Lincoln's Birthday
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February 12, a legal holiday in some states of the U.S., in honor of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
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It has arrived: on Sunday, Lincoln’s Birthday, the last stage in the theater’s expansion will be unveiled as part of a public open house.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2012
“First they replaced Lincoln’s Birthday with Presidents’ Day, and now this,” said Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2010
New York City is looking at several contingency plans, including one calling for four-day weekends whenever a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, as do Lincoln's Birthday and the Nov. 5 general election.
From Time Magazine Archive
That night, Will White sat with 800 others in the new Statler Hotel as Franklin Roosevelt made his Lincoln's Birthday speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
I think many of us there had never observed Lincoln's Birthday before, and it was fitting enough that we should begin at such a time and place.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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