Word: lincolner
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...what's next, but the Night at the Museum movies are a big swoony smooch to the old. Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) is our heroine, full of moxie and quaint phraseology. The Tuskegee airmen face off against Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone. Even big old marble Abe Lincoln gets to take his shot. (Hates pigeons, it turns...
Anyone can access most federal agency records under the 1966 Freedom of Information Act. Over the years, however, some library buffs have taken it upon themselves to liberate certain documents. After Brooklyn artist Charles Merrill Mount attempted to sell a collection of rare Civil War manuscripts including three Lincoln letters to a Boston bookstore in 1987, suspicious staffers alerted the Feds. Mount was arrested, and a search of his Washington safe-deposit box revealed some 200 Civil War-era papers, mostly pilfered from the National Archives. Before releasing him on bail, a U.S. magistrate barred Mount from the Archives...
...following year, a 40-year-old National Archives intern stole 160 Civil War documents-including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death-and sold about half of them on eBay. Possible motivation? He told his psychiatrist he was angry the internship was unpaid...
...fair, Kempism, because Jack was critical to President Reagan's success) was really about: conservatism with a smile, conservatism of multiplication not division, optimism about the future, the best of the old applied to the new. Above all, conservatism appropriately constructed as befit the party of Lincoln...
...thousands in the U.S. and abroad during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Spanish-American War and World War II. Defendants have included a former Ohio Congressman accused of sympathizing with the Confederacy during the Civil War (ordered confined for the rest of the war), eight accused conspirators in President Lincoln's assassination (four sentenced to hang, four given prison sentences), and eight Germans accused of arriving in the U.S. by submarine to carry out sabotage attacks (six were electrocuted...