Showing posts with label Lincoln Bicentennial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lincoln Bicentennial. Show all posts

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Why does Google honor Charles Darwin's bicentennial today instead of and/or Lincoln's?

What I see on my Google screen on February 12, 2009 at 10:15 a.m. :


I could certainly live with them running something today for both Lincoln and Darwin, born on the very same day
200 years ago. In fact, I rather expected it.
But honestly, just Darwin?

The Times of London's Charles Darwin archive: 

What you see when you click the photo above:

Really, less than a few hours before the entire U.S. Congress and President Obama gather to honor
Lincoln at the U.S. Capitol?

As someone who has read Allen Guelzo's fabulous books on him, been to Lincoln's birthplace in KY, his childhood home in Indiana, his law office in Springfield and walked Gettysburg, and who actually used to run over to the Lincoln Memorial on my morning runs or bike rides for 15 years while living in the D.C. area, and actually knows what's written on the walls there, that slight by Google doesn't go down well with me at all.

I mean, I actually mention Lincoln at the top of this blog, do I not?