To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

( It is sort of as if our government should decide to disown Washington or Lincoln for the same reason.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

Similarly in Illinois there is Lincoln country to be seen -- his tomb and other landmarks.

A most revealing recent case is Textile Workers Union v. Lincoln Mills.

`` The pattern '', says Dr. Morton Schillinger, psychologist at New York's Lincoln Institute for Psychotherapy, `` is for the husband to hover about anxiously and eagerly, virtually trembling in his hope that she will flash him the signal that tonight is the night ''.

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

The idea was never commercialized, but Lincoln is the only president to hold a patent.

" In response to an inquiry about his presidential intentions, Lincoln said, " The taste is in my mouth a little.

Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

Famous in his own time for his perceived ugliness, Abraham Lincoln was described by a contemporary: " to say that he is ugly is nothing ; to add that his figure is grotesque, is to convey no adequate impression.

Lincoln Park is a park stretching for along the waterfront and containing the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

There is an early example of the 12th century in Lincoln ; in France the metal work of the doors of Notre Dame at Paris is perhaps the most beautiful in execution, but examples are endless throughout France and England.

* 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the farming town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, in 1867 and named Frank Lincoln Wright.

* Lincoln, England, United Kingdom, county town of Lincolnshire

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* Lincoln, Burnett County, Wisconsin, a town

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* Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, a town

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

* Lincoln, Monroe County, Wisconsin, a town

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* Lincoln, Utah, a ghost town in Utah

The primary settlement in town, where 993 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Lincoln census-designated place ( CDP ) and is located along New Hampshire Route 112 east of Interstate 93.

The town also includes the village of North Lincoln and the former village site of Stillwater.

Lincoln lies almost fully within the Merrimack River watershed, with the western edge of town in the Connecticut River watershed.

The town was relatively quiet during the Lincoln County War ( 1877 – 1879 ).

* April 28 – Billy the Kid escapes from his 2 jailers at the Lincoln County Jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, killing James Bell and Robert Ollinger before stealing a horse and riding out of town.

By 1523, according to a tax assessment, Totnes was the second richest town in Devon, and the sixteenth richest in England, ahead of Worcester, Gloucester and Lincoln.

* Lincoln Park, Texas, a town

Howard Community College is located near the town center, while the University of Phoenix, American Career Institute, Lincoln College of Technology, Loyola University Maryland and Johns Hopkins University have facilities on the east side of town.