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6 Dec 2015, 9:30 pm
A description from the Press:From his early years as a small-town lawyer through his rise to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln respected the rule of law. [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 1:23 pm
On this holiday, we remember the miracle that enabled a freedom-loving people – led by the heroic Maccabees – to defeat the oppressive dictator Antiochus so that they could once again freely worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 6:00 am
” Abraham LincolnNotes on the Practice of LawThe Library of America, Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858 [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm
Although surrogacy ostensibly dates to biblical days—Abraham and Sarah’s handmaiden, Hagar, for example—it is quintessentially a modern path to parenthood. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 5:29 pm
And is Abraham Lincoln a plagiarist because of the "House Divided" speech; one thinks not. [read post]
27 Nov 2015, 4:00 am
Regional free trade treaties dealing with the protection of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of pharmaceutics and biotechnology, should not only maintain intact the powers already granted to States by multilateral agreements, but should also be a means for ensuring a minimum of health care and access to basic treatment for all.Meanwhile, Israeli and Arab sources differ on the political importance of a gesture by Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II who yesterday left with a… [read post]
26 Nov 2015, 5:00 am
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a “day of Thanksgiving and Praise,” making Thanksgiving Day an annual holiday. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 4:02 am
" --Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 3:40 am
Most notably, his administration oversaw the segregation of the federal government, destroying the careers of thousands of talented and accomplished black civil servants — including John Abraham Davis, my paternal grandfather. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 8:00 am
Abraham Lincoln once called the patent system one of the three greatest advances in human history, along with the discovery of America and the printing press... [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 8:00 am
Abraham Lincoln once called the patent system one of the three greatest advances in human history, along with the discovery of America and the printing press... [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 7:26 am
Of relevance to the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth stayed at the hotel April 5–6, 1865, eight days before assassinating Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 8:20 am
., the nations capital, was so full of spies and agents for the Confederacy that Abraham Lincoln asked the U.S. [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 1:44 pm
Joseph Allen has a post titled Abraham Lincoln loved our patent system. [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 2:14 am
After having lost his Senate election bid to Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln was asked how he felt, to which he replied that he was "too old to cry but it hurt too much to laugh. [read post]
15 Nov 2015, 5:39 pm
Mario Michel Affentranger, Jefe de la Sección de Tratados Internacionales de la Oficina Federal de Policía del Departamento Federal de Justicia y Policía, quien era el jefe de la delegación, el señor Adrien de Werra, adjunto científico de la Sección de Asistencia Judicial Internacional de la Oficina Federal de Policía del Departamento Federal de Justicia y Policía, y el señor Heinrich Schellenberg, Suplente del Jefe de… [read post]
15 Nov 2015, 3:51 pm
These include the British colonists in Virginia as early as 1619.The legacy of thanks and the feast have survived the centuries, as the event became a national holiday 152 years ago (Oct. 3, 1863) when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 7:40 am
” [Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe; Radley Balko] Tags: child abuse, Massachusetts, prosecutorial abuseGlobe: shaken-baby defense never saw exculpatory evidence is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
10 Nov 2015, 2:00 pm
The auction house apparently did not discover this information before it published the piece in its sales catalog.Bonhams richly characterized the silk and wool textile as "[a]n important Flemish historical tapestry," and suggested that it was part of the "[t]he complete set of the Life of Numa Pompilius," which can be "attributed with certainty to the painter Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596-1675). [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 5:21 am
Abraham Lincoln, a self-made, unassuming lawyer, used his gift of oration to lead a nation. [read post]
