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Assassination Trivia
09-01-2021, 07:36 PM
Post: #2326
RE: Assassination Trivia
No, much simpler!
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09-01-2021, 09:21 PM
Post: #2327
RE: Assassination Trivia
During Mary Lincoln's trip to Europe?

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09-01-2021, 09:25 PM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2021 09:27 PM by Anita.)
Post: #2328
RE: Assassination Trivia
Mick and I are on the same thought path! I was thinking Grant or Mary Lincoln since both were in Pau, France. Maybe the Chateau de Pau?
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09-01-2021, 10:09 PM
Post: #2329
RE: Assassination Trivia
But, Anita, it has to be external to the EU ... I dunno ... Scotland ?

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09-02-2021, 12:35 AM
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RE: Assassination Trivia
Mick, I thought about Scotland. Maybe Germany. Eva, a hint please. Was the remark made before or after the assassination?
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09-02-2021, 03:18 AM (This post was last modified: 09-02-2021 03:20 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #2331
RE: Assassination Trivia
Hint 1: This is the city (what is that now? It's not just any crosswalk):
   
Hint 2: Not Mary nor the Grants - think confederate.
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09-02-2021, 04:49 AM
Post: #2332
RE: Assassination Trivia
It looks like the road on the cover of a Beatles' album. I do not recall the title, but the cover showed the Beatles walking across the street. Asia Booth Clarke lived in England after the Lincoln assassination. Am I on the right track?
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09-02-2021, 05:18 AM (This post was last modified: 09-02-2021 05:20 AM by AussieMick.)
Post: #2333
RE: Assassination Trivia
Abbey Road, Roger. Its a zebra crossing in London. St John's Wood (Suburb)
Eva said the picture she posted or where the deja-vu happened was a "Lincoln" building .

There have been a few 'myths' associated with that photo ... probably no help with Eva's question
https://www.biography.com/news/beatles-a...nniversary

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09-02-2021, 05:34 AM (This post was last modified: 09-02-2021 05:35 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #2334
RE: Assassination Trivia
Brilliant, the place is in London (yeah, yeah, yeah)! The person I'm afraid is not Asia Booth.

Hint 3: Think of other confeds that in the aftermath of events (not 100% "narrowly" assassination related, more indirectly) went to London.
Hint 4: It's the name of the place in the photo that likely caused the déjà-vu.
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09-02-2021, 05:52 AM
Post: #2335
RE: Assassination Trivia
Does it have to do with Judah Benjamin?
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09-02-2021, 07:07 AM
Post: #2336
RE: Assassination Trivia
Exactly, Roger - the first point goes to you. Now there's the "what about" left to find out.
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09-02-2021, 07:50 AM
Post: #2337
RE: Assassination Trivia
Judah Benjamin went to London and worked as a lawyer. The main location for that occupation was (is) Lincoln Inns Fields.
Is that the deja vu ? ( I dont know about the Abbey Rd and zebra crossing connection though)

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09-02-2021, 04:23 PM
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Correct, it is the Lincoln's Inn. Before he could work in England, he had to undergo qualification and being called to the bar - for that he enrolled at the Lincoln's Inn. It must have felt like a weird
déjà-vu to Benjamin to go back to apprenticeship moreover in a place bearing that name of his former "rival" (which, of course, doesn't derive from Abraham Lincoln but from Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln).
Abbey Road was the hint that just was to lead you to London!
Your prize is this beautiful song from "Abbey Road":
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQetemT1sWc
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09-02-2021, 05:21 PM
Post: #2339
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My very first job was as an office boy working for a printing firm in Chancery Lane which is next to Fleet Street, then home of all London-based newspapers. ... and many of my deliveries meant shortcuts around Lincoln's Inn. I didn't recognize it from the photo.
St Johns Wood apparently has a large synagogue and there is a big Jewish population in that suburb, so there's another deju vu link to Judah Benjamin.

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10-09-2021, 04:20 PM
Post: #2340
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On the day of the assassination John Wilkes Booth asked a person whether the current year was 1864 or 1865?

To whom did Booth direct this question?
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