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BOY did I screw up. I sent the following email to "[email protected]" thinking it was a hoax email address for Abe Lincoln. Hope Bill and Hillary have a sense of humor. Dear Abe, A few graphics, woodcuts or pen sketches, would have added a nice touch. Also, the color scheme is a bit odd. Why not union Blue? Oh well, like you said yourself, the world will little remember what you said. Take care. --NLM p.s. have you seen the latest staging of Our American Cousin? I hear it's a scream! Best regards to Mary and the boys!

Is this a high school attempt at something. Someone should take the time to review color combinations to make a presentation that is pleasent to the viewer. Red lettering on a black background works well in print, but not on computers as the color generation is lacking. It's not very readable.

The Gettysburg Address as a Powerpoint

On the 150th anniversary of the speech, let's consider how the corporate world's native medium might improve it.

When powerful, executive politicians speak, they often forgo visual aids. Obama, Reagan, Kennedy: There’s something about the prestige of the president, of  presiding, that demands he (or she) face the nation straight-on and honestly, with... his face.

But what if that wasn’t the case? Thirteen years ago, Peter Norvig , the current director of research at Google, suffered a dark night of the soul. Powerpoint presentations, he felt, ruled everything around him. Sales pitches, mission statements, even (shudder) inspirational speeches: All had been processed and extruded by the harsh, homogenizing gizzard of Microsoft’s leviathan.

So, he wondered, what if the Powerpoint had existed earlier in history? What if Lincoln, for example, had turned to the software in a time of utmost national need— what if, oh my gosh, what if Lincoln had delivered the Gettysburg address as a Powerpoint?

And so the stuff of Internet myth came to be .

In Norvig’s hands, the near-biblical phrase—“ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”—becomes (what else?) a chart:

The speech remains concise, though. Norvig prunes Lincoln’s famous 268 words to only six slides. The president’s cascading phrases concerning what, “in a larger sense,” can and cannot be done are converted into a series of bullet points:

And, in a  coup de grâce, Norvig compresses two of the most ringing phrases of Lincoln’s oration into a single slide. Before Powerpoint, who realized that a few words could be edited out of “All men are created equal,” or that “of the people, by the people, for the people” was best expressed with slashes?

Since posting the deck 13 years ago, Norvig has seen a new birth of traffic himself; his now-classic creation has appeared in the  Guardian ,    New York Times , and  Wall Street Journal .  Edward Tufte, probably the world’s most famous information designer, called it “the trump card of subversive and ironic PP productions.” By 2007, over 1.6 million visitors had seen Norvig’s humble Powerpoint.

In a making-of page on his site , Norvig explains how the hideous genius came to be. Turns out, he only enabled by the beast known as Autocontent Wizard:

[When I thought of the idea,] I thought I'd be in for a late night doing some serious research: in color science to find a truely garish color scheme; in typography to find the worst fonts; and in overall design to find a really bad layout. But fortunately for me, the labor-saving Autocontent Wizard took care of all this for me! It suggested a red-on-dark-color choice for the navigation buttons that makes them very hard to see; it chose a serif font for the date that is illegible in low-resolution web mode, and of course Excel outdid itself on the graph, volunteering the 0.1 to 0.9 between the 0 and 1 new nations. All I had to do was take Lincoln's words and break them into pieces, making sure that I captured the main phrases of the original, while losing all the flow, eloquence, and impact.

And so he did, to which we say, bravo. But even since Norvig lowered the peak of American political speech, the cost of making charts has come down. The president may not fire up the ol’ digital projector soon, but—even in “the world’s greatest deliberative body”—its analog equivalent is out in full-force.

Who can forget Senator Tom Coburn’s peroration on the nature of democracy?

Or, in the lesser house, Congresswoman Jackie Speier’s indelible hashtag?

Or, finally, this treatise on the nature of economics?

Floorcharts.com documents the rest of the madness.

I wonder: With chart-centric policy writing as popular as it is now , how long until our executive-in-chief strolls across the Oval Office, warmly declaiming, “Let me show you a histogram…”

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The Gettysburg Address on Powerpoint

This famous illustration of how bereft of all real power and meaning Powerpoint presentations necessarily are is by Peter Norvig ( www.norvig.com ):  Gettysburg

Just click the Gettysburg link above to see one of the great moments in all human history reduced to marketing slides. It is both hilarious and deeply troubling. Once you’ve seen it, you realize how almost all political speeches today can be easily transferred to Powerpoint without losing any of their original depth.

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The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation

Peter Norvig used Powerpoint's auto-content wizard, adapting Abraham Lincoln's famous wartime speech into six slides. Bullet points and headings include "What Makes a Nation Unique" and "Gov't of/for/by the people."

