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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-18-2024
Hint #1: The animal is native to Africa.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - David Lockmiller - 11-18-2024
(11-18-2024, 12:21 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Hint #1: The animal is native to Africa.
A lion?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-18-2024
Nope, not a lion.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 11-18-2024
Hippopotamus?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-19-2024
Kudos, Anita. Yes, it was a hippo who was destined for the Cincinnati Zoo. It may have been the largest hippo ever brought to the USA up to that time.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 11-19-2024
This reminds me of a song, and just in time for the holidays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP-TPCs9Fj8
RE: Extra Credit Questions - David Lockmiller - 11-19-2024
(11-17-2024, 01:38 PM)RJNorton Wrote: No googling please. Thank you.
During the early part of the 20th century Germany operated a large steamer named the President Lincoln. On one of its voyages to America it was transporting an animal in a cage. The cage was located on the deck forward of the bridge. One day, as the President Lincoln was traveling across the Atlantic, one of the ship's cooks took a break and was sitting on the ship's rail. Suddenly the animal in the cage let out with a mighty sneeze. The cook, relaxing on the rail, was startled by the huge sneeze, and he fell overboard into the Atlantic. Others on the ship saw what happened and lowered a lifeboat. The astounded cook was saved.
What kind of animal sneezed loudly in his cage aboard the President Lincoln?
A passenger liner before the war, the Hamburg Line President Lincoln was seized in New York harbor in 1917 and converted into a troop transport ship by the U.S. Shipping Board. On the return trip of its 5th delivery of men to France, the ship was hit by three torpedoes from German U-Boat 90.
The following are the first and last pages of the Narrative of the "President Lincoln" written by the Commanding Officer, Commander P. W. Foote, U. S. N.
https://ia904707.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/19/items/proceedingsofuni192248712unit/proceedingsofuni192248712unit_jp2.zip&file=proceedingsofuni192248712unit_jp2/proceedingsofuni192248712unit_0011.jp2&id=proceedingsofuni192248712unit&scale=2&rotate=0
https://ia904707.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/19/items/proceedingsofuni192248712unit/proceedingsofuni192248712unit_jp2.zip&file=proceedingsofuni192248712unit_jp2/proceedingsofuni192248712unit_0026.jp2&id=proceedingsofuni192248712unit&scale=2&rotate=0
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 11-19-2024
(11-19-2024, 06:16 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Kudos, Anita. Yes, it was a hippo who was destined for the Cincinnati Zoo. It may have been the largest hippo ever brought to the USA up to that time.It was a wild guess! Knowing Lincoln's sense of humor and love of animals, he would have enjoyed this story.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-22-2024
No googling please.
In 1868 the Mississippi Central Railroad was ordered to take one of its engines out of service. What caused this order to happen?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-23-2024
Hint #1: It has to do with the engine's name.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 11-24-2024
Did it have something to do with the engine "The General?"
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-24-2024
Nope.
Hint #2: It has something to do with a person who has been frequently discussed on this forum.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 11-24-2024
Jefferson Davis?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-24-2024
Not Davis, but it was someone who firmly believed in the Confederate cause.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 11-25-2024
Robert E Lee ?