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Setting History Straight - It makes you wonder why he even Setting History Straight - their hands cut off and bled to death.” After two bothered to run for president in 1860 - but he years, half of Haiti’s 250,000 inhabitants were Uncle Sam dead “through murder, mutilation, or suicide.” did...and won. He was reelected in 1864. HONEST ABE? Many of the native Indians who survived were Continued from Page 20 enslaved and brought back to Spain. “Let us in - Lincoln’s presidential campaigns used the name of the Holy Trinity, go on sending all dirty tricks to get ahead: During the 1860 - “The most famous portrayal of Uncle =30 <6,?0< =3,= .,8 -0 <96/ HD 96>7->< @;9=0 Republican National Convention, his campaign Sam - the one most frequently reproduced and managers forged convention passes in order to widely recognized - was painted in the 20th Setting History Straight - pack the galleries with Lincoln supporters, century by American artist James Montgomery shutting out hundreds of his opponent’s Flagg. The stern-faced, stiff-armed, singer- Abraham Lincoln supporters in the process. Lincoln won the pointing figure appeared on World War I posters nomination. .,:=4980/ DE (,8= *9> 19; & $ ;7B F 6,22F< THE REAL ABE: - Lincoln wasn’t always that honest: Uncle Sam, though, is not an Abe Lincoln - Some photographs of Lincoln show After one trip to Springfield, Illinois, he filed likeness, but a self-portrait.” him with a mole on the right side of his face - for compensation for the 3,252 miles he claimed A MYTH UNCOVERED but others show the mole on the left side of his to have travelled. The actual length of the trip - “During these years...the character of face. The reason: few full-length pictures of was 1,800 miles. Uncle Sam was still only a myth. The identity of Lincoln existed when he was running for ABE FACTS his prototype first came to light in early 1961. A president. So when photographers needed one, - Lincoln hated being called “Abe” - historian, Thomas Gerson, discovered a May they put Lincoln’s head onto other people’s friends called him Lincoln. 12, 1830, issue of the New York Gazette bodies. Sometimes the head needed to be - He really did carry important newspaper in the archives of the New York reversed to fit the body they were using - and documents in his stovepipe hat. Historical Society. In it, a detailed firsthand the mole on his right cheek ended up on his left. - He was the first President to support account explained how Pheodorus Bailey, a - Although Lincoln’s voice is often women’s suffrage. In 1832, while running for postmaster of New York City, had witnessed the portrayed in the movies as being deep and the state legislature, he provided a newspaper Uncle Sam legend take root in Troy, New York.” booming, his actual voice was high-pitched, with a prepared statement supporting the idea. - Sam was officially acknowledged piercing and shrill. Though unusual, it paid off - Though the Gettysburg Address is during JFK’s administration, “by an act of the :964=4.,66B D = .,;;40/ 19; 3>8/;0/< 91 B0,;/< , considered the most eloquent oration in 87th Congress, which states that ‘the Congress distinct advantage in open-air speeches and American history, the Chicago Tribune hated it. salutes ‘Uncle Sam’ Wilson of Troy, New York, debates. The day after Lincoln delivered it, the Times as the progenitor of America’s National TRY, TRY AGAIN wrote: “The cheek of every American must symbol.’” Lincoln wasn’t always a success: tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and - He lost a race for the state legislature in dish-watery utterances of the man who had been Setting History Straight - 1832. He also lost his job. pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States. - His grocery business failed the Christopher Columbus following year. It took him 15 years to pay off the debt. (Continued on Page 24) & +& CColumbus proved the Earth was - He was elected to the state legislature round. in 1834, but lost races for speaker of the house The ‘X’ Zone THE TRUTH: The ancient greeks knew the in 1836 and 1838. New Year’s Eve Special world wasn’t flat two thousand years before - He was elected to Congress in 1846 but with Columbus was born. Pythagoras came up with was defeated after only two years, and in 1849 Rob McConnell the theory in the sixth century B.C., and lost the race for a land-office seat. 9 pm Dec 31 2012 to 1 am Jan 1 2013 Ptolemy proved it in the second century A.D. - He lost the U.S. Senate race in 1854 Listen and Watch Before Columbus left on his first voyage to the and again in 1858. In between, he lost the Vice www.xzoneradiotv.com New World, he studied globes and maps Presidential nomination. depicting a round planet. He had a hard time finding funding for his voyage, not because his Illuminations Of Personal and Planetary Destiny - contemporaries thought he would sail off the earth’s edges, but because they thought the Inspired by The Urantia Revelation Orient was too far to reach by sailing west. Based on the mysterious Urantia Book, The Adventure of Being Human: Lessons on Soulful Living from the Heart THE MYTH: Christopher Columbus was the of the Urantia Revelation, a profound but often humorous first European to discover North America. guide, provides lessons from our “divine parents” about THE TRUTH: Columbus never even set foot the challenge of being human. It also explains why our on the North American continent. The closest he difficult lives offer an ideal setting for the adventure of ever came was the islands of the Caribbean and soul growth. South America. The America whose These cheerful lessons are selected from “live” “discovery” is celebrated is actually a tiny transmission sessions in a humble living room in Mill island near San Salvador, which was already Valley, California. Highly personal and often endearing, inhabited anyway. Even Columbus wouldn’t these instructions on the art of soulful living render the take credit for discovering a new continent - he spiritual import of The Urantia Book more accessible than died thinking he had reached India. Actually, the ever before. Vikings were the first Europeans to reach North The Adventure of Being Human America, around 1,000 A.D. Lessons on Soulful Living from the Heart of the Urantia Revelation THE MYTH: Christopher Columbus was a friend to the Indians. Transmitted by Jerry Lane • Edited by Byron Belitsos THE TRUTH: Sad to say, that’s not even close. $14.95 trade paperback • Origin Press/Celestia • 257 pages Take his Haitian exploits for example: Available at AMAZON.COM According to historian Howard Zinn, Arawak Indians who didn’t honor Columbus and his crew with regular contributions of gold, “had http://evolving-souls.org/