November 22, 2009
46 years &
26 seconds later:
The 414 PD 8mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series
movie camera
which shot this
Zapruder clip
(From Jew of the
Day)
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February 17, 2009
Got wood?
(From Sports by Brooks)
Also: Senate Chamber Desk XXIV Obama desk
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December 06, 2008
Bear chairs
An elkhorn chair presented to President Lincoln by Seth Kinman.
Seth Kinman was a California '49er and a hunter based in Fort Humboldt known for presenting chairs made from elkhorns and grizzly bear skins to U.S. Presidents. Presidents so honored include James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Rutherford Hayes. He claimed to have shot a total of over 800 grizzly bears, and, in a single month, over 50 elk
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November 20, 2008
87 years ago
Narrated by Sam Waterston
(More Ken Burns on YouTube)
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April 28, 2008
Refacing Government Tender
Teenage Mutant Ninja Lincoln and many more de-faced denominations
Image of Lincoln carved in a peach pit by a prisoner of war during American Civil War (Scroll down a bit)
A simple and deceptively tricky question: What Does a President Do All Day?
Frustrated by reports that the Clinton campaign is arguing to Super Delegates in private that Barack Obama "can't win" in November -- presumably because he's black -- some Obama surrogates have countered with the argument, also expressed privately but widely reported, that Senator Clinton can't win in November because she's an asshole. Obama campaign plays the asshole card
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February 29, 2008
Happy Presidents Day 1862
Happy Presidents Day 1862
Abraham Lincoln considering naked woman and naked boy outside the Bennington Museum
The Great Lincoln's Beard Challenge of 2008
Second Annual Message December 1st, 1862. Transcripts of all State of the Union Messages
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November 28, 2007
Lincoln
The True Story of the Reincarnations of Abraham Lincoln: 5 Dollar Art Bills by Dutch artist Kamiel Proost
Medical History of American Presidents
Is that really Lincoln in 3-D?
Lincoln-Douglas debate monuments are a cottage industry. (From a Metafilter thread about the 7 debates between Lincoln and Douglas)
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September 29, 2007
Lincoln’s beard
It was the fall of 1860. Abraham Lincoln was the Republican nominee for president of the United States. Election Day was less than a month away. Mr. Lincoln, a lifelong beardless man, received a letter written by Grace Bedell, an 11 year old girl from Westfield, New York. Written October 15th, 1860, the letter urged him to grow a beard
The New York Times on April 15, 1865: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin.; The Deed Done at Ford's Theatre Last Night. THE ACT OF A DESPERATE REBEL The President Still Alive at Last Accounts. No Hopes Entertained of His Recovery. Attempted Assassination of Secretary Seward. DETAILS OF THE DREADFUL TRAGEDY. (PDF)
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady
"When Abe Lincoln was your age, he was studying books by the light of the fireplace..."
Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site was the 1840s home of Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln. Lincoln was a lawyer living in Springfield by the time his parents lived here, but he did visit them periodically. (From the extensive Abraham Lincoln Online. Thank you, BW)
(Beard above from Random World Of Norris)
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February 09, 2007
T-Mails and E-Mails
"I began writing Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails based on the thesis that Abraham Lincoln's telegrams made him the first online president. As I watched Lincoln's use of the telegraph evolve and read and re-read his messages I began to discover that I was thinking of his t-mails as I wrote my own emails. Here is how Abraham Lincoln's t-mails ended up having an effect upon how I use email.."
People generally have pretty good things to say about Abraham Lincoln. But we feel that his legacy would be bolstered even further by evidence that, one day, during a walk in the woods, he came upon Bigfoot, and the two came to fisticuffs.
Bigfoot vs. Abe Lincoln. (From BB Links)
On May 22, 1849, Abraham Lincoln was granted Patent No. 6469 by the U.S. Patent Office on a device for "Buoying Vessels Over Shoals." As noted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Lincoln's "invention consists of a set of bellows attached to the hull of a ship just below the water line. On reaching a shallow place, the bellows are filled with air and the vessel, thus buoyed, is expected to float clear."
