Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

(08-20-2019 05:03 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Kudos, Laurie. Yes, it was a hippo who was destined for the Cincinnati Zoo. It may have been the largest hippo ever brought to the USA up to that time.

I credit my wife for this question. She is reading a book that mentions the President Lincoln. She came to me and asked if I knew Germany named one of its ships after Abraham Lincoln. I didn't know this, and I googled it and came upon this page:

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~cacunithi...ncoln.html

Great story and fascinating site, Roger!! (My grandma's brothers and father were captains in those days.) Abraham Lincoln was especially popular in Germany around the turn of the century. I was just disturbed by the English title in name - unlike nowadays very uncommon back then to use English names (like "Kalifornien" for "California") and titles if there was a German translation or spelling. So I would have expected the ship being named "Präsident Lincoln". Downloading the postcard on the link revealed it likely indeed was so ("Präsident", not "President").