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Jul 29, 2009 03:30PM
Diane de Poitiers?
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Your go, Deidre!
Oh, damn! Now I've got to think up another. It may take me a little while so I'll be more than happy if someone else just wants to leap in.
Marco, you deserve a round of applause for starting this topic. It's a very cool game & interesting. Thank you.
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Its a great forum to have fun and learn something new. It has become a welcome break from from my daily routine.
Hi Marco, I tried to send you my email to your personal mail, but your account is set to private. Contact me via my goodreads mail and I will respond with my email address.
Yikes!I hadnt realized its been a while since someone posted anything.
Here goes ( not promising spectacular!)1) Died aged 28
2) Finished book at age 25
3) Eldest of 21 children
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Was it a Bronte? There were loads of them I think...
Nope not a Bronte1) Died aged 28
2) Finished book at age 25
3) Eldest of 21 children
4) Known best by her married name shared with a family who "practiced the healing art"
Yep - well done Marco ( Im going to have to work on making mine harder)
i was wondering the same thing,,,, can't be THAT easy when you don't know who the person is when you hear the name.
Ok, she does have her own wikipedia page
I never thought to look her up there for some reason.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Beeton
Interesting. Don't recall hearing of it before.
I thought we agreed to explain our clues at the end of a game?????
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1. Embarrassed by Golders Green.
2. Only qualified for a third-class degree (not taken).
3. Dissuaded from suicide by being stung by jellyfish.
4. Apprenticed to a cabinet-maker.
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Event:1. Changed the face of the U.S.A. forever.
2. Involved someone who had to violate his principles.
3. Was considered a wasteland by many.
4. Disappointed its architect because of one thing that was missing.
Marco wrote: "It's amazing how Albert Einstein became Albert Einstein although he's dyslexic..."One of the technically smartest people I know is dyslexic.
Columbian Exposition/aka/Chicago World's Fair 1893
Dyslexia has nothing to do with intelligence. My wife & two of my kids are dyslexic. While not in Einstein's class, none of them is stupid. My son is a network engineer, my wife holds a BA & a BS. My daughter is doing well in college & even managed decent marks in a Spanish, although they told her halfway through she didn't have to take it because someone like her could never manage to pass it.
Manuel wrote: "Columbian Exposition/aka/Chicago World's Fair 1893"Nope! Do you all need another clue? Perhaps the word architect was misleading. I meant it in it's broadest sense.
1. Changed the face of the U.S.A. forever.
2. Involved someone who had to violate his principles.
3. Was considered a wasteland by many.
4. Disappointed its architect because of one thing that was missing.
5. Its name is misleading.
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Susanna wrote: "The Manhattan Project?"Nice guess but you're in the wrong century, which becomes clue #6
1. Changed the face of the U.S.A. forever.
2. Involved someone who had to violate his principles.
3. Was considered a wasteland by many.
4. Disappointed its architect because of one thing that was missing.
5. Its name is misleading.
Tony wrote: "The Mexican-American War?"Good guess. Right century wrong decade. See clue #6
1. Changed the face of the U.S.A. forever.
2. Involved someone who had to violate his principles.
3. Was considered a wasteland by many.
4. Disappointed its architect because of one thing that was missing.
5. Its name is misleading.
6. Early 19th Century.
7. One of the indirect causes of the Civil War.
Are my clues too vague? The next one will most likely be the closer. But maybe someone will get it before tomorrow.
Ed
Manuel wrote: "the Kansas-Nebraska act"No, sorry. It happened in the early 19th century.
Manuel wrote: "The Louisiana Purchase"You are correct. Explanation follows.
1. Changed the face of the U.S.A. forever.
Ex: No longer 13 ex-colonies and opened up the West to exploration and exploitation.
2. Involved someone who had to violate his principles.
Ex: Thomas Jefferson violated his belief in strict interpretation of the constitution to do this. No where in the constitution is the Federal Government empowered to expand the borders of the U.S.A.
3. Was considered a wasteland by many.
ex: The West was almost totally unknown and many people felt that the $3 million had been spent on a wasteland.
4. Disappointed its architect because of one thing that was missing.
ex: Jefferson was hoping for a water route from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately the Rockies intervened.
5. Its name is misleading.
ex. What is now Louisiana is a tiny part of the purchase. Jefferson was originally just looking to buy New Orleans.
6. Early 19th Century.
ex: 1803
7. One of the indirect causes of the Civil War.
ex: The eventual creation of new states threatened the status quo balance of "Slave" vs. "Free" states. In fact, when the "free" states were able to garner enough electoral votes to elect a President, many if not most people in the South felt they had no choice but to secede.
actuallyby 1803 there were already 17 states in the union
Manuel wrote: "actuallyby 1803 there were already 17 states in the union"
True, but none beyond the Mississippi.
give me 30 or so minutes to come up with another game
Person1. Born in Rome
2. killed teenaged brother
3. picked to succeed head of state at age 31
4. successfully thwarted attempted coup
Person1. Born in Rome
2. killed teenaged brother
3. picked to succeed head of state at age 31
4. successfully thwarted attempted coup
5. became head of state among widespread scorn and disdain by population and military.
Person1. Born in Rome
2. killed teenaged brother
3. picked to succeed head of state at age 31
4. successfully thwarted attempted coup
5. became head of state among widespread scorn and disdain by population and military.
6. assumed would rule as autocrat, same as predecessor.
Person1. Born in Rome
2. killed teenaged brother
3. picked to succeed head of state at age 31
4. successfully thwarted attempted coup
5. became head of state among widespread scorn and disdain by population and military.
6. assumed would rule as autocrat, same as predecessor.
7. became defender of democracy and stability.
Person1. Born in Rome
2. killed teenaged brother
3. picked to succeed head of state at age 31
4. successfully thwarted attempted coup
5. became head of state among widespread scorn and disdain by population and military.
6. assumed would rule as autocrat, same as predecessor.
7. became defender of democracy and stability.
8. direct descendent of Louis XIV
Person 1. Born in Rome
2. killed teenaged brother
3. picked to succeed head of state at age 31
4. successfully thwarted attempted coup
5. became head of state among widespread scorn and disdain by population and military.
6. assumed would rule as autocrat, same as predecessor.
7. became defender of democracy and stability.
8. direct descendent of Louis XIV
9. comes from a dynasty that has been abolished THREE TIMES
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