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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
The Abraham Lincoln Observer has changed platforms and web addresses.
The new ALO home page is at www.sj-r.com/blogs/alo. The new RSS feed is www.sj-r.com/blogs/alo/rss.
Temporarily, we may also be tough to find on The State Journal-Register’s home ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
I don’t know anything more about this than what WLS-TV, ABC News in Chicago, reported today. Here’s the (brief) clip.To tell the truth, I would have guessed that the court file from the hearing that sent Mary Lincoln to a rest home, at the req...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
The Wall Street Journal’s “Washington Wire” blog says Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain have agreed to debate Medicare and Social Security reform via “a contemporary version” of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. As Washington Wire not...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
The Center for Education and Leadership, Ford’s Theatre says,”will explore the lasting effect Abraham Lincoln’s presidency—and its untimely end—have had on our country.” The center, the fourth and final part of Ford’s impress...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
That’s the contention of Rutgers University politics professor (emeritus) Paul Poast, who opens the 2011 Wepner Symposium on the Lincoln Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship at the UIS Public Affairs Center (7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, Friday, Oct. 21; s...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
That’s nearly the only SFW joke from a web site devoted to presidents’ purported pickup lines. I’m not going to provide a link, or even give you much of a clue about Googling it. So if you find it anyway and end up either appalled or (fo...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
Jacob Borshard takes on evolution, meteorics, paleontology and dinosaur politics in 12 literate panels. I think more politicians should call their opponents “a fetid and rotten pack.”
Yes, there are T-shirts.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
I don’t think the inimitable John Hiatt is singing about Abraham Lincoln, or even the town of Lincoln, Ill. But I was reminded of how great a song this is when it came up on the iPod while Mrs. ALO and I were hanging wallpaper this morning. ThatR...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
President’s Park was an outdoor presidential sculpture gallery near Williamsburg, Va. There also apparently was a version earlier near Lead, S.D. — I’m not sure what the relationship was between the two, though there obviously was one. (...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
Here's more on what the Lincoln Legacy Lectures will cover next week (7 p.m. Oct. 13, Brookens Auditorium at UIS). Info courtesy of the October issue of Looking for Lincoln News.
Presenter Dr. Lucas Morel:
"On 'War and Remembrance in Lincoln's Second Ina...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
And here’s the monthly podcast.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
Famed Canadian-raised trotting horse Incredible Abe — so named because he was born on Feb. 12 — was euthanized this month in New York, according to Trot Insider and Standardbred Canada.
In his racing career, Abe won 19 of 39 starts for purses ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
Last night, I opened my review copy of “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America,” radio/TV bloviator Bill O’Reilly’s take on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, expecting an over-the-top piece of self-pro...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
The Lincoln Home National Historic Site will unveil a new statue of Abraham Lincoln, the “Prairie Lawyer,” on Oct. 9. The sculpture is the first major artwork created for the home in more than 20 years, the National Park Service said in a ne...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
Chinese artist Yuan Xikun’s monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln was donated to the city of Philadelphia in 2009. But it now sits hidden on the loading dock of a Philadelphia auction house, awaiting sale –presumably to someone with a really ta...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
Nanci Kieffer made this quilt, which is being raffled off as a fundraiser for the Rochester Historical Preservation Society.
Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. Best places to buy:
– The Rochester Olde Towne Festival Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 1-2).
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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
… But this probably really was John Hay.
And yeah, it’s thoroughly NSFW. At least listen with earphones, will ya
Today’s squashed pennies
Rappers OlStar and Loose Kaynon are both from Lagos, Nigeria (rap is a really dynamic music form i...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
And — surprise! — some of the new ones are bogus tooI kind of liked the first batch of quotation pillars installed as part of the Capitol Avenue streetscape project, although one, and probably two, of the original attributions were screwed up....
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
Steven Spielberg spilled a few — very few — more beans about his planned “Lincoln” movie in a brief blog post by the Orlando Sentinel’s Roger Moore on Monday. The film obviously is going to happen, something I was betting aga...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
Why is Abraham Lincoln called Honest Abe Because his aim is true.
(YouTube video from i-am-bored.com)
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