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Lopsided Lincoln: Lincoln may have had facial defect
Associated Press Writer ^ | Mon Aug 13, 11:03 PM ET | CARLA K. JOHNSON

Posted on 08/14/2007 6:28:22 AM PDT by aruanan

CHICAGO - Artists, sculptors and photographers knew Abraham Lincoln's face had a good side. Now it's confirmed by science. Laser scans of two life masks, made from plaster casts of Lincoln's face, reveal the 16th president's unusual degree of facial asymmetry, according to a new study.

The left side of Lincoln's face was much smaller than the right, an aberration called cranial facial microsomia. The defect joins a long list of ailments — including smallpox, heart illness and depression — that modern doctors have diagnosed in Lincoln.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abelincoln; deformity; dishonestabe; face; lincoln; lincolnthetyrant; tyrant; tyrantlincoln; worstpresidentever
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I'll post an interesting photo in a bit to show the facial deformity of Clinton's lawyer Kendall.
1 posted on 08/14/2007 6:28:24 AM PDT by aruanan
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I'll post an interesting photo in a bit to show the facial deformity of Clinton's lawyer Kendall.

I think he looks like Jimmah Carter.
2 posted on 08/14/2007 6:30:52 AM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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Here it is: The Three Faces of Kendall
3 posted on 08/14/2007 6:31:59 AM PDT by aruanan
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So have they run the “gay test” on Lincoln yet?


4 posted on 08/14/2007 6:49:26 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Just goes to show you that Presidential races are not “Beauty Pageant's , best hair, best smile, best looking wife. Lincoln would have never qualified yet, he was one of the best Presidents this Country has ever had.
5 posted on 08/14/2007 6:55:01 AM PDT by tajgirvan (Praying for our Korean Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Hebrews 13:3)
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Of what possible interest could this story be? Who cares? Has there been a continuing affect?


6 posted on 08/14/2007 6:55:53 AM PDT by dbacks (I forgot to pay the rent on my tagline.)
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Just goes to show you that Presidential races are not “Beauty Pageant's , best hair, best smile, best looking wife. Lincoln would have never qualified yet, he was one of the best Presidents this Country has ever had.

Mitt Romney, call your office!

7 posted on 08/14/2007 6:59:12 AM PDT by meandog (Romney and Giuliani: Just like Bill Clinton, lying draft-dodgers!)
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he was one of the best Presidents this Country has ever had.

Free Republic's neo-confederate regiment lining up for a bayonet charge in 3...2...1...

8 posted on 08/14/2007 6:59:54 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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Lincoln wasn't the only one with a facial 'defect'...


9 posted on 08/14/2007 7:03:00 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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circa 1846


1860

I am not seeing it in the pre-war photos. There's some facial asymmetry, but it appears to be within normal limits.

The distortion in later photographs is probably stress or an incipient stroke (you know he was stressed out).

10 posted on 08/14/2007 7:04:17 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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Of what possible interest could this story be? Who cares? Has there been a continuing affect?

Continuing effect? It gave me a chance to run the 3 Faces of Kendall.
11 posted on 08/14/2007 7:04:42 AM PDT by aruanan
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Would Lincoln have been elected to town postmaster if there had been TV then? He had a high, reedy voice, tended to ramble off at seeming tangents when trying to make a point, and from all reports, (”the original gorilla”), seemed to lack any ability at physical grace. That he was a clever, shifty lawyer, wrote well, retained everything he ever read, and had a quiet ticking of burning ambition would not get him elected today.


12 posted on 08/14/2007 7:07:28 AM PDT by jonascord (Hurray! for the Bonny Blue Flag that bears the Single Star!)
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A horse kicked Lincoln in the head when Lincoln was a boy. This is what caused the ‘lazy’ eye look he has in some photographs. The Lincoln museum in Springfield IL has some wonderful information on this president. I encourage anyone to visit - especially reporters and researchers.


13 posted on 08/14/2007 7:09:49 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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I was talking about Clinton’s lawyer Kendall. Kendall looks like Jimmah Carter.

Carter just goes to show you that Presidential races aren’t always Sanity, Competence, or Beauty Pageants.

14 posted on 08/14/2007 7:09:59 AM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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You make a good point, but also observe how his mole flips from right to left, depending on the photo. A common problem with Civil War era photographs, is whether or not it's reversed.

The best way I've found is to look at the lock on the rifle most of the subjects are holding. It's a tell-tale of orientation.

15 posted on 08/14/2007 7:15:11 AM PDT by jonascord (Hurray! for the Bonny Blue Flag that bears the Single Star!)
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Just goes to show you that Presidential races are not “Beauty Pageant's , best hair, best smile, best looking wife. Lincoln would have never qualified yet, he was one of the best Presidents this Country has ever had.

Might not be a beauty contest, but you know he'd never be elected dog-catcher in this society with a puss like that..

16 posted on 08/14/2007 7:18:30 AM PDT by Riodacat (Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge, truth and reality sucks....)
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....an aberration called Cranial Facial Microsomia

....And Congress has announced that there will be a new federal holiday set aside sometime in the month of August in honor of all those begotten by the affliction C.F.M.

17 posted on 08/14/2007 7:19:57 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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I knew where you were going :p Just wanted get in a dig into the Mittfans about how stately and Presidential he“looks’
18 posted on 08/14/2007 7:24:23 AM PDT by tajgirvan (Praying for our Korean Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Hebrews 13:3)
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Of course some are Daguerre (or ferrotype) and some are glass plate - I should have mentioned that.

In fact, though, it reinforces my point -- no matter WHICH way the pictures are flipped, there just isn't any noticeable facial asymmetry of the sort that indicates actual microsomia.

19 posted on 08/14/2007 7:27:13 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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Neither would Mitt after the Seamus scandal :p


20 posted on 08/14/2007 7:27:42 AM PDT by tajgirvan (Praying for our Korean Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Hebrews 13:3)
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