Tag: Lincoln

late to the diversion / birthday edition

let’s do thisIt has been a busy day, so I am late to getting a Sunday diversion up on the blog. Last year I did the obvious (linked to the Gettysburg Address). Remarkably, the Second Inaugural Address, delivered on March

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Mr. Lincoln's actual birthday

… is today (well, in 1809)Pity he has to share with #1 on the Monday after next. Re-read The Address. It’s short! Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty

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actual birthday of a President, February 12, 1809

  because not all Presidents were born on the same day!People of a certain age were schooled on the actual birthdays of at least two Presidents, a lesson made easier because (if memory serves) both were holidays then. Holidays nowadays

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