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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 08-30-2015 01:48 PM
Kudos Roger. According to my source it was a china candlestick that was held by Tad while his father read his speech. https://books.google.com/books?id=pZ4TAA...cs&f=false
I also did read that Lincoln started out holding the candle and nudged Brooks to take it because he was having trouble managing while reading the speech. So if Tad wasn't holding it I guess Mrs. Keckley had a candlestick held by Lincoln during his last public speech.
You win a candlestick with candle to be held by Vicki when you give your next speech.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-30-2015 01:55 PM
Thank you, Anita, but I hate public speaking. However, I do give lectures to Addison, our cat, when she scratches the furniture. Hope that counts as a speech!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 08-30-2015 02:16 PM
(08-30-2015 01:55 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Thank you, Anita, but I hate public speaking. However, I do give lectures to Addison, our cat, when she scratches the furniture. Hope that counts as a speech!It depends, do you speak Cat?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-30-2015 02:33 PM
Nope, but I am willing to learn from you if you can teach me!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-03-2015 04:58 PM
As you may know, Abraham Lincoln was interested in all scientific disciplines. What was on his bucket list to one day be proven by him to be "lop-sided"?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 09-03-2015 06:05 PM
The left side of his face or his double vision?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-03-2015 06:28 PM
Excellent guess, Anita, but, I'm sorry, not correct.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-04-2015 02:51 AM
Hint #1: The scientific discipline in this case would be biology rather than medicine.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 09-04-2015 04:06 AM
I have no clue whatsoever. Abraham Lincoln loved cats, and sometimes our cat tilts her head to one side. So I will say cats?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-04-2015 06:44 AM
A very good guess, Roger, but he wasn't referring to cats.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 09-04-2015 08:29 AM
Was he referring to his ears? I've never noticed them, but that pops to mind.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-04-2015 11:46 AM
Brilliant idea, Laurie, but not what he intended to prove being lop-sided either.
Hint #2: He certainly also observed this feature at his own home.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-04-2015 02:26 PM
Hint #3: Roger's guess has so far been the closest as Lincoln indeed intended to examine an animal whom he thought to be higher on one side than on the other.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 09-04-2015 03:06 PM
Cows or pigs?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Jim Page - 09-04-2015 04:28 PM
A horse is a horse, of course, of course. And here is an answer that you'll endorse.
--Jim