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5/9 for me.

Woo hoo! Aced it! (and without a single guess, I might add....)

I had a feeling this one would be in my wheelhouse....

"ace", that's a one isn't it?

Nobody likes a smart ass...

8/9. Uncle Sam? Really?

8 of nine missed the burning question

8/9...missed "Uncle Sam".

I also missed the Uncle Sam one.

Here we are already getting 1812 bicentennialed out. It's the Harper government's way of promoting those "traditional" Canadian values, I guess. There was a great article in the Globe and Mail a few days ago arguing that the war had the effect of holding back Canadian democracy and economic development for most of the rest of the century. Seems appropriate, given the current federal government's insistence in turning us back into a hewers of wood and drawers of water economy.

I also got them all, but guessed on Uncle Sam and the "warning" question. Any B'more girl better know her 1812 history!

Guinevere wrote:I also got them all, but guessed on Uncle Sam and the "warning" question. Any B'more girl better know her 1812 history!

I'm gonna go drive over the Key Bridge this weekend in your honor!

My father helped build that bridge You will also be traveling past the "eggs" (which are digesters) of the Back Water Sewage Treatment Plant which he also helped build (and where one of my uncles still works as a foreman)

There is a lot of infrastructure in and around that wonderful city that Dad and his companies (or companies he worked for) have had a hand in creating.

What's funny is that I ended up defending litigation involving some of those facilities, when I was working in DC. Luckily, it didn't involve any of his specific projects, and was related to operation ofthe facilities, which is done by the City of Baltimore, but it was ironic that each of us have spent years understanding various pieces of the operations of the same facility.

Sue U wrote:I'm gonna go drive over the Key Bridge this weekend in your honor!

I'm gonna be staying very close to the other Key Bridge when I go to DC in a month

I managed 9 also - but admit that I guessed on a couple... who warned the British; which other city was burned.

THe only reason I remembered the warning one was there was someone in my class with the same surname

The reason I remembered was because...err...I read Harry Turtledove's TL-191 books. One of the characters is a descendant of Secord, also named Laura Secord.

I'm surprised they didn't ask about Dolley Madison saving the portrait of Washington from the White House. Or was that one too obvious?

Or about the hurricane....

If Bob says he was innocent, that's good enough for me...

I recall I have seen a few "War of 1812" licence plates lately...just saw one today, in fact, on a Subaru headed for Cape Cod. I think they are from Maryland.

Yes it's the new Maryland plate commemorating the bicentennial of the war.

Link with photo here: http://starspangled200.org/About/Pages/ ... Plate.aspx