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...Friday’s march was organised by the National Action Network, a civil-rights group founded by Al Sharpton. Mr Sharpton addressed the crowds at the Lincoln Memorial, alongside Martin Luther King III....
...(FT) Brooks Brothers files for bankruptcy The venerable retailer — whose upmarket suits were once sported by presidents including Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy, stars such as Fred Astaire and generations...
...Lincoln....
...Abraham Lincoln’s leadership demonstrated that even the most violent discord is an opportunity to lay groundwork for a shared higher purpose....
...On February 20 1862, Abraham Lincoln’s third child, Willie, succumbed to typhoid fever. He was 11 years old. Two nights later, Lincoln set out to visit the boy’s tomb....
...In saying this I am not contradicting Abraham Lincoln who is purported to have said: “You cannot fool all the people all the time.”...
...Bayer is less well known than his contemporaries at the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy et al – perhaps because, having emigrated from Germany in 1938, he spent so much of...
...Being Washington, most kids only had 30 minutes to build something before Dad said, “Come on, let’s go to the Lincoln Memorial.”...
...While always consumed by personal ambition and notions of greatness (he was an avid student of Lincoln, Churchill, Napoleon et al), he started musing about a legacy that would benefit his and all other children...
...Do not read it out of memorial piety. Read it to understand what the language animal can do at the height of his powers....
...He calls the election in November the “most important since 1860”, when Abraham Lincoln was elected. “This is where we decide, once and for all, whether we want big government or not,” he says....
...Citizens spoke about walking tours, extending bus routes, hospitals … and then a man from the audience shouted: “What about the mosque!”...
...There is even a statue that shows him seated like Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...A flurry of books tracked the lives of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, born 200 years ago this year....
...Lincoln spent much of his presidency....
...And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln’s Memorial, and hear a young preacher from...
...Today’s equivalent of Kempner et al do other things....
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