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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - AussieMick - 11-16-2020
Yes, yes, yes, Well done Rob !!!!!!
I was coming to the point where My hint would be that you all would respond "We are not amused"
Oh, and if anybody wants to debate the issue of whether Queen Victoria was more powerful than the Presidents .... Bring it on.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - AussieMick - 12-17-2020
Test of googling skills .... and I expect this to be correctly answered quite quickly. ..
Which US President was born on the same day and year as the best ever wearer of a baggy green ?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 12-17-2020
Lyndon Johnson?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - AussieMick - 12-17-2020
Well done, Roger. Even faster than I thought it would be answered.
For those that don't get up as early as Roger. .. or are slower with Google ( of course, maybe he didn’t need Google at all)....
A baggy green cap is given to every player in the Australian cricket team. They wear it on the first day of every Test Match ( a 5 day cricket match against another nation).
Sir Don Bradman was born was born 27 August 1908 , as was LBJ. Bradman is generally accepted as being the best ever cricketer for Australia.
Cricket was played in the US Civil War , very popular in Philadelphia for a while ( does that say something about people in that region), and Pres Washington apparently once played it. The US does still have a national team.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 12-17-2020
(12-17-2020, 05:55 AM)AussieMick Wrote: of course, maybe he didn’t need Google at all)....
I had no prayer on this one without googling.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Anita - 12-17-2020
Who described Mary Lincoln as more opposed to slavery than Abraham Lincoln?
NO Googling please!
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 12-18-2020
Possibly Senator Charles Sumner?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Gene C - 12-18-2020
Herndon ?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RobertLC - 12-18-2020
Elizabeth Keckley?
Bob
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Anita - 12-18-2020
Sorry for the delay. All good guesses but it's none of these.
Hint. The statement was published in an article after Mary death. The writer knew Mary and was an activist and staunch abolionist.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 12-18-2020
Jane Swisshelm?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Anita - 12-18-2020
Roger you nailed it!
It was after Mary's death that she wrote an a letter to the editor stating Mary was “more radically opposed to slavery” than Abraham Lincoln. "Tribute to the Dead from Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 20, 1882
Jane Swisshelm(1815-1884) was a journalist and newspaper publisher, abolitionist, crusader for women's rights and the rights of Native Americans. She was friends with Edwin Stanton, supported Lincoln's presidential campaigns and visited him in the White House. When she divorced and lost her inheritance and it was Mary Lincoln and Edwin Stanton who encouraged her to sue her husband. Please Google her and read about her amazing life. Here are a few links.
Title:Crusader and feminist; letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865; read for free here. https://www.loc.gov/item/35000912/
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/residents-visitors/notable-visitors/notable-visitors-jane-grey-swisshelm-1815-1884/
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 03-30-2021
Please try without googling.
The last words of which President were as follows:
"That's good, go on, read some more."
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 03-31-2021
Hint #1: He was a 20th century President.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Gene C - 03-31-2021
Teddy Roosevelt ?