The place is Trinity Site, where the first nuclear weapon was fired. The photo shows Oppenheimer & Groves (two of the most important people in the country) wearing regular clothing at ground zero shortly after the war. On open-house days you can walk right in & stand in that very same place. An hour's exposure here is about equal to 10 hours of normal background exposure.
I had a thought along the lines of yours -- it does not look like a 40's photo. I found it identified as a photo of Fuchs, but I won't be surprised if someone identifies it as a photo of an actor in a documentary. National Geographic should be provide photo credits that would make such details obvious. Nice picture, though -- it has the nerdy spy thing goin' on.
The ocean is about six miles south and generally east of here.
Did we all give up? Want some clues?
I know a spot that looks roughly like the picture and meets the description, but I did not find a match. I admit that the "42" went right by me, although I hope it was an obscure correct answer.
42 is the single most cryptic answer in the universe. The question is "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", from HHGTTG. KevinR was just having fun with cryptic answer required bit, and that required the proper logo...
With 42 out of the way, this event was named for a geographical location, but actually occurred somewhere else. The building in the smaller rectangle is an abbey which was built after the event.
42 is the single most cryptic answer in the universe. The question is "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", from HHGTTG. KevinR was just having fun with cryptic answer required bit, and that required the proper logo...
Of course. It shows me that I have not hitched for quite a while! Shame. I'm glad that Kevin was awake.
With 42 out of the way, this event was named for a geographical location, but actually occurred somewhere else. The building in the smaller rectangle is an abbey which was built after the event.
OK, I was on the wrong damned continent. Hey, I was on a continent at all! And I was almost in the wrong millenium!
At this point, I won't make an effort to be too obscure.
"In the town of Bayeux in northern France you can see the world's oldest information archive based on a long ribbon of material, a very early example of what was to become tape media. "
If one's memory is bad enough, the picture resembles the area around the Kennedy Space Center. The ocean is about 6 miles south at some point, and generally east. And it is green. I was thinking about what might be important about STS-42, etc.
After reading the fascinating history provided by wiki I am baffled with the French Normans taking over England that the influence on cooking didn't have more of an impact.
After reading the fascinating history provided by wiki I am baffled with the French Normans taking over England that the influence on cooking didn't have more of an impact.
After giving it the old college try, the French gave up and went back home?
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1911 Here is a list of every Historical event in 1911. Many noteworthy but I like that Feb 6 the first retirement home opened in Prescott Arizona
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1911 Here is a list of every Historical event in 1911. Many noteworthy but I like that Feb 6 the first retirement home opened in Prescott Arizona
The guy on the right in the picture is Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. He is credited with:
Given that American drivers, in general, misunderstand roundabouts, there are probably some driving in an infinite loop as we speak. Now you know it's in the Western Hemisphere.
Right. About 450 miles in some direction from the fort that had an anniversary in the news a couple of days ago.
By the way, I did not get this one until the nice id by tdtz today. There are some places a few hundred miles to the south that look a lot like that site but I could not find it among them. For good reason, as it turns out.
Behind the cheap deal fencing is a parking plaza - ideal for the getaway vehicle. If there was one.
This is definately Dealy Plaza looking at the fence behind the grassy Knoll where the final shot that killed Kennedy was taken from.Sorry it is no condspiracy "theory" it is what happened.Kind of my sub specialty subject.
Wagga clue: In principle, this is a scenic bridge.
Latin Bridge (Bosnian: Latinska ćuprija, named Principov most - "Princip Bridge" in Yugoslavian era)
One of the bridges over the River Miljacka. Beside this bridge, on 28th June 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.
this is getting so obscure did anyone get the Ford Theater one? guess so, right click and see the jpg address, duh.
so, at risk of killing the interest in this thread, see if anyone can identify this mountain , clue: Ed's first significant climb was on one of its subsidiary peaks.
I'm assuming that wagga got it. That is, I assume that he was listing the elevation in feet and not the Zip code. It does look like a mountain of that altitude, one which starred in a movie once.
On which of Captain James Cook's 3 voyages of discovery was he killed?
Well, in Dilbert they made a stuffed hand puppet out of the pointy-haired boss when he died (dramatically increasing his effectiveness). So, assuming that a captain died on his last voyage should not be automatic.
But I do see that I have the correct mountain, thanks to your brief clue. And I know that no real Zip codes start with 123...
So, this mountain has played a larger one in a movie in which (a) Ed appeared and (b) the essential link between serious mountaineering and nitriglycerine was revealed to an unsuspecting world.
Mt Cook was correctly ID'd by Wagga as 12316-feet tall, named for British Pacific explorer, Captain James Cook
Mt. Cook played K2 in the fine mountaineering film Vertical Limit in which Ed Viesturs played himself. The best feature of the movie was copious quantities of nitroglycerine, a material that all top-flight expeditions keep on hand for emergencies.
The flat kind. You could study the pavement. String theory, at least for the moment, appears to work if you postulate 18 dimensions - but it's a work in progress.
In the City of the Tall Tree, the Dish, and great Women's Roundball, Dave and Bill look down on this and smile. As dark as the matter appears now, it was no quirk at the time.
In the City of the Tall Tree, the Dish, and great Women's Roundball, Dave and Bill look down on this and smile. As dark as the matter appears now, it was no quirk at the time.
In the City of the Tall Tree, the Dish, and great Women's Roundball, Dave and Bill look down on this and smile. As dark as the matter appears now, it was no quirk at the time.
In the City of the Tall Tree, the Dish, and great Women's Roundball, Dave and Bill look down on this and smile. As dark as the matter appears now, it was no quirk at the time.
Is Stanford's womens basketball record better than Tennessee? At least they have their accelerator picture here.
The Big C. not that Big C, the other big C. Not that there isn't a connection. And the anniversary is today.
There was a big C event on April 26, 1986. It was a frickin' disaster. Here is a photo (and, yes, I left the link un-edited ). However, my previous picture was of somewhere else. (I temporarily forgot about the Big C disaster on April 26, 1986). I guess the best date to associate with my picture is April 17, 1986.
I am always 2-3 puzzles behind trying to understand the answers and not sure when an answer has actually been slipped in.You guys are forcing me to put back on my thinking cap which has been off in physics for 40 years.I quess I am put in my place being a lowly chemistry major grad 35 years ago.Got any anatomical, neuro-musculo-skeletal quizes?I am out of my league here but am enjoying the thread immensely although I have a lot of "Duh" moments.Fun to be an observor even though I wish I could play with the big boys.
That last place was the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. It produced the scanning tunneling microscope and high temperature superconductivity, among many other things.
It did not produce this: What is it and why is it a big deal?
That last place was the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. It produced the scanning tunneling microscope and high temperature superconductivity, among many other things.
It did not produce this: What is it and why is it a big deal?
That's a "Big Bang Residual Background Radiation Detector". Available from Heathkit for $49.99.
Nobody interested in the mountain top picture? AlanK should have it because it is in his backyard - he probably drives on the oddly-named street every day. So, another pic. A Nobel winner was involved, too.
