#abraham-lincoln

#abraham-lincoln

On a recent podcast episode, you can hear Joe Rogan ask OpenAI founder Sam Altman whether society should be concerned about fake AI content."How will we be able to tell what's real and what's not?"It was a particularly fitting question for the episode - since the entire hourlong conversation was generated by AI.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough taunted ex-President Donald Trump and fat white pink boys who trashed President Joe Biden over a trip they would never have the guts to make themselves.President Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine Monday to mark the anniversary of the war against Russia that included dramatic moments of air raid sirens as he toured the war zone.

As the spring semester at Southern Illinois University winds down, I've been thinking about what final insights to pass on to my students.I've decided to emphasize the importance of mentors.I think of mentors as role models who show us how to live correctly.They do so by example and instruction, however, I've found consistent example is far more persuasive and enduring than verbal instruction.

The Boston Globe The famed historian lives in a condo in the city and hangs out with illustrious pals at the 'Quin, as she works on a different kind of book.As she steps out of a cab at The 'Quin House, Doris Kearns Goodwin is already smiling, anticipating the doorman's usual greeting."First Lady!" he hollers, right on cue.

Don't let those Midwestern manners fool you: Some Illinoisans have a dirty mind, the vanity plates rejected by the secretary of state's office over the last year show.Nearly 400 customized license plates were rejected in 2022, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias's office said in a Monday news release.

At 83 years old, my going viral on the internet is the last thing I would have expected, but a video of me confronting the UK home secretary, Suella Braverman, at an event on Friday has so far been viewed more than 5m times.For a long time, I have listened in horror to the language used by many politicians to demonise certain groups in this country.

MR. LINCOLN SITS FOR HIS PORTRAIT: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon, by Leonard S. Marcus Abraham Lincoln loved kittens and smelled of wood smoke; he recited Shakespeare and told dirty jokes; he used compromise and cunning and occasional cruelty, as Adam Gopnik once put it, to achieve great things.

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!Good morning, Portland!Calling all comedy fans: The Mercury's UNDISPUTABLE GENIUSES OF COMEDY is back, featuring the best Portland comedians all on one stage on January 13 at Revolution Hall! Get those tickets here, and get your news down below.

Happy Thursday, everyone!You can check out the opening of a new play at Arena Stage, or celebrate the Earth with live performances at the Kennedy Center's river-inspired cultural festival this weekend.Best Things to Do This Weekend

"Angels in America" play.Experience the 30th anniversary revival of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Angels in America, Part One: Millennium at Arena Stage.

Happy Thursday, everyone!You can over-indulge in all things chocolate this weekend at the DC Chocolate, Wine and Whiskey Festival, or celebrate women of color at a Kennedy Center concert and DJ dance party in honor of the BGR! Fest.Best Things to Do This Weekend


DC Chocolate, Wine and Whiskey Festival.

AP Photo/Alex Brandon The White House, on Sunday, condemned late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for having ushered in one of the most shameful periods in American history.Yet as Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was reminded when she shared the White House statement on Twitter President Joe Biden has honored FDR by hanging his portrait prominently in the Oval Office.

The National Portrait Gallery will unveil a nine-foot-tall portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers on February 10.It's a remarkable work with an even more remarkable backstory: Travers painted the 16th President at his full height of six feet, four inches, and may have captured his face at ease, a contrast to the "iron mask" he usually wore in portraits, as the historian Ted Widmer wrote for the Washington Post last year.

The first Thanksgiving in America was celebrated in 1621, nearly a year after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth Massachusetts Bay Colony.In 1789 George Washington became the first to formally proclaim a day of "public thanksgiving and prayer'
In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln set forth the last Thursday of November a day of Thanksgiving.

Dear Readers: I'm happy to take a tiny break from hosting your questions, as I devote this column to my annual literacy campaign, now in its 13th year.This is where I urge readers to celebrate the gift-giving season by putting A Book on Every Bed.All literacy starts with a story, and the inspiring story behind this effort came to me from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough, whose charmed and productive life was entirely shaped by the sharing of books and stories, starting early in his childhood.

A marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol on March 9, 2020.J. Scott Applewhite/AP The House gave final passage to legislation to replace the bust of Roger Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, in the Capitol with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.