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RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - L Verge - 12-07-2015 11:15 AM
One of the Todd brothers or half-brothers?
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - RJNorton - 12-07-2015 11:29 AM
(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 11:37 AM
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 11:42 AM
Thanks for posting this, I have never seen his photo.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2015 11:44 AM
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 07:05 PM
Where is #8, and what is special about it?
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RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Thomas Kearney - 12-07-2015 07:08 PM
It looks like what is now the ghettos of DC where the Hale family lived.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2015 07:16 PM
Good guess, Thomas, but, I'm sorry, not correct.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - RJNorton - 12-07-2015 07:21 PM
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 07:25 PM
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 08:21 PM
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 10:08 PM
Kudos, Joe - you nailed it, it's one of only five trees left of those days. Here's the entire photo:
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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 10:47 PM
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 07:07 PM
Fröhliche Weihnachten, Joe!
To complete the scores:
Gene: 2
Roger: 2
Now what about #9, respectively where is this?
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RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Thomas Kearney - 12-08-2015 07:12 PM
It is Teddy Roosevelt looking out the window watching the Lincoln funeral procession at his grandpa's house in NYC.