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97 unusual facts about Lincoln


A House Divided

Lincoln's House Divided Speech, a speech by Abraham Lincoln; a reference to the Gospel of Matthew, 12:25: "Every city or house divided against itself shall not stand."

A. T. Hill

In 1929, William Duncan Strong joined the University of Nebraska faculty as a professor of anthropology.

Adam Gettis

From 2004 to 2006, Gettis played high school football for the Lincoln-Way East Griffins as a starter.

Agriculture in London

Many areas which now form part of Greater London were formerly rural and agricultural outskirts but still bear names which indicate this past: Ealing Common, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Shepherd's Bush and Wormwood Scrubs, for example.

Alvin Orlando Lombard

At the age of 8, Alvin began working in the family sawmill in Lincoln, Maine.

Antoine Pierre Berryer

A visit paid by this famous orator to Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux in 1865 was made the occasion of a banquet given in his honour by the benchers of the Temple and of Lincoln's Inn.

Ashok Menaria

In 2012, Menaria along with Mandeep Singh scored marathon 318-run stand came to an end when Menaria was bowled by Sam Wells for 173 against New Zealand "A" in 2nd unofficial Test in Lincoln.

Avidyne Corporation

Avidyne Corporation is an avionics company based in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Banned from Television

In Lincoln, Maine, trooper Stephen Murray tries to issue an angry male driver a speeding ticket.

Carmarthen District by-election, 1912

He built a career in south Wales as a journalist before being called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1897.

Charles Tilstone Beke

He later studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and for a time practised at the Bar, but finally devoted himself to the study of historical, geographical and ethnographical subjects.

Color Me a Rainbow

The show was produced by Shepherd & Associates in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Colorado–Nebraska football rivalry

#9 Colorado traveled to Memorial Stadium in Lincoln to play the #3 Cornhuskers yet again for the Big 8 Championship in 1990.

Confederate Stamp Alliance

Editor-in-chief of the project is Patricia A. (Trish) Kaufmann of Lincoln, Delaware who is responsible for collecting philatelic inputs for the catalog update from members as well as non-members.

Danny Coombs

Daniel Bernard Coombs (Born: March 23, 1942 in Lincoln, Maine) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played from 1963 to 1971 for the Houston Colt .45s, Houston Astros and San Diego Padres.

David Kaczynski

On April 3, 1996, police arrested Ted Kaczynski in his rural shack in Lincoln, Montana.

Dillard's

In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.

Edmund Roberts Larken

Larken and Boole also worked together in the 1850s on a plan to reduce the impact of prostitution in Lincoln.

Edwards–Lincoln–Porter family

James Madison Porter (1793-1862), Pennsylvania State Court Judge 1839-1840 1850-1853, U.S. Secretary of War 1843-1844, member of the Pennsylvania Legislature 1849.

Flower Mound High School

They then were invited to perform at the International Thespian Convention in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Frank Ferguson

In the story line, as Wallace visits Lincoln, New Mexico, Sheriff Garrett tries to keep down brawling in the cantina owned by Big Mamacita (Connie Gilchrist), who is the grandmother of the governor's young aide.

Frederick de St Croix Brecken

He was educated in Charlottetown and then articled in law with Robert Hodgson, continuing his studied at Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple in London.

Furnival's Inn

Furnival's Inn was founded about 1383, and was attached to Lincoln's Inn.

Gembloux

Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, third most Belgian American town, was originally named Grandlez, after Grand-Leez where Belgian founding migrants came from.

Googie architecture

During the 1930s, trains and Lincoln-Zephyrs had been advanced technology, and Streamline Moderne paralleled their smooth simplified aerodynamic exteriors.

Gordon Baldwin

Gordon Baldwin (born 1932 in Lincoln) is an influential English studio potter.

Heisler locomotive

Clark's Trading Post in Lincoln, New Hampshire, operates the White Mountain Central RR #4 (s/n 1594).

Henry Lundy

This time, Lundy earned the win, narrowly beating Almarez by unanimous decision, 38–37, 38–37, 38–36 at the Twin River Casino in Lincoln, Rhode Island.

Three months after winning the title, Lundy made his first defense against John Molina Jr. in the main event of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights at Twin River Casino in Lincoln, Rhode Island on July 9, 2010.

Lundy quickly rose to 10–0 within the next 16 months, including wins in Providence, Rhode Island; Lincoln, Rhode Island; and Mashantucket, Connecticut at Foxwoods Resort Casino, establishing an early reputation as one of boxing’s most promising road warriors.

