culturekitchen.com - 2/12/2009
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Feb. 12th is a big day for me. Not only is it my birthday, but it is the birthday of two of the towering figures of the 19th century, born on the same day, same year: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of their births.
I want to focus on Lincoln in this article. ...
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Happy Birthday President Abraham Lincoln
mudvillegazette.com 2/12/2009 — Gettysburg on the USS Lincoln
Video of crew members of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln reciting the Gettysburg Address as they celebrate the 200th birthday of the ship’s namesake.
TIME joined the crew and spoke with each member.
To bad Google chose Darwin's B-day more ...
TPMDC Morning Roundup
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/12/2009 — Obama's Day: Promoting Stimulus And Paying Tribute To Lincoln
President Obama is meeting with Hillary Clinton at 10:45 a.m. ET. Then at 11:30 a.m. he will be speaking at the Capitol Rotunda, honoring the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. He will ...
Lincoln Bicentennial Honors Lt Col Allen West
no-pasaran.blogspot.com 2/12/2009 — Lt. Col. Allen West was the keynote speaker on the occasion of The Lincoln Bicentennial Dinner … the official Bicentennial event of New York, endorsed by the US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC) to celebrate the 200th birthday of one of our greatest presidents writes Atlas (that ...
Happy Birthday!
miserabledonuts.blogspot.com 2/12/2009 — 200 Years ago today two of the most infleuntial men in history were born. Happy Birthday Gentlemen. We are forever in your debt. The images are of Mr. Lincoln in Chicago in 1858 and Mr. Darwin as he appeared while on the HMS Beagle. I'm sure they need no further introductions.
Obama Springfield-bound: Lincoln's Bday
swamppolitics.com 2/5/2009 — by Mark Silva
Two years ago this month, on Feb. 10, 2007, Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, Ill., -- not far from the Abraham Lincoln museum
Next week, on Feb 12., President Obama will return to Springfield ...
Gallup Survey As Greatest President Ever: Ronald Reagan
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 2/12/2009 — I figure in another month the Obamatons will have this rigged, so let's enjoy the results while we can.Less than a month into Barack Obama's presidency, Obama's desire to emulate Abraham Lincoln can be found in his speeches, his bipartisan gestures, ...
Lincoln's new penny
swamppolitics.com 2/12/2009 —
by Frank James
The U.S. Mint is unveiling a new Lincoln penny today. The makeover leaves alone the front of the coin but changes its back.
The versions being rolled out this year will have a series of images, first a log house, then Abraham Lincoln sitting on a log reading, Lincoln ...
Lincoln at 200, part 2
powerlineblog.com 2/12/2009 —
Today is of course the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history. Perhaps most ...
Lincoln at 200, part 3
powerlineblog.com 2/12/2009 — Abraham Lincoln stands not only as America's greatest president but also as its greatest lawyer. At the time of his election to the presidency in 1860 he was the most prominent practicing lawyer in the state of Illinois. As a politician and as ...
The Abraham Lincoln Analogy
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 2/12/2009 — Barack Obama is not the first president to feel a kinship with Abraham Lincoln. But he has taken the identification with the 16th president to a new level.
John Tepper Marlin: NAACP, Happy 100th Birthday
huffingtonpost.com 2/12/2009 — Today is both the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln and the 100th birthday of the NAACP. When the NAACP was founded in 1909, the number of faithful Lincoln Republicans was dwindling, but John E. Milholland was one, an Irish-American and a Presbyterian> He became the NAACP's first Treasurer and ...
CNN Can’t Stop Talking About Obama Even in Lincoln’s Birthday Stories
stoptheaclu.com 2/13/2009 — -By Warner Todd Huston
Images below the fold
Like Seinfeld's "soup Nazi," CNN is yelling "No birthday for YOU" to Abraham Lincoln on his 200th birthday -- at least not one for Lincoln alone. Interestingly, the TV Cable Newser can't seem to just give ...
