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Lincoln (USA) - Place names (municipalities), Mountains, Educational institutions, Buildings and roads, Culture, Automotive, Ships, Aircraft, Miscellaneous

40°49N 96°41W, pop (2000e) 225 600. Capital of state in Lancaster Co, SE Nebraska, USA; state capital in 1867, when it was renamed after President Lincoln; railway; two universities (1867, 1887); trade in grain and livestock; planetarium, art gallery, sculpture garden.

Place names (municipalities)

In Argentina

Lincoln, Buenos Aires in Argentina

In Australia

Port Lincoln, South Australia in Australia

In Canada

Lincoln, New Brunswick Lincoln, Ontario Lincoln County, Ontario Lincoln (electoral district), a former federal electoral district in Ontario

In New Zealand

Lincoln, New Zealand

In the United Kingdom

Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, the county town of Lincolnshire: the original place called "Lincoln"

In the United States

Named Lincoln

Lincoln, Alabama Lincoln, Arkansas Lincoln, California Lincoln Square, Chicago Lincoln, Delaware Lincoln, Illinois Lincoln, Iowa Lincoln, Maine Lincoln, Massachusetts Lincoln, Michigan Lincoln, Missouri Lincoln, Montana Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capital of Nebraska Lincoln, New Hampshire Lincoln, New York Lincoln, North Dakota Lincoln, Pennsylvania Lincoln, Rhode Island Lincoln, Vermont Lincoln, Virginia Lincoln, Wisconsin (12) Lincolnwood, Illinois The State of Lincoln, two unrelated proposals for new U.S. states

With Lincoln in the name

Lincoln Center, Kansas Lincoln City, Indiana Lincoln City, Oregon Lincoln Heights, Ohio several Lincoln Parks Lincoln Township, Michigan (8) Lincoln Township, Minnesota (2) Lincoln Township, Pennsylvania (3) Lincoln Village, Ohio Lincoln County is the name of counties in 23 U.S. states Lincoln Parish, Louisiana

Mountains

There are five mountains called Mount Lincoln, all in the United States:

Mount Lincoln (Colorado) Mount Lincoln (Massachusetts) Mount Lincoln (Nevada) Mount Lincoln (New Hampshire) Mount Lincoln (Washington)

Educational institutions

Post-secondary institutions

Lincoln College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, named after a fifteenth-century Bishop of Lincoln, Lincolnshire Lincoln College, Lincolnshire, a Further Education college in Lincolnshire, England Lincoln University (California) Lincoln University (Missouri) Lincoln University (New Zealand) Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) University of Lincoln (England) University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Secondary institutions

Abraham Lincoln High School (Des Moines) (Iowa) Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles) (California) Abraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco) (California) Abraham Lincoln High School (San Jose) (California) Abraham Lincoln High School (New York) (New York) Lincoln High School (Stockton) (California) Lincoln High School (Jersey City) (New Jersey) Lincoln High School (Lincoln, NE) (Nebraska) Lincoln High School (Manitowoc) (Wisconsin) Lincoln High School (Portland) (Oregon) Lincoln High School (Vincennes) (Indiana)

Buildings and roads

Lincoln Castle Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City Lincoln Highway Lincoln Laboratory at MIT Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Lincoln Tunnel

Culture

Lincoln, the title of three separate TV programs about the U.S. president, portrayed by Hal Holbrook (1975) Sam Waterston (1988) Jason Robards (1992) Lincoln (film), a 2008 film about Abraham Lincoln starring Liam Neeson Lincoln, a slang term for the United States five dollar bill, which bears the President's image on its obverse Lincoln (album), a record album by the band They Might Be Giants, named in honor of Lincoln, Massachusetts Lincoln Imp, a purported evil sprite petrified in the Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Records, a record label from the 1920s, prominently featuring President Lincoln's image in its logo Lincolnanity is a branch of Pastafarianism

Automotive

Lincoln (automobile) — luxury automobile division of the Ford Motor Company (named in honor of United States President Abraham Lincoln)

Ships

Four Royal Navy warships HMS Lincoln of the 18th century. HMS Lincoln (F99) HMS Lincoln City Two U.S. Navy ships, USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) - a submarine USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) - an aircraft carrier

Aircraft

Avro Lincoln, RAF bomber developed just too late to see service in WW II and obsoleted by jet aircraft ten years later Lincoln Aircraft Company, manufacturer of airplanes during the 1920s and early 1930s

Miscellaneous

Lincoln biscuit, A short dough biscuit Lincoln Logs, a popular children's toy Lincoln red cattle, a breed of cattle originally bred in Lincolnshire, England Lincoln (sheep), a breed of sheep originally bred in Lincolnshire, England Lincoln City F.C., Football club from Lincoln, England.

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