Tired of the monotony imposed by the medium, in an act of satire Peter Norvig used Powerpoint's auto-content wizard, adapting Abraham Lincoln's famous wartime speech into six slides. Bullet points and headings include 'What Makes a Nation Unique' and "Gov't of/for/by the people".

The Battle of Gettysburg

May 29, 2013

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The Battle of Gettysburg. By: Billie Beth Ricca. What?. Spanning over three days, from July 1-3, 1863, The Battle of Gettysburg was the  costliest battle in the American Civil war based on number of casualties.

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The Battle of Gettysburg By: Billie Beth Ricca

What? • Spanning over three days, from July 1-3, 1863, The Battle of Gettysburg was the costliest battle in the American Civil war based on number of casualties. • It was an attempt to strengthen the peace effort in the North or possibly gain diplomatic recognition from Europe, Lee gambles and pursued the Union army into northern soil. The tide of the war turned against the South as the Confederates were defeated at the three day battle at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania with Union causalities at 23,000 and confederate at 28,000. After the battle when the battlefield is dedicated as a cemetery, Lincoln made a few preliminary remarks known as the “Gettysburg Address.”

Who? • General Robert E. Lee was the Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. The general was at the pinnacle of his career and his army apparently unstoppable when they marched into the North that summer of 1863, but the Battle of Gettysburg would prove to be the "high tide" of his army and the war. Never again would Lee be able to mount such an offensive operation into the northern states. • General James Longstreet The most trusted of Lee's corps commanders, Longstreet's troops fought on July 2 and July 3rd at Gettysburg. The general was in charge of the main Southern attack on the last day of the battle. • General George Pickett One Lee's generals, General Pickett commanded a division of Virginia soldiers. His name is forever associated with the third and final day of the battle and the climactic attack against the Union center, known as "Pickett's Charge". • General George Meade was a native Pennsylvanian who was appointed command of the UnionArmy of the Potomac only three days before the Battle of Gettysburg. • Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States from 1861-1865 and after the battle delivered the Gettysburg address. • General John Buford The commander of  Army of the Potomac, his troops encountered the Confederates on June 30th near Gettysburg. It was Buford who decided to stay in the area overnight and wait for the Confederates to return the following day. His choice would set the stage for the Battle of Gettysburg that began the following day.

July 1-3, 1863Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • Union Commanders: General Meade was in overall command with Generals Buford, Reynolds, Doubleday, Hancock and others in charge of different units. • Union Troops Involved: Approx. 95,000 • Union Casualties: 23,040 • Confederate Commanders: General Robert E. Lee was in overall command with Generals Longstreet, Hill, Ewell, Heth, Pickett, Stuart and others in charge of different units. • Confederate Troops Involved: Approx. 75,000 • Confederate Casualties: Estimated between 22,000 and 25,000

Where? • The Battle of Gettysburg took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, near a small farm town. Gettysburg is in Adams County. To get to Gettysburg, the soldiers had to travel through the mountains and over a couple rivers. With these obstacles, it was harder for them to get from place to place. The soldiers also had to get everywhere they went by foot.

Events Leading to Battle… • 1820 Congress passes the Missouri compromise, prohibiting slavery in most of the western territories. • 1854 Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repeals the Missouri Compromise. • 1854, JulyAnti-slavery northerners found the Republican Party. • 1857 In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court rules that congress cannot prohibit slavery in the territories. • 1859 White northerner John Brown, who hoped to start a slave rebellion, attacks the government with a raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. • 1860 Upon Republican Abraham Lincoln's election as president, 11 southern states secede from the Union. • 1861, April 12 The Confederates attack Fort Sumter and the Civil War begins. • 1863, May 1-3 General Lee leads Confederate troops to victory at Chancellorsville, Virginia. • 1863, June 28 General Robert E. Lee and Lieutenant General James Longstreet are in Chambersburg, PA and receive word that the Federal Army of the Potomac is heading into Pennsylvania. • 1863, June 30 Two brigades from John Buford's Union cavalry division scout ahead and enter Gettysburg. Finding signs of Confederates nearby to the Northwest, Buford sends word to Major General John Reynolds in Emmitsburg, Maryland to bring his infantry as soon as possible.

Prior to Battle… • The Civil war had been going on for two years. • Although South was doing well, Robert E. Lee wanted to expand Confederate territory. He wanted to gain supplies from Pennsylvania, and was hoping to blowout the Union forces to win the war for the Confederacy.

Reasons for Battle… • General Robert E. Lee marched his army, the Army of Northern Virginia, out of central Virginia and north toward the Potomac River with the objective of invading Maryland and Pennsylvania. His army was in need of supplies and raw materials from northern farms and warehouses. • General Lee hoped to win the war for the Confederacy by demoralizing the North. • The Confederacy wanted to be recognized as an independent nation. • After General Buford spotted Confederate troops near Gettysburg, he sent word to the Union to defend their territory.

