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Abraham Lincoln kept a copy of Euclid in his saddlebag, and studied it late at night by lamplight ; he related that he said to himself, " You never can make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means ; and I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight ".
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Abraham Lincoln emerged as an incarnation of the national Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).
Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.
A sketch of candidate Abraham Lincoln
A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled " The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union.
* The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
* Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln
* The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Springfield, Illinois
* The Papers of Abraham Lincoln documentary editing project
* National Endowment for the Humanities Spotlight – Abraham Lincoln
* The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
* Lincoln / Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries
* Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress
* Abraham Lincoln at C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits
Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.
Abraham Lincoln consistently made preserving the Union the central goal of the war, though he increasingly saw slavery as a crucial issue and made ending it an additional goal.
Anti-slavery Northerners mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states.
* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
While in Washington, Doubleday remained a loyal Republican and staunch supporter of President Abraham Lincoln.
On January 14, 1863, the Alcotts received a telegram that Louisa was sick ; Bronson immediately went to bring her home, briefly meeting Abraham Lincoln while there.
Abraham and kept
According to Lampridius, the emperor Alexander Severus ( 222 – 235 ), who was not a Christian, had kept a domestic chapel for the veneration of images of deified emperors, of portraits of his ancestors, and of Christ, Apollonius, Orpheus and Abraham.
The Qur ' an goes onto narrate that Abraham subsequently broke the idols, all except the largest, which he kept intact.
The Qur ' an goes on to narrate that Abraham subsequently broke the idols, all except the largest, which he kept intact.
When order was re-established, Pope Abraham looked for Simon, who had kept himself hidden behind the Pope throughout the prayers, but he was nowhere to be found.
The first use is in Genesis 26: 5 where God says that Abraham has " obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments ( ), my statutes, and my laws.
It begins like this, " Once upon a time there was a man who as a child had heard that beautiful story of how God tempted Abraham and of how Abraham withstood the temptation, kept the faith, and, contrary to expectation, got a son a second time.
After 1828 the United States kept tariffs low until the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
He was an avid U. S. Civil War buff and kept on the mantelpiece in his large library a piece of wood that was supposed to have come from Abraham Lincoln's original log cabin.
Nathan Green, Jr. kept the school together until Henry Cooper, a circuit judge, Andrew B. Martin, and Robert L. Caruthers, brother of deceased founder Abraham Caruthers, joined the faculty.
His father wished to train him to his own business, but Frans preferred drawing, and studied with Jacob Toorenvliet's father, Abraham Toorenvliet, a glazier who kept a school of design.
* In the Order for the Blessing of Travellers, one of the readings proposed is the account in of Abraham's response to God's call, " Go forth to a land I will show you "; and the prayer of blessing to be said by a priest or deacon who is to accompany the travellers begins: " All-powerful and ever-living God, when Abraham left his own land and departed from his own people, you kept him safe all through his journey ..."
Abraham and copy
Modern Egyptologists have made an analysis of the facsimile, a copy of the extant original vignette from the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, and with fragments of the papyrus of the type from which the Book of Abraham was translated.
" He then gave Abraham two manuscript books to copy for himself, asking for ten gold florins, which he took with the intention of distributing to seventy-two poor persons in Arachi.
Among its many documents which were lost in the fire was a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, hand-written by Abraham Lincoln.
As a Ph. D. student, he became interested in Abraham Lincoln after discovering a copy of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in a used bookshop.
Eventually he combined with Abraham Dante, the human head of the Machination, into a copy of his old body.
Abraham and studied
His highly influenced style which incorporated Italianate lighting from Jan Both, broken brush technique and atonality from Jan van Goyen, and his ever-developing style from his father Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp was studied acutely by his most prominent follower, Abraham van Calraet.
This concept of America's unique Bible-driven historical and cultural identity was developed by historians as they studied the first centuries of America's history, from the Pilgrims through Abraham Lincoln.
For example the cosmopolitan ( worldwide ) genus Fusarium and their toxins associated with fatal outbreaks of alimentary toxic aleukia in humans were extensively studied by Abraham Joffe.
The Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão suggests that Vasco da Gama studied at the inland town of Évora, which is where he may have learned mathematics and navigation and it has even been claimed ( although dubiously ) that he studied under the astronomer Abraham Zacuto.
He enrolled in Brandeis University, where he studied under professors such as noted psychologist Abraham Maslow, often considered the father of humanistic psychology.
He studied under Abraham Gottlob Werner at Freiberg, travelled through several of the mining districts in north Germany, and for four years, 1792 – 1796, resided in England.
The French mathematician Abraham de Moivre initially studied logic at Saumur.
President Abraham Lincoln studied law in Boonville.
In some institutions, classical Jewish philosophy ( Hakira ) texts or Kabbalah are studied, or the works of individual thinkers ( such as Abraham Isaac Kook ).
He then entered the University of Bonn, where he studied at the same time as his future antagonist, Abraham Geiger.
He studied there until 1929, narrowly escaping the 1929 Hebron massacre because he was away for the weekend, on his way to see Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.
Of which the most important were Elijah de Vidas, Abraham Galante, Moses Galante, Hayyim Vital, Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Eleazar Azikri, Samuel Gallico, and an important kabbalist who studied with Cordovero for a short while in the 1560s, Mordechai Dato.
Prominent composers and musicians who have taught, founded or studied in these institutions include María Guinand ( who was one of the founders of the Master of Music program of Universidad Simón Bolívar ), Diana Arismendi, Ricardo Teruel, Adina Izarra, Josefina Benedetti, Alfredo Rugeles, Abraham Abreu, Aquiles Baez, Pablo Gil and Carlos Duarte.
In one study done by Abraham S. Ross, the effects of increased responsibility on bystander intervention were studied by increasing the presence of children.
He studied together with Alexander von Humboldt under Abraham Gottlob Werner at the mining school in Freiberg, Saxony.
After attending Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, he studied acting at the Pasadena Community Playhouse.
In 1800, he spent a year at the mining academy in Freiberg, Saxony, where he studied under the noted geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner ( 1749 or 1750 – 1817 ).
She graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco in the Spring Class of 1949 and studied theater for one year at City College of San Francisco.
Bellman completed his studies at Abraham Lincoln High School in 1937, and studied mathematics at Brooklyn College where he received a BA in 1941.
Bar-Hillel received his PhD in Philosophy from the Hebrew University where he also studied mathematics under Abraham Fraenkel, with whom he eventually coauthored Foundations of Set Theory ( 1958, 1973 ).
He then studied in Utrecht under Abraham Bloemaert, and later back in Amsterdam under Claes Cornelisz.
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