Nobody interested in the mountain top picture? AlanK should have it because it is in his backyard - he probably drives on the oddly-named street every day.
I forgot about that pic!
Something to do with c. Not the vitamin (so not Linus Pauling). A.A. someone.
All the details here. Note the picture of the shack on Lookout.
"One of the most important scientific experiments of the 1920s took place on Lookout Mountain, a 6,812-foot high point on the south ridge of Mount Baldy. [Lookout Mtn. is a spur of Mount Baldy also known as Mount San Antonio; Mt. San Antonio is the highest mountain (10,064') in the San Gabriel Range - ed.]. This was the experiment by Albert A. Michelson [...] to determine the speed of light. In 1922, Dr. Michelson set up a rotating octagonal prism on Mount Wilson, called Station Michelson. On Lookout Mountain, 22 miles [35.5 km - ed.] away, he installed a concave mirror two feet in diameter, called Station Antonio. He then shot a beam of light [from] Station Michelson to the mirror at Station Antonio; the light beam was reflected back to Mount Wilson and the precise time measured. To insure the absolute accuracy of the experiment, it was vital to know the exact distance between the two stations. The distance was measured by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey by triangulation from a 40-kilometer surveyed base line in the valley to the south. To quote William Bowie of the U.S.C.G.S., It is believed that the length of this line has been determined with greater accuracy than that of any line of triangulation in this or any other country. The possible error in the 22-mile distance between Mt. Wilson and Lookout Mountain was less than one-fourth of an inch! [...] Today, three inline concrete piers, the tallest one 42 inches high with a metal tablet marked Antonio 1922, stand alone amid the brush on Lookout Mountain."
wagga, nope, don't read that particular language. But back in college, that event was covered in my area of study. I didn't stick with that area of study, but much of what I learned did stick with me.
the writing and the Mariana hint both make think of a Pacific location, and sociology/anthropology makes me think of Margaret Mead, but I guess that is going off on the wrong tangent.
wagga, I should say "that type of event" rather than a "specific event". That should clarify the geology/sociology confusion.
The lyrics posted are only vaguely applicable, it is the title of the song that is relevant. (although, the mariana reference definitely ties in to the overall theme).
My "8.3" was the earthquake that caused the rockfall that caused the tsunami. The current quiz loads so slowly on my smartphone in a poor reception atea that... I will see you tomorrow. Thanks for the fun.
Sure wish I could decipher what you people are saying.
From the smug replies, I take it y'all have solved the church with the odd steeple mystery. So before you dive into another riddle, could someone please post a more explanatory answer so us plebians could learn a little?
That was a good one wagga. I did not wake up until the poem. The fact that I have never managed to visit that part of town when I'm in MD is no excuse -- I admit that I am usually looking for crab soup or something.
though I am not from the Fresno area, I do a lot of business in Parlier, Sanger, San Joaquin....and hopefully adding Orangecove and Selma to the list soon.
but for the life of me, I can't think of anything really important happening in that area.
Wow, it sometimes everyone is connected to Fresno.
Does anything important happen there? In my book, damned straight!
FWIW, I was born in Reedley (Fresno County), although my family moved south when I was 4. My Dad is a graduate of Dinuba HS (Class of '46). I have a fair number of relatives in the Fresno area.
Also FWIW, here is a picture with Steve C taken in the fall of 2006 (in Fresno, of course).
It is good that Fresno got dragged into this game. I have intended to post a Fresno picture for quite a while, but have not gotten around to it yet. When I first saw the one wagga posted, I was hoping it was the Bonnie and Clyde posse, which would have justified a comment about Faye Dunaway in her heyday. Too bad -- right general era, wrong state
OK, back from a terrific Yosemite trip, nobody seems to have gotten the bakery - so here are some healthy clues:
Two Fresno natives could have visited the bakery. One actually wrote about it. That person won both the Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize, being the only American to win both. You would think they would name a local theater after them.
The other almost certainly was seen there - you could guess by the surname (if used). This person is the sole winner of an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for work in film, music and television. And is the only person in history to have received all of these awards.
Two Fresno natives could have visited the bakery. One actually wrote about it. That person won both the Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize, being the only American to win both. You would think they would name a local theater after them.
Two New York City natives (Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch) won Academy Awards and Pulitzer Prizes. Also Emmys, Grammys, and Tonys. Both could have a local theater somewhere named after them. But, in addition to being from Fresno County, I live in Glendale, which is not Yerevan but it's close. So I know who you meant.
That's about as much trivia as I can handle in a day.
The other almost certainly was seen there - you could guess by the surname (if used). This person is the sole winner of an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for work in film, music and television. And is the only person in history to have received all of these awards.
There is a singer from El Centro who later dropped out of Fresno High School. Doesn't normally use two names but my Glendale comment applies to the original surname.
There is a singer from El Centro who later dropped out of Fresno High School. Doesn't normally use two names but my Glendale comment applies to the original surname.
You got me babe!
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Speaking of Greg Allman. I saw The Allman Bros. the first time in 1970 at The Whiskey A GoGo.Stood with my elbows on the stage. I was blown away with the dualing slide guitars in perfect sync with Duane Allman and Dickey Betts.Gotta love Southern Rock.Saw Duane Allman with Derrick and the Dominos AKA Cream(Eric Clapton et al) with Duane Allman and Steve Winwood.Crazy good times.That was definately "happening" there.
Layla. Good choice Harvey So I researched my own comments and I was wrong about the make up of Derek and the Dominos. I said Cream plus Duane Allman and Steve Winwood but it was actually Blind Faith that was Cream plus Steve Winwood. Derek and The Dominos was Clapton with the bass and drummer from Delaney, Bonnie and friends, and Duane Allman. FWIW."It has been a long strange trip". Oh so long ago 41 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_and_the_Dominos
It was a nice music interlude Harvey. We even dragged wagga into it.And yes Clapton Uplugged is one of the best albums ever. AlanK got the Allman Bros.topic introduced.I just ran with it.Ok back to the previously recorded program.
The question to the Jeopardy answer is "How do you drain a freshwater lake like a bath tub and turn it into a salt water lake?" That was fascinating. Thanks wagga.
The question to the Jeopardy answer is "How do you drain a freshwater lake like a bath tub and turn it into a salt water lake?" That was fascinating. Thanks wagga.
IMHO, that was the best "what in the world happened here?" yet.
Watched the full 10-minute video, awe struck. And then at 7:35 into the video, there is that clip from Kelvin K Wu, obviously an Asian fellow, but with a completely southern drawl. Never heard that before, either!
at first I wasted time on the negligee clue. the eventual name of Lake Peigneur was forgotten by me and I do not know French, and especially the very obscure french word pei·gnoir : a woman's loose negligee or dressing gown
Most important was Wagga's clue that the lake was no longer a fresh water lake. I first imagined the lake was meriometic. Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meromictic_lake Then I considered maybe it was a polder.. Nope.
