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25 Oct 2013, 6:55 am
” I heard many people grumble, referring to Eid al Adha, (the holiday that commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Ishmael) last week, “and there’s nothing going on! [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 11:46 am
Democratic operatives then distributed this hoax (or what might be considered a pioneering example of “fake news”) to leading Republicans and even President Abraham Lincoln asking for their endorsements. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 10:59 am
Abraham Lincoln In his previous life, President Lincoln owned a newspaper and had a fondness for the press. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 11:59 am
While chattel slavery’s end is often tied to President Abraham Lincoln’s declaration of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1,1863, 250,000 slaves in Texas didn’t learn of their freedom until June 19, 1865 — when Union General Gordon Granger arrived with an army to liberate them and announced that “[the] people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 6:10 am
Ben Abraham and Jocelyn Perry analyze the “mixed results” of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference and suggest that implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement will depend on countries’ commitment to addressing the threat of climate change. [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 5:55 am
Let’s say I am writing a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and I read in a previously-published biography by Ms. [read post]
4 Jul 2019, 7:35 am
As Abraham Lincoln famously put it, the Declaration established important aspirational principles, even if they could not be immediately realized: I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men, but they did not mean to declare all men equal in all respects…. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 3:52 am
It’s still worth telling because it’s the story of how several bad decisions killed a company whose world title lineage could arguably be traced back to the days of Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
15 Mar 2008, 1:21 pm
What interests us his description of just how minimal copyrights were in the days of President Abraham Lincoln, raising the question for us as to why these rights are - and should or should not be - as extensive as they are today in the modern world:"The types of works protected were very small: book, maps, and charts; "historical and other" prints; and musical compositions. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 7:44 am
One last point about the Brownstein and Bai views really does peeve me, as someone who invokes and has written about Abraham Lincoln, Jacksonian levelling, Richard Hofstadter, FDR, the New Deal, the Taney Court, Chief Justice John Marshall and various other important historical events, this part from Brownstein is truly galling: Bai is also keenly aware of the movement's limitations, such as a studied, even defiant, aversion to history. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 11:48 pm
I know the Chinese name for Abraham Lincoln, but not Boise, Idaho. 4. [read post]
19 Dec 2010, 9:59 pm
Following an initial vote in the US Senate on the don’t ask don’t tell issue, Colonel Mark Abraham, head of diversity for the British Army, told People magazine that: A lot of gay and lesbian soldiers who were in the army before the ban was lifted, reported that a percentage of their efforts was spent looking over their shoulder and ensuring they weren’t going to be caught. [read post]
9 Dec 2013, 7:32 am
But Abraham Newman of Foreign Affairs highlights the gap between mouth and money in this piece questioning the sincerity of Silicon Valley’s pledge to bolster privacy protections in the wake of revelations that NSA routinely accesses user data from their servers. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 1:00 pm
In the lead-up to ratification, Abraham Holmes, a delegate at the Massachusetts ratification debate warned against trial by “a jury of strangers,” instead insisting that a fair trial could only be one “in the vicinity where the fact was committed where a jury of the peers would, from their local situation, have an opportunity to form a judgment of the character of the person charged with the crime, and also to judge of the credibility of the witnesses. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 9:44 am
Additionally, with respect to the protection of religious freedom, some highlight that article 64 makes freedom of belief “absolute” and not limited to the Abrahamic religions as was cited in the 2012 Constitution. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 6:50 am
“Father Abraham’s Almanack” was in the vanguard in publishing tales of sexual intrigue. [read post]
23 Jan 2011, 5:59 am
Abraham Lincoln only learned cursive. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 11:00 am
(Or was that Abraham Lincoln?) [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 6:06 am
Even Abraham Lincoln bought sea pearls from Charles Louis Tiffany. [read post]
19 Feb 2018, 2:45 am
Foster was the Senate president pro tempore in 1865 when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. [read post]