Herman Churchill

In the fall of 1907, he accepted a position as head of the English Department at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas until 1909 when he accepted a similar position at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Horrell Brothers

On December 1, 1873, Sheriff Gylam and Ben Horrell rode into Lincoln, New Mexico and began drinking, visiting several brothels and saloons before discharging their firearms in the street while drunk.

Ian Dickens

In 2009 Ian Dickens Productions took over the running of the Theatre Royal, Lincoln which then became the base for their touring productions.

Israel Stoughton

He was then appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the parliamentary army, and soon afterwards died at Lincoln.

Jake Hess

Later, when he registered with the draft board in Lincoln, Nebraska, he gave his name as "William Jesse Hess."

James Ussher

He became a preacher at Lincoln's Inn early in 1647, and despite his royalist loyalties was protected by his friends in Parliament.

JOVE

It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, USA on a PDP-11 minicomputer.

KJFT

KJFT-LP, a low-power radio station (93.7 FM) licensed to Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Law FC

The club was also nomadic, and so despite having a secretary based at Lincoln's Inn Fields, the club effectively played only away matches.

Lincoln Performing Arts Centre

The theatre's programme of events is designed to complement, rather than compete with, those of its neighbouring venues, such as the Theatre Royal, Lincoln.

Lincoln the Unknown

He went there because it is only a mile away from the restored village of New Salem, where Lincoln spent the happiest and most formative years of his life.

Lincoln-Cass Films

Between July and October 1913 they made eight features of which only The Sick Stockrider survives today.

Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210

Four high schools comprise Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210: Lincoln-Way Central, Lincoln-Way East, Lincoln-Way North and Lincoln-Way West.

Lincoln-Way East High School

Lincoln-Way East High School or LWE, is a four-year public high school located approximately three miles south of Interstate 80 near the intersection of La Grange Road and Lincoln Highway in Frankfort, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

Lincoln-Way North High School

Lincoln-Way North High School or LWN, is a public four-year high school located approximately one mile south of Interstate 80 near the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Vollmer Road in Frankfort, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, in the United States.

Lincoln-Zephyr

A 1937 Coupe-Sedan is used for the Black Beauty in both The Green Hornet (serial) and The Green Hornet Strikes Again!.

It is noted for being one of the first successful streamlined cars after the Chrysler Airflow's market failure.

Lincoln, Alabama

The first graduate of Lincoln High School was the famous Cities Service Company CEO Burl S. Watson, who graduated from LHS in 1912.

Lincoln, California

The original townsite was surveyed and laid out in 1859 by Theodore Judah along the proposed line of the California Central Railroad.

Lincoln, Maine

Matthew Mulligan, Tight End for the New England Patriots, lives in Lincoln, Maine

Lincoln, New Zealand

In 1862 James Edward FitzGerald of ‘The Springs’ subdivided some of his freehold land for the new township of Lincoln, named after the Earl of Lincoln, a foundation member of the Canterbury Association and from 1851 a member of the management committee.

As well as the university, there is a number of other research facilities in Lincoln, including AgResearch, Institute for Plant and Food Research, FAR (Foundation for Arable Research), and Landcare Research.

Lincoln's Birthday

An extended ceremony, organized by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC) and with help from MOLLUS, featured musical performances from four-time Grammy-nominated singer Michael Feinstein and the U.S. Marine Corps.

Lincoln's Ghost

Perhaps the most famous incident was in 1942 when Wilhelmina of the Netherlands heard footsteps outside her White House bedroom and answered a knock on the door, only to see Lincoln in frock coat and top hat standing in front of her (she promptly fainted).

Lincoln's Lost Speech

Editor of the Chicago Tribune Joseph Medill claimed that Chicago lawyer Henry Clay Whitney's transcript of the speech was accurate; Whitney's version was later debunked.

Louise Le Baron

As her career began to wind down Le Baron settled in Lincoln, Nebraska where she had always been well received and opened a voice school.

Mark Aloysius Tierney

He then served as assistant priest in Warwick Street, London, and afterwards at Lincoln's Inn Fields until his ill-health necessitated his removal to the country mission of Slindon in Sussex.

Marla English

Lincoln, Nebraska Sunday Journal and Star, People In The News, July 22, 1956, Page 6

Marsh Giddings

In January 1874 the best he could do was to offer a reward of $500 for the arrest of those cowboys who had shot up a Hispanic dance in Lincoln murdering four men, the seminal event starting the wars.

Marvin Sanders

Sanders played as a defensive back for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1985 through 1989, earning a letter in each of his last three years.

