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Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
01-03-2018, 11:23 AM
Post: #76
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
Well, I have followed all the hints, and I now think it is the Lincoln-Todd monument at Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park in Phillips, Wisconsin!

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/51850
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01-03-2018, 12:42 PM
Post: #77
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
And the point is well-deserved, Roger!! Kudos!

Laurie: 5
Roger: 2
Bill B.: 1
Dennis: 1
Gene: 1
Leon: 1

(If you prefer a ticket instead - let me know...)
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01-03-2018, 08:11 PM (This post was last modified: 01-03-2018 08:15 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #78
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
   
Nine Ladies DancingĀ - Nine fruits of the Holy Spirit

Here's one lady - who is/was she, and what links her to "the forum"?
   
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01-04-2018, 05:43 AM
Post: #79
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
No idea - a young Catherine the Great?
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01-04-2018, 07:36 AM
Post: #80
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
I thought this a hard one - not Catherine the Great but European, Roger.
Hint #1: Think Mary.
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01-04-2018, 10:19 AM
Post: #81
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
Hint #2: Think fashion.
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01-04-2018, 11:44 AM
Post: #82
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I'm going with Jenny Lind.
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01-04-2018, 01:05 PM
Post: #83
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
Empress Eugenie?
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01-04-2018, 01:08 PM (This post was last modified: 01-04-2018 01:24 PM by L Verge.)
Post: #84
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
Empress Eugenie would be my guess also because she was the fashion icon of the 19th century. Mary Lincoln's love of fashion would be the link to our forum?
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01-04-2018, 03:42 PM (This post was last modified: 01-04-2018 03:43 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #85
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
Good guess, Dennis, but - kudos, the ladies nailed it!
Laurie: 6
Susan: 1
Roger: 2
Bill B.: 1
Dennis: 1
Gene: 1
Leon: 1

We recently discussed the cat-tail-quote - please go here for two interesting sites on Mary's/presidental fashion and possible fauxpas to French emperors' and other gentlemen's taste:
https://www.google.de/amp/s/lisawallerro...tails/amp/

http://civilwarsaga.com/abraham-lincolns...-napoleon/
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01-04-2018, 06:25 PM
Post: #86
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
Napoleon III was supposed to be a real womanizer, but the coy Eugenie stuck to her virginity and was the one to capture his heart (for a while). There's a story that he supposedly asked her, while courting, how to get to her room. She replied "by way of the chapel," leaving no doubt that it would take marriage to get to her boudoir.

So, he married her, but the love didn't last that long. She miscarried their first child and then almost died in childbirth with their only child, a son. This soured her on going through all of that again, and her husband went back to his old ways of finding "love." Apparently, she gave her blessing to that arrangement.
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01-04-2018, 06:49 PM (This post was last modified: 01-04-2018 07:11 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #87
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
I guess Mary didn't adore that part.

   
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01-04-2018, 07:26 PM
Post: #88
RE: Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia
Um, a Lego Henry Rathbone?
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01-04-2018, 07:31 PM
Post: #89
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Kudos, Bill - I thought this to last longer!
Laurie: 6
Roger: 2
Bill B.: 2
Susan: 1
Dennis: 1
Gene: 1
Leon: 1
And I thought this a bit Xmas-y...:
   
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01-05-2018, 03:22 PM
Post: #90
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Eleven Pipers PipingĀ - Eleven faithful disciples

I'll give this another try - who is he supposed to "be"?
   
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