Abraham Lincoln

In 'Going Rogue,' the quoted set the tone

John Timpane is an Inquirer staff writer You are what you quote. That might be the moral of Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue: An American Life. It brims past the scuppers with quotations from the living and the dead, from...

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National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) - 1CD Bosenské-titulky

Alternativní název:(USA) (DVD box title) (eng), National Treasure 2 (eng), National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (eng), National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (eng), National Treasure Book Of Secrets (eng) Hodnocení filmu:6.5 / 10...

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Some doubts about earrings tied to Mrs. Lincoln

The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. But the Lexington Herald-Leader reports that others aren't as sure about the...

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Philip French's screen legends: Shirley Temple | Film

No. 75: Shirley Temple 1928- The daughter of a bank clerk, she was born in Santa Monica, a bus ride from Hollywood, and thrust into the movies at the age of three by a fanatically ambitious mother. In her sixth year, she went...

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Books of the year

Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people… Peter Carey – novelist Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition...

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Rupert Cornwell: Only the turkeys don't look forward to Thanksgiving

One late autumn day each year, the United States takes leave from the business of humanity. Some things, of course, observe no time out: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, for instance, and the interest payable on Americans'...

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Closing Arguments: No clear benefit to holding 9/11 trial in New York - Philadelphia Inquirer

New York Daily News Closing Arguments: No clear benefit to holding 9/11 trial in New York Philadelphia Inquirer Ownership of the disastrous decision to try al-Qaeda leaders in New York City federal court is the one clear thing...

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LEARNING OLD LESSONS (David Shribman)

David Shribman - Barack Obama is back from Asia and his bow to the Japanese, his handshake with the tyrant from Myanmar and his difficult sessions with the Chinese. There sure has been a lot of talk about the president and his...

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What Day Is Thanksgiving?

The Story of Franksgiving and the Official National Holiday Franklin Roosevelt's proclamation of Thanksgiving on the third Thursday of November sparked controversy. From 1939 to 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

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A day for thanks, food and football

BY ROBIN L. QUILLON “I heard Mr. Turkey say gobble, gobble, gobble. However, I am reminded of the poet Wilbur Nesbit’s words, “Forever on Thanksgiving Day, the heart will find the pathway home.” After this land became a nation,...

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