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To: FLT-bird
Re: classical or gregorian chant usually

Are you a fan of Anonymous 4? I have several of their albums and think it's some of the most beautiful music I own. 11,000 Virgins by Hildegard von Bingen is my favorite.

31 posted on 07/13/2024 10:24:59 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma
In 1862, Lincoln met Capt. David Derickson, who served as his bodyguard, providing protection for the president when he commuted from the White House to his cottage at the Soldier’s Home. Lincoln spent about a quarter of his presidency at the cottage, which allowed him some escape from D.C.’s summers and from public interruptions at the White House.

Lincoln and his bodyguard became close, and slept in the same bed: Derickson’s superior, Lt. Col. Thomas Chamberlain, and Tish Fox, the wife of Assistant Navy Secretary Gustavus Fox, both wrote about it. Tish wrote in her diary that Derickson was devoted to Lincoln and “when Mrs. Lincoln was away, they slept together.”

“The president was also not an infrequent visitor in the late afternoon hours, and endeared himself to his guards by his genial, kind ways. He was not long in placing the officers in his two companies at their ease in his presence, and Capts. Derickson and Crozier were shortly on a footing of such marked friendship with him that they were often summoned to dinner or breakfast at the presidential board. Capt. Derickson, in particular, advanced so far in the president’s confidence and esteem that in Mrs. Lincoln’s absence he frequently spent the night at his cottage, sleeping in the same bed with him, and — it is said — making use of his excellency’s nightshirt!"

This was in addition to him having spent years sleeping with Joshua Fry Speed earlier in his life. Don't give me any nonsense about "well gosh, men slept in the same bed sometimes back then". No. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....its probably a duck.

32 posted on 07/13/2024 10:49:52 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: zeugma

Yes I have that album and yes I like that one.


33 posted on 07/13/2024 10:50:17 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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