What's left - it went dry? How could a lake drain, and have anything to do with an unusually-located "waterfall"? Could it drain straight down? But it did not look like a lake sitting in a crater. What's left? This led me back to how does a lake drain weirdly in France, French colony... no. How about a state? Ta-da, must be Na'leans. The overlooked salt mine clue resurrected itself at this point.
The clues in the pictures are all there. The Wagga tips are all there (I grudgingly acknowledge!) Just have to recognize them. Thanks
My post was not a clue: just a guess. Could be way out of range.
maybe there were shivers in your bones just thinking about it In the Colorado Rockies Where the snow is deep and cold And a man afoot can starve to death Unless he's brave and bold
I led a Sierra Club National Outing in 2000. One of the packers members was descended from Donner Party survivors. So we bandied about some slow backpacker recipes.
Google "Mick Jagger Donner Party" (with the quotes).
For our family there is an interesting story about the Donner Party. My wifes ancestors were with the Donner Party up to the fork in the trail where the Southern route went to Calif. and the Northern Route went to Oregon. Her relatives went North lugging a Seth Thomas Mantel Clock which is in perfect working condition and over our fireplace. It is at least 165 yrs old, probably more as they owned it a few years prior to traveling West. Has some cosmetic blemishes but still a source of pride with us.
Go to the Univ.of Colorado Boulder to the cafeteria grill where the slogan is: Have a friend for Lunch
Be sure you spell the lst name correctly for the bonus points, although both spellings are accepted around here.
Correctly? The Wikipedia article on our man lists says he was born with the "re" spelling but lists the "er" spelling in quotes.
The collegiate culture note is entertaining. From the same Wiki article:
Quote:
In 1968, students at the University of Colorado at Boulder named their new cafeteria grill the "XXXXXX X. XXXXXX Memorial Grill" with the slogan "Have a friend for lunch!" Today students can enjoy the meat-filled "El Canibal" underneath a giant wall map outlining his travels through Colorado.
Also:
Quote:
An urban legend has it that the Department of Agriculture's cafeteria was officially named for XXXXXX. While untrue, the legend has some factual basis. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland attempted to terminate a contract for cafeteria food service, but was prevented by the General Services Administration (GSA). To embarrass the GSA, Bergland and his employees convened a press conference on 10 August 1977 to unveil a plaque naming the executive cafeteria "The XXXXXX XXXXXX Memorial Grill," announcing that XXXXXX's life exemplified the spirit and fare of the cafeteria and would "serve all mankind." It was covered on ABC-TV Evening News Vanderbilt Television News Archive that night by reporter Barbara Walters. The stratagem was successful and the contracts were terminated soon thereafter. In magnanimous victory, Bergland yielded to bureaucratic objection that the plaque lacked official GSA authorization, and removed it. Members of the National Press Club, ever happy to seize memorabilia, today display it on the wall of The Reliable Source, a members-only bar. It doubles as a memorial to the late Stanley Weston (1931-84), a man who worked at the USDA. The Press Club's hamburger is called the "XXXXXX XXXXXX Burger."
Wiki does not mention Mick. I am not getting Google searches with Mick and our man in quotes to turn up any results. Perhaps Google is playing with my head.
Nobody is even remotely close. But the guesses are very entertaining. And my Donner descendent comment was misleading, (subconsciously?) - but pre-coffee.
PS: I tend to pronounce words ending in "a" as "er" and vice-verser. Hence "Donna Pass" & "Donner" ex-wife.
OK, I get the modern reference to the unfortunate but highly entertaining Joshua tree incident, but the illustration appears to be about 100 years earlier. How about another Ounce, or perhaps a Gram, of a clue?
Same puzzle, close to the same place, & everybody is out by miles and miles. The guesses though, have been coincidental, entertaining and instructional. And, contrary to speculation, they are not waiting for a helicopter. Also, nobody was eaten! Now you have a hat-full of clues.
OK, so here's what we (may) have so far. Our hero (in the campaign hat) retrieves two bodies from their cabin, lashing them to his own horse and walking them out. The two corpses were presumably the two guys in the ghost images in the background, implying that they rode together for a while. Their hats could also be campaign-style, although not as certainly as our hero's hat. SO it looks like all three may have ridden together at some point.
Wagga says the hat is not Mountie or Ranger, but did not say it is not US Army, which I also suggested, so let's assume that's what it is. The saddle also suggests military, not a Western/stock saddle. This is further suggested by q's ID of the VFW insignia.
SO we have three Army vets, either Spanish American War or WWI, or Villa campaign, cavalry probably . Could be as far back as war w/Mexico, although the possible Montana crease in the hat suggests not. So its early 1900s, but maybe as far back as 1850.
One alive, maybe returning to the camp where all three hung out, (Hunters, trappers, prospectors?) or maybe going to look for his buddies. In any event, he finds them dead. Murdered, no doubt, since there is a hanging involved later. Returns the bodies to civilization, for decent burials no doubt. Then goes after the killer.
Sounds like FRB or one of his buddies, BP or the other guy, whose initials are too famous to mention,, but I can't find anything in his or their bios to match up with it. FRB retired to California, Three Rivers, in fact, but I think it was a vacation to SF in BCATSK.
Sorry, I missed on ruling out US Army. Not by a long way. Not a VFW insignia, though the first letter is the same. The ghost guys are not ghost guys - newspaper reporting?
Quote from our man in Colorado:
He proved to have $133 in his pocket and he admitted that he had taken it. "The man was no longer going to need it, so why not?"
And our UNSUB:
Asked later why he stole the watch, he replied, "What's the use of a watch to a dead man?"
You know, I came across NK a couple of pages ago, and dismissed him cause I couldn't match any of his bio with this illustration either. Still can't for that matter. NK went 3 for four that day, and I make out two bodies in the illustration.
SO, what ties this picture to the Perennial Stream of the Fibrous Phloem?
Google Mick Jagger movies - on imdb you will find he starred in 10 or 12. Then it's easy.
And I planned to post this movie clip if no-one got it by tonight... (ignore the nonsense tacked onto the end)
Here is the California connection:
"In late March 1879 Ned's sisters Kate and Margaret approached the captain of the Victoria Cross, then docked in Melbourne, and enquired as to how much he would charge to take four or five gentlemen friends to California if they boarded in Queenscliff..."
Just like BCATSK, but in the opposite direction.
At the shootout in Glenrowan, the Kellys were wearing home-made armor. Almost 100 pounds each.
The senior Constable said "Look out, boys, it's the bunyip. He's bullet-proof!"
That was a long debrief. Harvey, take revenge. And I did enjoy the detours.
Man you guys leave me in the dust on these.I sure enjoy them though but I wish I could play along better rather than waiting for the wiki to finally "get it" Good job keep them coming wagga.At least I am stretching my grey matter and firing some synapses that haven't transmitted in a while.
When we first started, there were 5 members posting and an average of 10 views per post. The view ratio is going on 50 now, so I suspect we have a lot of lurkers.
Anybody, do feel free to join in - worst that can happen is that we solve your masterpiece.
clue really big clues tot 'n ham sandwich + London Underground symbol = look up Tottenham station with Google maps. Mick Jagger clue is Dominion Theatre also in the picture.
