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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 ...
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 ...
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