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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019 02:44 PM

Imaginative guess, Gene, but not correct.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 01-03-2019 02:46 PM

Asa Gray?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019 02:50 PM

I am sorry, Steve, but the person who gave the lecture was not Asa Gray.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 01-03-2019 03:25 PM

Edward Everett?

Best
Rob


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019 03:32 PM

Nope, not Everett, Rob.

Hint #1: It is a man who has been mentioned previously on this forum.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 01-03-2019 03:49 PM

(01-03-2019 02:20 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Please try to answer this question without looking up the answer.

157 years ago today (January 3, 1862) Abraham Lincoln attended a lecture at the Smithsonian. Who gave the lecture?

The lecture was cancelled due to a government shut-down...Rolleyes


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019 04:33 PM

Nope, Laurie. It appears that the first shutdown was in 1980. The lecture in question took place as scheduled in 1862 at the Smithsonian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States


RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 01-03-2019 05:02 PM

(Henry?) Beecher Stowe ?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019 05:08 PM

Nope, Michael, it was not Henry Ward Beecher or Harriet Beecher Stowe.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 01-03-2019 05:27 PM

Thomas Huxley?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - GustD45 - 01-03-2019 05:35 PM

I think it was Joseph Henry


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019 06:02 PM

Nope, Steve and Gust, it was not Huxley or Henry.

Hint #1: The man was well-known for being anti-slavery.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 01-03-2019 06:35 PM

Frederick Douglass?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-03-2019 06:58 PM

Nope, Michael, it was not Douglass.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 01-03-2019 07:05 PM

This is totally a c rap shoot, but today I was going over an article I wrote on James G. Randall's "Blundering Generation" thesis and he mentioned Ralph Waldo Emerson, so that's my guess.

Best
Rob