The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here while it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. ![]() Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Forgive me as I reproduce here the full text of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:įourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” I admit to having profound respect and admiration for great speeches delivered by great men and women. 21 With 23-Across, what this puzzle’s subject promised in his most famous address : A NEW BIRTH … 23 See 21-Across : … OF FREEDOM Some of Degas’ most beautiful works feature female ballet dancers, and others depict women bathing. The French “tutu” is an alteration of the word “cucu”, a childish word meaning “bottom, backside”.Įdgar Degas was a French artist who was famous for both his paintings and his sculptures. It came into English from French in the early 20th century. The word “tutu”, used for a ballet dancer’s skirt, is actually a somewhat “naughty” term. ![]() 20 Apparel in many a Degas painting : TUTU Those early slacks were part of a military uniform. The term “slacks” was introduced in the early 1800s with the meaning “loose trousers”. ![]() He managed to drag himself back to the inn where he was staying but died there two days later. When he was only 37, he walked into a field with a revolver and shot himself in the chest. Van Gogh suffered from severe depression for many of his final years. Today many of his works are easily recognized, and fetch staggering sums in auction houses. Van Gogh only painted for the last ten years of his life, and enjoyed very little celebrity while alive. Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who seems to have had a very tortured existence. It has been tremendously successful, with Boeing receiving more orders for the 777 than any other model. The Boeing 777 was introduced in 1995, when it was the company’s first fly-by-wire airliner. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossĥ About 200 feet, for a Boeing 777 : SPAN 63D Accessory in which this puzzle’s subject stashed important documents : STOVEPIPE HAT.59D Campaign nickname that reflected the rustic upbringing of this puzzle’s subject : RAIL SPLITTER.38D Another epithet for this puzzle’s subject : GREAT EMANCIPATOR.35D One epithet for this puzzle’s subject : SAVIOR OF THE UNION.85A Nickname for this puzzle’s subject : HONEST ABE. ![]() 76A Feature first recommended to this puzzle’s subject by an 11-year-old girl : BEARD.33A Raymond _, Best Actor nominee for portraying this puzzle’s subject (1940) : MASSEY.21A With 23-Across, what this puzzle’s subject promised in his most famous address : A NEW BIRTH ….27A Landmark dedicated on : LINCOLN MEMORIAL.The black squares in the grid depict the MEMORIAL, and nine letters in the center-bottom spell out PRE-SID-ENT: Themed answers relate to the LINCOLN MEMORIAL, which was dedicated 100 years ago tomorrow.
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