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Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend
Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend: a folklore list of parallels between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, circulating since 1964; partly true, partly fabricated, explained by selection bias.
Lincoln, England
Lincoln, England: county town of Lincolnshire on the River Witham; Roman Lindum Colonia, one of four British coloniae; Norman cathedral begun 1072; city of 102,545 people (2022).
Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska: state capital and second-largest city, founded 1869 as renamed Lancaster, population about 301,500, home of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Nebraska State Capitol.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Lincoln, New Hampshire: White Mountains town established 1782, once a J.E. Henry logging and paper company town with New England's largest logging railroad, now a tourism hub anchored by Loon Mountain Resort.
Lincoln's House Divided Speech
Lincoln's House Divided Speech, delivered June 16, 1858 in Springfield, Illinois, accepted the Republican Senate nomination and declared the nation could not endure permanently half slave and half free, accusing Douglas and Democratic leaders of a proslavery conspiracy.
Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn (Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn), one of the four Inns of Court in London with the exclusive right to call barristers; records from 1422, site granted 1228, largest of the Inns.
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Lincoln's Inn Fields, formerly Fickett's, Purse, and Cup Fields, is London's largest garden square, a Grade II registered park in Holborn, Camden, laid out formally in 1735 and opened to the public by the LCC in 1894.
Lincoln's Lost Speech
Lincoln's Lost Speech: Abraham Lincoln's unrecorded May 29, 1856 address at the Bloomington, Illinois convention founding the Illinois Republican Party; known only from an Alton Weekly Courier summary and Whitney's disputed 1896 reconstruction.
Lincoln's New Salem
Lincoln's New Salem, a reconstructed 1830s village near Petersburg, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived 1831-1837 as clerk, Black Hawk War captain, postmaster, surveyor, and legislator; abandoned by 1840, rebuilt by the CCC.
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire, an eastern English shire county with seven districts under Lincolnshire County Council, part of Greater Lincolnshire with North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire unitaries; rural, agricultural, with a £3.02bn 2024 visitor economy and a paused 2026 unitary reorganisation.
Lincomycin
Lincomycin is a lincosamide antibiotic produced by the soil bacterium Streptomyces lincolnensis, named after Lincoln, Nebraska, and active mainly against Gram-positive bacteria and anaerobes.
Lincos language
Lincos (Lingua Cosmica) is a 1960 constructed language by Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal for messaging extraterrestrials via radio pulses, teaching itself from mathematics to ethics; never transmitted.
Linda A. Hicke
Linda A. Hicke is an American cell biologist who established that a single ubiquitin tag directs membrane proteins into lysosomes, and won a 1998 PECASE award.
Linda A. Randolph
Linda A. Randolph is an American public health pediatrician in Washington, DC, known for longitudinal research on prenatal cocaine exposure and for co-founding the city's first birth center in 2000.
Linda A. Sherman
Linda A. Sherman is an American immunologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for her work on T cell recognition of MHC molecules.
Linda Andersen
Linda Andersen, later Linda Cerup-Simonsen, Norwegian sailor born 1969 in Tønsberg; won 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold in the Europe dinghy class, first Norwegian woman with Summer Olympic gold; tenth in the 1996 470 with sister Ida Andersen.
Linda Avey
Linda Avey is an American biotechnology executive who co-founded the personal genetics company 23andMe in 2006, serving as co-president until leaving in 2009 to pursue Alzheimer's research.
Linda B. Buck
Linda B. Buck, born 1947 in Seattle, is an American neuroscientist who discovered odorant receptor genes and shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Linda B. Smith
Linda B. Smith is an American cognitive scientist and developmental psychologist at Indiana University Bloomington, known for research on how infants learn object names through statistical learning.
Linda Barlow
Linda A. Barlow is an American developmental neurobiologist known for research on how taste buds form and regenerate, now a professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Linda Bartoshuk
Linda Bartoshuk is an American experimental psychologist who studies taste, smell, and flavor, and is known for discovering supertasters, people who experience unusually intense tastes.
Linda Bassett
Linda Bassett (born 1950) is an English actress known as Nurse Phyllis Crane in Call the Midwife, a BAFTA-nominated lead in East Is East (1999), and an interpreter of Caryl Churchill, currently starring in Zeldin's Care at the Young Vic.
Linda Birnbaum
Linda Birnbaum is an American toxicologist known for research on dioxins and endocrine-disrupting chemicals who led NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program from 2009 to 2019.
Linda Blair
Linda Blair (born 1959, St. Louis) is the American actress who played Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973), winning a Golden Globe and earning an Oscar nomination; she founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation animal rescue in 2004.
Linda C. Cork
Linda C. Cork is a veterinary pathologist and comparative medicine researcher who chaired Stanford's Department of Comparative Medicine from 1994 to 2009, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1988.
Linda C. Degutis
Linda C. Degutis is an American injury prevention researcher, Yale School of Public Health lecturer, and National Academy of Medicine member who directed the CDC's injury center from 2010 to 2014.
Linda C. Hsieh‐Wilson
Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson is an American chemist at Caltech who studies chemical glycobiology, showing how sugars on proteins regulate cancer metabolism, axon regeneration, and long-term memory.
Linda Cardellini
Linda Cardellini (Linda Edna Cardellini), American actress born 1975 in Redwood City, California; known for Lindsay Weir in Freaks and Geeks, Samantha Taggart on ER, Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo, Judy Hale in Dead to Me, Laura Barton in Marvel films, and Pamela Voorhees in Crystal Lake; won a 2026 Emmy for DTF St. Louis.
Linda Carroll
Linda Carroll (MS, LMFT, BCC) is an American marriage and family therapist and author, not the namesakes in library catalogs. Licensed since 1981, known for Love Cycles (2014), Love Skills, the memoir Her Mother's Daughter about daughter Courtney Love, and The Concussion Crisis.
Linda Carter
Linda Carter, also Linda Peacock, is a fictional EastEnders character played by Kellie Bright since December 2013, landlady of the Queen Vic, wife of Mick Carter, defined by rape, alcoholism, and The Six storylines.