http://www.metafilter.com/tags/orators Posts tagged with 'orators' at MetaFilter. Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:55:42 -0800 Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:55:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/30299/The%2DGettysburg%2DAddress <a href="http://www.americancivilwar.com/north/lincoln.html">In the War Between The States,</a> no finer words were ever spoken than those by Abraham Lincoln on 19 November 1863 at the consecration of <a href="http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/7301/mcms.html">a cemetery</a> in <a rhef="http://www.nps.gov/gett/">rural Pennsylvania</a> for the over 50,000 who died in the <a href="http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/Gettysburg/Gettysburg.html">three</a> <a href="http://www.phil.muni.cz/~vndrzl/amstudies/civilwar_stats.htm">worst days of battle</a> in a wretched civil war. <a href="http://www.americancivilwar.com/north/lincoln.html">The speech</a> is often included in US history books and <a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471389420,descCd-reviews.html">collections of influential American speeches</a> as one of the strongest examples of <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/speeches.htm">presidential oratory ever given</a>. Is it any wonder, then, that it should inspire <a href="http://www.tapestryofgrace.com/Year%203/Gallery/EliCivilWarNews.PDF">modern</a> <a href="http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/">art</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.30299 Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:55:42 -0800 abrahamlincoln americancivilwar americanhistory art gettysburgaddress lincoln modernart orators oratory speeches Ogre Lawless