Extra Credit Questions
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12-02-2012, 03:25 PM
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Nope, but you are correct that it's at the Fort McNair Officers Club.
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12-02-2012, 03:45 PM
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Mark Neely??
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12-02-2012, 04:25 PM
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You got it, Laurie. Kudos.
Betty is a winner, too, for identifying Ed Steers. You both win free early bird senior (55+) specials at Gautier's Restaurant. |
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12-02-2012, 06:00 PM
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We need to put together a group early bird (55+) visit to Gautier's! I'll get the Wayback Machine ready!!!
--Jim Please visit my blog: http://jimsworldandwelcometoit.com/ |
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12-02-2012, 06:19 PM
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Jim, there may be another way.
Go here. Scroll down about 15 shows to "The Man Who Tried to Save Lincoln Mysterious Traveler.mp3" |
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12-02-2012, 06:27 PM
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(12-02-2012 06:19 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Jim, there may be another way. Roger, are you an old-time radio fan?!?!? When I worked at Nasdaq, the only way I endured the one-hour commute was by listening to old radio shows!!! I love them! --Jim Please visit my blog: http://jimsworldandwelcometoit.com/ |
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12-02-2012, 06:52 PM
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We're going to need the Wayback Machine to get to Gautier's today. It once stood at 252 Pennsylvania Avenue; but they've changed the street addresses, and I'm not sure what stands there now.
Brady's Studio was at 352 Pennsylvania Avenue at that time, but I think the numbers got lower as you went uptown. Brady's building still stands and it's in the 600 block, I think, under the new numbering system. Gautier's may have been where the huge FBI headquarters are now? |
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12-02-2012, 07:32 PM
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When I was forced to start my own graphics company in the 1990s, I tried talking my then-partners into leasing that building (625-627 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.) where Brady's studio had been in DC.
They couldn't see it and we ended up in Temple Hills on Branch Avenue. --Jim Please visit my blog: http://jimsworldandwelcometoit.com/ |
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12-04-2012, 02:18 PM
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
What was the most famous Christmas present that Mr. Lincoln ever received?
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12-04-2012, 02:25 PM
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Savannah?
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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12-04-2012, 02:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-04-2012 04:31 PM by J. Beckert.)
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The elk horn chair from Seth ______.? Kinman, I think.
"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg" |
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12-04-2012, 04:19 PM
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Rob: I agree-Savannah!
Bill Nash |
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12-04-2012, 04:36 PM
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Rob and Bill get to split the prize (if we every figure out what it is). I've never seen a photo of the elk horn chair. Is it as ugly as other horn chairs I've seen?
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12-04-2012, 04:42 PM
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Bill Nash |
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12-04-2012, 06:53 PM
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OMG, really ugly - but I do like the table it's sitting on. The chair looks dangerous to me. A friend's family once owned a beautiful ca. 1780 home in Clinton. The father envisioned himself another Lyndon Johnson in his love of all things Texan - even though he lived all of his life in Maryland.
The house is unique in that one wing of it was a Catholic chapel with an adjoining bedroom for visiting priests in the early days of our country. The bedroom had a predo (I think that's what you call the kneeling desk used by priests?) at the foot of the bed, but in a far corner was a horn chair that was almost as ugly as this Kinman one. Even assuming that a priest gets special protection from above, it would not have been me that wanted to sleep in that room with that chair. |
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