This is what really happened. Stories of alcohol poisoning by brave souls who tried to stop the flood by drinking it just aren't true.
Just as an aside, check out this sat view. Compare to my picture. Shadows appear to be the same, and traffic looks exactly alike. Where did the crane go?
Even with modern materials and engineering simulations, things break. Would you live downstream from the Three Gorges Dam?
Well it looks like a college with the softball fields near the water, a quad and possibly classroom buildings..Although I don't recognise any landmarks of Boston. I am thinking that waggas clue is that I made a good guess when I guessed Boston.Boston oozes history and battles. One of Boston's main industries is Bioengineering due its many local Universities.Brewing is one of the main commercial byproducts of bioengineering, Wagga likes beer, Sam Adams was brewed here.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...aps.google.com/ So I have found the site and Commercial street runs through it.Hence the wagga clue. I also found the Old North Church and Paul Riveres Mall. So I would say This is where Paul Revere rode by The Old North church waving a latern to warn of the Brittish invasion.One if by sea, 2 if by land or something like that. PS Wish I could have picked up on the more obvious type of clue in the last one with tot' n ham.
ONC is out of the pic to the southeast, and Commercial Street is way out to the SE. That's Charter Street running through the middle, and Storrow drive to the North of that.
Rod scores right up there with Sarah Palin on the history. That's Copp's Hill, now a cemetery where the guy who actually hung the lanterns is buried, and Charlestown, the famous "opposite shore" where Paul Revere awaited the signal, and where the British landed for the Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill two months later.
Navy Yard, however is probably the most commercial enterprise in the shot. Now supports exactly one ship, also a Palin favorite.
Revere's Ride was a military/political event. You do have the site - exactly. The event did involve early bioengineering. Like XXX, there were deaths and injuries & alcohol was peripherally involved.
SaltyDog probably wishes Palin's grandparents were present that day. That's a barrel of clues.
Ouch Saltydog. I blame it on the psychotropic drug trial I did in college to earn some extra money. They said there might be some latent and serious memory side effects.Professor Leary said there was nothing to worry about.
This may be too easy (which we should be able to live with). It is not Boston or London and it relates to my son (who will appreciate it even if no one else does).
OK, I kinda fell down on the last one, but I don't think I've run completely dry. Don't think I'll need anyone to carry my water on this one, the greatest of its kind ever.
OK, I kinda fell down on the last one, but I don't think I've run completely dry. Don't think I'll need anyone to carry my water on this one, the greatest of its kind ever.
Yup, probably the greatest ever -- and a long way from Cape Cod! You may not have run completely dry, but nature sure did on this one.
Actually, the funniest part is how she got to what she actually said from the one little snippet in Revere's account that arguably relates to it. Second funniest part is that it was a "gotcha question" that triggered the response: "what did you learn from your visit?"
I don't have a clue as to this one, but I'll hazard a guess - You can't see Russia from there.
Well, I can't see Russia from my house. But I can add that this place is not in a state that was added to the union after 1958.
There is nothing nuclear about this particular puzzle, but there is a place not so very far to the south that figured prominently in a project named after one of the five boroughs.
This may be too easy (which we should be able to live with). It is not Boston or London and it relates to my son (who will appreciate it even if no one else does).
Well, lessee recent history? Tornado hit the Triangle Town , but more anciently, the good captain almost went the way of the Croc Hunter. See those J24's in the satellite shot? I think that's the Saltydog at the helm of the lead yacht. Not exactly "coast". But definitely shore. Western.
Bretz's Flood. And the biggest waterfall in the history of the planet. Portland under 400 feet of water (although before Portland existed as a city, of course).
My son is spending his summer at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. I told him to listen for rushing water.
since it is probably a pain in the butt to click on each of my links, they are...in order:
"Columbia" by Oasis "Take me to the RIVER", Talking Heads version Three Gorges Dam video Movie trailer for the movie "Ice Age" "Flood" by Jars of Clay
I actually clicked on them and should have remembered, when I was posting later, to note that you got the thing. And that was an interesting way of saying it.
What In The World Happened Here? XXXIII (33) (not 32)
Originally Posted By: saltydog
Well, lessee recent history? Tornado hit the Triangle Town , but more anciently, the good captain almost went the way of the Croc Hunter. See those J24's in the sattelite shot? I think that's the Saltydog at the helm of the lead yacht. Not exactly "coast". But definitely shore. Western.
Too easy a quiz for the old salt!
May as well load up on many more clues for others.
The Captain would not have come by J24 but by shallop. Greenery in the first picture might be Jimson Weed. The Captain could have warned Steve Irwin.
Closer to home, ice age megafloods affected Lake Tahoe, flowing out through the Truckee River over the Reno-Sparks area. Evidence has shown Lake Tahoe rose between 90 and 600 feet at various times due to glacial dams.
And yet closer, although I can't find a reference, I was told by a friend once of an ice dam break on the south fork of the Kaweah River near Three Rivers that uprooted giant sequoias and washed them miles downstream.
Awright youse guys, listen up! Y'all can do better keeping track of which WITWHH yer writin' 'bout.
Whenever you post a reply, observe the "Subject" of the reply. You have the power to change the text in the subject line, just like you can post anything you want. ...just like I have on this post.
...or easier: If you "Reply" to any post with the desired subject title, then that title will be propagated.
Unnerstand?
Thanks -- I had to get this off my chest. (Maybe I won't have to go in and try to straighten things out so often.)
...And the first person replying to THIS post without fixing the subject line gets an "F" for the day!
I always thought that (captain's) name was an obvious alias.
What In The World Happened Here? XXXIII (33)
alias or not, what they claimed then made Mt Whitney part of Virginia
OK, I'll admit that is is the real name of a famous guy. I never knew that he had an Irwin-type incident. Ouch!
Mt. Whitney? LCC-20 came out of Virginia near there. Or are we talking about that tall spot in CA?
Saltydog definitely has the known nautical knowledge of location and what happened, Alan, too, I think.
In 1607, Christopher Newport sailed into Chesapeake Bay, entering Hampton Roads. Upstream on the James River past the future cities of Newport News and Norfolk, they founded the the small settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.(clue: Jimson weed is a corruption of Jamestown) John Smith was one of the leaders, and explored by foot and by shallop. Northward were other rivers on the western side of Chesapeake Bay (clue: note saltydogs west but not coast) ; the York , Piankatank, Rappahannock, and Potomac. The WITWHH 33 picture shows the mouth of the Piankatank River with skinny Stove Point aiming south, Fishing Bay west of it (and marina apparently known to Saltydog) , and Stingray Point aiming east. The town of Deltaville (Saltydog's triangle) is there and recently in 2011 suffered a F2 tornado.
When Captain John Smith was there, he famously (to Virginia schoolchildren ) suffered a stingray injury, hence the name. Neither the stingray nor the wound were as large as the one the Aussie crocodile hunter Steve Irwin mortally suffered.
EXTRA CREDIT: Land claimed in 1609 for England - 200 miles north and 200 miles south of the mouth of Chesapeake Bay and westward all the way to the Pacific. This includes Mt Whitney.
