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RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 09-23-2016
(09-23-2016, 02:41 PM)Gene C Wrote: Well, my mistake, I hope I didn't confuse anyone.
The whole country seems to be confused nowadays, Gene, in just which bathroom to use! Mr. Lincoln would have figured out that a one-holer out back solves the problem.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-05-2016
This statue of Abraham Lincoln is not located in the United States. In what country is it located?
![[Image: lincolnstatue1000.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/lincolnstatue1000.jpg)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-05-2016
Is that the mysterious Guatemala one?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-06-2016
Good guess, Eva, but it's not the one in Guatemala (if there is one in Guatemala).
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-06-2016
The building doesn't look Old-World. Canada?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-06-2016
Nope.
Hint #1: It is not located in either North or South America.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-06-2016
Central America?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-06-2016
Nope.
Hint #2: Although the hands in the image may both appear to be Lincoln's...they are not. Lincoln is shaking hands with another (statue) person whom I cut out of the image.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-06-2016
Ok. I still don't think Continental Europe as for the building but maybe Russia (seem to recall seeing such bright, quite "modern" bricks there)?
So the hand-shaker must have been a visitor from the respective country?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-06-2016
Excellent, Eva. It is in Russia. The other man is Czar Alexander II.
Many thanks to Dave Wiegers who sent me an email that inspired this question.
Eva, you have posted several times how you hate cold weather, so your prize is a wonderfully warm 2016-2017 winter.
From the Washington Post, February 23, 2011:
"Here's Abraham Lincoln on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, larger than life, shaking hands with Czar Alexander II. They are the Emancipator and the Liberator, joined together in a new work by sculptor Alexander Burganov. They're looking jolly, these men who, half a world apart, presided over the freeing of serfs and slaves.
Behind them, in the building of the Russian federal archives, an exhibit opened Tuesday that looks at Lincoln's life, and Alexander's."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/23/AR2011022302110.html
![[Image: lincoln_and_tsar_alexander_2_statues.jpg]](http://www.schillerinstitute.org/educ/hist/2011/us_civil_war/lincoln_and_tsar_alexander_2_statues.jpg)
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/educ/hist/eiw_this_week/2014/apr6-1865-confed_surrenders.html
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-06-2016
Thanks, Roger, I ('d) love the prize.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-08-2016
Let's try one more statue of Abraham Lincoln that was not located in the United States. Again thank you to Dave Wiegers for the idea for this question.
The statue mysteriously disappeared in the 1970s. It had been there for nearly a century. People are still trying to find out what happened to it - it will be restored to its original location if it's discovered.
In what country was this Lincoln statue located?
![[Image: loststatue.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/loststatue.jpg)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-08-2016
Hint #1: This country has been mentioned recently on the forum.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-08-2016
I'm trying Guatemala again?!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-08-2016
That is a very logical guess, Eva. But it's not there.
Hint #2: It's not in "the Americas."