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A Lord of Flies Essay (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves” Abraham Lincoln So, you have a task to prepare an essay on Abraham Lincoln. Before you get down to writing, first think what you know about the 16th President of the United States. Most probably, you know: that [...]
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findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
On Nov. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln beat three other candidates in a presidential election divided along geographical lines. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated four months later, seven Southern states had seceded from the union.
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HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Washington State Republican Party chair Luke Esser explaining Susan Hutchison’s lopsided loss in the King County executive race… “King County is a tough place to do business if you’re not a left-wing Democrat,” Esser said. “Inside the city of Seattle I could probably bring Abraham Lincoln back from the dead and he wouldn’t win…you’ve...
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YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In "newly discovered journals," historians have found records that American president Abraham Lincoln embarked on an exhibition to hunt and kill the legendary sasquatch. In 1937, Lincoln searched in uncharted areas of the Western United States determined to find the...
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D.C. Sports Bog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've already shown a few D.C. sports fans in their Halloween get-ups, but that's not going to stop me from showing a few more. Above, please see a pair of Wizards fans inspired by DeShawn Stevenson's neck tattoo of Abraham Lincoln. You can see that they went different ways with this one. On the left is Ian, who decided to dress like Lincoln with a DeShawn Stevenson neck tattoo,...
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Irritable Engineer (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves." Abraham Lincoln
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
For a city that votes solidly for the Democratic Party (except, of course, when it comes to mayor), New York City's connection to Abraham Lincoln--Republican...
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Stock Market and Economic Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
I see in the near future a crisis approaching which unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth of aggregated in a few hands and the republic destroyed - Abraham Lincoln...
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montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Who was the real Abraham Lincoln?
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
What would Abraham Lincoln think of the FCAT? And how would he handle Cuba?<p/> Questions like these were the fodder for a panel of academics, politicians and community leaders Sunday at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. They gathered in front of a packed crowd to figure out how the nation's 16th president, renowned for fighting the Civil War and ending...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
"Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America," through Nov. 11 at Four-Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver; colincoln200.org
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IndyStar.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
South Bend -- People can view a signed copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation at the Center for History in South Bend through Dec. 21.
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Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The politicians of today could learn something from Abraham Lincoln.
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Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Walt Whitman's two greatest post-Civil War poems were about Abraham Lincoln. The great poet-humanist and great president never formally met, although they passed frequently on the street in then small-town Washington. As the war got underway, Whitman published "Beat! Beat! Drums!" as a patriotic rallying cry for the Union after the 42-year-old poet's brother George joined the...
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CANNONFIRE (Free subscription) | yesterday
I just turned on CSPAN's coverage of the health care debate. California's Buck McKeon (R) rumbled up to the podium and "quoted" Abraham Lincoln: "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong..." And so on. As we have discussed previously , the quote is a fake. Let me remind you of some things that...