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/boundaries/charters.html it says Two years after Jamestown was established and after John Smith had determined the extent of the Chesapeake Bay, King James I adjusted the Virginia Company's grant when he issued a Second Charter. While the 1606 First Charter had limited the London Company's rights to just the land within a 100-by-100 mile square (plus islands within 100 miles offshore from the initial settlement), the 1609 Second Charter granted rights to massive amounts of land stretching all the way across North America from Jamestown to the Pacific Ocean: "we do also of our special Grace... give, grant and confirm, unto the said Treasurer and Company, and their Successors... all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being in that Part of America, called Virginia, from the Point of Land,from the pointe of lande called Cape or Pointe Comfort all alonge the seacoste to the northward two hundred miles and from the said pointe of Cape Comfort all alonge the sea coast to the southward twoe hundred miles; and all that space and circuit of lande lieinge from the sea coaste of the precinct aforesaid upp unto the lande, throughoute, from sea to sea, west and northwest; and also all the island beinge within one hundred miles alonge the coaste of bothe seas of the precincte aforesaid."
Number 33 had a lot of great history, a wealth of interesting clues (from Harvey) and comments (from saltygdog). Plus two Mount Whitneys. That land claim by Capt. Smith was pretty grandiose.
I was working on posting another clue, & left the computer for a while. When I came back the edit box was filled with lots of random characters. Turns out my 16-lb cat was smootching the keyboard, then took a nap on it. So I lost the clue. I guess it's moot now, anyway.
I am not sure of the protocol here -- I have already provided a clue for an entry belonging to someone else. But I can't possibly resist. I went to school in Pasadena, CA and I am grinning from ear to ear when I give an enthusiastic "yes" in answer to that question.
Added note: I didn't see wagga's post. I agree that it's been moot all along.
To my mind, the speed with which several people jumped on #31 made it seem as if this one would provoke the same reaction.
The Moot Bridge is beautiful but misleading. Wrong side of the pond.
For our #34, I would say (1) The walkway is smooth. (2) The roadway is massive. (3) I would not give an alpha or bravo to the water quality. I would give that dirty water a charlie.
Subject: Re: What In The World Happened Here? XXXIV
Rod, I may be picking up the scent
clue: #31 gets me to Boston clue: massive bridge clue gets me to Mass turnpike, maybe clue: college insults must be Harvard vs MIT stuff clue: charlie must be Charles River ( with dirty water)
did someone famous jump off the bridge? which one?
Subject: Re: What In The World Happened Here? XXXIV
Rod, I may be picking up the scent
clue: #31 gets me to Boston clue: massive bridge clue gets me to Mass turnpike, maybe clue: college insults must be Harvard vs MIT stuff clue: charlie must be Charles River ( with dirty water)
did someone famous jump off the bridge? which one?
It is the Harvard Bridge, which carries Massachusetts Avenue (Mass Ave) over the Charles River between Cambridge (specifically, MIT) and Boston.
Oliver R. Smoot (a cousin of the recent Nobel Laureate) was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity (MIT, class of 1962). He was used as a unit of measure for measuring the length of the Harvard Bridge (frat activity). The length of the bridge is 364.4 smoots +/- an ear (usually quoted as "plus an ear").
MIT students of my acquaintance consider the bridge to be inferior engineering and are happy to have it named after Harvard, which is down the street and considered by them to be a second-rate university.
This is my favorite WITWHH so far because I instantly recognized the place in an obscure photo, although only because I have run across those Smoot markings on a few occasions. I did not attend MIT (or the place down the street), but "some of my best friends are..."
MIT students of my acquaintance consider the bridge to be inferior engineering and are happy to have it named after Harvard, which is down the street and considered by them to be a second-rate university.
That fits...I heard grade inflation was rampant there.
Thanks. (PS: I could not get the last link to open.)
The link is to a pdf file of what is allegedly an issue of The Tech ("MIT's Oldest and Largest Newspaper") that is completely devoted to the subject of the headline "MIT Sold." Some say it was a prank.
Originally Posted By: wagga
I thought it very special that Smoot eventually led the ANSI and then ISO organizations.
I like to think that the bridge measurement made his entire career.
Absolutely Amazing, Wagga started this thread on March 31, 2011 (not even three months ago) and it already has nearly half the posts of the Silly Joke Thread. I think this thread was born out of, and is an off-shoot of the puzzle thread which a GIRL started. Not that gender matters, but I find it interesting that so many guys love a puzzle. Maybe that's why they like women so much, I hear we can be puzzling to men.
See I definately got the College rival clue but I was thining Left Coast Cal vs Stanford.Good job Harvey.Thanks for breaking it down for me. I have got to read the info in the clues better. I didn't get Massachusetts from the massive road clue.
I find it interesting that so many guys love a puzzle.
"Because it is there" - George Mallory
"Because I am here" - John Harlin
Peter, we may get started on quotes! here is my favorite
In some ways, going to the mountains is incomprehensible to many people and inexplicable by those who go. The reasons are difficult to unearth and only with those who are similarly drawn is there no need to try to explain.
No sport that I know of has spawned a literature as introspective, as probing, or ultimately as religious as mountaineering. Robert Leonard Reid, The Great Blue Dream, page 15
sorry, Wagga, maybe I should start a separate quote quiz - someone names a topic, I provide a quote
I am thinking of a place pretty far from Alaska. I may go to the local dress for less place, get some winter clothes, and head down for a visit. The site I have in mind was discovered 70 years before 1911, which was a big year in the history of pole vaulting.
I might know about sports-type pole vaulting since my older son was State champion (twice). But it is not that.
Pole and 1911 surely must refer to the time the skillful, practical, and knowledgeable Amundsen beat the crap out of the bumbling, undeserving-of-hero-status Scott by getting to the South Pole AND returning. Are we getting, um, warm?
Need to get colder to get warm. The previous winter, to be exact. Looks like a bad trip. A real Terror. I think somebody felt rooked. A lot of trouble for a quarter-dozen. Probably should have left this trip plan on on the Shelf. If Cherry and Birdie and Bill had only known that ontogeny does not actually recapitulate phylogeny, they might not have had to learn the hard way whether phenomenology recapitulates deontology.
Need to get colder to get warm. The previous winter, to be exact. Looks like a bad trip. A real Terror. I think somebody felt rooked. A lot of trouble for a quarter-dozen. Probably should have left this trip plan on on the Shelf. If Cherry and Birdie and Bill had only known that ontogeny does not actually recapitulate phylogeny, they might not have had to learn the hard way whether phenomenology recapitulates deontology.
looks like ferry docks on mainland and SE end of island.
numbers could be floods, earthquakes, wars, Acts of God and ungods, or other. Adds up to 442, but I do not see an Olds 442 on the road.
The smaller island at the bottom where the road goes through looks like it has been excavated or perhaps has those hillside water catch-basins like you see in the Caribbean.
