Abraham Lincoln

                                                  ABRAHAM LINCOLN  1809-1865

Born: February 12, 1809

Assassination: April 15, 1865

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America, he led the United States Army through  the Civil War. He became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party Leader, and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1846.

In Office: March 4, 1861-April 15, 1865

Assassinated: Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC.

Resting Place: Lincoln Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, US.

Death by: John Wilkes Booth.

                                                JOHN WILKES BOOTH 1838-1865

John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor, he was born in May 10, 1838. He was on the the side of the Confederate, and after the war, he assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre. he broke his leg jumping off the balcony, landed on the stage, ran outside, and rode off on his escape horse, he died in

April 26, 1865. He shot himself in the chest inside a barn, and was paralyzed until death.

Resting Place: Green Mount Cemetery

Cause Of Death: Gunshot wound

The Founding of Longtitude

John Harrison was the son of a carpenter, and Harrison was a carpenter too, ships were trying to find the secret of how to be able to know how far away they were from their dock, so, if it was noon at the dock, and 2:00, they were 30 degrees away from the dock, because, every 24 hours Earth spins 360 degrees, every hour it moves 15 degrees. When Harrison was 21, the Longitude Prize was announced, whoever had the most successful way too count longitude would win 10,000,000, or ten million, when the Prize was announced, Harrison instantly wanted to compete in it, so he build a "sea clock" known as H1. When H1 failed, he build a new clock, H2, H2 didn't take up as much space as H1, but it was heavier. H2 was made, but in a war, and it was too important to go out sea, but Harrison found a flaw in H2, and stopped all work, Harrison then made H3, it performed very well, but not enough, then, for many years, he build H4, but he was too old to go on a voyage to test it, so his son, William Harrison, did it, and H4 won the prize, but, there was no official winner of the Longitude Prize.