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RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-16-2015 07:08 AM
Kudos, Joe - that is correct. Thus the score is as follows:
Laurie 7
Joe 5
Gene 4
Roger 3
Rogerm 2
Thomas 1
(I will probably have to find more Google-proof questions...)
(12-15-2015 07:37 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Mary Lincoln was in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1875. Is this the historic house where she stayed?I've more than once tried to find a photo from the place she stayed to no avail. All I could find is the following:
Mary Todd Lincoln visited St. Augustine in the winter of 1875 and stayed on Whitney's Island in the San Sebastian River in West Augustine. Her host was the developer of that area, John Whitney. As a newspaper publisher, Whitney had also crusaded to get Congress to provide a pension for Mary.
I couldn't find his 1875 house (maybe Donna can help?), but maybe it was similar to Ortega-MacMillan House on 224 Saint George Street, Saint Augustine, which he owned from
1870-1873:
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During her Florida stay, Mary (like Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Edison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and other VIPs) did a popular steamaboat trip on the Ocklawaha River to Silver Springs. Here are some fascinating photos of the past:
http://studiohourglass.blogspot.de/2012/02/return-to-oklawaha.html?m=1
John Hay BTW owned an orange grove in St. Augustine in the 1860s. It was in the northwest part of Lincolnville in the area of Sanford, Weeden, Bravo and Bridge streets. Hay later sold the grove to Gen. Henry Shelton Sanford, who had been Lincoln's chief diplomat in Europe and US Ambassador to Belgium from 1861-1869, and founded the city of Sanford, FL (which looks gorgeous to me, as does St. Augustine - if you Google pictures...).
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RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Thomas Kearney - 12-16-2015 02:37 PM
I think that's the Old Stone House. It is now a tourist attraction and museum. I've been there.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-16-2015 07:10 PM
Sorry, Thomas, but Joe was correct about the First White House of the Confederacy in Montgomery, Alabama.
Today's question is linked to the assassination and to Christ-mas.
What do you think is #17?
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RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - RJNorton - 12-16-2015 07:17 PM
Shortly before Christmas, 1883, Henry Rathbone killed his wife, Clara. Is this related to that tragic event?
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - J. Beckert - 12-16-2015 07:17 PM
An assassination themed Christmas ornament?
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-16-2015 07:18 PM
Two excellent guesses, Roger and Joe, but it has to to with neither of these. Joe - it's much bigger than an ornament!
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - RJNorton - 12-16-2015 07:24 PM
Two days before Christmas in 1864 Samuel Mudd met Booth in Washington. Does it have anything to do with Mudd's trip to Washington?
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-16-2015 07:35 PM
Another good guess, Roger, but, sorry, it doesn't. It has to do with Abraham Lincoln himself.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - L Verge - 12-16-2015 07:43 PM
Did Lincoln visit the Old Naval Observatory in D.C. near Christmas? That's what this reminds me of.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-16-2015 07:56 PM
Laurie, as for the structure this is an excellent guess, although, sorry, not correct either.
Just to clarify - this is linked to Lincoln and the assassination, and despite a very little bit to Christ(mas), not Lincoln at (on?*) Xmas. ("At" sounds somehow incorrect, but "on" should be for "on Xmas Day"?!?)
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-16-2015 08:04 PM
(12-16-2015 07:17 PM)J. Beckert Wrote: An assassination themed Christmas ornament?Hint #1: This existed (long) before the assassination.
(12-16-2015 08:02 PM)J. Beckert Wrote: Is that the watch fob he was carrying on April 14th.? Maybe an earlier Christmas gift?A very good idea, Joe, but not correct - it would have been difficult to wrap or carry. As a travel voucher maybe (and Mary would have loved to get).
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - J. Beckert - 12-16-2015 08:12 PM
Part of the carriage that brought them to the theater?
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-16-2015 08:18 PM
Just love your ideas, Joe - very smart, but this is still much bigger.
Hint #2: Like Xmas, this has to do with wishes.
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Gene C - 12-16-2015 08:32 PM
The disco ball at The Lincoln Inauguration Ball?
Is it in Washington DC?
Looks like it could be a church roof's dome
RE: Trivia Advent Calendar - Eva Elisabeth - 12-16-2015 08:33 PM
Hint #3: It's a place.
(12-16-2015 08:32 PM)Gene C Wrote: The disco ball at The Lincoln Inauguration Ball?Love this guess, Gene - good question, no, this is not in DC.
Is it in Washington DC?
(12-16-2015 08:32 PM)Gene C Wrote: The disco ball at The Lincoln Inauguration Ball?PS: As for the disco idea - the gold is no fake.
Looks like it could be a church roof's dome
Yes, it is a dome. Not a church though.
Hint #4: This Dome is very famous and intended as a symbol for the entire "place".