Auction marking the United States' 250th birthday features some of its most iconic documents
Read full article: Auction marking the United States' 250th birthday features some of its most iconic documentsAn auction house in New York is marking the United States' 250th birthday by selling items that trace the nationโs history through some of its most iconic documents.
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San Francisco to strip Washington, Lincoln from school names
Read full article: San Francisco to strip Washington, Lincoln from school namesFILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, George Washington High School stands in San Francisco. The San Francisco school board has voted to remove the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln from public schools after officials deemed them and other prominent figures, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein unworthy of the honor. After months of controversy, the board voted 6-1 Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in favor of renaming 44 San Francisco school sites with new names with no connection to slavery, oppression, racism or similar criteria, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The decision by the San Francisco Board of Education in a 6-1 vote Tuesday night affects one-third of the city's schools and came nearly three years after the board started considering the idea. Itโs almost like a parody of leftist activism,โ said Gerald Kanapathy, a father of two young children, including a kindergartener at a San Francisco school not on the list.
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Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photo
Read full article: Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photoโI've seen enough of these things to know that this is a whole lot of hysteria about something that is not Lincoln,โ said Harold Holzer, whose 1984 book, โThe Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print,โ traced the 130 known photographs of the former president. Braun goes through a lengthy process herself, consulting with facial recognition experts, medical experts, a ballistics expert, Lincoln scholars and descendants of Ulke. The facial experts said the man in the image had a slight scar under the lip consistent with one Lincoln had. The image has been seen by several people in the community of Lincoln experts and is not believed, Holzer said. In one of the last photographs of Lincoln taken alive, his once-full beard was wispy, almost a goatee, he said.
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