Who was the U.S. president on the 40th anniversary of D-Day? Who was president of the United States in 1887? What does Washington Monument stand for? Which president passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968? What was Abraham Lincoln doing when he was assassinated?
After Lincoln was elected President of the US in 1861, they rented the house and___(sell)most of their furniture.篇2What do the Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan and the Chengde Mountain Resort all have___common? These Qing-dynasty architectural___(wonder), along with many others, were all buil...
B. George Washington, the First American President C. Do You Want to Be a President?【题目】Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809.His mother died when he was ten years old. Later, his family moved to Illinois and his father remarried. The family was poor, so they had to 【1】...
During Abraham Lincoln’s final year in Springfield, Illinois, in 1860, before he was elected America's 16th president, folks would sometimes observe him in shirtsleeves, engaged in a fast-paced game of “Fives” with other young men in a vacant lot just off the public square. The brick ...
Consider that when President Lincoln was a depressed young man and actively suicidal his friends removed all his knives and pistols and kept a careful watch over him, thus preventing a suicide attempt. A great read on this is: Lincoln’s Melancholy, by Joshua Wolf Shenk, Houghton-Mifflin Compa...
was shrinking, shrinking visibly around them, every day. … it was the infinite personal perfection of life that glowed warm and treasurable against the thickening miasmas of the wilderness outside. Each homecoming now was not merely the delight of coming home, but the tense appreciation of ...
“—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.~ Abraham Lincoln ...
as Abraham Lincoln jestingly commented to the author, she was the lady who wrote the book that started the whole war. Sally Rooney herself, and so many others of her successful and well-placed friends in the scribbling trade are madly pro-Palestinian, I wonder why she has not considered ...
Jeff Bezos, WaPo owner, stated, of his rationale, that he pulled the editorial (which endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris) because newspaper endorsements do not influence the outcome of elections; they just create the appearance of putting one’s thumb on the scale. He concluded, it was the...
On September 15, 1863, President Lincoln imposed Congressionally-authorized martial law. While history contends the war was fought to end slavery, the truth is, Lincoln by his own admission never really cared about freeing slaves. In fact, Lincoln never intended to abolish slavery, his main int...