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RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - AussieMick - 04-09-2021 05:42 AM
I read the General Order and thought it very well typed. But then I read that James Pleasants was to be "hung".
Oh well , ar least he wasnt hanged ..... nor "hung".
https://writingexplained.org/hanged-vs-hung-difference
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - David Lockmiller - 04-09-2021 09:23 AM
(04-08-2021 11:11 PM)Steve Wrote: Since Mick and Roger have already given the correct answers, I'm posting a link to images of the General Order referred to by David for everybody to look over for themselves:
https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/bookviewer?PID=nlm:nlmuid-101656049-bk#page/1/mode/1up
Thanks for the information, Steve. It looks like Roger and AussieMick each get 50 percent of the credit for the correct answer. Each of you wins an all-expense paid vacation to Decatur, Illinois for one day. (One day is the longest anyone has ever stayed in Decatur on a vacation. Just kidding.)
Did anyone else notice that the vote of the military panel was 2 -1? Apparently, a member of the panel thought like President Lincoln regarding the severity of the punishment.
(04-09-2021 05:42 AM)AussieMick Wrote: I read the General Order and thought it very well typed. But then I read that James Pleasants was to be "hung".
Oh well , ar least he wasnt hanged ..... nor "hung".
https://writingexplained.org/hanged-vs-hung-difference
To add by way of explanation:
Hanged is the past tense and past participle of hang only when used in the sense of “put to death by hanging.”
For example,
The traitor was hanged for treason. [A somewhat appropriate example in this case.]
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - AussieMick - 06-07-2021 07:07 PM
Who was George Hall and how did he influence our memory of Lincoln?
( Google ? ... yes go for it. And I wish you good luck)
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 06-08-2021 04:45 AM
Does it have anything to do with Lincoln's stovepipe hat?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - AussieMick - 06-08-2021 05:02 AM
Roger, you're on the ball. Can you score a goal like the USA soccer team ? Whats the connection to George?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 06-08-2021 05:19 AM
He was a Springfield hatter who made the hat Lincoln wore on the inaugural train in 1861.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Steve - 06-08-2021 05:29 AM
An artist named George Hall created a bust of Lincoln made of sheet-steel which, at one time, was displayed at the Illinois governor's office.
At least according to a 1971 newspaper article.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - AussieMick - 06-08-2021 05:35 AM
Sorry, Steve. Roger gets the chocolates. Or at least gives the answer I was after.
George Hall was the Springfield hatter who supplied Lincoln's stovepipe hat.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 06-08-2021 06:54 AM
This info about Lincoln's hat, traveling to Washington, and Burlingame's book about the Lincoln marriage reminds me of an Irish song
"Hold on to your Hat", by Derek Ryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpgP2Gtx8QY&list=PLlOC6bIKr_hJY9z4LGQlwygBxRTk6ExWk&index=28
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - J. Beckert - 06-08-2021 10:14 AM
Speaking of Lincoln’s lids, being there’s only 3 in existence and one has dubious provenance, which one was given away as a gift at one point and by whom?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 06-08-2021 10:47 AM
Because you have previously mentioned visiting Hildene I shall guess the one there. But I do not know who donated it.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - J. Beckert - 06-08-2021 11:02 AM
Very good, PMOTI, you’re half way there. Think Lincoln decedents for the second half and you can exclude RTL.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 06-08-2021 12:15 PM
Jessie Harlan Lincoln?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - J. Beckert - 06-08-2021 12:19 PM
(06-08-2021 12:15 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Jessie Harlan Lincoln?
Negative. Remove one generation. Go fish.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 06-08-2021 01:59 PM
Mary Harlan Lincoln?