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Old 04-26-2008, 01:53 PM
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1. Andrew J. Grigsby

2. USS Wanderer

3. Laurence Massillon Keitt

4. C. G. Memminger

5. Mercurochrome INCORRECT
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Old 04-26-2008, 07:43 PM
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Here are the answers for Week 4 of Game #52:

1. Andrew Jackson Grigsby


http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/Biographies/BiosAndrewJacksonGrigsby.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Grigsby

http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=906

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/staunton/harvest/hanger2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Brigade


2. Wanderer


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wanderer_(1857)

http://www.amazon.com/Wanderer-American-Slave-Conspiracy-Sails/dp/0312343477

http://savannahnow.com/node/450463

http://books.google.com/books?id=0h1duMTanzAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=slave +ship&sig=3WQfQkjzl9MjXbfx26mFS9o7Uo8

http://www.afrigeneas.com/forumd/index.cgi?noframes;read=8990

http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w2/wanderer-i.htm


3. Laurence Massillon Keitt



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_M._Keitt

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/436.html

http://www.uncp.edu/home/berrys/courses/poe/poe_docs_keitt.html

http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/keitt-laurence-massillon.html

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000054

http://www.virtualology.com/laurencemassillonkeitt/

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/keitt.html


4. Christopher Gustavus Memminger


http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Memminger,C.G.html

http://www.csawardept.com/history/Cabinet/Memminger/

http://www.collectstocks.com/spandasracos.html

http://www.pomexport.com/NHist/Memm5D_i.html

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Christopher-Gustavus-Memminger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZW1...KSHRsj-k&hl=en


5. Blue Mass was the answer I was looking for. I will also accept Calomel.Tho calomel (mercurous chloride) was often a major constituent chemical of Blue Mass, it was also not infrequently proscribed and administered in itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_mass

http://everything2.com/e2node/Blue%2520Mass

http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark2/CW02AnnieHostetter.html

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/tcaw/10/i01/html/01chemch.html

http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/commonterms.cfm

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/072006/07082006/204020

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/insomnia/a/bluemass.htm



Here are the scores for game #52, after Week 4:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 19
Gay Mathis - 18
Susan Sweet - 14
Rad2duhbone53 - 5

SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 16
natek1029 - 11
Oxkern - 10
Hoosier - 7


Thanks for playing. See you next week!


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