Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[Serdar]

@drevil 209337 wrote:

3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)

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Edmonson sisters

Mary Edmonson (1832–1853) and Emily Edmonson (1835–1895), “two respectable young women of light complexion”, were African Americans who became celebrities in the United States abolitionist movement after gaining their freedom from slavery. On April 15, 1848, they were among the 77 slaves who tried to escape from Washington, DC on the schooner The Pearl to sail up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in New Jersey.

Although that effort failed, they were freed from slavery by funds raised by the Congregational Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, whose pastor was Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent abolitionist. After gaining freedom, the Edmonsons were supported to go to school; they also worked. They campaigned with Beecher throughout the North for the end of slavery in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia
My actual ride: https://www.strava.com/activities/4915552429

[CaseyKane50]

3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)

Minnie Howard, Alexandria Resident, 1868 – 1950

From the Minnie Howard School webpage https://www.acps.k12.va.us/Page/468

Imagine a mother of seven children seeing the danger of the newly invented automobile and attempting to curb youth and children’s street activities! She not only recognized this newfangled dilemma, but rose to the challenge and created the forerunner to our current Alexandria City Recreation Department. Mrs. Howard successfully introduced the supervised playground concept to our city; created Alexandria’s school lunch program; and founded the Alexandria Parent Teachers Association in 1912. Quite a feat for a woman of that time!

[AlanA]

@Steve O 209389 wrote:

3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)

Joan of Arc

Helped win a long, long war
Canonized in 1920

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How about posting a picture that doesn’t fill up 3 of my screens!

[Indiana]

3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)

This Brookland school was taken over by the charter bearing the name of another notable woman already mentioned in the thread, Mary McLeod Bethune. Before that it was called Lucy Slowe school, named after Lucy Diggs Slowe (1883 or 1885 depending on the source – 1937), African American scholar, educator, and athlete. Slowe was the principal of the first junior high in DC for black students, a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Dean of Women at Howard University, as well as the winner of the first women’s national singles championship of the American Tennis Association. She advocated for better treatment of blacks and women. The house a couple blocks away that she shared with fellow educator and possible lover, Mary Burrill, was designated a historic landmark last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/03/26/this-pioneering-howard-dean-lived-with-another-woman-s-were-they-lovers/
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Last month CBS sports honored Lucy Slowe with a little vignette celebrating her many first! https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/lucy-diggs-slowe-honored-with-animated-vignette-by-cbs-sports-during-black-history-month/

The NY Times included her in their “overlooked” series of obituaries that should have been written at the time of death but were not. From it I learned that not only was a school and a Howard U hall named after her, but so was a bison at the National zoo (Howard’s mascot) and a giant boring machine for the First Street Tunnel Project sewer system upgrading: “’Lucy’ — strong, persistent, powerful and with its own Twitter account — moved tons of earth beneath the streets of Washington.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/obituaries/lucy-diggs-slowe-overlooked.html

[drevil]

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” Subanagram (5 letters or more)

On March 9, 1454, the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence. From LOC.gov:
America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent. A map created in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller was the first to depict this new continent with the name “America,” a Latinized version of “Amerigo.”

On your ride, find a word (5 letters or more) derived just from the letters of his name, snap a pic, and post it here on the forum.

Happy hunting!

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[mootsfy]

3/8/21 Notable Woman with her achievement.

Neval Hollen Thomas (January 6, 1874 – April 13, 1930) was a civil rights activist, high school teacher, and president of the Washington, D.C. local NAACP branch from 1925 to 1930.

[cvcalhoun]

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” anagram (5 letters or more)
Architectural Ceramics. Women owned and locally owned tile business.

[rumipumi]

3/9 amerigo vespucci anagram: ice cream

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[komorebi]

@drevil 209407 wrote:

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” Subanagram (5 letters or more)

3/9/2021 — “Amerigo Vespucci” subanagram. My preferred anagram generator thinks that “icecream” (no space) is a word, so I present Nicecream:

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[CBGanimal]

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” subanagram in Spanish I chose Europea and went to the University to grab my pic!

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[Catedrew]

@drevil 209407 wrote:

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” Subanagram (5 letters or more)

3/9/21 – Amerigo Vespucci subanagram: Pierogi

One of my favorite restaurants – Oby-Lee’s has both crepes AND pierogies. I was trying to see if the one menu sheet had BOTH of them on there but alas, the crepes were on one menu, and the pierogies were on another menu, so I went with the pierogies. Luckily, all variants spellings of pierogies were part of the sub-anagram. This place is in Clarendon in Arlington, and mostly has crepes, but added pierogies as a regular menu item a while back, and now has a full Polish menu on certain evenings.

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[Steve O]

@AlanA 209395 wrote:

How about posting a picture that doesn’t fill up 3 of my screens!

She was a bigger than life figure

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[Steve O]

3/9 amerigo vespucci anagram
VOICES

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[LeftyLaura]

3/9 amerigo vespucci anagram -Service

Got nothing much more than this.

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[DCAKen]

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci”

Fortunately, this “Escape” was parked, so I didn’t have to get a picture while riding

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