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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Gene C - 07-25-2016 07:22 PM

(07-25-2016 06:18 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  I have a trivial question (and no answer) - what would a female president's "First Lady" be entitled?
Please feel free to guess on a single part only, too:

1. Who is this gentleman (probably easy)?
2. Where was the photo taken?
3. Whom would you see standing at his right side in the entire picture (I cut away)?

Looks like Winston Churchhill
Malta ?
I'll guess FDR

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-25-2016 07:33 PM

Very good - 1. is correct, it's Churchill.
2.+3. I'm sorry to say aren't correct.

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-26-2016 03:06 AM

Hints:
2. Churchill was recovering from pneumonia.
3. The location was the other's headquarter.

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 07-26-2016 04:55 AM

(07-26-2016 03:06 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Hints:
2. Churchill was recovering from pneumonia.
3. The location was the other's headquarter.

Because you use the words "the other's headquarters" I'll say it is Dwight D. Eisenhower.

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-26-2016 05:26 AM

Very good, Roger - now, where was his headquarter where Churchill was invited to recover from pneumonia?

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-26-2016 06:45 AM

Hint #3:
She was born in the same city and living threre at the time the photo was taken:
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-26-2016 07:53 AM

Hint 4: The headquarter and setting was in a capital.

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 07-26-2016 07:57 AM

That looks like Bridget Bardot, so I'll take a guess at Paris?

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-26-2016 08:08 AM

Excellent guess, Laurie, but neither B.B. nor Paris are correct.
Hint #5: The actresses' initials are C.C.

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-26-2016 09:14 AM

Here comes a history (and arts history) hint - an outskirt of the said capital (and nowadays residence of diplomats etc.) once was a capital herself, founded and reigned by a queen.

One of JMW Turner's most important works (he himself described as his "chef d'oeuvre") depicts this founding of the place:
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The figure in blue and white on the left is the queen, directing the builders of the new city (the remains of which you can visit in an outskirt of the capital where the headquarter was).

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 07-26-2016 09:58 AM

(07-26-2016 08:08 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Hint #5: The actresses' initials are C.C.

Claudia Cardinale and Tunis?

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-26-2016 05:51 PM

Kudos, Roger, that is correct!
After a near-fatal bout of pneumonia, Winston S. Churchill rose from his sickbed in Tunisia for a Christmas lunch. The Prime Minister, dressed in his siren suit and Chinese dressing gown with blue-and-gold dragons, stands beside General Dwight D Eisenhower, with General Harold Alexander behind them, at his headquarters in Tunis on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943. (Photo Credit: Imperial War Museums)
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The other "capital" (and empire) is Carthage (founded in 814 BC), and Dido her queen, as best known from Virgil's "Aeneid". In 146 BC, after the third (final) Punic War, the Romans destroyed, redesigned, and then occupied Carthage. This is what is left of it today:
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Gene and Roger, you win a trip to Tunis (fascinating city), including visiting Carthage and a teatime at the historic artists' Cafe des Nattes in nearby Sidi Bou Saïd and to "have a mint tea among a clowder of cats":
http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.de/2010/08/sidi-bou-said-tunisia-colour-light-and.html?m=1
 - and from both places you will enjoy magnificent views and light at the Tunis Bay:
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 07-26-2016 06:20 PM

(07-26-2016 05:51 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Kudos, Roger, that is correct!
After a near-fatal bout of pneumonia, Winston S. Churchill rose from his sickbed in Tunisia for a Christmas lunch. The Prime Minister, dressed in his siren suit and Chinese dressing gown with blue-and-gold dragons, stands beside General Dwight D Eisenhower, with General Harold Alexander behind them, at his headquarters in Tunis on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943. (Photo Credit: Imperial War Museums)

The other "capital" (and empire) is Carthage (founded in 814 BC), and Dido her queen, as best known from Virgil's "Aeneid". In 146 BC, after the third (final) Punic War, the Romans destroyed, redesigned, and then occupied Carthage. This is what is left of it today:

Gene and Roger, you win a trip to Tunis (fascinating city), including visiting Carthage and a teatime at the historic artists' Cafe des Nattes in nearby Sidi Bou Saïd and to "have a mint tea among a clowder of cats":
http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.de/2010/08/sidi-bou-said-tunisia-colour-light-and.html?m=1
 - and from both places you will enjoy magnificent views and light at the Tunis Bay:

Are these beautiful and historic places in any danger with the ongoing crisis in the Middle East?

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 07-27-2016 08:54 AM

I think in Iraq and Syria a lot has been destroyed.

RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 08-23-2016 05:20 AM

This young man grew up to be President. Who is he?

[Image: boypresident.jpg]