusetts island known as Martha's Vineyard.

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