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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019
Imaginative guess, Gene, but not correct.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 01-03-2019
Asa Gray?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019
I am sorry, Steve, but the person who gave the lecture was not Asa Gray.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 01-03-2019
Edward Everett?
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019
Nope, not Everett, Rob.
Hint #1: It is a man who has been mentioned previously on this forum.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 01-03-2019
(01-03-2019, 02:20 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Please try to answer this question without looking up the answer.
157 years ago today (January 3, 1862) Abraham Lincoln attended a lecture at the Smithsonian. Who gave the lecture?
The lecture was cancelled due to a government shut-down...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019
Nope, Laurie. It appears that the first shutdown was in 1980. The lecture in question took place as scheduled in 1862 at the Smithsonian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 01-03-2019
(Henry?) Beecher Stowe ?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019
Nope, Michael, it was not Henry Ward Beecher or Harriet Beecher Stowe.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 01-03-2019
Thomas Huxley?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - GustD45 - 01-03-2019
I think it was Joseph Henry
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019
Nope, Steve and Gust, it was not Huxley or Henry.
Hint #1: The man was well-known for being anti-slavery.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 01-03-2019
Frederick Douglass?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019
Nope, Michael, it was not Douglass.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 01-03-2019
This is totally a c rap shoot, but today I was going over an article I wrote on James G. Randall's "Blundering Generation" thesis and he mentioned Ralph Waldo Emerson, so that's my guess.
Best
Rob