Day One: Wednesday, July 1, 1863 The two armies began to collide as Lee concentrated his forces there, low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division, which was soon reinforced with two units of Union infantry. However, two large Confederate units assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, the North was overpowered by additional southern troops, and driven back through town. http://www.army.mil/gettysburg/flash.html

Day Two: Thursday, July 2, 1863 • The battle lines were drawn up in two sweeping arcs. The main portions of both armies were nearly a mile apart on two parallel ridges; Union forces on Cemetery Ridge formed a three mile "fish hook", while the Confederate forces surrounded them with a six mile arc on Seminary Ridge to the west. Lee ordered an attack against both Union flanks. To the north, the attack ultimately proved futile against the entrenched Union right on East Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill. There was a lack of effective communication that proved the downfall of the Confederacy this day. If they had only known that they were only a few hundred yards away from taking the Unions supply trains...

Day Three: Friday, July 3, 1863 • Lee decided to attack the Union center on Cemetery Ridge. At 1 in the afternoon, the southern artillery opened a bombardment that for a time engaged the massed guns of both sides in a thundering duel for supremacy, but did little to soften up the Union battle lines.Then came the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg...with a salute from Longstreet, General George E. Pickett, in a desperate attempt to recapture the partial success of the preceding day, spearheaded one of the most incredible efforts in military history...a massed infantry assault of 15,000 Confederate troops across the open field toward the Union center on Cemetery Ridge. One mile they marched, while being pounded by artillery and rifle fire. Through it all, Pickett's men reached but failed to break the Union line, and the magnificent effort ended in disaster. The tide of the Confederacy had "swept to its crest, paused, and receded." In 50 minutes, 10,000 in the assault had become casualties, and the attack - forever to be known as Pickett's Charge - was now history.

The Aftermath… • The South's retreat and terrible losses were a turning point in the war. From that point on, the South had to abandon its attempt to take the war North. • It was the furthest North that Confederate forces invaded. If the Union had lost, the Confederates would have been able to march on Washington DC easily. The losses of men and material crippled the South for the remainder of the war. The Union was better equipped to make up for their losses. • Union doctors were caring for both Union and Confederates soldiers along with the citizens of Gettysburg. • The Soldiers National Cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863, and was the occasion of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, when the president not only dedicated a cemetery but gave the north a reason to continue the struggle to reunite the nation, the focus of the American Civil War.

In over the past four years of conflict we have honored the brave 4,100 American soldiers lostin Iraq. But must us not forget this one battle of the civil war, with its total of 51,000 of American soldiers , whose lives were forever lost, in only three days. • Never again would Lee's Army of Northern Virginia be able to strike so far into the North or seriously threaten the northern capitol. Gettysburg was the beginning of the final path, which led these armies finish out America’s bloodiest battle.

Sources • http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html?gclid=CPfC3_H_rp4CFRPxDAod5UZqlA • http://americancivilwar.com/kids_zone/gettysburg_battle.html • http://americanhistory.about.com/library/fastfacts/blffcwbattles1.htm • http://www.army.mil/gettysburg/flash.html • The Civil War and Reconstruction- A Student Companion by William L. Barney

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Battle of gettysburg by: ellie jacobs and daniel trump interesting facts. july 1st, 1863 battle lasted three days. the gettysburg address came from this battle. – powerpoint ppt presentation.

• By Ellie Jacobs and Daniel Trump
• July 1st, 1863
• Battle lasted three days.
• The Gettysburg address came from this battle.
• The confederate had a total of 75,000 men.
• The union had a total of 90,000 men.
• Robert E. Lee decided to take war north
• also wanted attention at Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington
• Confederate troops attacked union Calvary
• Union pushed confederates back
• They prevailed until afternoon when war confederates came.
• The battle lines moved two acres
• James Longstreet (confederate) broke through Sickles lines
• R. S. Ewells (Union) took over East Cemetery hill and Culps hill
• The confederates were very close to taking over the unions supply trains.
• Robert Lee tried to soften Union lines
• George E. Pickett used 15,000 confederate troops to try and assault the union.
• In 50 minutes 10,000 became casualties from the attack.
• He failed to break through union lines.
• More then 66 of general pickett's men died.
• There were 3,155 killed
• 4,530 wounded
• 5,365 missing
• 27 of army were killed, wounded, or missing.
• There were 2,600-4,500 killed
• 12,800 wounded
• 5,250 missing
• 30-34 of the army were killed, wounded, or missing.
• Confederate retreated.
• The union won.
• Gettysburg was one of the most largest and most crucial battles.
• http//www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-w ar/1863/august/battle-gettysburg.jpg
• http//americancivilwar.com/getty.html
• http//www.visit-gettysburg.com/images/day-1-battl e-lines.jpg

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