113 Responses. 1  When someone sneezes, he says, âI bless you.â. 2  Jesus walked on water, he swam on land. 3  He once won a marathon while sleeping. Bwahahahaha. 4  He knows what color the wind would be. 5  he once had a conversation with the tree. 6  The most interesting man in the world has Santa Claus worried about being on his naughty or nice listâ¦..
The Emancipation Proclamation (page 1) Record Group 11 General Records of the United States President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation. On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. Attempting to stitch together a nation mired in a bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln made a last-ditch, but carefully calculated, decision regarding the institution of slavery in America.