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Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
04-09-2021, 04:42 AM (This post was last modified: 04-09-2021 04:45 AM by AussieMick.)
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I read the General Order and thought it very well typed. But then I read that James Pleasants was to be "hung".
Oh well , ar least he wasnt hanged ..... nor "hung".
https://writingexplained.org/hanged-vs-hung-difference

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04-09-2021, 08:23 AM (This post was last modified: 04-09-2021 08:31 AM by David Lockmiller.)
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(04-08-2021 10:11 PM)Steve Wrote:  Since Mick and Roger have already given the correct answers, I'm posting a link to images of the General Order referred to by David for everybody to look over for themselves:

https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/bookview...1/mode/1up

Thanks for the information, Steve. It looks like Roger and AussieMick each get 50 percent of the credit for the correct answer. Each of you wins an all-expense paid vacation to Decatur, Illinois for one day. (One day is the longest anyone has ever stayed in Decatur on a vacation. Just kidding.)

Did anyone else notice that the vote of the military panel was 2 -1? Apparently, a member of the panel thought like President Lincoln regarding the severity of the punishment.

(04-09-2021 04:42 AM)AussieMick Wrote:  I read the General Order and thought it very well typed. But then I read that James Pleasants was to be "hung".
Oh well , ar least he wasnt hanged ..... nor "hung".
https://writingexplained.org/hanged-vs-hung-difference

To add by way of explanation:

Hanged is the past tense and past participle of hang only when used in the sense of “put to death by hanging.”

For example,

The traitor was hanged for treason. [A somewhat appropriate example in this case.]

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06-07-2021, 06:07 PM (This post was last modified: 06-07-2021 06:10 PM by AussieMick.)
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Who was George Hall and how did he influence our memory of Lincoln?

( Google ? ... yes go for it. And I wish you good luck)

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06-08-2021, 03:45 AM
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Does it have anything to do with Lincoln's stovepipe hat?
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06-08-2021, 04:02 AM (This post was last modified: 06-08-2021 04:03 AM by AussieMick.)
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Roger, you're on the ball. Can you score a goal like the USA soccer team ? Whats the connection to George?

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06-08-2021, 04:19 AM
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He was a Springfield hatter who made the hat Lincoln wore on the inaugural train in 1861.
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06-08-2021, 04:29 AM
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An artist named George Hall created a bust of Lincoln made of sheet-steel which, at one time, was displayed at the Illinois governor's office.

At least according to a 1971 newspaper article.
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06-08-2021, 04:35 AM
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Sorry, Steve. Roger gets the chocolates. Or at least gives the answer I was after.
George Hall was the Springfield hatter who supplied Lincoln's stovepipe hat.

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06-08-2021, 05:54 AM
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This info about Lincoln's hat, traveling to Washington, and Burlingame's book about the Lincoln marriage reminds me of an Irish song

"Hold on to your Hat", by Derek Ryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpgP2Gtx...k&index=28

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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06-08-2021, 09:14 AM
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Speaking of Lincoln’s lids, being there’s only 3 in existence and one has dubious provenance, which one was given away as a gift at one point and by whom?

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06-08-2021, 09:47 AM
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Because you have previously mentioned visiting Hildene I shall guess the one there. But I do not know who donated it.
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06-08-2021, 10:02 AM
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Very good, PMOTI, you’re half way there. Think Lincoln decedents for the second half and you can exclude RTL.

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06-08-2021, 11:15 AM
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Jessie Harlan Lincoln?
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06-08-2021, 11:19 AM
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(06-08-2021 11:15 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Jessie Harlan Lincoln?

Negative. Remove one generation. Go fish.

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06-08-2021, 12:59 PM
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Mary Harlan Lincoln?
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