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RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - L Verge - 12-07-2015
One of the Todd brothers or half-brothers?
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - RJNorton - 12-07-2015
(12-07-2015, 10:09 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Excellent guess, Herr Beckert, but it's not he.
Hint #1: If not here, I would have posted this on the "MTL Trivia" thread.
OK - with this hint I think I know - Mary Lincoln's nephew, Edward Lewis Baker?
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2015
Smart idea, Laurie, but kudos, Roger is correct!!! Here's a nice article for those who aren't familiar with Lewis:
https://featherfoster.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/mary-lincolns-last-love-lewis-baker/
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Gene C - 12-07-2015
Thanks for posting this, I have never seen his photo.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2015
Thanks, Gene - I've long tried to find a photo of him and just lately succeeded!
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2015
Where is #8, and what is special about it?
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Thomas Kearney - 12-07-2015
It looks like what is now the ghettos of DC where the Hale family lived.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2015
Good guess, Thomas, but, I'm sorry, not correct.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - RJNorton - 12-07-2015
Is that the persimmon tree near the Soldiers Home where President Lincoln convinced Charles Forbes to eat some of the green fruit, and Forbes spit it out and exclaimed, "Mr. President, I am poisoned! I am poisoned!"
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2015
I love that story! Excellent guess, Roger, but, sorry, not correct either!
Hint #1: Roger's guess is inasfar correct as this is some kind of original, historic tree.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - J. Beckert - 12-07-2015
I think that's a Sycamore tree in Gettysburg that was a silent witness to what transpired there in 1863.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2015
Kudos, Joe - you nailed it, it's one of only five trees left of those days. Here's the entire photo:
Your prize in memoriam John Lennon, who was shot 35 years ago (on Dec.8, 1980):
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Vfp48laS8
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - J. Beckert - 12-07-2015
Danke, Frau Eva! And Frohliche Weihnachten to you, my dear!!
Although I'm a bit late in coming to the Advent Trivia fun this year, I did peruse the thread and I see that a frequent contributor to this forum has an impressive record of winning three out of the first six questions! Very admirable, but if I have my way - short lived. Without naming names, and to make the Advent Trivia fun even more fun, (for me, anyway), with your permission, I'd like to keep score and stomp a mudhole in your current frontrunner to be this year's Advent Trivia Champion!
"The Director" 3
Me 1
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-08-2015
Fröhliche Weihnachten, Joe!
To complete the scores:
Gene: 2
Roger: 2
Now what about #9, respectively where is this?
#9.jpg (Size: 1.77 KB / Downloads: 11)
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Thomas Kearney - 12-08-2015
It is Teddy Roosevelt looking out the window watching the Lincoln funeral procession at his grandpa's house in NYC.