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.
Example Sentences
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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
On this Lincoln's Birthday Reagan promotes nine military general officers and approves a presidential proclamation on agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were whipped out in 1900 by two Negroes for a Lincoln's Birthday celebration of Negro schoolchildren in Jacksonville.
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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