For the wise man who had led the Union through four years of bloody civil war Father Abraham -- was dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

The man told Lincoln that Europeans saw the war more clearly than Americans, who were in the middle of it.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

In such a war,he said, the North would break the chains of the black man on the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

King George III of England, the man Washington defeated in war, hailed him as the greatest man of the era.

FORBES: Leadership

The studies of early altruism show that the natural state of man is not a war of all against all, as Thomas Hobbes said.

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Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.

ECONOMIST: The Deep South still has a bad reputation. Unfairly so