The pole vaulting mentioned earlier leads me to add another quiz in that direction. I realize that number 36 was just started, but the reason for numbering was to prevent confusion amongst multiple overlapping quizes. Plus, pole vaulting is big deal at our house and I must strike while the iron is hot (that is not a clue).
So for #37 where, when, who, and who else was there?
looks like ferry docks on mainland and SE end of island.
numbers could be floods, earthquakes, wars, Acts of God and ungods, or other. Adds up to 442, but I do not see an Olds 442 on the road.
The smaller island at the bottom where the road goes through looks like it has been excavated or perhaps has those hillside water catch-basins like you see in the Caribbean.
What comment would Sherlock Holmes make in a case like this?
Tough to come up with a cryptic answer for this one, but I'll try:
Its a pretty rare spot on the earth, but the Village of 39 on the island that sounds like prayer beads is indeed elemental. The rest are considered hidden by the Greek, although the village showed its mettle.
Tough to come up with a cryptic answer for this one, but I'll try:
Its a pretty rare spot on the earth, but the Village of 39 on the island that sounds like prayer beads is indeed elemental. The rest are considered hidden by the Greek, although the village showed its mettle.
I knew I was running the risk of not being to refer to An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer.
No way I could say or sing the elements that fast
Me neither, but my son could give a pretty good rendition back in elementary school. I may have warped him a bit with those records -- he knew most of the songs by heart.
Its a pretty rare spot on the earth, but the Village of 39 on the island that sounds like prayer beads is indeed elemental. The rest are considered hidden by the Greek, although the village showed its mettle.
The pole vaulting mentioned earlier leads me to add another quiz in that direction. I realize that number 36 was just started, but the reason for numbering was to prevent confusion amongst multiple overlapping quizes. Plus, pole vaulting is big deal at our house and I must strike while the iron is hot (that is not a clue).
So for #37 where, when, who, and who else was there?
Interesting-looking vaulting competition. Any hints?
Nimble and quick, Jack jumped over the candle, uh, bamboo stick. Vaulted so high, he must have landed long after. TN was there in TD, and the Lt COlonel's son himself took the shot. 37=33.
salty took the huge clue of Peak b (first Western name for Everest) and ran with it - see his clues and mine.
Here is the rest of the story, modified from my manuscript that so far two wilderness/mountaineering journals have not been smart enough to accept:
The 1933 Fourth British Everest Expedition was perhaps most famous for climbing high on the mountain where an ice ax was found lending speculation as to what happened to Mallory and Irvine. Above Camp VI, Wyn Harris found an ice-axe that could only have been left or dropped there in 1924. The Willisch brand axe was identified later, by three nicks on the shaft, as probably belonging to Irvine. In addition they found, in the tent left by Mallory and Irvine, a torch that still worked after nine cold years (because it was dynamo-powered rather than a battery flashlight).
While there were no 1924 members returning, the 1933 team included leader Hugh Ruttledge, famed explorer Eric Shipton, climber-writer Frank Smythe, and perhaps a young Tenzing Norgay. One member less well-known to today's readers was John (Jack) Longland.
Jack Longland came to the 1933 expedition as the 28-year-old president of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club and a rock climber of unparalleled reputation. Off the mountain, Longland lectured at Durham University until 1936 and became an influential figure in education, local government, and mountaineering circles. He was later the Question Master of the BBC radio quiz program "My Word!" for twenty years. Knighted for his educational services, Sir Jack was one of 3 judges for the very first Boardman-Tasker Prize (1983) when they decided not to award it at all, instead waiting until the following year for The Shishapangma Expedition by Doug Scott and Alex MacIntyre.
But before that....on the approach march from India through Tibet, something strange happened in 1933. That afternoon the first Olympiad in the history of Tengye Dzong was held amidst the utmost enthusiasm. It included some spectacular pole vaults by Jack Longland, an expert performer, the "pole" being a section of a wireless mast.
If you were sitting on this rather lovely verandah at the stroke of midnight on December 29th. of this year, exactly how many whole seconds +/- would elapse before the New Year rings in?
A biannual event which could have occurred today, but didn't, may affect the answer.
salty took the huge clue of Peak b (first Western name for Everest) and ran with it - see his clues and mine.
Actually, I didn't. I was doing my running while the "went high" and Peak b clues were being posted.: Never saw them till I posted, and I have never heard of Peak b till now. Here's the real madness to my method: I surmised both "going high" and the Himalayas from the photo: obviously at elevation or desert from the terrain (I chose elevation because of the context) and a 30's era expedition from the attire. SO we have 30's, Himalayas, Trilbys and shorts, ergo British. Induced that the vault was some kind of diversion along the way , so I now I am looking for a Brit mountaineer who happens also to be a pole vaulter. More than enough key words to turn up Longland and the first Ruttlege expedition.
As for who else was there, even if you know Norgay's bio, and surmise that he must have been on this one, you probably don't come up with this expedition. Well known that Norgay was on every British Everest expedition from his first, but his own bios don't list this one. SO from "TN" , you start with 1935. If you find Ruttlege first, however, you find Norgay in 1933.
What In The World Happened Here? XXXV11 hats off for salty for knowing his Everest history. I thought my quiz would have had a longer life
as for What In The World Happened Here? XXXV111 the last time they added a June Leap second was 1997. is the veranda building on the International date line?
What In The World Happened Here? XXXVII hats off for salty for knowing his Everest history. I thought my quiz would have had a longer life
My first thought was pommy troops in the desert theatres of WWII. Then I wandered over to (the "much higher" clue) astronauts training in the desert. Way far wrong. Hence Erika.
Originally Posted By: Harvey Lankford
as for What In The World Happened Here? XXXVIII the last time they added a June Leap second was 1997. is the veranda building on the International Date Line?
If you were sitting on this rather lovely verandah at the stroke of midnight on December 29th. of this year, exactly how many whole seconds +/- would elapse before the New Year rings in?
A biannual event which could have occurred today, but didn't, may affect the answer.
From midnight on December 29 until the New Year rings in should be 172,800 seconds unless they throw in a leap second this year. The last one was December 31, 2008, and we did not get one today, so we are about due.
My first thought was pommy troops in the desert theatres of WWII. Then I wandered over to (the "much higher" clue) astronauts training in the desert. Way far wrong. Hence Erika.
Erika? No Greek male or female pole vaulters in the Himalayas Just me at 19,200 ft. New record. (Everest is in direct center, from the south)
From midnight on December 29 until the New Year rings in should be 172,800 seconds unless they throw in a leap second this year. The last one was December 31, 2008, and we did not get one today, so we are about due.
Bzzzzzzzzt! Wrong!
PS (and unrelated to the question), the Japanese earthquake did have an affect on day length, speeding up rotation by a few microseconds. But you probably already knew that.
From midnight on December 29 until the New Year rings in should be 172,800 seconds unless they throw in a leap second this year. The last one was December 31, 2008, and we did not get one today, so we are about due.
Bzzzzzzzzt! Wrong!
I suspected you'd say something like that. At least we agree that it is not worth haggling about a few microsecond adjustment due to some earthquake.
