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RE: Where Is It? - Anita - 12-23-2020 10:17 PM
Great question! Happy holidays.
RE: Where Is It? - Susan Higginbotham - 12-23-2020 10:45 PM
That was a good one! Enjoy your holidays!
RE: Where Is It? - Eva Elisabeth - 12-24-2020 08:58 AM
(12-23-2020 07:46 PM)AussieMick Wrote: There's a room next door to this one called Manhattan.I just have to correct this - it's French and Switzerland...not Italy.
The actual building is named after a France-Italy region .
A great question though!
Oh - and happy holidays to everyone!!
RE: Where Is It? - RJNorton - 12-24-2020 09:10 AM
(12-24-2020 08:58 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Oh - and happy holidays to everyone!!
I second Eva!
RE: Where Is It? - Anita - 12-24-2020 09:36 PM
Happy holidays! On this Christmas Eve I thought this would be a good "Who and Where" trivia question.
On Christmas Eve 1860 Lincoln paid a visit to someone. Who was that someone and where did the visit take place.
NO GOOGLING!
RE: Where Is It? - Susan Higginbotham - 12-24-2020 11:24 PM
His stepmother?
RE: Where Is It? - RJNorton - 12-25-2020 04:52 AM
No idea, but I think the visit to his stepmother was later (within a few weeks of when he departed Springfield for Washington).
Wild guess: Hannah Armstrong.
RE: Where Is It? - Anita - 12-25-2020 04:18 PM
Sorry for the delay. Good guesses Susan and Roger but not correct.
This is someone Lincoln had a long friendship with in spite of some rivalries.
The visit took place in Springfield.
RE: Where Is It? - Susan Higginbotham - 12-25-2020 04:52 PM
Stephen Douglas?
RE: Where Is It? - RJNorton - 12-25-2020 05:00 PM
Perhaps Edward Dickinson Baker?
RE: Where Is It? - Anita - 12-25-2020 05:24 PM
Yes Roger! Do you know where the visit took place?
RE: Where Is It? - RJNorton - 12-26-2020 04:54 AM
I have no idea, but I'll guess Baker's home.
RE: Where Is It? - Anita - 12-26-2020 12:18 PM
Roger, it was at the home of James Matheny and his wife Maria. Your correct guess of Baker wins you a Christmas pudding delivered next Christmas Eve 2021.
“On Christmas Eve, 1860, Baker arrived in Springfield to visit his step-daughter, Maria. Violating protocol, Mr. Lincoln went to the home of Maria and her husband, James Matheny. He walked in without bothering to knock. Greeting the new senator from Oregon, President-elect Lincoln said he ‘would rather see Baker elected Senator than any man alive.'” wrote Baker’s biographers, Harry C. Blair and Rebecca Tarshis.12 http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/members-of-congress/edward-baker/
RE: Where Is It? - RJNorton - 12-26-2020 12:27 PM
(12-26-2020 12:18 PM)Anita Wrote: Roger, it was at the home of James Matheny and his wife Maria. Your correct guess of Baker wins you a Christmas pudding delivered next Christmas Eve 2021.
Thank you, Anita!!
RE: Where Is It? - RJNorton - 03-02-2021 01:00 PM
Please try without googling:
What country in the world, outside the United States, has the most schools named for Abraham Lincoln?