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
Defended the old line GOP on Lincoln's Birthday.
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
In its inspirational value to youth Lincoln's Birthday stands among the most important of our American holidays.
From Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings by Schauffler, Robert Haven
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