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dtaai-maai wrote:
Siani wrote: I have been through all the old schools....is it Christ's Hospital School? Blazer button?
Very good!! Although I wouldn't exactly call it a blazer... :shock:
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coat or tunic maybe correct. It was a hard one...I was going to say lord mayor, but glad it is solved. :)
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pharvey wrote:OK then, just a quickie........ And no ''Googling"!!

What did Abraham Lincoln receive on May 22, 1849?

Was it something to do with slavery? Propose a bill to abolish it?
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Good guess Siani - unfortunately a little wide of the mark....
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That one wouldn't be taught/discussed unless you were a university American history major. :wink: Pete :cheers:
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Well I do not know much apart that he was assassinated? Was it the Civil war, start or end?
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No, he was the only US President even up to today to ever be granted a Patent. He designed something to lift boats by use of air in a bellows when they approached shallows. It was never manufactured I don't think, and probably a good thing, as in my thinking the boat would of capsized if in the raised position in a cross current.

I knew he was granted a patent way before his President days, but I looked up what it was for. Pete :cheers:
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Yep, absolutely correct - spot on Pete. :cheers: :cheers:
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Who lived in this house in the UK? Clue now dead.
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Digging deep into the memory here - but could that have been the home of one of my favourite poets of all time - Dylan Thomas?
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Jeez Louise this thread moves fast.....

Prcsst gets the Who Am I riddle right
Enthroned Thrice, Abdicated Twice, Deposed Once.
Married five times, widowed three, divorced once.
Imprisoned in three states, named twice, numbered once.
Author, Film Star, Politician and Prince, I left no epitaph...
Who Am I?


Indeed he was a 20thC character...very famous as well....starred in a film about his downfall.

His family had reigned for 260 years, but he was the last of his line.

Though he is survived by brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces none hold a title.

The most famous member of his family is a fictional character.
Indeed it was "The Last Emperor" Aisin Gioro Puyi, Last Manchu Quing Dynasty Emperor of China, last in line of a dynasty that ruled for just over 260 years.

Imprisoned in Manchuko, then Russia, then China (where he was known simply as Prisoner 198). On his release he was officially renamed Aisingioro Puyi.

whilst in Russia he starred in a film about himself, playing himself.

He was enthroned three times - twice Emperor of China, Once Emperor of Manchuko. He was deposed, then reinstated, abdicated, enthroned, then abdicated at the end of WW2.

His autobiography was an international best seller, and after his re-education by the PRCCP he became a party official and politician. During the Cultural Revolution he fell again. He never recovered from the humiliation lumped on him by the Red Guard, died of cancer in 1967, and was buried in Beijing.

He was reburied with his Manchu Quing ancestors in 1998, and his grave has no epitaph, simply a name and his birth and death dates.

And the most famous member of his family who is in fact a fictional character?

Fu Manchu. His fictional autobiography states he is supposed to be the son of a Manchu prince, and his family were killed by the British during the opium wars. Fu supported the Boxers, and as a result is exiled by the Quing emperor. Fu Manchu's emblem is thus the Quing Manchu flag...a black dragon on a yellow background.

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barrys wrote:Digging deep into the memory here - but could that have been the home of one of my favourite poets of all time - Dylan Thomas?
:D Well done! Got it first time! The Boat House at Laugharne, Wales, indeed home of the poet Dylan Thomas,
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prcscct wrote:We haven't touched on famous quotes yet, or quotes by the famous. Here's one. I know who said it but not when, in what context, or part of what speech. Pete :cheers:

"History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."
No one has openly gotten this one yet. As a clue, he's buried at St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire. Pete :cheers:
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prcscct wrote:No one has openly gotten this one yet. As a clue, he's buried at St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire. Pete :cheers:
Well that would be Winnie then, unlikely to be any of the other members of his family buried there. Thats about as much as I know.

Its been a long while since I've been there and as its only 30 miles away....
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Drum roll......correct. :D For us non-Brits though, why unlikely other members of his family would not be buried there? Pete :cheers:
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