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by -NUNYA-- on April 5th, 2009

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Can you give me an intresting fact about former President Abraham Lincoln?

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  • by Perryman on April 5th, 2009

    Perryman

    Abraham Lincoln had a strong interest in new technology and was the only United States President to hold a patent.

    see this link:

    http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventors/a/Abraham_Lincoln.htm

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  • by chuck on April 5th, 2009

    chuck

    He had a disease that made his limbs grow disproprotionatley long

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  • by lizbef on April 5th, 2009

    lizbef

    he was the first president to be assassinated

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  • by kisses on April 5th, 2009

    kisses

    That when he traveled, he didn't always stay in hotels. Strangers mostly put him up for the night in their home

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  • by Phillis - Zacks little sister on April 5th, 2009

    Phillis - Zacks little sister

    Lincoln was perpetually depressed. It is becoming widely accepted amongst scholars that he was more than likely Bipolar.

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  • by Starmaster on April 5th, 2009

    Starmaster

    There is a story that says that he grew his beard because a little girl told him that his face looked too thin without one.

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  • by hedge-rider on April 5th, 2009

    hedge-rider

    I'll give you two.

    Most people don't really know that Lincoln was actually really good friends with Czar Alexander II of Russia. In fact, it was Alexander who is one of the main reasons for keeping Britain and France from aiding the South during the American Civil War. I don't have a site for back-up, but I went to an exhibit in Milwaulkee that showed the two's correspondence to one another.

    And the second is that Lincoln is the first president (and perhaps the first person in writing) to say/write "the United States is..." (which he began doing during and after the Civil War). Up until that time, because people were still used to thinking highly of the states' individual power and freedoms everyone typically said/wrote "the United States are...".

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  • by Timjon on April 5th, 2009

    Timjon

    He failed at nearly everything in life, but he never gave up.

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  • by Ryan Smith on April 5th, 2009

    Ryan Smith

    His voice was annoying.

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  • by ConservativelyLiberal on April 5th, 2009

    ConservativelyLiberal

    He had a high pitched squeeky voice?

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  • by Xanros on April 5th, 2009

    Xanros

    He had a rather large wart on his nose

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  • by Autism Knows is finally Maestro on April 5th, 2009

    Autism Knows is finally Maestro

    Lincoln had a son, Willie who died in 1862 of bilious fever, probably caused by contamination of the White House drinking water.


    Also, John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

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  • by Anonymous on April 5th, 2009

    Anonymous

    Lincoln had a scar above one of his eyes left by the knife of a river pirate he encountered while rafting on the Mississippi.

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  • by john pennington on April 5th, 2009

    john pennington

    That he had false teeth made out of wood.

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  • by Brian on April 5th, 2009

    Brian

    Honest Abe once said - "you're being posi-trolled."++++

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  • by jackace1 on July 16th, 2011

    jackace1

    he married his first cousin he and Mary Todd were related before he got married to her not that weird of a thing to do in the time also a month before he was assassinated he saved the nephew of John Wilks both from a train or something you can find the last part on Cracked.com the first i read somewhere

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  • by chuck on April 13th, 2009

    chuck

    Have ever gone to visit a special a place that was a part of your youth? I am having a tough time trying to sort of my now, and it is having to leave some thing that was always there, but it is the fact that I have only come to appreciate in the last while.I am having to leave this place that I am starting to miss already. I have learned a lesson, and that is to never wish time away, whether it is shitty or whether it is pure bliss, it all goes away at the same time. Some people belive that time flyes away when you are having fun, this is not true, because before one knows it, the blinking light on our hands blinks at the same rate for every one on Logan's run World

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  • by Lucky on April 8th, 2009

    Lucky

    He was the same height as me, 6'4".

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  • by Carl_07 on April 7th, 2009

    Carl_07

    He was on the $5.00 dollar bill.

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  • by Count Orlok on April 7th, 2009

    Count Orlok

    He was accused of being two-faced and responded, "if I had two faces would I wear this one?"

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  • by Buddy Boy on April 6th, 2009

    Buddy Boy

    When he was young, after a sermon at church, he would often stand on a tree stump and mimic the sermon given by the pastor/minister.

    This is a more widely known fact, but he never joined a church and was rather against organized religion.

    He also said something(don't remember the exact quote) about wishing Brigham Young would just leave him alone.

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  • by Bohemian is back on April 6th, 2009

    Bohemian is back

    Yes, he had Marfane's Syndrome, I think it's called, where your arms are longer from finger tip to finger tip than your height. Causes joint problems and heart problems.

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  • by Anonymous on April 5th, 2009

    Anonymous

    Abe Lincoln founded the Republican party and simultaneously founded the Modern Civil Rights Movement only to have his opponents the Democrats 120 years later try and claim it as all theirs when it was something history shows they opposed repeatedly through the 1970s and in to the 1980s.

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  • by Yhtomitzlots on April 5th, 2009

    Yhtomitzlots

    That he was left handed?

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  • by Over and Out on November 27th, 2011

    Over and Out

    He is buried about 50 miles from where I live ... :)

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  • by Arctico-The-Wolf Supports Leonard Peltier on November 27th, 2011

    Arctico-The-Wolf Supports Leonard Peltier

    Abraham Lincoln was actually a Marxist, he actually corresponded with Marx a couple of times...

    http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm

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  • by koston100 on November 27th, 2011

    koston100

    I have a picture of him in a white jacket, you almost always see him in a black coat.

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  • by Wynper on November 27th, 2011

    Wynper

    WASHINGTON DC - USA - The sixteenth president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln has been discovered to have had a black father according to historians and scientists working for the Institute of Historical Science which is linked to Harvard university.

    Records dating to February 12, 1809 officially remark that Abraham Lincoln's parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, however, there has been a new discovery which has put a new slant on the issue of parentage.

    Abraham Lincoln's mother was having an affair with a black plantation worker and new DNA evidence suggests that she somehow tricked her husband into believing that Abraham was the couples child. Secret love letters unearthed in 2003 reveal that Lincoln's mother was conducting a clandestine affair with a slave named Iemis from a Kentucky plantation.

    "We managed to attain DNA evidence from a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair which proves that he had a very strong African genetic link. His chromosome makeup is very specific to West African DNA patterns and this suggests that Abraham's real father was indeed of African origin," Dr. Alan Holdsworth, who is the chief Anthropologist on this project told National Geographic magazine.

    The Obama campaign team, on hearing of the wonderful news have already started production of a short film to be aired on all networks next week.

    Senator McCain's campaign team are of course trying to refute the evidence collated by the scientific researchers as false and have demanded the team re-do the DNA analysis of Abraham Lincoln's hair.

    "Now we know why he was so vehemently opposed to slavery. Lincoln's father was a slave. His mother, a poor white farmer's wife had slept with a black slave and somehow concealed this fact from her husband. It's almost like something you would see on Jerry Springer or Maury," a reporter from the Fox News Network said.

    With the prospect of another half black president on the way, America must come to terms with its past before it embraces its future.
    http://www.topix.com/forum/city/welch-wv/THC8GCG31C7TJFG5L

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  • by Shania on February 13th, 2010

    Shania

    One week before his death, had a dream of someone crying in the White House, when he found the room; he looked in and asked who had passed away. The man in the room said the President. When he looked in the coffin it was his own face he saw.

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  • by cloverdoll on July 15th, 2011

    cloverdoll

    He didnt need a microphone when giving public speeches because his voice was so loud.

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  • by Mister_Bromyde on November 27th, 2011

    Mister_Bromyde

    He was heavily involved in the occult.

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