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  2. United States five-dollar bill - Wikipedia

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    The United States five-dollar bill (US$5) is a denomination of United States currency. The current $5 bill features U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and the Great Seal of the United States on the front and the Lincoln Memorial on the back. All $5 bills issued today are Federal Reserve Notes. As of December 2018, the average life of a $5 bill in ...

  3. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    The $50 bill is sometimes called a yardstick, or a grant, after President Ulysses S. Grant. The $100 bill is called Benjamin, Benji, Ben, or Franklin, referring to its portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Other nicknames include C-note (C being the Roman numeral for 100), century note, or bill (e.g. two bills = $200).

  4. List of mayors of Lincoln, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    Selected by the Lincoln City Council to finish Mayor Boyles' unexpired term: 42 Dean H. Petersen: Rep May 20, 1963: May 15, 1967: Petersen was Lincoln's first "full-time" mayor elected for a term of four years after the Lincoln City Charter was amended in 1962 to extend the mayor's term from two to four years and make the position full time.

  5. Reparations for slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The City Council meeting had so much community engagement public comment was extended for an extra hour beyond the normal meeting time. San Francisco, California: In March 2023, "reparation payments of $5 million to eligible Black residents [were] unanimously accepted by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors."

  6. Lincoln, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 100.4 square miles (260.035 km 2) with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the state's 2nd most populous city and the 73rd-largest in the United States. Lincoln is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger ...

  7. Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg - Wikipedia

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    The Consecration of the Soldiers' National Cemetery was the ceremony at which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. In addition to the 15,000 spectators, attendees included six state governors: Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania, Augustus Bradford of Maryland, Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, Horatio Seymour of New York, Joel Parker of New Jersey ...

  8. Manhunt (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Manhunt is an American historical drama miniseries created by showrunner Monica Beletsky, adapted from James L. Swanson's book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. The series follows Edwin Stanton's search for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

  9. Morrill Tariff - Wikipedia

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    President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers. v. t. e. The Morrill Tariff was an increased import tariff in the United States that was adopted on March 2, 1861, during the administration of US President James Buchanan, a Democrat. It was the twelfth of the seventeen planks in the platform of the incoming Republican Party, which had not yet been ...