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05-05-2013, 05:53 PM
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Assassination Trivia
Who is this gentleman?


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05-05-2013, 06:08 PM
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It is newspaperman and war correspondent GATH
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05-05-2013, 06:22 PM
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You got it, Wild Bill! Your prize is to ride Orb in the Preakness!

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05-05-2013, 06:52 PM
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How many of you know that GATH bought property in the mountains of Maryland after the war and built an estate named Gathland? On that estate, he built a large memorial arch to war correspondents. The arch and land and now part of the Maryland State Parks system.
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05-06-2013, 05:55 AM
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Bill, from my unfortunate experience, please take Betty's advice. Do not think like John Velazquez - ride Orb and not Verrazano.
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10-30-2016, 09:03 PM (This post was last modified: 10-30-2016 09:05 PM by Susan Higginbotham.)
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I went to Gathland State Park today. Here are a few images of the War Correspondents' Arch:

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Lovely place, and well worth a visit. I would recommend a cool day when the gnats are not out, though. (You can see Dudley and I sneaked into a picture.)
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10-31-2016, 09:33 AM
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Wonderful photos, Susan. Thank you for sharing!
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10-31-2016, 10:08 AM
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I have never seen that before, that's impressive.

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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10-31-2016, 11:48 AM
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We had hoped to include that in a Sunday trip for the 2017 Surratt Conference, but we had to change things around. Maybe next year. I think Bob Allen did a great article on George Alfred Townshend for the Courier a year or so ago.
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11-14-2016, 09:54 AM
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What is the name of this ship?

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11-14-2016, 12:13 PM (This post was last modified: 11-14-2016 12:13 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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I cannot off the top of my head come up with a name, but the skyline looks London to me. Did J. Benjamin board this ship?
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11-14-2016, 12:13 PM
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(11-14-2016 09:54 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  What is the name of this ship?

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HMS Warrior?
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11-14-2016, 01:19 PM
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Eva and Blaine, those are excellent guesses by both of you folks, but neither one is correct.
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11-14-2016, 02:14 PM
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River Queen? Wild guess

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11-14-2016, 03:19 PM
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Drives me nuts to brooding about that background. What I thought St. Paul's - could it be the Capitol, hence DC? Or NYC, regarding the skyscrapers?
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