Missouri–Nebraska football rivalry

Historically, the rivalry was a favorite among fans of both teams, resulting in many of the record-setting crowds at both Faurot Field in Columbia and Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.

2 Beginning of the continuing NCAA-record sellout streak at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Mollie Phillips

She studied Law at Lincoln's Inn but focussed much of her time on figure skating.

Nicola Porpora

In 1729 the anti-Handel clique invited him to London to set up an opera company as a rival to Handel's, without success, and in the 1733–1734 season, even the presence of his pupil, the great Farinelli, failed to save the dramatic company in Lincoln's Inn Fields (the "Opera of the Nobility") from bankruptcy.

ParkZone

US-based hobby retail chain HobbyTown USA of Lincoln, Nebraska named ParkZone as its "2005 Hobby Company of the Year."

Peter Bellinger Brodie

While residing with his father at Lincoln's Inn Fields, he gained some knowledge of natural history and an interest in fossils from visits to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, at a time when William Clift was curator.

River Len

In 1628, Thomas Fludd and Ralphe Buffkin sold the mill to William Cage of Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex.

Robert Elmore

The family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1918 where Elmore began studying piano at age 6 and organ at age 9.

Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet

He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London but worked mainly tutoring at Oxford, notably for the Natural Science School, and later was Professor of Acoustics at the Royal College of Music.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln

On September 14, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed James D. Conley as Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, succeeding Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz.

Rutland House

Davenant established at least two other "private performance houses" in Lincoln's Inn Fields and Drury Lane.

Salt Creek tiger beetle

Interest in the Salt Creek tiger beetle began with surveys conducted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the mid-1980s.

Sarah MacLean

MacLean was born in Lincoln, Rhode Island to an Italian father and a British mother.

Scheduled monument

High Bridge, Lincoln, built in the 12th century in Lincoln, England, is the oldest bridge in the United Kingdom which still has buildings on it.

Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory

The Conservatory is situated in the grounds of The Lawn, which are a popular green haven and venue for many summer activities.

Sondra Isaminger

By age 12, Isaminger and family had relocated briefly to Lincoln, Nebraska and then on to Albuquerque, New Mexico, the place she would eventually call home.

Sonia Karlov

Lincoln, Nebraska Sunday Journal and Star, Theater Topics, June 19, 1938, Page 4.

St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center

Elizabeth's Regional Medical Center is a hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Stan Baluik

In 1963, he accepted a position at the Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln, Rhode Island where he continues to work.

Sujata Manohar

After Oxford, she was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn having simultaneously passed all papers in Parts 1 & 2 of the Bar Exam.

Susan Fargo

Susan C. Fargo is the Massachusetts State Senator for the 3rd Middlesex district, which includes her hometown of Lincoln and eight other towns.

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems

The narrative includes his relationship with John and Sallie Chisum, his formation of a gang with Tom O'Folliard and Charlie Bowdre, his standoff with Garrett in Stinking Springs, his arrest and escape from Lincoln, New Mexico, his escape and the ensuing murder of James Bell and Robert Ollinger, and finally his death at the hands of Garrett.

The Living Skeleton

Professor Ryan Dixon of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln referred to the Criterion Collection's eclipse set, calling the film "the most accomplished and sophisticated of the quartet in terms of its visual structure and narrative" and along with Genocide, "easily the most interesting entries".

The Park Northpoint

The office park will be developed and managed by AIG/Lincoln, which has developed over 2,500,000 square meters of property (approx. 26,910,000 square feet), and manages over 1,480,000 square meters (approx. 15,931,000 square feet) of office, industrial, retail, residential, and entertainment property across Central and Eastern Europe.

Thomas Commerford Martin

At various times he lectured at the Royal Institution of Engineers, London, the Paris Société Internationale des Electriciens, the University of Nebraska, and Columbia.

Thomas Percival Creed

In 1926 he became a district judge and in 1928 was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.

Thomas Volney Munson

Shortly after completing his education, he married and moved to the vicinity of Lincoln, Nebraska.

Vinita Nair

Then she became an anchor and reporter for KOLN/KGIN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she anchored daily morning and afternoon newscasts.

Violet Mersereau

Lincoln, Nebraska Sunday Star, Answers To Movie Fans, March 18, 1917, Page 3.

Vivian Martin

Lincoln, Nebraska Sunday Star, Answers to Movie Fans, Sunday, June 17, 1917, Page 6.

W. Llewelyn Williams

From journalism, Williams turned to the law, being called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1897.

