Stump the German

[Eva Elisabeth]

"My" greatest US Band (and actually the only coming to my mind) is The Doors, but they didn't release a "Lincoln" - album...

[Gene C]

That's a way to wake up! Yeah, a rocking kick. As opposed to a softly encouraging, "Get up, get out of bed, grab a comb across yr head."

I admittedly know Helter Skelter-covers better - U2 & Siouxsie & The Banshees

Hey, etwas fällt mir ein!
Bringing it back to finding things 'Lincoln', eine Frage:

What great (subjective) US band had an album named 'Lincoln'?

Are your referring to the group They Might Be Giants
I'm not a big fan, but I did like this song they did in 1990 (not on the "Lincoln" album) which was originally recorded in 1953 by the Four Lads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALkjA1t8ibQ

[Amy L.]

That's the answer, Gene!
I love "Istanbul (not Constantinople)", thank you for linking.
"The Car, The Tunnel, The Man, The Log, The Album"
You win an instant of special insight - a temporary pair of eyes in the back of your head! "Where your eyes don't go" Craziness.

(I've wanted to mention TMBGs' Lincoln since joining the Symposium, as I'd always assumed the album cover-art and name where in reference to Abraham L., but no. Did the Johns use the Lincoln-brand to draw more attention? Also, I doubt their album 'John Henry' has anything to do with steel-driving.)

[Eva Elisabeth]

This is rather a general history question, so I put it here, but it's the question of the day. Without resenting to the Google, what does this sentence actually tell?

"No plan like yours to study history wisely."

[RJNorton]

Wild guess - from a conversation between Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower prior to D-Day.

[Eva Elisabeth]

I'm sorry to say nope, Roger. Wow, I thought this was way too commonly known to seriously ask. Obviously not.
Hint 1: It is not about US presidents, but maybe you have a similar sentence. It is a sentence we had to memorize in history lessons and has to to with an event that took place yesterday.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Hint #2: The first letters of each word reveal a historical order.

[AussieMick]

I guess the event was the Coronation. But no idea how that helps with the sentence.
I think there was a sentence that helped British schoolchildren remember the names of the Kings and Queens ...
but I could never remember it.
Also the names of the wives (6) of Henry VIII ... but again, I have happily forgotten it.

Of course, I could be totally wrong.

[Eva Elisabeth]

You are absolutely on the right track, Mike! Not every single King and Queen though, that would make a much longer sentence!

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Hint #3: Queen Victoria was "History".

[Anita]

The names of all the British monarchs from Queen Victoria to King Charles, or to remember the order of the Tudor Monarchs?

[Eva Elisabeth]

The order of British monarchs is correct, but think in wider dimensions. The sentence includes ALL British monarchs.
The initial letters are the names to be completed - what/who do they stand for?
N
P
L
Y
T
S
H
W

[Eva Elisabeth]

Hint #4: Charles III is "Wisely", "Like Yours" are roses.

[Anita]

It's a mnemonic for the Royal Houses and then Queen Victoria wound be Hanover? I'd have to resort to Google for the L.
N-Norman
P-Plantagenet
L
Y-York
T-Tudor
S-Stuart
H-Hanover
W-Windsor

[Eva Elisabeth]

Brilliant, Anita! The (war of) roses (white and red) were Lancester and York, so L = Lancaster.
Your prize is one of my favorites:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A1zyvlkhROU

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PS: The German idiom for "mnemonic" is "Eselsbrücke", which literally translates to "donkey bridge".

What history donkey bridges did you learn in school?

To provide another example -
"753 (Sieben - Fünf - Drei) - Rom schlüpft aus dem Ei"
is a rhyme (Drei - Ei), literally translated "753 - Rome hatches from the egg", meaning Rome was founded (753 BC) .

"756 (Sieben - Fünf - Sechs) - Rom war ex" = "756 - Rome was ex" meaning the downfall of the Roman empire (756 AC).

Can you teach me American history mnemonics? Are there any in Lincoln?

[AussieMick]

Divorced, beheaded, died; Divorced, beheaded, survived. For the fates of wives of nasty Henry VIII

(From internet I got following)
All Boys Should Come Home Please
Aragon Boleyn Seymour Cleves Howard Parr


I could associate your clue with Royalty of course but the 'Y' had me stumped.

It is Lancaster, Eva, the House that fought York ... not Lancester.

For that spelling error you are required to access
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7UZBNP8lI