Word: abraham
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...furnacelike heat of the North African summer, the Moslem holy day of Aid el Kebir rolled around. On that day the heads of Moslem families sacrifice a ram in memory of Abraham's sacrifice of a male sheep in place of his son Ishmael, ancestor of all Arabs. One ram, the most important of all, is ceremoniously knifed by the Sultan, who is regarded by the Arabs and Berbers of French Morocco as their spiritual and temporal sovereign. On Aid el Kebir last week, the knife was wielded not by Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (who had reigned since...
...Only twelve others have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda: Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, John A. Logan, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Admiral George Dewey, the Unknown Soldier of World War I, Warren G. Harding, General John J. Pershing, and Robert Taft's father...
...love affair and the dead Welsh girl who was too innocent-hearted for his propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern captain that his speech at Gettysburg was not, after all, a failure. In tone, the stories range from Ring Lardner's deadpan barbershop talk in Haircut to the old-school nourishes of New Orleans' George W. Cable in Madame Delphine...
Although he is a Harvard graduate, Pusey is the first president of the University to be born West of the Mississippi. A native of Council Bluffs, the 46-year old Pusey is a graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School of that city...
...facts & figures, modest in themselves, are symptoms of a major revolution in the life of the U.S. Negro?only half-noticed by the rest of the nation. It is a revolution which, although still far from overthrowing segregation, amounts to the biggest, most hopeful change in Negro history since Abraham Lincoln, just 90 years ago, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Says Negro Publisher (Ebony, Jet) John H. Johnson: "Every Negro is a Horatio Alger . . . His trek up from slavery is the greatest success story the world has ever known...