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News, Politics, Government

Library of Congress displays Gettysburg Address

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One of five known manuscripts of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is going on display at the Library of Congress.

Beginning Friday, the library will display the John Hay copy of the famous Civil War speech. It will be shown fox six weeks through May 4 in the “Civil War in America” exhibition.

The exhibit commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War through writings and firsthand accounts. It’s been extended from its original closing date in June to remain open until January 2014.

Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address began with the words, “Four score and seven years ago.”

The Hay copy is believed to be the second draft of the speech. Lincoln gave it to Hay, one of his two secretaries. The library holds two copies of the speech.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News

Computers

Microsoft's Azure service falls to expired SSL certificate

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate. The company reported services were restored Saturday.

The company also reported problems with its Xbox Music and Video Store services.

The service problems come on a day the company said it was recently a victim of a cyberattack similar to ones that targeted Apple and Facebook.

“Beginning Friday, February 22 at 12:44 PM PST, Storage experienced a worldwide outage impacting HTTPS operations (SSL traffic) due to an expired certificate,” Microsoft said on its Windows Azure service dashboard. HTTP traffic was not impacted, the company said. It said it executed steps to update the SSL certificate and expected HTTPS traffic to notice gradual recovery in many sub-regions.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

History

Smithsonian exhibit parallels 1863 Emancipation, 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington

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WASHINGTON — President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington for Civil Rights were 100 years apart, but both changed the nation and expanded freedoms.

Beginning Friday, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is presenting a walk back in time through two eras. A new exhibit, “Changing America,” parallels the 1863 emancipation of slaves with the 1963 March on Washington.

An inkwell Lincoln used to draft what would become the Emancipation Proclamation is on display on one side of the timeline, while the pen President Lyndon Johnson used to sign the Civil Rights Act is on the other….

Source:

AP

Source URL:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/smithsonian-parallels-1863-1963-events-that-changed-america-from-emancipation-to-civil-rights/2012/12/14/303da5da-45b6-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html

Date:

12-14-12

Source: History News Network – George Mason University