OK, so I will re-think things. I imagine you, or your friend Hyde, kidnapping me to some treasure island in the South Pacific. We could make a toast to Tusitala. Meanwhile, a bit to the west of us, it would be tomorrow already.
Awww, you got it. I was hoping for an answer involving 1.21 GigaWatts, though.
Wow! To get that kind of power, you'd need to steal some Pu from a bunch of Libyan nationalists.
Good clue, though. I guess I don't read the news enough. I totally missed the fact that the folks that run that place with the beautiful veranda plan to jump by a whole day at the end of this year! That accounts for 86,400 seconds of my overestimate.
Might be a cross-cultural issue here. "Good one, Skippy" is a genuine mateship accolade in Australia. Remember the kangaroo in "Crocodile Dundee" that shot back at the hunters? Maybe in some other parts it means something else...
19,200 feet is well above Everest (or XV, or 'b') base camp. Where were you? I would think that the thinner air could be helpful for speed, and of course the slightly lower gravity value could make for higher PV records. Shame they never tried it at Tranquillity Base.
Tie me Kangaroo down Sport, Tie me kangaroo down....Tan me hyde when I dead Fred tan me when I'm dead. So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that it's hanging on the shed.
It dawned on me later it was Tie me kangeroo down "Sport"....Just got the time to go back and edit.
Might be a cross-cultural issue here. "Good one, Skippy" is a genuine mateship accolade in Australia.
oops, thought you meant our skippy here
Originally Posted By: wagga
19,200 feet is well above Everest (or XV, or 'b') base camp. Where were you? I would think that the thinner air could be helpful for speed, and of course the slightly lower gravity value could make for higher PV records. Shame they never tried it at Tranquillity Base.
Only sportsman there was The Icy Commander
Where was I? Now you've done it. More detail on #37
Photograph: In the center background is the pyramid of Everest peeking over the wispy south face of Lhotse. From Virginia, two sections of thin bamboo tomato stakes were carried intact in the author's backpack to the Himalayas. They were taped together, laid across two ice axes jammed into the snow, and vaulted over using a hiking pole. An excerpt from the trail journal tells the scene:
WED NOV 1, 2000 - Mera La camp 17,700 to Mera high camp 19,272. 4 hrs. Slow steady pace with double boots and crampons - gentle slope, nothing dangerous. High camp off the ice on a rocky perch, tents barely able to be placed on ledges. Spectacular views of world's highest peaks opening up - Everest, Cho Oyu, Makulu, Kachenjunga, Lhotse. Feel much, much better here than we did at similar high camp altitude on Aconcagua two years ago - much better rested and acclimatized, a world of difference, no headache which incapacitated us for two days there. No heavy loads and no bad weather. No doubts about what we are going to do. Felt good enough to finally do a high altitude pole vault for Seth. Set up bamboo stick between two ice axes and vaulted on walking staff. New world record: 19,272 plus 1 foot. Remi took photos.
The following day we roped up for the midnight start to summit 21,246 ft Mera Peak (the non Peak-41 Mera). Over the subsequent week we also crossed over the technical Amphulabsa, then summitted Imjatse.
The hypoxic memory and diary incorrectly stated that the bar was set at one foot. Actually, it was about two feet. The ice axes were 2 ft-3 in (.68m) long, the spike ends were stuck 3 in (.07m) into the hard ice, and the photo suggests the bamboo bar was actually at about 2 ft (.61m). On the basis of the witnessed and photographed event, the authors diary, and the email later, this highest-ever pole vault playing field was well documented. How high a glacial field was it?
The altitude of 19,272 feet was obtained on the mountain by watch-altimeter adjusted daily from baseline per radio barometric readings. GPS was not available to us then, but Google Earth now is, and it surprisingly lists far-away places like Mera High Camp, at 19,020 ft (5797m). Pole vaulting was performed just west and above the camp on flatter glacial terrain at about latitude 27o 43' 05.33" N, longitude 86o 53' 05.56" E and an altitude of 19,060 ft (5809m). If we assume that the Google satellite imagery is more accurate than a watch altimeter, then the height from which the vault occurred was not 19,272 but 19,060 ft (5809m). Either figure is far higher, nearly a mile so, than the earlier estimate of Jack Longland's site at 14,400 ft (4389m), also by the Google Earth method.
19,200 feet is well above Everest (or XV, or 'b') base camp. Where were you? I would think that the thinner air could be helpful for speed, and of course the slightly lower gravity value could make for higher PV records. Shame they never tried it at Tranquillity Base.
OK, I got it - should have been easy, since it landed almost on top of my sister. I still have an LA newspaper front page - the Qantas koala is quoted as saying "I hate Skylab".
It's 3 states away from Arkansas, and 2 if you take the train.
I made the clue a little more clear. From Arkansas, there is just one state that is 3 states away unless you take the choo choo. I did have to print out a map to confirm that. Bulldog34 may have viewed this site as a challenge.
So #40 is the American Stonehenge. Never heard of it.
Hell, Harvey, I've lived in Georgia most of my 53 years and I've never heard of it. Had to look it up on Wiki to figure out what the Georgia Guidestones was all about. Now I understand wagga's clues.
And no, wagga, those columns are not anywhere near my wheelhouse. Yet.
Thinking about #41. Well I have been as looney as a full moon due to pain meds from surgery yesterday. Thinking Longingly and Langley about my recovery.Hope my Dr. practiced his technique at a professional training facility.
Well done alan and rod. Yes, langley research center is in hampton , va and not at the CIA in langley,va located near DC. Project Mercury was there before the space program moved to houston. Neil Armstrong and others "flew" the LEM in simulated moon gravity while suspended from cables of the contraption in the picture. Built in 1965 it is still there. I worked one summer there in 1971 writing Fortran for use on on punch cards... imagine that !
Best wishes for salty, steve, wagga in SEKI. I have a month to go before I get back.
So #40 is the American Stonehenge. Never heard of it.
Hell, Harvey, I've lived in Georgia most of my 53 years and I've never heard of it. Had to look it up on Wiki to figure out what the Georgia Guidestones was all about.
OK Track and field, next to an olympic pool,and looks like Polo grounds with horse stables.I am gonna first guess Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club where Prince William AKA Duke of Cambrige,Your Royal Highness, played Polo today.Second guess is Summer Olympics somewhere sometime.
Sheep lined up for young QEII to give rectal exams
Does the Queen have a sense of humor? I doubt that it is a joke. I suspect a legitimate Down Under waggacultural show about the time of the Bannister business.
So you have where and when, but WTF eludes you. Double points for who.
OK, we have the queen (I am American, so no caps) making the first-ever royal visit to Australa in 1954. And, of course, it included a stop at the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Exhibition. Is there still more to to this one?
Considering that the poms took 184 years to send out a reigning monarch after claiming the whole continent in 1770, it shouldn't have been a big thing.
We called it the Day We Cooked The Queen. Kids were dropping like flies. Yes, I did get to wave at the Queen.
I think this is the first puzzle where the poster was present at the event. I have more. Next one is a killer, but I wasn't there.
