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Happy Birthday, Pres. Lincoln!

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While you're celebrating Darwin's birthday, don't forget to have a piece of cake for Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. What a day Feb 12, 1809 was! Though one was in Kentucky and the other in England, two extremely significant historical figures were born on the same day.

Here's a museum I can personally recommend as well: Lincoln's museum [1] in Springfield, Illinois. To celebrate Lincoln's birthday, you can watch school children or the Illinois basketball team (let by Michael Jordan's son) recite the Gettysburg address on the museum's YouTube page [2].

Or you can celebrate the day by reading the Gettysburg address [3] or the famous second inauguration address [4] yourself by following the links.


Created: Thursday, February 12 2009 3:06 PM

Source URL: http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/2009/02/happy-birthday-pres-lincoln

Links:
[1] http://www.alplm.org/home.html
[2] http://www.youtube.com/user/PresLincolnMuseum
[3] http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/learn/gettysburg_address.html
[4] http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html