5 Lincoln continues to inspire.

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The Oscar-nominated movie "Lincoln" inspired a Mississippi man to delve further into the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. What Ranjan Batra found surprised him, and it wasn't that Mississippi failed to ratify the amendment in 1865 along with three-fourths of the states. What caught his attention was that when the state did ratify it in 1995, it didn't officially notify the U.S. archivist...

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