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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-23-2025 03:25 AM
Kudos, Steve. It is Cuba. The information is from an article by William D. Pedersen entitled "Abraham Lincoln's International Legacy in 16 Postage Stamps." The article was published in the Lincoln Herald in 2021. Apparently Cuban dictator, Fulgencia Batista, either wanted to gain favor with the United States or simply connected to Lincoln because he also had a humble background. Batista was known to keep a bust of Lincoln on his desk.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - mbgross - 04-26-2025 04:36 PM
Dr. William D. Pedersen is the man! LSU- Shreveport has a great Lincoln Studies program and a great Lincoln collection thanks to him. His Presidential Lecture/Seminars series is outstanding!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-29-2025 04:02 AM
Please try without googling. Thanks.
In 1830 Thomas Lincoln moved his family from Indiana to Illinois. He planned to farm the Illinois prairie land.
Years later a well-known writer described Illinois' prairie land as follows:
"Looking towards the setting sun, there lay, stretched out before my view, a vast expanse of level ground; unbroken, save by one thin line of trees, which scarcely amounted to a scratch upon the great blank; until it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip: mingling with its rich colours, and mellowing in its distant blue. There it lay, a tranquil sea or lake without water, if such a simile be admissible, with the day going down upon it: a few birds wheeling here and there: and solitude and silence reigning paramount around... Great as the picture was, its very flatness and extent, which left nothing to the imagination, tamed it down and cramped its interest."
What was the name of the writer?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 04-29-2025 05:33 AM
I don't think he wrote about Illinois much , if at all, but there's a similarity to the style of John Steinbeck.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-29-2025 02:42 PM
Nope, not Steinbeck.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 04-29-2025 03:46 PM
It's Charles Dickens. I knew the quote but couldn't remember the author. I have Charles Slater's book "Charles Dickens" and found the Chapter describing Dickens trip to America in 1842.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-29-2025 03:49 PM
Very good, Anita! Dickens made lots of observations as he traveled. His impressions were published in a travelogue entitled American Notes for General Circulation.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 04-29-2025 09:59 PM
Is that the one that starts out "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" ?
I've had a travel experience like that.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-06-2025 06:19 AM
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.)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 05-06-2025 07:05 AM
Blacksmithing ?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-06-2025 07:08 AM
You nailed it, Gene. Kudos! Indeed Thomas Lincoln learned blacksmithing as well as carpentry.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-17-2025 10:20 AM
No googling please.
Within 5, how many total statues of Abraham Lincoln are there in countries other than the United States?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - mbgross - 05-17-2025 11:42 AM
A wild, stab in the dark. 76.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-17-2025 01:23 PM
Not near that many, Mike.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 05-17-2025 05:51 PM
16? , based on ridiculously flimsy 'logic'