Since “score” means 20, four score is 80. Four score and seven years is, therefore, 80 and 7 years, which is 87 years. Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863, 87 years after ...

On April 12, 1861, long-simmering tensions between North and South ignited and began the four-year War Between the States. In a recent Pew Research Center survey, more than half of Americans said ...

Back in the days of Lincoln and the Civil War, a “score” was a term meaning twenty, thus making Lincoln’s words of “Four Score and seven years ago…,” actually mean 87 years ago. If we still used ...