Remembering Lincoln and Darwin.

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12 Feb 2016, 12:46 pm

February 12 is both Lincoln's birthday and Charles Darwin Day. Here's to two bearded men who changed the world forever!

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12 Feb 2016, 5:20 pm

Both February 12th, and both in 1809!

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12 Feb 2016, 6:20 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

Both February 12th, and both in 1809!

February 12, 1809, must have been a great year for spawning great men!

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12 Feb 2016, 6:52 pm

!809 was a vintage year for people: W.E. Gladstone (PM of the UK), Edgar Allen Poe, Frederick Mendelson, Tennyson, Kit Carson.

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14 Feb 2016, 11:34 am

naturalplastic wrote:

!809 was a vintage year for people: W.E. Gladstone (PM of the UK), Edgar Allen Poe, Frederick Mendelson, Tennyson, Kit Carson.

Wasn't he Felix Mendelssohn?

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14 Feb 2016, 12:29 pm

Yes. Felix Mendelssohn

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