Werner Leinfellner

In 1967, due to an unfavorable political and scientific climate in post-war Austria, he was unable to obtain a tenured faculty position in Austria and so he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and joined the department of philosophy at the university of Nebraska-Lincoln as a full professor.

White Square

White Square Office Center was co-developed by AIG/Lincoln and Coalco, as the first phase of the White District development.

William Adams Nicholson

Many other churches were restored under his supervision, including St. Peter at Gowts' Church, Lincoln, not quite complete at his death.

William Garvie

In 1866, Garvie retired from the paper, studied law at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar there in 1869.

William T. Major

He founded the First Christian Church (affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination) and built the city's first public meeting hall, Major's Hall, which hosted an early convention of the Illinois branch of the Republican Party and became best known as the site of "Lincoln's Lost Speech".

William Thomas Shave Daniel

W T S Daniel became a student of Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1825, was called to the bar on 8 February 1830, became Queen's Counsel on 17 July 1851, and was called to the bench on 3 November 1851.


Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area

The management authority for the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area is the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition and follows Lincoln's life from his birth and childhood, to his early life and career, to the Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858.

Adam of Eynsham

Adam went to France while England was under an interdict during the later part of King John's reign, but when the interdict was lifted, Hugh's successor at Lincoln, Hugh of Wells, named Adam the Abbot of Eynsham in 1213.

American Eagle Aircraft Corporation

Victor Roos, a co-founder of the 1921 Roos-Bellanca Aircraft Company in Omaha, Nebraska, had left a management position with the Swallow Aircraft Company in 1928, and was tapped to head the American Eagle-Lincoln Aircraft Corporation.

Billy Sianis

In early 1934, two months after the repeal of Prohibition, Sianis purchased the Lincoln Tavern, a bar across the street from Chicago Stadium.

Chris Roy, Jr.

Louisiana Senate District 29, represented by the retiring Democrat Joe McPherson, also of Woodworth, was carved up into a minority district that meanders from south Rapides to Lincoln parishes.

Claude Batley

Among his works are the Bombay Gymkhana (1917); Wankaner Palace (1933) now Lincoln House, the American Consulate, Breach Candy; Bombay Central Station (1930); South Court or popularly now known as Jinnah House, (1935); Round Building (1937), Cusrow Baug in Colaba Causeway (1937–59) and its Agiary, known as The Seth Nusserwanji Hirji Karani Agiary (1938), Bombay Club (1939) later Hotel Nataraj and now Inter-Continental Mumbai, Lalbhai House (1942) and Breach Candy Hospital (1950).

Daniel Disney

Daniel Disney (died ca. 1722) of Swinderby, was a Non-Coformist landowner in Lincoln who was the father of John Disney (rector), great-grandfather of John Disney (Unitarian) and great-great-grandfather of John Disney the barrister.

Dennis Townhill

Born in Lincoln, he was educated at Lincoln School and studied under Dr Gordon Archbold Slater at Lincoln Cathedral.

Diocese of London

Historically the diocese covered a large area north of the Thames and bordered the dioceses of Norwich and Lincoln to the north and west.

Elizabeth Simmonds

She went to school in Lincoln and attended Vulcans Swimming Club, later spending time at Loughborough University.

Frank Sheehan

Sheehan was elected to the legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Liberal Harry Pelissero by about 8,000 votes in the southern Ontario riding of Lincoln (NDP incumbent Ron Hansen was third).

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

He also edited two volumes of Theodore Parker's Writings (1914), introduced Newton's Lincoln and Herndon (1913), and wrote brief biographies of Samuel Langdon (president of Harvard College), of Ellery Channing and of Mrs. Abbott-Wood of Lowell.

Frederick H. Chapin

Reprinted in 1987, with forward and notes by James H. Pickering, by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln

Five relatives and family friends were officially appointed to accompany the funeral train: David Davis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Lincoln's brothers-in-law, Ninian Wirt Edwards and C. M. Smith; Brigadier General John Blair Smith Todd, a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln; and Charles Alexander Smith, the brother of C. M. Smith.

Garvin Cross

He is included in the Guinness Book of World Records for his skills as a precision stunt driver, and he has worked on films and television spots for automobile companies such as Ford, Porsche, Toyota, Dodge, Mercedes, Lincoln, Nissan and Lexus.

Grant City, Staten Island

Many of the streets are named after historical figures such as Lincoln Ave (after President Abraham Lincoln), Fremont Ave (after General John C. Fremont who was the first Republican candidate for President, as well as a Staten Island resident, in 1856), Adams Avenue (after President John Adams), Colfax Ave (after Abraham Lincoln's first Vice President)and Greeley Ave (after newspaper editor Horace Greeley).

Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln

Lincoln's speech was compiled by James Algar (yet another Disney Legend), who was also the main writer and producer of the show.

Greenwich Village Orchestra

In 2005, the Orchestra performed Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, narrated by former Senator Bob Kerrey.

Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle

On 23 March 1931, the Earl of Lincoln married Jean Gimbernat (died 1968), the former wife of a Mr Gimbernat and daughter of David Banks of Park Avenue, New York City.

James E. English

Sadly, in Steven Spielberg's 2012 epic Lincoln movie, both English and Augustus Brandegee, his abolitionist Republican colleague from Connecticut, are given two fictional names and are both shown, erroneously, to have voted against the amendment.

James Watson Webb

"In Paris and Rio de Janeiro, on land or sea", wrote Abraham Lincoln's biographer, Carl Sandburg, Webb "believed that Lincoln should have appointed him major general, rating himself a grand strategist, having fought white men in duels and red men in frontier war."

Joseph Mendham

This came to his nephew, the Rev. John Mendham, on whose death his widow, Sophia, placed the books at the disposal of Charles Hastings Collette, solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields, by whom a selection was made and presented to the Incorporated Law Society in Chancery Lane, London.

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

Khem Shahani

Khem Shahani is best known for his discovery of the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus in 1959, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Lincoln Theological College

Once Lincoln Theological College had closed, the only Anglican theological college in the East Midlands offering training for those entering stipendiary ministry was St John's College, Nottingham in Bramcote.

Lucius E. Chittenden

When he resigned from the Lincoln Administration, he returned to Vermont to regain his health, but by 1866 was living in Tarrytown, New York, where he practiced as an attorney until at least 1894.

Lucy Lambert Hale

On March 4, 1865, Booth attended Lincoln's second presidential inauguration with a ticket that Lucy had procured through her father.

Madog ap Maredudd

Madog's intervention in the Battle of Lincoln in 1141 forms an important plot element in the detective novel Dead Man's Ransom, part of the Brother Cadfael chronicles by Edith Pargeter (writing as Ellis Peters).

Naglfar

In his study of treatment of hair and nails among the Indo-Europeans, Bruce Lincoln compares Snorri's Prose Edda comments about nail disposal to an Avestan text, where Ahura Mazdā warns that daevas and xrafstras will spring from hair and nails that lay without correct burial, noting their conceptual similarities.

Nellie Leland School

Henry M. Leland was a Detroit automotive pioneer who founded both the Cadillac and Lincoln automotive companies.

Office of Education

On Monday, February 1, 1858, a petition of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture was presented to the Senate "praying that a donation of land be made to each of the States for the establishment of agricultural colleges." Neither of the proposals was accepted until the time of the Lincoln administration (1861–65), after which it became necessary to gather information on the many schools already in existence, as well as on those being built.

Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School

In a self-paced class, students complete coursework through Calvert, Lincoln Interactive and Little Lincoln.

Philip Abbott

A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Miracle of the White Stallions (1963).

Philip Frowde

It was acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 16 January 1726–7, James Quin representing Eurydamas and delivering the prologue by Lewis Theobald.

Prairie schooner

Prairie Schooner a magazine published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Punjab gharana

He has played in some of the most prestigious venues and festivals around the world, including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Lincoln Center in New York and the prestigious Royal Albert Hall.

Saving Lincoln

Creed Bratton as Senator Charles Sumner, who was vehemently against slavery and often tried to convince Lincoln to immediately free the slaves

Steel bridge competition

The competition is principally sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Steel Construction with additional sponsorship by the American Iron and Steel Institute, the National Steel Bridge Alliance, Nucor Corporation, and The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation.

Sunnyslope Mountain

John C. Lincoln, an Ohio inventor and industrialist who founded Lincoln Electric, relocated to the Sunnyslope district in 1931 with his wife Helen, to treat her tuberculosis; almost immediately, the Lincolns became major financial supporters of Desert Mission and took on key leadership roles in the organization for most of the remainder of their lives.

Swaby

Lincoln Museum acquired 162 of the coins, ranging from Marcus Antoninus and Nero to Hadrian.

U.S. Route 18 in Wisconsin

US 18 enters Wisconsin at Prairie du Chien and ends in downtown Milwaukee at Lincoln Memorial Drive, across from the Milwaukee Art Museum.

William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington

He served as governor of Lincoln in 1643, and on 2 November 1643 was elevated to the Peerage as 1st Baron Widdrington of Blankney.