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Even before a note sounded on a chilly Friday night at Ravinia, it was easy to rag on Ramsey Lewis' programmatic tribute to America's most visible politician of all time: Abraham Lincoln. The 16th president is the recipient of countless musical encomiums,...
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Honourable former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's rare stamp was stolen in the 1967. Significantly, 39 years after the theft of the stamp,it was recovered in 2006. Yesterday its bid happened in Manhattan's Robert A. Siagel Galleries. Here,...
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A rare Abraham Lincoln stamp that was stolen in 1967 and surfaced 39 years later has sold at auction for more than $430,000. The stamped envelope was auctioned Saturday at Manhattan's Robert A...He paid $431,250 for the 90-cent stamp, against a pre-sale...
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Abraham Lincoln's years in the White House and his experiences practicing law in Illinois have been thoroughly chronicled, but his boyhood days in Indiana are less studied...Inc.; and AT&T. “Even though he moved on to Illinois and Washington, D.C., all...
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Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold." William Butler Yeats wrote those words in his brilliant 1920 poem, "The Second Coming," which may be better known for words closer to the end. "What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward...
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The National Archives has added to its collection of letters that Abraham Lincoln wrote as president.In the new letter, Lincoln asks his treasury secretary, Salmon Chase, to allow the fired head of the U.S. Mint in San Francisco to review the charges...
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On the eve of the Civil War, one of our nation's most famous leaders gave an important speech that stirred a decades-old local mystery. President-elect Abraham Lincoln's whistle-stop train tour landed in Allegheny City -- today's North Side -- on Feb....
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A gold-and-silver Tiffany pitcher presented to Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration goes on the auction block June 6 in Cincinnati...Wes Cowan of Cowan's Auctions says the pitcher has been owned by a Cincinnati family he declined to identify, but...
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Mint officials who predicted a "Woodstock of Coin" were right on the money. They had rain, they had traffic and a long line of rain soaked people waiting to buy the new Lincoln penny. Line began forming around 3:30 a.m. and had grown to 1,500 people and...
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The Grand Army of the Republic Museum's board unanimously approved "further investigation into the sciences, legacy and history of the artefact," its vice-president Andy Waskie said. The artefact is a piece of bloodstained pillow taken from the Peterson...
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