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03/19/2009 08:42:53 PM · #26 |
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03/19/2009 08:44:03 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by CEJ:
tobacco? |
Correct
Question 8:
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, but which Amendment ended slavery forever? |
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03/19/2009 08:44:46 PM · #28 |
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03/19/2009 08:46:16 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by CEJ:
13th |
Correct
Question 9:
What was the rail system that connected Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California? |
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03/19/2009 08:47:01 PM · #30 |
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03/19/2009 08:48:12 PM · #31 |
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03/19/2009 08:48:25 PM · #32 |
First Trans Continental Railroad or Pacific Railroad...same thing
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03/19/2009 08:49:05 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by chesire:
Transcontinental |
Dang!! Good Call!! |
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03/19/2009 08:50:10 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by TCGuru:
Amtrak? |
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03/19/2009 08:50:33 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by chesire:
Transcontinental |
Correct
Question 10: (Last Question for tonight)
What is the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, which told of the cruelty of Slavery?
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03/19/2009 08:51:16 PM · #36 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
< As featured in "The King and I" >
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03/19/2009 08:52:19 PM · #37 |
busted while posting...
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03/19/2009 08:54:08 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by chesire:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
< As featured in "The King and I" > |
DING DING DING DING
WE have a winner....
Congratulations chesire
Winning the game with a total of 8 points. |
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03/19/2009 08:54:41 PM · #39 |
| Well I never win challenges so.. I'll take it! |
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03/19/2009 08:55:57 PM · #40 |
It was the meeting of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific RRs meeting near Promontory, Utah, forming the Transcontinental Railroad ...
The meeting of the lines of the First Transcontinental Railroad:
Locale Box Elder County, Utah
Dates of operation May 10, 1869–January, 1905
Successor Lucin Cutoff
Track gauge 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)*
*The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and the U.S. railroads were built by English expatriates.
Why did the English people build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did ''they'' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons use that odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagons would break on some of the old, long distance roads, because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.
So who built these old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts? The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original questions. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification (Military Spec) for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Military specs and bureaucracies live forever. So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war horses.
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03/19/2009 08:55:58 PM · #41 |
Tomorrow night I will ask Jeopardy questions.
Here is a teaser for tomorrow...
Though this band's 2008 Album is titled "Viva La Vida", They're actually British?
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03/21/2009 04:01:44 PM · #42 |
| When's the jeopardy round? |
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03/21/2009 05:02:35 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
It was the meeting of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific RRs meeting near Promontory, Utah, forming the Transcontinental Railroad ...
The meeting of the lines of the First Transcontinental Railroad:
Locale Box Elder County, Utah
Dates of operation May 10, 1869–January, 1905
Successor Lucin Cutoff
Track gauge 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)*
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The US National Park Service performs a re-enactment at the site on the anniversary, but also every Saturday morning during summer time - here are a couple of shots from several years back. I didn't appreciate the significance so much when it was in my own backyard, but now that we've been in Iowa for a couple of years, I'm itching to go back and shoot it again.
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03/21/2009 05:38:27 PM · #44 |
Since nobody's doing this, I'll fill in by asking "Who was Alexander Graham Kowalski?"
Your time starts *now*...
R.
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03/21/2009 05:55:05 PM · #45 |
| he invented the telephone pole |
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03/21/2009 06:36:07 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by JulietNN:
he invented the telephone pole |
almost... (snicker)
He was the first Telephone pole!
R.
Message edited by author 2009-03-21 18:36:18.
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