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Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
02-09-2015, 11:34 AM (This post was last modified: 02-09-2015 11:35 AM by Gene C.)
Post: #751
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
Jocko was a monkey. From a story Lincoln told to Grant

http://www.aboutabrahamlincoln.com/anecd...mbled.html

from Lincoln's Yarns and Stories by Alexandr McClure
http://www.aboutabrahamlincoln.com/anecd...dotes.html

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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02-09-2015, 01:05 PM
Post: #752
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
You win, Gene! Jocko was a monkey.

I cannot think of a prize for this. So I just send best wishes for a wonderful day.
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02-10-2015, 04:00 PM
Post: #753
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
One of the men included in several of the Lincoln deathbed illustrations also visited Mary Lincoln when she was confined at Bellevue Place in 1875. I am not referring to Robert Lincoln. What was this gentleman's name?
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02-10-2015, 06:19 PM
Post: #754
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
According to a letter Dr. Patterson wrote to the editor of the Chicago Tribune on Aug.28, 1875, "she has been called upon by Gen. Farnsworth, of St. Charles".
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02-11-2015, 05:46 AM
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Kudos, Eva. That is correct! Mary had written John Franklin Farnsworth a letter, and he dropped by Bellevue Place to see her. Farnsworth is also depicted in many of the Lincoln deathbed illustrations.

You win very best hopes for an early spring in Germany!
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02-16-2015, 03:02 PM
Post: #756
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
When, on April 7, 1863, Abraham Lincoln visited General Daniel Sickles and the Third Corps of the Army of the Potomac, he happened to be the victim of a kiss-attack by Princess Salm-Salm, who had laid a wager with one of the officers that she would kiss the President.

What prize did she win?
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02-16-2015, 03:09 PM
Post: #757
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
I was so curious as to the answer that I had to look it up.

She won a box of gloves.
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02-16-2015, 03:21 PM
Post: #758
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
Kudos, Dave - I was quite sure the answer wasn't online anywhere!

You win a box of gloves as I believe this is a useful prize regarding the current weather conditions?!
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02-16-2015, 04:03 PM
Post: #759
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
Who is this?

[Image: whooooosthis.jpg]
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02-16-2015, 04:32 PM
Post: #760
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
(02-16-2015 04:03 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Who is this?

[Image: whooooosthis.jpg]

Ella Starr?
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02-16-2015, 04:42 PM
Post: #761
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The lady Eva just discussed, Princess Salm-Salm.
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02-16-2015, 04:58 PM
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Good try, Joe, but Dave got it. That is Princess Salm-Salm. This photo was taken by the paparazzi right after she kissed President Lincoln, and the paparazzi are threatening to show the kissing photo (which they also took) to Mary Lincoln. Princess Salm-Salm is obviously worried about Mary's reaction.

Dave, you win another box of gloves.
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03-06-2015, 05:57 PM
Post: #763
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
What/who are/were El Monassir and El Tousson?
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03-06-2015, 07:59 PM
Post: #764
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Two of the monitor-type ships constructed in England for the CSA in order to protect the Southern shorelines.
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03-06-2015, 08:12 PM (This post was last modified: 03-06-2015 08:15 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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Kudos, Laurie! That is correct!
To conceal the true ownership the later British "HMS Wivern" was being constructed as the Egyptian warship "El Monassir" and was to have been named "Mississippi" upon delivery to the Confederates, and the "El Tousson" was to have been named North Carolina but was named "HMS Scorpion" under British flag.
For pictures and more, please go here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Scorpion_%281863%29
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Wivern_(1863)

Laurie, you win an exciting Nile cruise:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zEfPyO14J4
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