Lincoln's Birthday Revered as Nation's Moral Beacon
An imagined dialogue between Nancy Hanks Lincoln and the Present traces Lincoln's enduring legacy. It notes a widespread February 12 commemoration, the monument at Pigeon Creek, and how his life inspires global interest, education, and civic ideals across the United States.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Western Newspaper Union
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Boston Herald
Robert Lincoln O’brien
The
Herald
United States Tariff Commission
Cape Cod
Hyannis
Mass
Nancy Hanks
Christopher Columbus
Congress
New York
Minear
Nancy Hanks Ghost and Lincoln’s Son Poem Reverie
A reprinted Nancy Hanks poem is followed by a Franklin P Adams column excerpt offering a historical reply about Abraham Lincoln and his father figures. The page also notes poetry by Kate McVey and a public affairs discussion on Finnish aid, CCC policy, and Borah’s politics amid looming war.
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Nancy Hanks
D. R. Graff
Franklin P. Adams
the Conning Tower
New York Herald Tribune
Prairie Sands
Tom
Henry Clay
Kate McVey
Park
Christian Advocate
Mother OF
Lincoln
General Quiz on Pronunciations and Nature
Three words with two pronunciations each whose meanings swap by sound include wound/wood and bow/bough. The three fastest land animals are the cheetah the pronghorn and the lioness sprinting. A martingale is a part of a horse harness while martlet is a songbird and a flowering shrub is a hebe. Two kinds of twins are identical and fraternal. Male and female architectural figures are called atlantes and caryatids. The three bird species extinct in the United States in the last century are the passenger pigeon the Carolina parakeet and the heath hen.
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United States
Answers Quiz Answers Key Moments
The list identifies six items with concise facts. It covers actions you perform with records and minutes, notes the three fastest on foot, defines a harness part, contrasts identical unlike and Siamese, names male and female architectural figures as caryatids and atlantes, and states extinction dates for the passenger pigeon the Labrador duck and the great auk in the 19th century.
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Nancy ‘Hanks
Pigeon Creek
Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Indiana
Commonwealths of the Union
Union
London
United States of America
Republic
President Lincoln
Atlantic
Pacific
Squire McLean
Madison
Courtesy Press Pub. Co
HY. Wbor
vTrpe
Rosemary
Stephen Vincent Benet
Farrar and Rinehart
Abel
Rolling Stone
Abe
Sherman
CCC
Army
Hugh S. Johnson
Washington
Europe
Thermopylae
Finland
Scandinavia
Borah
Senator Borah
Senate
Carter Glass
Thomas Jefferson
Cecil Yates, Jr
Cecil
Speed
Fas
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