One score is 20 years, so 1863 to 2016 would be 7 score and 13 years.
Abraham Lincoln began his now famous Gettysburg Address with these words. It was a speech given at the dedication ceremony of the cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield in November 1863.
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
"Four score and seven years" which indicates 87 years (4x20 +7), the time between the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) and the Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863).87a score is 20 years, so 4 score is 80 years plus 7.
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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.
A score is twenty years, so 4 score is 80 years and 'four score and seven' means 87 years.
Learning the Gettysburg Address aren't you? A score is 20, therefore, 4 score would be eighty years.
A score means 20. Hence in the Gettysburg Address when Lincoln referred to "four score and seven years ago" he meant 87 years ago.
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Four score and seven years, which is 87 years as a score is slang for 20.
One score is 20 years, so 1863 to 2016 would be 7 score and 13 years.
Eight score and ten is 170-years. A score equals twenty-years. The most famous use of the word score, is in the Gettysburg Address. Score is a slang term for a twenty-dollar bill.
It is 20 years. So in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, "four score and seven years ago" is 87 years--he was referring to 1776.
Abraham Lincoln began his now famous Gettysburg Address with these words. It was a speech given at the dedication ceremony of the cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield in November 1863.
The Gettysburg address.
Four score and seven years ago...