Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable History Breaching Space and Time.

There are groupings of words that it does us good to come back to, every few years – texts that will always have new things to say to the changed, and often entirely new, people we become over time. The Mahabharata, Candide, The Genealogy of Morals, The Growth of the Soil, Marsden’s Classical Analysis, and pretty much anything Diderot ever wrote, are on my list of things to continually revisit. What are yours? Hop on over to our Twitter page, and share, do!
Anyway, also in that category is, undoubtedly, The Gettysburg Address. It might have been a while since you’ve read it, so let’s all take a minute and get reacquainted:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

– Count Dolby von Luckner

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Salacious Grover Cleveland Details Are But One Paragraph Away!
But First, thank you to everybody who donated to our campaign for Mrs. Jervis’s art class, and particularly to the generous donations from the gentlemen Bittner, Starkis, and Graebner. We raised $160, which is a good deal on the way to the classroom’s needs. Also, I need to thank Xander Kent and Sam Hock at Jack and Voytek and Elle Skinner at The Littlest Elle for their support and boosterism during the whole drive – they are truly, just wonderful people.
Now, of our trio of Middlin Presidents, two of them are hard to find any full books about beyond numbered volumes in a series of presidential biographies with names like “Volume 23: Benjamin Harrison: The Life of a Man Elected President Once.” For Hayes, there is Roy Morris’s book on the 1876 election, and some older volumes on his soldiering, but otherwise, again, not too much.
Not so Cleveland. First, his role as an early fighter of government corruption, and its impact on Theodore Roosevelt, is something important enough to the big picture that it will never stop getting written about. And then there’s the Other Thing. That being the drama surrounding Oscar Folsom Cleveland, who might or might not have been Cleveland’s illegitimate child (Cleveland was never sure one way or the other), and whose mother either was legitimately a raving alcoholic or was stuffed unfairly into an insane asylum by Cleveland’s handlers to keep her quiet, depending on who you ask. There’s a whole book about JUST THIS by Charles Lachman, which oversteps evidence in favor of titillation from time to time and, heck, that can be fun too.
– Count Dolby von Luckner