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RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-03-2015 07:59 PM
Excellent guess, Laurie, but not correct. On the program was actually the entire Elijah, but I didn't want to post a 2 hour link.
I will specify hint #1: It was a big and most important event to the course of history.
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-03-2015 10:02 PM
Hint #2: It was not a commemorative event of any kind.
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-04-2015 03:09 AM
Hint #3:
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RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-04-2015 08:59 AM
Hint #4 - dedicated to our wonderful host so dedicated to both - the forum (THANK YOU!!) as well as the following:
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RE: Stump the German - RJNorton - 10-04-2015 09:09 AM
Eva, this is a great question. I am baffled.
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-04-2015 09:18 AM
Thanks, Roger!
Hint #5: Can someone please help and tell what is depicted in #3, and explicitly explain what #4 represents?
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-04-2015 01:22 PM
(10-04-2015 09:09 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Eva, this is a great question.Roger, I think it wasn't. A great question to me would allow to and make many participate. This one failed, or I did in attracting as no one even tried #5.
Before giving up I'll try this last hint:
This is the Native Plains version of the accommodation shown in #3:
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#3 shows the Native Northeast US/Canadian "type".
RE: Stump the German - L Verge - 10-04-2015 01:28 PM
Chicago Exposition?
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-04-2015 01:31 PM
Thanks for guessing, Laurie. Chicago is correct, but not the exposition. Now, what is the Indian accommodation? Plus remember the event was important for the course history took (long before the Exposition and well-known to everyone interested in Abraham Lincoln/the CW).
RE: Stump the German - Jim Page - 10-04-2015 01:51 PM
(10-04-2015 01:31 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Thanks for guessing, Laurie. Chicago is correct, but not the exposition. Now, what is the Indian accommodation? Plus remember the event was important for the course history took (long before the Exposition and well-known to everyone interested in Abraham Lincoln/the CW).
Hey, Eva!
Was it the 1860 Republican Convention, which was held in the Wigwam Building in Chicago?
My memory of all such stuff is so hazy!
--Jim
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-04-2015 02:37 PM
Kudos Jim, this is correct - and thanks for relieving/releasing me.
My source is the Lincoln bio by Jörg Nagler, Professor at Jena University and (I'd think) German's #1 authority on the matter.
https://books.google.de/books?id=ESHIYwtO7MYC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=nationalkonvent+Chicago+Mendelssohn+bartholdys+Elias+oratorium+our+American+Cousin&source=bl&ots=k_1C275ixF&sig=npZiaVPmCixwl-UBr45Up22PHW4&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAGoVChMI1aCeuPmoyAIVhIosCh1LQA4i
Since I find most oratorios quite depressing there are none in the STG prize vault, but Mendelssohn also composed the ballet music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (and there's plenty of ballet in the vault).
Jim, you win tickets for John Neumeier's fantastic "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Hamburger Staatsoper:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=akFrzmuKn6o
RE: Stump the German - Jim Page - 10-04-2015 02:48 PM
Wow! Thanks, Eva.
That video was stunning; the lighting and other effects made it seem like a view of another world.
--Jim
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-15-2015 01:37 PM
A person who participated in the "Lincoln saga was the first American to achieve a doctoral promotion at a German university. Who?
RE: Stump the German - RJNorton - 10-15-2015 02:07 PM
Edward Everett?
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 10-15-2015 05:07 PM
Kudos, Roger - you stumped me!!! I was sure this one would last a while!
Everett, who delivered the lenghry oration at Gettysburg, was granted the title at Göttingen University in 1817:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Everett
Roger, you should be given a PhD, too, for all your knowledge!!! However, you win my best wishes for the Cubs to continue to win-win-win!!!