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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-02-2019 04:49 AM
The Lincolns stayed in the Astor House in NYC during the inaugural journey. So I shall guess the Astor House.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-02-2019 06:21 AM
Hotel is correct, Roger, but not the Astor.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-02-2019 08:40 AM
How about the Fifth Avenue Hotel where Mary Lincoln stayed?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-02-2019 08:58 AM
Mary is hot, but still not the correct place.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-02-2019 02:17 PM
Perhaps the Metropolitan?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-02-2019 02:50 PM
What about the hotel where she stayed during the clothing sale "scandal?" Was it the St. Denis?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 02-02-2019 03:38 PM
There are current plans to demolish what remains of the St. Denis
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-02-2019 04:50 PM
Kudos, Laurie, that is correct. I found the image here - the article is entertaining and well worth reading:
http://americanpast.blogspot.com/2013/04/mary-lincoln-in-new-york_23.html?m=1
This is a nowadays photo of the hotel:
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https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/a-desperate-mrs-lincoln-visits-new-york-in-1867/
Laurie, you win a trip to the original St. Denis, which actually means a trip to Paris:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint-Denis
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-02-2019 07:15 PM
(02-02-2019 04:50 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Kudos, Laurie, that is correct. I found the image here - the article is entertaining and well worth reading:
http://americanpast.blogspot.com/2013/04/mary-lincoln-in-new-york_23.html?m=1
This is a nowadays photo of the hotel:
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/a-desperate-mrs-lincoln-visits-new-york-in-1867/
Laurie, you win a trip to the original St. Denis, which actually means a trip to Paris:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint-Denis
That works for me. My last trip to Paris was in 1971.
The history of the Basilica is amazing!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-03-2019 01:20 AM
As is the list of VIP burials!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-09-2019 10:32 AM
Let's try this one without Googling: What film was the highest grossing of the silent film era? What book was it based on? Who authored the book?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 02-09-2019 11:24 AM
I'll guess "Birth of a Nation", but I can't say what book it was based on.
Yankee - .5
Laurie - 0
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 02-09-2019 01:04 PM
Birth of a Nation was based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-09-2019 01:45 PM
I agree with Joe and Steve...Birth of a Nation seems like the logical answer. But maybe Laurie asked this because the answer is not the logical one; so I will say Ben-Hur based on the book by Lew Wallace who was on the 1865 military commission that tried the Lincoln conspirators.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-09-2019 01:47 PM
The New Jersey Yankee gets .5 for correctly answering "Birth of a Nation" as the highest grossing film. Southern me is outnumbered, because a Pennsylvania Yankee earned the other .5 for completing the question with "The Clansman" and Thomas Dixon.
Dixon wrote a number of things that are probably totally banned today. He put the capital letters in "racism" during a time when American society was more than ready to read his work in order to reinforce their attitudes on the situation.