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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 02-18-2024 08:43 PM

New York?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 02-18-2024 08:51 PM

Pennsylvania, because Seward had traveled with Lincoln to Gettysburg.

Best
Rob

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-18-2024 09:04 PM

Anita and Rob - both answers are incorrect. This is one of those questions in which a logical answer is incorrect. Seward misspoke regarding which state he was in.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 02-18-2024 09:29 PM

Maryland?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-19-2024 07:32 AM

Excellent, Michael! Maryland it is. According to Gettysburg resident Charles McCurdy, Seward had some drinks earlier at the Robert Harper home where he was staying.

McCurdy writes that Harper was with Seward in the crowd. Harper immediately pulled at Seward's coat, and he shouted in Seward's ear: "You have made a mistake, Seward, this isn't Maryland, this is Pennsylvania." Seward turned to the crowd and said: "Oh, yes, and including all other states adjacent thereto." Everyone within earshot laughed.

I did not get this story from McCurdy's book, but I assume it's in there.

https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-Memoir-Charles-M-McCurdy/dp/1482345617

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 02-19-2024 09:11 AM

[Image: Windfarm.jpg]

What is the connection between what's pictured here and Abraham Lincoln?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 02-19-2024 02:15 PM

Hint 1. Lincoln excelled in science and technology.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-19-2024 05:22 PM

Does the connection come before or during the Civil War? If the latter, does it have to do with a weapon the Union was considering?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 02-19-2024 07:19 PM

The connection is before the Civil War.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 02-19-2024 09:48 PM

Is it somehow related to Lincoln's invention
Patent No. 6,469
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6469A/en


and
Wind turbine
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/8a/30/27/45686cca1e8437/US7695242.pdf

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 02-19-2024 11:34 PM

Michael,
It's not directly related to Lincoln's invention Patent No. 6,469, and yet in a more general sense , yes when discussing Discoveries and Inventions.

and it's not the Wind turbine patent, yet in a sense the concept predates it.
Hint 2. The connection I'm looking for is related to something Lincoln did a number of times beginning in 1858.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-20-2024 11:53 AM

Does it have to do with a speech he gave in that year?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 02-20-2024 12:27 PM

Yes it does.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 02-20-2024 05:26 PM

Anita, Lincoln gave a non political speech on technology or science... Niagara? Are we getting warmer or colder?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 02-20-2024 06:20 PM

Yes, warmer to science and technology but no to Niagara.
Think lecture(s) and specific content within, related to the photo... location closer to home.