Trivia Advent Calendar

[STS Lincolnite]

(12-08-2014 08:51 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Brilliant, Scott! This is correct:

Speaking of this breathtaking monument (would love to see it myself), I absolutely love this scene as well as the entire movie:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zr_zL_T3g8

Allow me proudly to add this on the redwoods: The Grizzly Giant is a giant sequoia, one of the three sequoioidea (redwoods) subfamilies. Not giant though, but two redwoods, i.e. two specimen of the Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, grow in one of "my" city's botanical gardens:

...and these are indeed the oldest redwoods on the European continent!

In 1848 , tobacco manufacturer Abraham Christian Brauer brought the seeds (along with many others) from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and planted them in his then private park in Kiel, right opposite the fjord. (Just for correctness: although these trees are from Boston, the species itself - M. glyptostroboides - is native to China, as the common name - dawn redwood - suggests!)

As a native South Dakotan (the home of Mt. Rushmore and known as the Rushmore State in some circles) I would be ostracized to no end if I didn't get that one immediately!!