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LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 6:35:51 AM)

H: Nope, but your answer made me realize I didn't say which Caesar.  You see, "Caesar" eventually became the word "Czar" which is a title, not a person.
 
Top o' the page repeat:
 
Charlemagne
David (the Biblical King)
Julius Caesar
Alexander
 
Hint #1 - A unique quartet.



Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 7:16:12 AM)

Did you recently buy a book on the history of suits and playing cards?

Seems a theme of late.

These four are the inspiration for the those suits:

Charlemagne -- Hearts
King David -- Spades
Julius Caesar -- Diamonds
Alexander the Great -- Clubs



LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 7:43:09 AM)

I have been doing some geneaology work.  Turns out my patronym derives from the German card game "Skat," pronounced "Scot."  Hence the bells, etc.  I have purchased (on eBay) an antique deck from the same era and region of  my Great-great-grandfather.  The style of the court cards changed rapidly, making it easier to date this deck.......

That's all the playing card quartets (from me) for awhile......

Maybe you could give us one not musically based, just as I have foresworn geography (for now.)  LOL



Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 7:54:45 AM)

[:D]

'Twasn't a criticism, just an observation!

It IS an interesting history.





LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 8:16:15 AM)

I didn't take it as a criticism.    Mom often said, "Say what you mean and mean what you say."  I try to hear/read people as if their Moms taught them the same.  You asked a question, I answered.

Yes, very interesting learning some surrounding history instead of the dry "begats" all in a row.  Seems my great-great-Grandfather had 19 sons - no daughters.  (4 wives. LOL!)  There's only about 75 of us <insert patronym>s in America since only 5 of his sons emigrated to America..... I'm trying to pull together (with help from a third cousin) the whole family tree of those descended from him that are (or were) from those 5 sons.  ALL the sons "went thru" Chicago (were I was born), and with the exception of yours truly, all the living <insert patronym>s live in Texas.  It's when the daughters marry that it gets hard to trace them......





Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 8:52:33 AM)

Quartet:

Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Alexander the Great



LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 9:22:53 AM)

Teachers and their students, in order.



Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 9:35:59 AM)

Yup.

I've got to learn to stop answering quartets. [;)]

Hand off to you.



LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 2:59:00 PM)

Since you and I seem to be the only ones posting on this string (no offense, Hannibal) and we've each answered two of the others, and are desperate for a quartet to the point that we're putting up nigh-on-trival ones...... Hows'bout  we wait for someone else to take over?
 
Here's an idea..... Hannibal, I hereby "volunteer" you to give the next quartet.



dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 7:40:03 PM)

I'll pinch-hit.

NEW QUARTET:

Bert
Nan
Flossie
Freddie



UniqueRaven -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 8:04:25 PM)

The Bobbsey Twins?



dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 8:06:22 PM)

You got it! Your turn to post.



UniqueRaven -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/5/2010 8:10:46 PM)

All right, my first quartet: [:)]

Belkin
Lost
DRA
Yama


Edited to correct caps.



fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/6/2010 8:15:46 AM)

Wireless routers?



UniqueRaven -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/6/2010 8:56:44 AM)

Nope. You might want to ask your Doctor, but he'd need to have some consideration.....

edited for a typo



UniqueRaven -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/6/2010 9:01:44 AM)

Hint #2 is in my sigline.



fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/6/2010 10:03:46 AM)

Ethics or Medical ethics?
 
Lisa Belkin wrote a book First, Do No Harm: that Addresses Medical Ethics.
 
Yama Niyama deals with the morals and ethics of Yoga.
 
DRA - Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 deals with ethics in Medicaid and Medicare.
 
i don't know about Lost.



UniqueRaven -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/6/2010 3:55:34 PM)

You're very, very close - not quite ethics......actually really i think you've got it with the Belkin book.

i was looking for "Do No Harm"

DRA is actually the Disability Rights Advocates organization - Their publication is called "Do No Harm."

Lost Episode #20 was titled "Do No Harm"

Ahimsa is the yama of yoga for "Non-harming" - or, "Do No Harm"

[:D]
Your turn. Yay!



fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/6/2010 4:00:40 PM)

Laurel
Memorial
Ray's
Sideling



UniqueRaven -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (2/6/2010 4:19:31 PM)

Wreaths?



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