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09-16-2017, 09:33 PM, (This post was last modified: 09-16-2017, 09:50 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
No, he definitely did not!
Hint #1: Abraham Lincoln never visited the state where the home is located.
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09-17-2017, 06:36 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Hint #2: Instead the person visited and met Lincoln which is a famous "story".
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09-17-2017, 06:53 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Could it be on the plantation where Frederick Douglass was born?
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09-17-2017, 08:44 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Another good guess, Roger, but not correct.

Hint #3: A quote uttered during the visit has been discussed on the forum.
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09-17-2017, 09:12 AM,
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OK, then my next guess is that it has to do with Harriet Beecher Stowe. But I do not know where she lived.
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09-17-2017, 11:11 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I know I've seen this photo before....

Is it down South? A Civil War Offficer's home maybe?
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09-17-2017, 12:58 PM, (This post was last modified: 09-17-2017, 12:58 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Outstanding, Roger - and correct. It is (was) one of Harriet Beecher Stowe's homes. Now - where is it? Joe, it is not in the south!
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09-17-2017, 01:00 PM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Hartford, CT? Near Mark Twain's house, I believe.
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09-17-2017, 01:07 PM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Good guess, Susan, but not correct. For Joe (who asked for a "Stump the German" task):
Hint #4: The German name of the landmark is Braunschweig.
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09-17-2017, 01:10 PM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Brunswick, Maine where she lived when her husband Calvin was a professor at Bowdoin College.
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09-17-2017, 02:04 PM,
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09-17-2017, 03:46 PM, (This post was last modified: 09-17-2017, 03:48 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(09-17-2017, 01:10 PM)Steve Wrote: Brunswick, Maine where she lived when her husband Calvin was a professor at Bowdoin College.
Very good, that is correct, Steve - here's a nice article:
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/04/20/ha...d-network/
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My favorite German delicacy.
Leberwurst??? It's my cat's favorite, too...
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09-17-2017, 04:30 PM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
This one's for Roger but open to all.

A major weather event threatened to capsize a critically important strategic campaign secretly authorized by Lincoln, Seward and his advisors. Describe the weather event and the campaign.
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09-17-2017, 04:40 PM,
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My mind is initially blank - hopefully someone will know.

Very wild guess - does it involve either Issachar Zacharie or Ulrich Dahlgren?
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09-17-2017, 05:19 PM, (This post was last modified: 09-17-2017, 05:21 PM by Steve.)
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
The early November 1861 hurricane that nearly sank the large Naval fleet that would soon participate in the Battle of Port Royal.
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