Honorable Mention
Yesterday, was Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday. What I failed to report on was that it was also Abraham Lincoln's 200th Birthday. Darwin and Lincoln were both born on the same day, of the same year and were both revolutionaries in their own domains. Last year, I came across an article that broke down their two lives into the commonalities and detailed their individual accomplishments. As fascinating as the article was, it was hard to end on a note of "coincidences" that bound them, but thus is the nature of their linkage. The article was featured in Newsweek entitled " How Darwin and Lincoln Shaped Us " Below is an excerpt from that article outlining some of the common similarities the two shared: Both lost their mothers in early childhood. Both suffered from depression (Darwin also suffered from a variety of crippling stomach ailments and chronic headaches), and both wrestled with religious doubt. Each had a strained relationship with his father, and each ...