Ranulf had previously claimed that he had the rights to Lincoln Castle, held by Stephen, and under the guise of a social visit, Ranulf seized the fortification in a surprise attack.

Stephen returned to London but received news that Ranulf, his brother and their family were relaxing in Lincoln Castle with a minimal guard force, a ripe target for a surprise attack of his own.

While Stephen and his army besieged Lincoln Castle at the start of 1141, Robert of Gloucester and Ranulf of Chester advanced on the king's position with a somewhat larger force.

In Lincoln The Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory can be found at The Lawn, Lincoln adjacent to Lincoln Castle.

A 13th-century depiction of the Second Battle of Lincoln, which occurred at Lincoln Castle on 20 May 1217 during the First Barons ' War between the forces of the future Louis VIII of France and those of King Henry III of England.

The bishop of Lincoln, Hugh of Wells, was one of the signatories to the Magna Carta and for hundreds of years the Cathedral held one of the four remaining copies of the original, now securely displayed in Lincoln Castle.

Seen from Lincoln Castle

The only remaining piece of the St Catherine's cross is in Lincoln Castle.

The county is divided into forty-nine townships: Ada, Anderson, Antelope, Barrett, Beck, Bison, Brushy, Burdick, Cash, Castle Butte, Chance, Chaudoin, Clark, De Witt, Duell, Englewood, Flat Creek, Foster, Fredlund, Glendo, Grand River, Hall, Highland, Horse Creek, Liberty, Lincoln, Lodgepole, Lone Tree, Maltby, Marshfield, Martin, Meadow, Moreau, Plateau, Rainbow, Rockford, Scotch Cap, Sidney, Strool, Trail, Vail, Vickers, Viking, Vrooman, Wells, White Butte, White Hill, Wilson, and Wyandotte ; and eight areas of unorganized territory: Duck Creek, East Perkins, Independence, Pleasant Valley, South Perkins, Southwest Perkins, West Central Perkins, and West Perkins.

The proposals varied in design, from elaborate monumental tombs that, if built, would have been bigger than the Lincoln Memorial, to smaller monuments just outside the Smithsonian Castle.

Ranulf had previously claimed that he had the rights to Lincoln Castle, held by Stephen, and under the guise of a social visit, Ranulf seized the fortification in a surprise attack.

Stephen returned to London but received news that Ranulf, his brother and their family were relaxing in Lincoln Castle with a minimal guard force, a ripe target for a surprise attack of his own.

The battle of Lincoln ( 1141 ) | battle of Lincoln, 1141 ; A – Welsh forces ; B – Robert of Gloucester ; C – Alan ; D – Stephen ; E – William ; F – Fosse Dyke ; G – Lincoln Castle ; H – Lincoln Cathedral ; I – City of Lincoln ; J – River Witham

While Stephen and his army besieged Lincoln Castle at the start of 1141, Robert of Gloucester and Ranulf of Chester advanced on the king's position with a somewhat larger force.

A contemporary sketch of Lincoln Castle in England at the start of the 13th century, defended by a crossbow man

There are also regular, direct services to Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, Bedford, Burton upon Trent, Leicester, Loughborough, Tamworth ( for WCML ), Newark ( Castle ), Luton, East Midlands Parkway ( for the Airport ), Birmingham ( New Street ) and Matlock.

* Lincoln: A medieval city, home to the very ornate Lincoln Cathedral and to Lincoln Castle, where a copy of the Magna Carta is kept.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

Near contemporary illustration of the battle of Lincoln ( 1141 ) | battle of Lincoln ; Stephen ( fourth from the right ) is listening to Baldwin of Clare orating a battle speech ( left ).

Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein wrote The Race to Urga, scheduled to play at the Lincoln Center in 1969, but when Jerome Robbins left the project, it went unproduced.

From left to right: Henry Rathbone, Clara Harris, Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth

While the Pacific Railroad Act was to award the eastern contract to the newly formed Union Pacific, it was left up to then President Lincoln to formally choose the location for the railroad to start and Lincoln in 1862 was to follow the advice of his former client.

In 1860, Ogden switched his loyalty to the Republican Party, which shared his views regarding slavery, although he left the party over a dispute with Abraham Lincoln.

