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A quarter of a century has passed since Indira Gandhi was shot down by assassins who happened to be her bodyguards. She was not the first leader to have lost her life to assassins – two American Presidents Abraham Lincoln (1865) and John F Kennedy...
Tags: Indira Gandhi, Shakti Sthal, Emergency Rule, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Rajiv Gandhi, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Golden Temple Amritsar
The sixteenth president of the United States is best remembered for steering the country through the Civil War and ultimately helping to end slavery. But Abraham Lincoln was also a courageous and persistent person. He lost much in his life,...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, president, United States, adversity, power
That's the point of a new exhibition, "Lincoln and New York," at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan...The exhibition begins with Lincoln's historic speech at Cooper Union in 1860 and the iconic Mathew Brady photograph taken the same day. The...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, New York City
George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, will promote his biography of Abraham Lincoln on Thursday in Fort Collins. McGovern, 87, will talk about his book in the Community Room at the Coloradoan, 1300 Riverside. The event begins at...
Tags: George McGovern, Abraham Lincoln
Robert Redford 's historical drama about the aftermath of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln looks set to get under way. The Conspirator will star Robin Wright Penn as the only woman among a group of people tried for the president's death, while James...
WORLD SOCIALIST WATCH ALERT UPDATE: Colin Powell Encourages School Kids In Socially Responsible Behavior, Emulating Stealth Socialist Obama Has Colin Powell sent a secret message to his Socialist co-conspirator in the White House by indoctrinating...
Tags: Colin Powell, Boys & Girls Club, Hartford Ct, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Schieffer, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Joseph C. Wilson, Abraham Lincoln, Condoleza Rice, Jesse Helms
Robert Redford is getting back into the Washington scene with a film about a woman executed as an accessory in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...The project follows Redford's 2007 film "Lions for Lambs," a war-on-terror drama that he directed and...
Tags: Robert Redford, Abraham Lincoln, Washington, lincoln film
Hundreds of people calmly but eagerly lined up at Illinois' Old State Capitol Plaza in Springfield Thursday to get their hands on the new Lincoln penny. The commemorative penny, third of four versions out this year in celebration of Abraham Lincoln 's...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, 200th birthday
Right now, scores of parents are whisking their toddlers off for a day of rigorous interviews with the hope that their little bundle of joy is accepted into one of the premier pre-schools. If that pans out, they’ll hit the elementary and...
Tags: education, college, higher education, Abraham Lincoln, America, American
Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday this year is again a focus of the 21st annual Arts in the Park. Festivities kicked off last year for Lincoln’s Bicentennial Celebration, and President Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln (Max and Donna Daniels) will again attend...