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12 Feb 11 - 04:26 PM (#3093995) Subject: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: kendall One of Americas greatest presidents and certainly the greatest republican president was born on this date in a place called Nob Creek Kentucky in 1809. |
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12 Feb 11 - 07:21 PM (#3094082) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: josepp He was, in fact, the first republican president. The Grand Old Party is way younger than the democratic party. |
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12 Feb 11 - 07:39 PM (#3094088) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: The Fooles Troupe "Apart from that. Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?" |
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12 Feb 11 - 10:33 PM (#3094155) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Rapparee I've got a partial bottle of Knob Creek upstairs. I use it to drink to Abe on his birthday, since he himself didn't drink. |
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13 Feb 11 - 01:26 PM (#3094445) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Q (Frank Staplin) On January 21, a celebration of Stonewall Jackson's birthday at his house in Lexington, VA, was well-attended. Hot apple cider and cake was offered. (Out behind the house...). This was Lee-Jackson Day, a state holiday in Virginia. Jefferson Davis, born on June 3, after the war became president of a life insurance company; a typical American success story. A high school in Houston and one in Mississippi are named after him, and the large Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond commemorates him. |
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13 Feb 11 - 01:33 PM (#3094453) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: WalkaboutsVerse We got a BBC documentary about him the other evening: "Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner?...documentary re-assessing the reputation of American president, Abraham Lincoln." |
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13 Feb 11 - 02:20 PM (#3094505) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: GUEST,Kendall Neither Jackson nor Davis was murdered. |
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13 Feb 11 - 02:22 PM (#3094506) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: CET The greatest writer of speeches that ever lived, in my opinion. With some trepidation, I think I would even put him ahead of Churchill. Martin Luther King and Churchill deserve to be mentioned in the same breath with Lincoln, but I can't think of anybody else. |
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13 Feb 11 - 02:27 PM (#3094511) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Desert Dancer For music content, the American Folklife Center shared via Facebook -- -- The 16th president was born in 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. The American Folklife Center has a 1958 recording of the "The Adam and Eve Wedding Song," composed by Abraham Lincoln and sung by the United States Army Chorus. -- Unfortunately, this is an item that they haven't digitised yet, so unless you're able to visit the Library of Congress, you'll just have to imagine it. (Google doesn't bring up any commercial recordings or print items.) ~ Becky in Tucson |
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13 Feb 11 - 02:53 PM (#3094526) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: gnu CET... well said, but I certainly could not choose between those three. Perhaps it is only as I am not as well read on their works. Oh, yeah, belated happies Abe. |
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13 Feb 11 - 04:40 PM (#3094594) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Greg F. Neither Jackson nor Davis was murdered. Well, Jackson was shot by his own men. And Davis should have been hanged as a traitor. |
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13 Feb 11 - 05:11 PM (#3094612) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Q (Frank Staplin) Jackson accidentally shot by pickets, died of pneumonia a week later. Davis became a hero in the South for his resistance to reconstruction, carpetbaggers, and damnyankees. |
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13 Feb 11 - 06:20 PM (#3094653) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Greg F. Yup- and for keepin' them damn nigras in their places, preventin them from votin & generally denyin'em their civil & human rights. Quite a hero. |
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13 Feb 11 - 07:28 PM (#3094696) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: gnu Greag F... please clarify. Some of us are not as well read as you on US history. I have no idea who you are referring to. |
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13 Feb 11 - 08:45 PM (#3094728) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: GUEST,kendall Gnu, I believe he was referring to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.He was captured fleeing from the Yankees on my birthday. |
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13 Feb 11 - 09:45 PM (#3094747) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Jeri Geez, Kendall--I didn't think you were THAT old! |
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13 Feb 11 - 11:37 PM (#3094785) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: mousethief Happy birthday, Abie Baby Happy birthday to you. Bang. |
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14 Feb 11 - 09:13 AM (#3094997) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: kendall I know I don't look that old, but it must be all that clean living. S**T, even I can't carry that one off! |
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14 Feb 11 - 10:13 AM (#3095022) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Greg F. Yessiree, Gnu, that Great American, Jeff Davis, a real hero of the South. The rich slaveowner who said , among many similar utterances, before, during and after the Civil War: "African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing." "We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude...You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be." And who firmly believed- as his Vice President Alexander Stephens stated, that the country he sought to erect was founded "upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race-- is his natural and normal condition." A man who was responsible for the slavery & subjugation of 4 millions of Blacks and the deaths of 600,000 combatants and 50,000 civilians. Yet as Jeff Antley of the Sons of Confederate Veterans recently (Jan 2011) told the New York Times., regarding the "Secession Ball" held in Charleston, SC : " "Many people in the South still believe that is a just and honorable cause. Do I believe they were right in what they did? Absolutely. There's no shame or regret over the action those men took." Hitler the mass murderer and white supremecist is universally reviled; Jeff Davis gets statures, accolades, and birthday celebrations and balls in his honor. Only in America. |
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14 Feb 11 - 10:14 AM (#3095025) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Greg F. PS: Thomas Jefferson Jackson, by the way, was a "christian"[sic] fundagelical nutcase with delusions of being Oliver Cromwell. Read up on it. |
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14 Feb 11 - 10:18 AM (#3095028) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: Greg F. 'Scuse me - Thomas JOHNATHON Jackson.[Thos. Jeff. Jackson was an astronomer] |
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15 Feb 11 - 06:43 AM (#3095562) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln From: GUEST,Alan Whittle 'Jeff Davis gets statures, accolades, and birthday celebrations and balls in his honor.' Whereas in England, we had Margaret Thatcher, who is still honoured for her balls. And what balls it all was! |