Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt
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23/2/23 hey look today is a pallindrome!
Cowardly lion
All the lions I found were brave & proud looking. There are TWO kinds in this astronomy display in upper Alexandria
3/2/23 Cowardly Lion, William Jennings Brian
Quite an adventure tonight. After looking at a few different theories I felt best about, I think it was Littleton’s. One theory said the Cowardly Lion was the Spanish American War, but how can a war be personified? Maybe. Bryan sounds most likely for a number of reasons, except that Baum really liked Bryan. Maybe, like most politicians, he had some critiques. Personally, it looks like he did some good things, except that whole Darwin thing that killed him in his sleep.
I couldn’t find any statues (they moved it from Congress to Nebraska in 2018 and other places with portraits were closed, like, I think the state department where he was SOS). Library of Congress too.
So, I went to my local library, signed up for a card, and so I wouldn’t be flounder near closing, asked the library for help.
He had me get into the library of Congress since he couldn’t find any books in Watha T. Daniel and we found a photo of the Lion himself. I lost some mileage when I forgot to turn the Garmins back on. Here’s some relevant info. There’s even a short film of his cross if gold speech:
William Jennings Bryan, (born March 19, 1860, Salem, Illinois, U.S.—died July 26, 1925, Dayton, Tennessee), Democratic and Populist leader and a magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency (1896, 1900, and 1908). His enemies regarded him as an ambitious demagogue, but his supporters viewed him as a champion of liberal causes. He was influential in the eventual adoption of such reforms as popular election of senators, income tax, creation of the Department of Labor, Prohibition, and women’s suffrage. Throughout his career, his Midwestern roots clearly identified him with agrarian interests, in opposition to those of the urban East.
Bryan was reared in Illinois. He practiced law in Jacksonville (1883–87) before moving to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1890. Renowned as a gifted debater, he opposed high tariffs and came to be considered the national leader of the Free Silver Movement (bimetallism) as opposed to the “hard money” policy of the Eastern bankers and industrialists, who favoured the gold standard.
“If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
In recognition of his role in securing the Democratic nomination for Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Bryan was appointed secretary of state the following year. Despite his diplomatic inexperience, he made a distinctive contribution to world law by espousing arbitration to prevent war. Bryan convinced 31 nations to agree in principle to his proposal of new treaties that would provide a “cooling-off” period of one year during which a question in dispute could be studied by an international commission. In the meantime, World War I broke out. An avowed pacifist, Bryan finally resigned over Wilson’s second note to Germany (June 8, 1915) protesting the sinking of the Lusitania. Nonetheless, he urged loyal support of the war when it was finally declared.
William Jennings Bryan | Biography, Cross of Gold, Scopes Trial, Populist, & Accomplishments | Britannica
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3/3/23 “There is no place like home…” Show us something that says “home” to you, that is NOT your actual home.
When I return from visiting family in Pennsylvania this is what tells me I’m nearing home. The only other thing I can think of that says “home” to me is the noticeably warmer air as I cross the Maryland or Virginia border into DC during Freezing Saddles. I know rest, food and a hot shower is right around the corner in both cases.
August 5, 2022 Hamil R. Harris
(ANALYSIS) KENSINGTON, Maryland — The seven-story temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints looms high above the Interstate 495 Beltway in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. — and someone spray-painted on an adjoining wall “Free Dorothy,” inspired by “The Wizard of Oz.”
The six gold-tipped spires of the temple, originally dedicated in 1974, stoke intrigue like Emerald City in the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland. Part of the attraction is that the Latter-day Saints temple is off-limits to the public — except for an open house, which has not taken place in nearly 50 years, since 1974.
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3/3/23 – No Place Like Home
Whenever I think of my Mom, it takes me back home [emoji537]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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