Lincoln's Birthday
Americannoun
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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
Few ever saw the beardless, relatively untried Lincoln opposite, which was displayed with a Lincoln's Birthday flourish this week in Washington's Corcoran Gallery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For Lincoln's Birthday 1940, Webster drew a forlorn, storm-whipped, benighted, wilderness cabin, a light in its window like the fever of birth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It all came—this new Age of Miracles—because a few persons in 1909 determined to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday properly by calling for the final emancipation of the American Negro.
From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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