It is at any rate clear that Byrd was composing Anglican church music, for when he left Lincoln the Dean and Chapter continued to pay him at a reduced rate on condition that he would send the cathedral his compositions.

Pinkerton ( left ) with Abraham Lincoln and John Alexander McClernand | Major General John A. McClernand.

* Lincoln Saltdogs ( 2005 left to create American Association )

Central Arkansas moved to Division I, leaving the West Division with eight schools while Lincoln Memorial left for the South Atlantic Conference due to travel and location issues, leaving the East Division with seven schools.

The convoy left the White House in Washington, D. C. on July 7, 1919, and met the Lincoln Highway route at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

In 1846 the southern half of what was left of Lincoln County became Gaston County.

In a short time the Village of Lincoln was left holding its hands out as its population declined along with its political influence.

The one on the left reads Route 23 north U-turn next right while the one on the right reads south U. S. Route 202 Alt County Route 511 Lincoln Park Boonton Service Road with an arrow pointing to the upper right. The road crosses into Little Falls, Passaic County, where it narrows to two lanes and becomes the Newark-Pompton Turnpike.

In 1816, Cloverport ferryman Jacob Weatherholt piloted the family of Abraham Lincoln, then a lad of seven, along with his parents, Thomas and Nancy, across the Ohio River as the family left Kentucky to move to a newly-acquired farm in Spencer County, Indiana.

Using money left to her by her father, who had been Bishop of Lincoln, she established the college at 25 Norham Road in North Oxford.

An alternate consideration, however, suggests that Lincoln suffered vertical strabismus in his left eye, a disorder which could induce visions of a vertically displaced image.

) Calloway attended Lincoln University ( a historically black university ) in Pennsylvania, but left in 1930 without graduating.

A political cartoon from the 1864 election depicting William Pitt Fessenden | Secretary Fessenden of the Lincoln administration running " Chase's Mill " at left to flood the country with Greenbacks

As Ermine Street extended north out of Lincoln and past RAF Scampton the map attached clearly shows an alternative course of Ermine Street curving left and forming a semicircle on a wide heading west of the Humber Estuary.

He attended Lincoln College, Oxford, for a while in about 1620, but left before gaining any degree.

However, the demise of general commercial traffic had left Brayford Pool in the centre of Lincoln as a derelict eyesore, full of rubbish and sunken boats.

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 ).

Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates ( the top four were elected ), though he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.

Nevertheless, in 1861, Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms ( the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree ), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a republican form of government in every state.

At the intersection of Columbus Avenue and West 65th Street, Broadway passes by the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, both well-known performing arts landmarks, as well as a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormon or LDS Church ), known as the Manhattan New York Temple.

Four of these have been previously canonized as saints, namely William of Norwich, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent ( Simon was decanonized in the 20th century ), and Gavriil Belostoksky who remains canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church.

This did not happen and the presidency, having been damaged by three late nineteenth and early twentieth century assassinations ( Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley ) and one impeachment ( Johnson ), reasserted its political dominance by the early twentieth century through such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.

* John T. Ford ( 1829 – 1894 ), American theatre owner and manager ; 1865 assassination of President Lincoln occurred in one of his venues, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C.

Although not the first Tarzan in movies ( that honor went to Elmo Lincoln ), he was the first to be associated with the now traditional ululating, yodeling Tarzan yell.

* Lincoln ( automobile ), a luxury brand of the Ford Motor Company

* Lincoln ( album ), a 1988 album by They Might Be Giants

* Lincoln ( band ), an American nerd pop band of the late 1990s

* Lincoln ( 2012 film ), an in-development film by Steven Spielberg

* Lincoln ( novel ), a 1984 novel by Gore Vidal

* Lincoln ( variety show ), a Japanese variety show

* Lincoln ( 1988 film ), a telefilm starring Sam Waterston adapted from Gore Vidal's novel

* Lincoln ( 1992 film ), starring Jason Robards

* Lincoln ( electoral district ), a former federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada

** Lincoln ( community ), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the Kewaunee County town

* Lincoln ( Northwest state ), proposal for a new U. S. state

* Lincoln ( South state ), proposal for a new U. S. state

* Lincoln Highway ( Australia ), in southern Australia

* Lincoln ( automobile ), a company founded in 1917 to build aero engines and now a luxury car brand of Ford Motor Company