Thanks. The Talmud gets two points. :)

   On 8/1/19 2:21 PM, [1]terli...@aol.com wrote:

   Alkan of course... but I heard it was the Talmud that did him in.

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   On Thursday, August 1, 2019, Alain
   Veylit [3]<al...@musickshandmade.com> wrote:

   Since Howard mentions the Torah and jeopardy, here is our summer

   quiz/jeopardy question:

   This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his

   private library's (heavy) bookshelf  as he was trying to reach the
   Torah

   on the top shelf?

   (High aspirations sometimes get you crushed under the weight...)

   Alain

   On 8/1/19 1:14 PM, G. C. wrote:

   >    Ha-ha :))

   >    Way too rich for my intelligence Howard. I'm afraid I don't have
   the

   >    necessary "anglican" baggage to get those answers.

   >    In another vein, the 50th aniversary of the Woodstock festival got

   >    cancelled! I don't mind about Miley Cyrus, but Santana 50 years
   later

   >    would surely have been historically correct.

   >    Best

   >    G.

   >

   >    On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:04 PM howard posner

   >    <[1][4]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote:

   >

   >      > On Aug 1, 2019, at 10:42 AM, G. C. <[2][5]kalei...@gmail.com>
   wrote:

   >      >

   >      >    Always happy for answers

   >      And I'm happy to oblige with some of my favorite answers:

   >      "It's in his kiss"

   >      "O, reason not the need: our basest beggars

   >      Are in the poorest thing superfluous."

   >      "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh"

   >      "Put a piece of cheese on the floor and you'll find out."

   >      "!"

   >      "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.  This is
   the

   >      entire Torah; the rest is commentary. Go learn."

   >      "I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this
   would

   >      happen"

   >      No prizes will be awarded for knowing the questions; this isn't

   >      "Jeopardy!"

   >      To get on or off this list see list information at

   >      [3][6]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

   >

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   >

   > References

   >

   >    1. mailto:[7]howardpos...@ca.rr.com

   >    2. mailto:[8]kalei...@gmail.com

   >    3. [9]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

   >

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References

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   2. http://mail.mobile.aol.com/
   3. mailto:al...@musickshandmade.com
   4. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com
   5. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com
   6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
   7. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com
   8. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com
   9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

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