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Rashid Kapadia

Rashid Kapadia

Speaker, Project Manager, Engineer, Consultant, and Author of Necessary Bridges

Published Nov 19, 2019

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156 years ago, on Nov 19, 1863, at Gettysburg, POTUS Abraham Lincoln delivered the most famous oration (271-words, 2-minutes) in American history.

Here’s a modern version from “The Address”: A 2014 Ken Burns documentary 

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