The Thom Hartmann Program - Feb 12 2009 —
The Latest on Air America
Quote: "The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?" Charles Robert Darwin (1809—1882)
Happy 200th birthday to both Abraham Lincoln Charles Darwin!!
Hour One - ...
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! (Sort of) —
The Moderate Voice
While many celebrate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, it’s easy to forget that another historical figure shares the same anniversary. It’s also the birthday of Charles Darwin. (Pictured here in one of his lesser known research projects, “ The Development of Insect ...
Darwin: Father of Stinky Feet —
The Latest on Air America
Charles Robert Darwin celebrates his 200th birthday today. He's known as the Father of evolution but not much was known about his personal life and habits; unfortunately or fortunately there was no TMZ in his day.
After the jump , check out a list of random strange things about him. read more
Obama: Celebrating Lincoln —
Daily Kos
While President Obama's focus will still be on the economy today, he will take time to mark the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, beginning this morning when he delivers remarks at the Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration in the Capitol Rotunda. According to the White House press office, the ...
Alerts —
The Mahablog
First, I anticipate that sometime today the site will be down while the theme template is being changed. This should not take hours and hours, I don’t think.
Second, today is the 200th birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Gallup did a poll showing that only 4 in 10 ...
Abraham Lincoln shoots, he scores! —
The Swamp
by Frank James
The University of Illinois men's basketball team honors the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday with a reading of the Gettysburg Address... and a few made shots.
At a towering 6'4", in his day Lincoln no doubt would have played center, that's if ...
Lincoln, Obama, Darwin... Sarah Palin? —
The Swamp
by Mark Silva
Happy birthday, Abe Lincoln.
Happy birthday, Charles Darwin.
Today is not only the 200th anniversary of the birth of the American president who saved the union, but also the 200th anniversary of the birth of the British naturalist who established evolution as the ...
Obama Pays Tribute to Lincoln at Ford's Theater —
Political Punch
Sunlen Miller reports: The First Couple this evening attended a star-studded gala to celebrate the renovation of Ford's Theater in downtown DC. The night also honored Mr. Obama’s favorite president, Abraham Lincoln, on the eve of his 200th birthday. The...
Gallup's Darwin's Birthday Evolution Poll —
Little Green Footballs
Read it and weep (or if you’re a creationist, throw a party): On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution .
But if you look at the actual results, that headline’s a little skewed. It doesn’t mean that 60% of Americans reject science; 39% accept the theory ...
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin —
Blue Gal
One can certainly be a Christian and still think creation "science" is malarkey. Can I get an Amen? It's a blogswarm at Blog for Darwin , by the way. There's some other birthday celebration going on in the city involving Presidents old and new . The kids and I got caught up in a roadblock, ...
Darwin’s a God —
Firedoglake
Two hundred years ago today, two very special, two very important, two very influential men were born: those cosmic birthday twins, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Celebrate Abraham's birthday here . To celebrate the bicentennial birthday of one of the most revolutionary scientists ...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin —
Daily Kos
The most famous and in some circles, infamous, scientist was born 200 years ago today in Shrewsbury, England. Charles Darwin came into the world like everyone else. He would go out in a spectacular fashion. Readers here are well aware that evolutionary biology has become an ideological ...
Happy Darwin Day —
PoliGazette
Today marks the 200th anniversery of the birth of Charles Darwin . It also is the 150th anniversary of the publishing of his work, The Origin of Species, that would come to revolutionize the way we understand life and it’s progression.
The theory of evolution remains one of the ...
Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln —
democracyarsenal.org
Today, we commemorate the 200th birthday of perhaps America's greatest president - Abraham Lincoln. Instead of trying to add something new to the volumes upon volumes of words written about our 16th President I will turn instead to the great orator and advocate Frederick Douglass. In 1876 at ...
New Lincoln pennies revealed —
CNN Political Ticker
The penny pictured above features a young Lincoln educating himself while working as a rail splitter in Indiana.
(CNN) – To commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday, the first of four new pennies to commemorate the 16th president’s rise from a ...
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