While Abraham Lincoln may best be known as the President who served during the Civil War and was the author and presenter of the Emancipation Proclamation, he led a very private life that often times, due to his wife’s behavior, became public. Lincoln helped form the Republican Party to help take a stance on the ...
Stephen Speilberg is preparing a movie on Abraham Lincoln starring Liam Nieson for 2009 release. Lincoln is the man who repeatedly failed, but never quit and remains the most widely regarded president in American history. Lincoln (1809-1865) is considered by many our greatest president because of the trials he faced. He was the first president ...
Abraham Lincoln was one of Americas greatest Presidents; here we take a quick look back on his remarkable life and achievements. Born February 12, 1809 in Harden County, Kentucky, the only child to a poor farming couple, Abraham “Abe” Lincoln spent a good part of his childhood living in a one room log cabin with ...
Coincidence…or something more? Abraham Lincoln was first elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was first elected in 1946, exactly 100 years later! Ohmigod, that is weird isn’t it? I mean, you know, considering they Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 and JFK was elected President exactly 100 years later in 1960. Wow, ...
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths will be the 7th original animated movie to come to DVD, the first being Superman: Doomsday. Although this is the second Justice League animated movie it has no relationship to Justice League: A New Frontier. Originally the story for Crisis on Two Earths was to bridge the gap between ...
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to have a beard while in office. He grew his beard out of the suggestion of a letter from 11 year old Grace Bedell from Westfield, New York in the fall of 1860. Her letter urged him to grow a beard and read in part: “if you let your ...
On the 14th of April in 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot and mortally wounded President Abraham Lincoln while the President and his wife watched “Our American Cousin” at FordÕs Theatre. Lincoln died the next day and with him died the hope of a relatively peaceful Reconstruction. Without Lincoln to push for leniency in dealing with ...
I recently visited Springer Opera House in Columbus, Georgia to see if the rumors of it being one of the ten most haunted places in America were true; they were. Springer Opera House is no stranger whatsoever to visits from the other side: there are regular sightings of orbs of light, cold spots in the ...
Honest Abe, sure by now plenty of people know that Old Abraham was a fan of wrestling but did you know: Abraham Lincoln was the first president with a beard …Or at least the first president to be seen with one. Between 1860 and 1913, all but two presidents sported a ‘stache or wicked sideburns. ...