Abraham Lincoln

Richard Nixon astride a dragon, sort of. Image: Dall EIf you haven’t been tracking it, Game of Thrones is back—and it’s up to its same old tricks: namely, violence, incest, and great power politics. My opinion is that House of the Dragon is a mediocre follow-up to the original series, but it’s still an interesting meditation on power and rivalry in a brutal world. Well, DALL-E, the AI-fueled art creator, is good at putting famous or iconic figures into bizarre scenarios, so we thought: who better to insert into the cold…

Abraham Lincoln is remembered not only as a statesman and America’s 16th president, but his fame transcended the gamut of politics in his heroic role during the US Civil war and his role in the abolition of slaves. Born on February 12, 1809, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the life of the self-educated lawyer and public figure has been subject of numerous books – both fictive and non-fictional. Lincoln, who was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending a play at…