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Roland
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The author of Exemplary Novels is Miguel de Cervantes, better known as the author of Don Quixote.

New question: How many English translations of Don Quixote exist? Closest guess wins.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Roland wrote:
The author of Exemplary Novels is Miguel de Cervantes, better known as the author of Don Quixote.

New question: How many English translations of Don Quixote exist? Closest guess wins.


I'll guess 10.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll guess 16.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rusty wins. According to Wikipedia there are 25 English translations of Don Quixote.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The site is crashing for me.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rusty Edge wrote:
The site is crashing for me.

Regarding the crashes/error message, I've sent an e-mail to the folks at hooked gamers.
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Rusty Edge
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I would have picked up on the Don Quixote references had I not been on vacation.

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A three volume novel by a Scotsman debuted in 1819-1820, and it was perhaps the groundbreaking historical fiction novel, due to it's success. It was subtitled "A Romance."

What was either the name of this novel or it's author?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert Louis Stevenson?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 2:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sir Walter Scott?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr. Blue wrote:
Sir Walter Scott?


Sir Walter Scott or Ivanhoe are the answers I was looking for.

"It has also had an important influence on popular perceptions of Richard the Lionheart, King John, and Robin Hood. "

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Who is credited with founding modern (that is, professional) nursing?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr. Blue wrote:
Who is credited with founding modern (that is, professional) nursing?


I'll guess Florence Nightingale.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the one.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Next question.
This woman was a teacher, then for a time worked as a clerk in the US Patent Office, then as a nurse in the American Civil War, where she earned the nicknames of the 'American Nightingale' and 'Angel of the Battlefield' .

She was the first president of the American Branch of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

What was her name?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clara Barton
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