Extra Credit Questions
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03-14-2021, 07:58 PM
Post: #3796
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
De Tocqueville and Dickens both toured America but I think it's Dickens who wrote the quote. He had love-hate feelings about America and this quote sounds like Dickens when he's underimpressed.
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03-15-2021, 04:51 AM
Post: #3797
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Good try, Steve, but Anita's guess is correct. Kudos, Anita. Charles Dickens' first trip to the United States was in 1842, and he made lots of observations as he traveled. His impressions were published in a travelogue entitled American Notes for General Circulation.
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03-15-2021, 07:54 AM
Post: #3798
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(03-14-2021 05:08 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Please try without googling. Thanks.Carl Sandburg? |
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03-15-2021, 08:38 AM
Post: #3799
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Good try, Mike, but Anita got it. Please see my post prior to yours. It was Charles Dickens.
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03-15-2021, 11:01 AM
Post: #3800
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(03-14-2021 05:08 PM)RJNorton Wrote: A well-known writer described Illinois' prairie land as follows: "Travel in pioneer Illinois was dangerous. The roads were poor and there were no bridges. People could get lost in the prairie grass, which grew as tall as a man." (Source: Prairie Pages, Vol. 1 # 2, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency) "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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03-16-2021, 03:03 PM
Post: #3801
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
No googling, please.
As a young man Thomas Lincoln learned a couple of skills in which he could earn money. One was carpentry. What was the other? (Thomas Lincoln did a lot of farming during his life, but I am not including that here.) |
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03-16-2021, 04:01 PM
Post: #3802
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Making whiskey?
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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03-16-2021, 07:32 PM
Post: #3803
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Brick laying?
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03-16-2021, 07:36 PM
Post: #3804
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Was he a tailor?
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03-17-2021, 04:45 AM
Post: #3805
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Rob, Susan, and Eva - all are logical guesses, but none are correct.
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03-17-2021, 04:48 AM
Post: #3806
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Was he a cobbler/bootmaker?
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03-17-2021, 05:23 AM
Post: #3807
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
That is another logical guess, Dennis, but incorrect.
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03-17-2021, 05:52 AM
Post: #3808
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Blacksmithing
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03-17-2021, 06:32 AM
Post: #3809
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(03-16-2021 03:03 PM)RJNorton Wrote: No googling, please.I suppose cabinet-maker would be part of carpentry, which leaves farmer; although I recall his neighbor mentioning words to the effect that Thomas grew so little, and farmed by such primitive means, that he could scarcely be called a farmer. That same neighbor, George Balch, wound up collecting money for a more fitting memorial to the father of President Lincoln, after seeing how poor Thomas Lincoln's burial was. I believe I read about that in different sources, possibly Burlingame being one. |
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03-17-2021, 06:32 AM
Post: #3810
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
You nailed it, Bill. Kudos! Indeed Thomas Lincoln learned blacksmithing as well as carpentry.
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