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12-17-2015, 07:15 PM
Post: #451
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Is that the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House?
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12-17-2015, 07:25 PM (This post was last modified: 12-17-2015 07:26 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #452
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Kudos, Roger - you nailed it at incredible speed.
   
...no wonder since this is the best website on the topic:
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln54.html
Thus:
Laurie 7
Gene 5
Joe 5
Roger 4
Rogerm 2
Thomas 1

Tomorrow a hard one?!
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12-17-2015, 07:25 PM
Post: #453
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"Disco wasn't invented until the 1970's"

Sorry, but time for another history lesson. The modern Disco forum of strobe lights, blaring and funky music, and non-stop dancing is more or less a product of the late-1960s and 1970s. However, Gene was referring to the disco ball, and the earliest documented use of it in nightclub settings was in 1897 at Boston's Roughaus Hotel. It continued through the turn of the century and well into the 1950s in most entertainment places with dance bands and a dance floor. It was especially popular in the ragtime era and the speak-easys of the Roaring 20s. Many a wedding dance in the 30s and 40s was under a hotel's disco ball. Its history is even older than I!

Its popularity was restored in the 1970s because the "glitter ball" (one of its early names - along with mirror ball) worked well with the flashing lights of those dance floors. Staying Alive certainly helped sell the craze also.
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12-18-2015, 10:12 AM (This post was last modified: 12-18-2015 10:37 AM by Thomas Kearney.)
Post: #454
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Whoops! My bad! Sorry, I've been caught up in The Force! Chewie, we're home!

Thomas Kearney, Professional Photobomber.
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12-18-2015, 10:44 AM
Post: #455
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(12-18-2015 10:12 AM)Thomas Kearney Wrote:  Whoops! My bad! Sorry, I've been caught up in The Force! Chewie, we're home!

Thomas - Were you one of those die-hard fans who camped out waiting for the theater doors to open? The Uptown Theater here in D.C. had a whole bunch of those. The first man in line had been there for one week! Lucky for them, we have had very mild temperatures throughout the month of December.
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12-18-2015, 10:47 AM
Post: #456
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Unfortunately no! I pulled my all niter for 2015 at The Lincoln Tribute. However, I will be going tomorrow after buying some gear at Target. I just wish they had Jar Jar swag. He is so cool!

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12-18-2015, 07:24 PM (This post was last modified: 12-19-2015 07:44 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #457
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(No idea what theater performance you are talking about...)

It's a hard one (I think), sorry. #19 - who lived here?
   
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12-18-2015, 07:29 PM
Post: #458
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James Henthorn Todd?
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12-18-2015, 07:42 PM
Post: #459
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Brilliant guess, Roger, but, sorry, not correct.
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12-18-2015, 07:48 PM
Post: #460
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I don't know the answer, and I know I will probably be helping one of my competitors, but it sure looks like it is in Ireland or one of the British Isles.
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12-18-2015, 07:50 PM (This post was last modified: 12-18-2015 08:13 PM by J. Beckert.)
Post: #461
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Charles Forbes? (Thanks, Laurie)

"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg"
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12-18-2015, 07:55 PM
Post: #462
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Frederick Douglass, during the years he was traveling in the British Isles?
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12-18-2015, 08:08 PM
Post: #463
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Could be Robert Burns, too.

"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg"
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12-18-2015, 08:23 PM (This post was last modified: 12-18-2015 08:25 PM by Gene C.)
Post: #464
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Home of Robert Burns. And that's my final answer.

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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12-19-2015, 12:39 AM
Post: #465
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The Burns Cottage is located is Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland. And that's my final answer.

"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg"
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