Although the device was never actually manufactured, Abraham Lincoln remains today as the only United States President to hold a patent. Lincoln-Related Patents
Lincoln Home Virtual Tour (May be a re-post)
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October 05, 2006
Head On Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln In Pennies (Google Video)
Wanted Poster of John Wilkes Booth on eBay. Only 1 of 2 known in existence
Instruments used in Lincoln’s autopsy. More at Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body
Re-post: The Ringmaster by Mark Rydan
Lincoln Cent by year and type. Lincoln Cent Pictures
D. W. Griffith’s Abraham Lincoln (1930), forever damned as one of the “50 Worst Movies of All Time”
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March 16, 2006
Web of Conspiracy
George Engelbach, Republican delegate; farmer; retired sheet-metal worker. Hillsboro, Missouri. One of many Richard Avedon’s “Democracy” Photos, taken during the 2004 campaigns
What a Luxury Car Should Be, from Worth 1000 Time Machine 9. Other Vintage Lincoln ads
Thinkin’ Lincoln - A totally sweet webcomic
Civil War Harper's Weekly, April 29, 1865. The April 29, 1865 edition of Harper's Weekly is a first edition description of the Assassination and Death of President Lincoln. (Much more at Son of the South, the web's most extensive source of original Civil War resources)
Confederate nutters in South Carolina, who are promoting secession from the union, rejoice at a mock trial and hanging of "the evil tyrants" President Lincoln and General Sherman. (Site is down for some ungodly reason at the moment)
The original John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Tour: Our Spring 2006 tours are filled
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November 12, 2005
Rail Splitting
“Hoist up the flag for Abraham” - Songs of the 1864 Presidential Campaign. (From ”Goodshit”. Source is NSFW!)
Chomp champ a burger with Abe Lincoln
Lillian Colton’s portrait of Lincoln made of wild rice
Friends of Abe: How to win friends
The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel by Michael Connelly
Lew Rockwell’s Lincoln archives
Poetry: Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen
he will be good but
god knows When
Exhibits at the New Lincoln Museum
Want to know more about Lincoln? Just ask
Elsewhere: Brother Bones whistles Sweet Georgia Brown
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April 23, 2005
Lincoln, the hip cat
The infamous "Bohemian Brigade" was a band of reporters, specail artists who formed a social and working group during the Civil War
Paul Ford’s cat. “I rename my cat every month; this month his name is Abraham Lincoln.” Sadly, a month later the cat died
The reanimated bones of Abraham Lincoln give a tour of his childhood home. (From ”Screenhead”)
Project Gutenberg’s cache of Lincoln’s speeches and letters
Photos of Booth’s conspirators
Get yourself a Lincoln bust
Barry Landau, collector of inauguration memorabilia
The newly-opened Lincoln Presidential Museum. A Metafilter thread about the opening of the museum
Yes, Lincoln is hot commodity. Even USA Today says so
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January 04, 2005
”I am a Ford, not a Lincoln”
Business card of Abraham Lincoln: “Attorney and counselor at law. Springfield, Illinois ... My old customers, and others, are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back ... ready to swap horses, dispense law, make jokes split rails and perform other matters in a small way”. (From ”Cynical C”)
The Abraham Lincoln carved emu egg comes with a hand turned wood egg stand and can become a personalized gift with an inscription on the back
Lincoln's funeral train took him from Washington to Springfield, Illinois--following, in reverse, nearly the same route that had taken the President-elect to the White House. (From The American Museum of Photography )
Mike Reiss's Hard Drinkin' Lincoln, tacky & wacky
Was Lincoln Bisexual? by Gore Vidal
1940-55 Lincoln Hood Ornaments , from “Taillight King”
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), America’s fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. (This is an official Navy web site. Everything on this site has been approved by the PAO)
Abraham Lincoln Heirloom Tomatoes(?)
Quote above by Gerald Ford. Many More Unusual Links About Abraham Lincoln and About Richard Nixon Here
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September 08, 2004
The Lincoln Simulacrum
John Wilkes Booth's Cervical Vertebrae
Portrait of a Young Man. (Read there also of the methods used to analyze daguerreotype)
Lincoln as Historical Teen Idol
Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including materials illuminating antebellum Illinois
The new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Philip Dick's novel “We Can Build You” features a simulacrum of President Abraham Lincoln used to both comic and profound effect. Here’s the Abe Lincoln Simulacrum Idea. (Btw, "Reality is becoming more like a Philip Dick novel all the time"...)
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