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12 Feb 2018, 2:55 am by NCC Staff
Abraham Lincoln, the man, was a national figure for a little less than a decade in his lifetime. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 4:24 am
The Circuit Court will also be closed on Monday, in celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.https://www.cookcountycourt.org/MEDIA/ViewPressRelease/tabid/338/ArticleId/2592/Circuit-Court-of-Cook-County-to-close-Friday-February-9-2018.aspx The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois is also closed today. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 1:14 pm by davidferriero
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War by Matthew Brady For those of us who always wondered about the sanity of generals who ordered open-field, close-range infantry attacks, O’Connell points to the revolution in firearms that took place in the middle of the Civil War. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 10:24 am by Eugene Volokh
Miller is expressing belief that is part of the orthodox doctrines of all three world Abrahamic religions, if not also part of the orthodox beliefs of Hinduism and major sects of Buddhism. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 7:05 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance Virginia: “Dozens of Virginia Churches Have Been Donating Cash to Campaigns for Years, Despite Law” by Bill Bartell for The Virginian-Pilot Elections Florida: “Judge Strikes Down Florida’s System for Denying Felons’ Voting Rights” by Steve Bousquet for Tampa Bay Times Ethics Florida: “Tallahassee Commission Adopts Broad New Ethics Rules” by Jeffrey Schweers for Tallahassee Democrat Massachusetts: “Hefner Had Access to… [read post]
4 Feb 2018, 5:16 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The system of classification was first devised by German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner in the late 18th-century. [read post]
4 Feb 2018, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
She was the first woman to receive the honor, and her coffin sat on the catafalque built for the coffin of Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 4:41 am by NCC Staff
The powerful Whig leader in the Senate, Daniel Webster, opposed it, as did a young Representative from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 5:55 pm by Kevin LaCroix
In the following guest post, Boris Feldman of the Wilson Sonsini law firm takes a look at important current developments in California shareholder litigation. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 1:04 pm by Molly E. Reynolds
 When Senate Government Operations Committee chairman Senate Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) called for the creation of a new permanent intelligence committee in conjunction with  the Church Committee’s work,  the question of how to handle public disclosure of sensitive information was among the key structural issues he identified. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 1:38 pm by Amy Starnes
He is the managing partner at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz, which is the oldest plaintiffs personal injury law firm in Texas. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 7:38 am by Howard Friedman
Vice President stood before the assembled delegates of the Jewish state ... and told them, right after talking about the Holocaust, that Abraham was not their father but that Abraham was his father. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 10:18 am by Thomas Valenti
On the advice of nuns from a local nunnery, her mother, took Karthika to Shanti Bhavan, a boarding school started by Abraham George, a former army captain, author, and philanthropist. [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 6:00 am by Ruth Levush
It was also interesting to observe Ben-Gurion’s choice of other items on display in the hut, including depictions of biblical Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandi, and Berl Katznelson. [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
It was here, in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, that Abraham offered his son, Isaac, and was credited with righteousness for his faith in God.It was here, in Jerusalem, that King David consecrated the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 3:05 am by NCC Staff
For example, after his November 1860 election as President, Abraham Lincoln was powerless to act on the secession of southern states from the Union. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 9:05 am by Steve Minor
"Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries," Abraham Lincoln advised in 1860.In Howell v. [read post]