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The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's ...
t. e. Abraham Lincoln 's first inaugural address was delivered on Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of his taking of the oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth president of the United States. The speech, delivered at the United States Capitol, was primarily addressed to the people of the South and was intended to succinctly state ...
The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s. In the 17th century, the schoolbooks in use had been Bibles brought over from England.
Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year.
File:Upton Sinclair - The Book of Life.pdf. File. File history. File usage. Metadata. Size of this JPG preview of this PDF file: 394 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 157 × 240 pixels | 315 × 480 pixels | 685 × 1,043 pixels. Original file (685 × 1,043 pixels, file size: 16.95 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 462 pages) This is a file ...
Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism and Christianity, the Book of Life (Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaChaim; Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆςBiblíon tēs Zōēs; Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized:Kitab al-ḥayā) is the book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is destined ...
Franklin became a vegetarian when he was a teenager apprenticing at a print shop, after coming upon a book by the early vegetarian advocate Thomas Tryon. [264] In addition, he would have also been familiar with the moral arguments espoused by prominent vegetarian Quakers in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania , including Benjamin Lay and ...
t. e. Washington's Farewell Address[ 1 ] is a letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. [ 2 ] He wrote it near the end of the second term of his presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia.