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His head of Abraham Lincoln, carved from a six-ton block of marble, was exhibited in Theodore Roosevelt's White House and can be found in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington, D. C. A patriot, believing that the " monuments we have built are not our own ," he looked to create art that was " American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement " according to a 1908 interview article.
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It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.
Upon the death of the head of the Bet din, Rabbi Zerach ben Abraham, Rashi assumed the court's leadership and answered hundreds of halakhic queries.
* September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.
He took the rabbis with him, and in Mecca, they reportedly recognized the Ka ' ba as a temple built by Abraham and advised the king " to do what the people of Mecca did: to circumambulate the temple, to venerate and honour it, to shave his head and to behave with all humility until he had left its precincts.
Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service in 1861 – 1862 and foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration.
:: April 15 – President Abraham Lincoln dies of a head wound inflicted by assassin John Wilkes Booth.
:: April 15 – President Abraham Lincoln dies of a head wound inflicted by assassin John Wilkes Booth.
The cartoon shows the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, his head in his hands.
Carleton received a head wound during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and he returned to England after the battle in October 1759.
When Nimrod appears at the head of enormous armies, Abraham produces an army of gnats which destroys Nimrod's army.
During one of Selena's live performances, Jose Behar ( the head of EMI Latin ) and his music associates tell Abraham that they want to make an English language album for Selena.
The head of Hashomer Hatzair in Łódź, Abraham Gancwajch, on the other hand, formed the Jewish Nazi collaboration network Group 13 in December 1940, active in the Warsaw Ghetto.
President Abraham Lincoln then offered Tod the post of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, telling an aide, " He is my friend, with a big head full of brains ... he made a good governor, and has made a fortune for himself ".
Immediately after the sitting upright President Kennedy is first hidden at Z-207 by the " Stemmons Freeway " traffic sign in the Zapruder film, Rosemary suddenly, and beginning at Z-214, snaps her head very rapidly 90 to 100 degrees westward ( completely away from the Depository southwest corner ) within only 0. 16 second to then face Abraham Zapruder and the grassy knoll by Z-217.
' The name just stuck around in my head, and when I finally met Abraham Velez a few years later, I proposed the idea of a real life Latino-Jewish rap group and we decided to go for it.
On 1 January 1944, Gerlach officially became head of the physics section of the Reichsforschungsrat ( RFR, Reich Research Council ) and Bevollmächtigter ( plenipotentiary ) of nuclear physics, replacing Abraham Esau.
As head of Confederate secret agents some speculate that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, met with Thompson but this has not been proven ( Thompson worked hard to clear his name of involvement in the assassination in the years after the war ).
In March 2012, a canvas grocery bag was introduced as a new runner-up prize ; just weeks later, the Empress switched to a new first-place statue, the " Inkin ' Memorial " ( an Abraham Lincoln bobblehead ) from the original " Inker " ( a bookend of The Thinkerwith a paper bag over its head ) after the bookends went out of manufacture.
Eventually he combined with Abraham Dante, the human head of the Machination, into a copy of his old body.
Bailey's tenure as head of the Connecticut Democratic party was credited with turning the state from one politically dominated by WASP Yankee Republicans to one dominated by Democratic candidates of Roman Catholic and Jewish background, such as Abraham Ribicoff, Thomas Dodd, John Dempsey, and Ella T. Grasso.
In 1776, Dragging Canoe ( the head man at Mialoquo ) and Old Abraham of Chilhowee led an unsuccessful two-pronged attack against Fort Watauga and Heaton's Station.
* Abraham Lichtstein-Av Beis Din ( head of the rabbinical court ) of Przasnysz
President Montero had to resign shortly after a mutiny led by Marmaduque Grove, who headed the Socialist Republic of Chile until being overtrown by former-ally Carlos Davila who also became overtrown, this time by Bartolome Blanche who after his downfall Abraham Oyanedel became head of state.
In 1865 Mills made a life-cast of Abraham Lincoln's head.
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Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.
As usual, Mrs. Lincoln had lost her head, but nobody blamed her for doing so now.
McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint John Pope, a Republican, as head of the new Army of Virginia.
General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army.
Eyewitness Lieutenant Edward Doherty, the officer in charge of the soldiers who captured Booth and Herold, stated that " the bullet struck Booth in the back of the head, about an inch below the spot where his shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln.
After Booth shot him once in the back of the head, Lincoln died the next morning.
Some of the statement's more notable supporters are Rabbi Marc Angel, co-founder of The Rabbinic Fellowship ; Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, founder of Lincoln Square Synagogue, Efrat, and Ohr Torah Stone Institutions ; and Rabbi Avi Weiss, head of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat, and co-founder of The Rabbinic Fellowship.
In the Border States, War Democrats joined with Republicans as the National Union Party, with Lincoln at the head of the ticket.
When Lincoln called Grant east in the spring of 1864 to take command of all the Union armies, Grant appointed Sherman ( by then known to his soldiers as " Uncle Billy ") to succeed him as head of the Military Division of the Mississippi, which entailed command of Union troops in the Western Theater of the war.
At two of the Oxford colleges, Lincoln College and Exeter College, the head is called " rector ".
In the battle of Lincoln he charged and fought at the head of the young King's army, leading them to victory.
* Lloyd Nolan as Standish, head of U. S. Customs at Lincoln International
The coach that season was Orlando ' Gunner ' Wyman, an Indiana Hall of Fame head coach who won the State Championship at Vincennes Lincoln High in 1981.
The Friars had a long and esteemed history in Oxford, listing many famous alumni, including the English statesman, Robert Grosseteste, also a theologian and Bishop of Lincoln, who became head of Greyfriars, Master of the School of Oxford from 1208, and the first Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
St Hugh carries a model of Lincoln Cathedral, which would have been very familiar to Elizabeth Wordsworth, and has his other hand resting on the head of a swan, probably the famous swan of Stow, although the swan is also a symbol of purity.
Although the present head of navigation is at Tongue End, there is evidence that lighters capable of carrying 15 tons used to navigate to Kate's Bridge, where the Lincoln to Peterborough turnpike road crossed the river, and there are the remains of moorings at Greatford Hall, although navigation to there must have ceased after Kate's Bridge was rebuilt.
Stark refused to obey Lincoln, who was another general whom he believed was unfairly promoted over his head.
On April 14, 1865, as she sat with her husband to watch the comic play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, President Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by an assassin.
* March 2002: Moved its head office from Lincoln, New Brunswick to Calgary, Alberta.
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