Peterthegreat
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Indeed they were. Your turn!
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Strathclyder
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Out of curiosity, were you referring to the fact that Charles Upham was the only one of the three to survive the conflict which resulted in the VCs being awarded when you said uniquely?
Changing the subject yet again...
Who were the two dissenting justices in the US Supreme Court case of Dredd Scott v. Sandford in 1857, a key factor in the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861?
Peterthegreat
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No. I probably worded it a bit clumsily. I meant to say the thing in common was unique to those three. (ie they also had things in common with other people such as two legs etc)
Strathclyder
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Ah OK, no worries lol
DaleCooper
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I think we need some help with this one.
Strathclyder
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Yeah, some clues might be in order. Hopefully these will help...
One was a presidential candidate at the 1860 Republican national convention (Abraham Lincoln secured this nomination) and the other was the first and only Whig justice of the US Supreme Court.
EbbwJunction1
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Jefferson Davies, later the President of the Confederacy, might have been the first one?
Strathclyder
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Am afraid not. Davies was affiliated with the Democrats prior to the Civil War.
Salmon P. Chase & William H. Seward? Both were presidential candidates at the 1860 Republican convention, but neither were on the Supreme Court at the time, although Chase would be appointed to the Supreme Court in December 1864 by President Lincoln.
One more clue, if to speed this along and give someone else a chance: Roger B. Taney was the Chief Justice presiding over the Dred Scott case.
Mcr Warrior
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Reckon that if this question was on "Pointless", it'd almost certainly be adding £250 to the jackpot.
Strathclyder
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Aye, 250 quid would be the starting point for this one, I think lolReckon that if this question was on "Pointless", it'd almost certainly be adding £250 to the jackpot.
GRALISTAIR
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Has to be Maclean and Curtis. Well that was what my daughter was taught in American High School ( in rural Missouri) . Still widely derided as a disgusting and worse decision ever of the SCOTUS.
Strathclyder
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Correct on both counts. Their full names were Benjamin Robbins Curtis & John McLean. And it's hard to argue against that assessment, both for how overtly & disgustingly racist it was and the damage it helped inflict on a national scale. In this particular instance, history will continue to remember the dissenters more positively than it ever has the majority.
Your floor.
GRALISTAIR
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Cant think of a question at the moment so I will declare open floor if I may.
I'd like to think, a bit less abstruse than @Strathclyder's horror (I jest -- anything goes, here !)
Please name the patron saints of the following countries:
France
Norway
Spain
Hungary
Please name the patron saints of the following countries:
France
Norway
Spain
Hungary
xotGD
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France - St Joan
Norway - St Olaf
Spain - Santa Maria
Hungary - St John
Norway - St Olaf
Spain - Santa Maria
Hungary - St John
DaleCooper
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Hungary - St. Arving
SuspectUsual
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Spain - St James
Peterthegreat
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France - St Denis
GRALISTAIR
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Was it a female? Elizabeth?
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St Thomas
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Wasn’t there an Austro-Hungarian battleship called Sankt Istvan, which was some sort of a sop to the Hungarians? But what Istvan translates as I have no idea.
GRALISTAIR
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Stephen or John are good shouts too.
I pronounce this as success on your part -- what with the crazy (or at least non-Indo-European) Hungarian language, liable to be a sore trial to the likes of us. "Istvan" is the Hungarian equivalent of Stephen. This Saint Stephen is not the first martyr as per the New Testament, but a later Stephen: lived 975 -- 1038 A.D.; last Prince of the Hungarians, first King of Hungary.
@Gloster beat you to it, as above. (And, guys, bad luck with Thomas and George.)
@xotGD, @SteveM70. @Peterthegreat, @Gloster: you each got one. Would you four gentlemen be up for a tie-breaker: one more patron saint, first one to name him / her correctly, sets the next question?
Peterthegreat
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I would be happy with that.