Gold isnt the only thing that crafty Abraham Lincoln was hiding during his Presidency. A secret message was just found inscribed on the inner workings of his watch. Maybe its just because I enjoy history, but this is pretty effing cool.
"The engraving, by watchmaker Jonathan Dillon, is dated April 13, 1861, and reads in part: "Fort Sumpter was attacked by the rebels" and "thank God we have a government."
Forty-five years later, Dillon the watchmaker told The New York Times that he was repairing Lincoln's watch when he heard that the first shots of the Civil War had been fired.
Dillon said he unscrewed the dial of the watch and used a sharp instrument to mark the historic day on the president's watch. He told the newspaper that, as far as he knew, no one had ever seen the inscription."
Ok, sorry if I made it seem like Lincoln himself wrote a secret in his watch, but it makes it more interesting to the non history buff. If you werent impressed you can go do some word problems, Poindexter....
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