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RJNorton · 01-03-2019, 02:44 PM

Imaginative guess, Gene, but not correct.

Steve · 01-03-2019, 02:46 PM

Asa Gray?

RJNorton · 01-03-2019, 02:50 PM

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

Rob Wick · 01-03-2019, 03:25 PM

Edward Everett?

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Rob

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.

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

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...ted_States

AussieMick · 01-03-2019, 05:02 PM

(Henry?) Beecher Stowe ?

RJNorton · 01-03-2019, 05:08 PM

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

Steve · 01-03-2019, 05:27 PM

Thomas Huxley?

GustD45 · 01-03-2019, 05:35 PM

I think it was Joseph Henry

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.

AussieMick · 01-03-2019, 06:35 PM

Frederick Douglass?

RJNorton · 01-03-2019, 06:58 PM

Nope, Michael, it was not Douglass.

Rob Wick · (This post was last modified: 01-03-2019 07:06 PM by Rob Wick.)

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.

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Rob