Celebrity Solstice. Celebrity Solstice is the lead ship of the Solstice-class of cruise ships operated by Celebrity Cruises. Built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, she was floated out on August 10, 2008, and christened by ocean scientist Professor Sharon L. Smith at a ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, on November 14, 2008.
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.
Nearby, Nov. 19, 1863, in dedicating the National Cemetery, Abraham Lincoln gave the address which he had written in Washington and revised after his arrival at Gettysburg the evening of November 18.or the text of the Gettysburg Address, see the Gettysburg Address at Wikisource. See also: Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. One of the only two confirmed photos of Abraham Lincoln (sepia highlight) at Gettysburg, taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before the speech.