- Abraham Lincoln (/ˈlɪŋkən/ LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War to defend the nation as a constitutional union and succeeded in defeating the insurgent Confederacy, abolishing slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.
- A Clockwork Orange (film) (allthetropes.org)
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick based on a 1962 novella by Anthony Burgess, about Alex, a teenage sociopath, and his group’s crime spree, his capture and his attempted rehabilitation via psychological conditioning.
- Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
- Family, neighbors, and schoolmates recalled that his readings included the King James Bible, Aesop’s Fables, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
