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Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Was Mary Todd Lincoln a husband-beater?[I'm not suggesting that there's any historical doubt on the question - merely, that I personally don't have a clue. (Time to re-read David Herbert Donald's bio, perhaps....)] The idea comes from an article on husband-beating in La Firme newspaper of Santiago de Chile (preserved on Usenet), which says: El problema ha afectado a muchas hombres, tanto de países desarrollados como del tercer mundo. Por ejemplo, el mismísimo Abraham Lincoln, ex Presidente de Estados Unidos, sufrió las consecuencias de casarse con una mujer de armas tomar. Let's just say I'm gobsmacked and will look into it. | free website counter 
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