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Slavery was legal in the "border" states, which were kept by hook and crook and suspension of habeus corpus in the Union.
You're right, Susanna, but it wasn't really legal with or without the Proclomation. The slaves didn't realize it, though. I could be wrong. I'll look it up...another day.
Sorry Will,you are wrong about Emancipation in the border states. Lincoln and his cabinet didnt want to push the Border states into joining the Confederacy. The Emancipation Proclamation was a wonderful peace of rhetoric with lofty and noble goals, but in actuality it freed very few slaves; since the proclamation only applied to states in rebellion against the Union.
It did make the war more "holy" in that it transformed the war from a fight against secession into a fight against slavey.
Person 1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
Person 1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
good to see you in here again Ted,alas not the correct answer
Person1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though older sibling and father were still alive.
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Don't think so. Albert had 3 children. And Charlemagne, e.g., had 4 wives and 20 children. This is a toughie.
Person1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though older sibling and father were still alive.
9. assumed the throne amongst chaos, upheaval and civil war.
10. older brother sovereign of his own kingdom
Assuming that this person is male, and that "Victoria" is Queen Victoria:In order for his step-mother to also be his sister-in-law, she would have to have been married to both his father and a brother. I hope you don't you mean simultaneosly! And he married an aunt? This sounds more like ancient Rome save for the fact that there was no Pope.
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looks like you guys (Susanna,Ted) are getting warmerbut no cigar!! yet
The internecine aspects of this guy are pretty funky.
I didn't mean internecine. I meant incestuous.
Merci Marco,mais au jourd'hui nous parlons espagnol a chez moi.
?Hablas espanol Marco?
Person1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though older sibling and father were still alive.
9. assumed the throne amongst chaos, upheaval and civil war.
10. older brother sovereign of his own kingdom
11. helped develop the first railway in the kingdom
Person1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though older sibling and father were still alive.
9. assumed the throne amongst chaos, upheaval and civil war.
10. older brother sovereign of his own kingdom
11. helped develop the first railway in the kingdom
12. 2nd marriage to one of Napoleon's relatives
Is this someone well known? I mean he could be dyslexic and 5'3" and it still wouldn't help.
Sorry, Manuel, didn't mean to be disrespectful. Just frustrated by this one.
I didnt think you were disrespectful.
Person 1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though older sibling and father were still alive.
9. assumed the throne amongst chaos, upheaval and civil war.
10. younger brother sovereign of his own kingdom
11. helped develop the first railway in the kingdom
12. 2nd marriage to one of Napoleon's relatives
13. Grandfather left ambiguous will regarding the succession, plunged the country into chaos.
Person 1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though father was still alive.
9. assumed the throne amongst chaos, upheaval and civil war.
10. younger brother sovereign of his own kingdom
11. helped develop the first railway in the kingdom
12. 2nd marriage to one of Napoleon's relatives
13. Grandfather left ambiguous will regarding the succession, plunged the country into chaos.
14. stayed in power with help from Britain and France
Person1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though father was still alive.
9. assumed the throne amongst chaos, upheaval and civil war.
10. younger brother sovereign of his own kingdom
11. helped develop the first railway in the kingdom
12. 2nd marriage to one of Napoleon's relatives
13. Grandfather left ambiguous will regarding the succession, plunged the country into chaos.
14. stayed in power with help from Britain and France
15. received the Golden Rose from Pope Gregory
Person1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though father was still alive.
9. assumed the throne amongst chaos, upheaval and civil war.
10. younger brother sovereign of his own kingdom
11. helped develop the first railway in the kingdom
12. 2nd marriage to one of Napoleon's relatives
13. Grandfather left ambiguous will regarding the succession, plunged the country into chaos.
14. stayed in power with help from Britain and France
15. received the Golden Rose from Pope Gregory
16. surpassed Victoria in the number of children born; died at child birth.
Mod
Louis Philippe was a relative, but not the answer
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Person1. married 3 times
2. had 11 children
3. first marriage annulled by the Pope
4. Step-mother was also sister-in-law
5. 2nd marriage lasted two months, spouse died unexpectedly.
6. 1st marriage was to father's sibling.
7. 3rd and last marriage was to Victoria's cousin
8. assumed the throne though father was still alive.
9. assumed the throne amongst chaos, upheaval and civil war.
10. younger brother sovereign of his own kingdom
11. helped develop the first railway in the kingdom
12. 2nd marriage to one of Napoleon's relatives
13. Grandfather left ambiguous will regarding the succession, plunged the country into chaos.
14. stayed in power with help from Britain and France
15. received the Golden Rose from Pope Gregory
16. Died at child birth. Surpassed Victoria in the number of children born.
17. European monarch, though not born in Europe
Bravo TedYes!
I thought it was interesting you kept thinking it was a man.
She married Ferdinand Saxe Coburg Gotha.
Her 2nd marriage was to the son of Napoleon's step-son.
Her 1st marriage was to her uncle.
Born in Rio
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Sorry guys,this one wasnt supposed to be hard.
I was trying to stay away from those people that took 29 clues....to figure out...like Frida Kahlo.
Surprisingly, one of Maria II relatives died on that recent Air France disaster over the Atlantic
Mod
I give up. But I complement you on a picking a person who is completely un-Googlable.
Maria II is always overshadowed by Victoria of Britain and Isabel of Spain.I wish you would'nt give up.
You got it!!!
I didn't see the Bravo, Ted. That's why I thought I was still in the dark.
Person.1. proclaimed emperor at age 15
2. homosexual crush on a famous charioteer
3. married a Vestal Virgin
4. third marriage to a great-granddaughter of Marcus Aurelius
hehe I'm good.Person
1. Nubian
2. Son of Piye
3. Rebuilt temple at Kawa
4. One of the greatest military tacticians
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I'd have to look it up, but I think you're wrong. I think it freed all the slaves; they just didn't tell the slaves along the northern edge of the Mason-Dixon line for a while. Actually, in those states it was illegal to actually own slaves, they just sort of forgot to pay them, but they couldn't buy and sell them in an open market.
The family I knew was kind of insulated but not totally. The Germans in Brasil had their own compound. The Confederates in Mexico had a ranch and businesses in Mexico City, so they were forced to mingle while in the city and retreated to the ranch for the weekend where their only contact with local populous was with their servants and field hands.