Posts Tagged ‘Abraham Lincoln’
Abe Lincoln Smiled? Who Knew?
Abe Lincoln hasn't been this hot since his body went cold.
Lincoln turned 200 this month. The new president idolizes him. Heck, his memorial just hosted one of the biggest rock concerts in U.S. history.
A crowd of kids from Hearst Elementary were among those making the pilgrimage today to Lincoln’s summer cottage in Petworth, the newly restored residence on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
“I need a nice, Lincoln-like smile from all of you!” shouts William Rope, a third-grade teacher at Hearst and the main adult chaperone on the field trip.
Rope has lined up his class in front of a statue of Lincoln in the rear of the cottage for a photo op, but he’s having trouble getting his pupils to follow orders.
Two-thirds of the kids smile, as per instructions.
The rest do various unauthorized, third-gradey things, like make goofy faces and poke each other in the arm.
Rope finally has reached the end of his, well, you know. And the teacher decides, as Lincoln would have, that for the good of the whole, some individuals must suffer: The teacher loudly tosses one of the funny facemakers out of the group.
Lincoln, Darwin, and a Nice Day for Obama
Sharing a bicentennial with Abraham Lincoln is a bit like celebrating one's birthday on Christmas. Unless you're Charles Darwin, that is, in which case the playing field is much more level. Sure, Newsweek gives Lincoln precedence—not entirely surprising for an American publication—but rankings like that are totally beside the point when you're talking about giants.
Let's hope President Obama set aside a few moments to think on Darwin today—he certainly shows Lincoln enough love.
David Simon Is Making a Miniseries About the Lincoln Assassination
In it, we'll learn that John Wilkes Booth was concocted by a Baltimore Sun reporter angling for a Pulitzer.
In all seriousness, it does sound pretty awesome. I'm hoping this gets used for the promotional poster.
