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But you can definitely make a wonderful day for yourself. Before you know it, it becomes a good habit and hence most days are happy days except of course crisis days.

However, there was some compensation with the plethora of incredible shots that hit the internet during the event - and in the hours following.

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Assembled here are the best Oppositelock posts from Friday through Sunday. It includes Lincoln's impending doom, the cost of negligence, Toyota's Motorsport Museum and stories of terrible road trips.

In this age when anything goes, we forget that beards were not always in fashion.

Emoticons might not be an invention of the computer age. They might be stowaways from a clever 17th century poet.

After a year of thinking it over, of going back and forth, of deciding where duty and honor called me to be, this is where I am.

Today in the Twitter log cabin beat : Twitter installed its previously purchased log cabins, which we reported on here , into its office at The log cabins are part of the company's mid-Market office expansion, which includes a new cafeteria.

Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s.

Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919. Doris Kearns Goodwin was not born until 1943, but to hear her tell it, she spent the better part of seven years living with the legendary U.S. president.

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The "Civil War" filmmaker delivers another sublime achievement in "The Address," which premieres at 9 p.m. Tuesday on PBS.

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in All-Star Pete Rose is 73. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 46. Actor Adrien Brody is 41. Rock singer Win Butler is 34. 1914: Opening day: "New York - Baseball fans divided their patronage ... (more)

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

T he highly respected Lincoln Heritage Museum reopens in its new location on April 26. Starting at 10 a.m., officials will welcome historians, elected officials, college alumni, friends and others to the central Illinois campus.

Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton on Sunday called for a series of five debates with Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, the incumbent Cotton is challenging in Arkansas' U.S. Senate race.

War is hell - and so is paying income tax. War was also the rationale for the first US Income tax, introduced by Abraham Lincoln, a guy who otherwise has a pretty good rep as American presidents go.

John Hall, vice chairman of the trustees, said the actions were approved by the trustees in resolutions adopted April 8 after consideration of the report of the citizens' library study committee appointed by Mayor Marian Erdmann.

By 1869 Americans had completed construction of a transcontinental railroad, which spanned nearly 2,000 miles.

Ohio House Speaker William Batchelder stands on the spot where Abraham Lincoln addressed the Ohio General Assembly in 1861 en route to his inauguration, but the symbolism is lost on some members of Batchelder's Republican caucus, writes Thomas Suddes.