Famous person lived in the left house. A famous person lives in the middle house. It all came, recursively, to a head in the building at the right. The phone number is hard to read, so here it is - 020 8968 8877
We encountered about a dozen snow patches covering the trail on the north-facing slope where the JMT goes between Tuolumne Meadows and Cathedral Lakes. A few patches left on the flank of Cathedral. I've never seen that much snow left in the middle of July. There was frost on the bear boxes at the trail head at dawn.
"Webster subsequently disposed of most of the body in the Thames, where it was discovered close to Barnes Bridge. Some of the remains ended up as a free meal to local kids, according to the Daily Mail, but what happened to the head remained a mystery.
Now, 132 years later, police have finally identified the unfortunate victim's skull. ADI Bolton reviewed original case files and census records, and deployed radiocarbon testing to provide "compelling evidence that the skull was indeed that of Mrs Thomas".:
I guess we didn't do too well on that one. I did get as far as looking up multiple pubs in London with that name. But I was easily sidetracked last week by the day job. Happens.
It is conceivable that this thread could be too obscure at times and wagga could have conceivably been joking about actually spotting a fire ant mound, but the building is in a place I would readily associate with them.
The building was built for people who wanted to bash things together at high speeds. Really, really, really high speeds. People do that kind of thing, but not on the grandiose scale that was planned for this place.
So close! I'm looking for something you could hear - almost feel. It happened for the first time at that place. And yes, I was at that Woodstock, but not the other one.
SarahC - welcome! You would love you (and anybody!) to post puzzles, but we already did the Battle of Hastings (which was really the Battle of Battle).
Here is the magic incantation (in forum code) to make the announcement:
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Copy the code, replace curly brackets with straight, then edit the numeral... Then paste into your post. This way you get the color right & the Roman numerals have pretty serifs.
(If we use the correct brackets, the forum formats it)
...and I'd sure like to know how Harvey even knew the answer so quickly.
Steve, Lady Churchill was a Clementine, but Winston called her Clemmie. My Clemmie is a Clemmie. While I sorta recognized the building she knew what happened there even if the Nazis did not.
I must say, there was an oddly familiar look to that picture.
While I am not up on history, I suppose it was in the news a while back, and I do try to keep with the news. It surprised me when my first Google try found the same picture in the first hit.
My search: Fresno Historic Landfill
The funny story is that the place made it on the historic registry, and then was immediately ridiculed, since it is also a Superfund site.
My family being from Fresno I actually recognized it but wasn't sure.Near Jensen. I like how they always put a park,golf course,housing tract on or near a dump.
For this one, I think those white items are something one might add to a glass of tea if they were smaller. Not sure which lake this is, but I think Santa Claus might vacation on this island.
The geology fits Iceland - looks like somewhat recent (in geologic time) basalt flow on the north side. A lot of Iceland satellite imagery matches this terrain. Guess I was off.
Got it! Not fair though, I was just snorkeling in this spot a month ago. The sun can Cook you here. I was right about the recent basalt flows on the north side, except these are steep cliffs.
Interesting story about those steep volcanic cliffs on the north side dropping down to the bay. If I have a few details mixed up, forgive me, this is essentially what they tell at the local NP historical site Pu'uhonua o Honaunau (the City of Refuge).
When a Big Kahuna or Chief died, a volunteer was lowered over the edge of these cliffs on a rope to bury the bones in an undisclosed location in one of the natural crevasses in the volcanic rock. The bones were believed to hold the spirit of the dead (the mana), so this was very important stuff to make sure nobody found the bones and stole his power. The guys belaying him over the cliff could not see what he was doing so nobody but the volunteer knew where the bones were hidden. Once the bones were hidden in a secret spot on the cliff face, the volunteer gave the okay shout to pull him back up. In the interest of security, the rope was then cut and nobody knew where the bones were hidden. Hence the famous saying, "people who live in grass houses shouldn't store bones." Okay, I made up a bad pun, but the legend is apparently true.
This location is where the Hawaiian Islands were "discovered" and the end of the cruise for the great Captain Cook. He was killed in a misunderstanding over a row boat. When the natives returned his bones to his ship docked at this site, they thought they were being respectful, but it wasn't taken that way. The crew thought the natives ate their beloved Captain and went on a revengeful killing spree.
I was just there snorkeling about a month ago. My parents live nearby in Kona so we get there a lot. The snorkeling here is widely thought to be the best in all the Islands. We concur, but there are lots of close seconds. Three ways to get here: a scenic 2 mile hike with a 1,300 ft decent, kayak across Kealakekua bay and probably see dolphins swimming with you, or take a tour boat snorkel trip. We've hiked many times and kayaked also. Love this place. Thanks, Wagga.
...and I was there about 3 years ago. Pretty fish there.
Did you hike in or kayak to the monument? I'm betting you didn't take a tour boat, but they do have a smoking BBQ going that makes you want to spear a fish.
What are you doing in Lone Pine? I thought your MR trip was pow (excuse the Hawaiian pig latin).
Sorry everybody, I'm a newbie to this game and I gave away too much information. I don't see how to edit my post to clean it up for those still solving it. Maybe Steve can help with that.
Also, the photo challenge I posted should be #52. It's not in Colorado.
Sorry everybody, I'm a newbie to this game and I gave away too much information. I don't see how to edit my post to clean it up for those still solving it. Maybe Steve can help with that.
Also, the photo challenge I posted should be #52. It's not in Colorado.
It's rather arbitrary -- when it is ok to spill info, that is. You're ok in my book.
Steve can fix the numbering on #52.
BTW, I am in The Hague, where it is very flat. I missed the action on Captain Cook, but it's not like I had figured it out or anything.
SierraNevada wrote: > Did you hike in or kayak to the monument? I'm betting you didn't take a tour boat, but they do have a smoking BBQ going that makes you want to spear a fish.
You lose that bet. We took the outboard-motor Kona snorkel boats:
> What are you doing in Lone Pine? I thought your MR trip was pow (excuse the Hawaiian pig latin). MR hike was cancelled, but servicing webcam had to be done.
Back to WITWHH 52: It looks like a river exiting some volcanic island, as in Hawaii.
Apparently it's official name as of 1947 is Hoover Dam. Before that, it was Boulder Dam, since the original site to build was in Boulder Canyon. But between 1930 and 1932, it was Hoover Dam.
This topic brings back an interesting memory: In my workplace years ago, when something sounded bad, several people coined the term, "That's a Hoover" ...which came from the longer phrase, "that sucks like a Hoover".
Bee, I wonder if that clumpy Yew it is related to the Sierra's clumpy Whitebark pines? They live on the edge of survival high up. I love 'em. My friend here wondered why:
Yes, Whitebark Pine and Yew are related; they belong to two different families (out of six to eight families) that make up the Conifers.
The Monterey Cypress (think: Lone Cypress) and the Sequoia (General Sherman Tree) are also conifers.
Interesting lore about Yews: they are commonly planted in cemeteries due to legend of keeping away the bad spirits (goes back to the Druids and probably before)
The wiki link Bee supplied lists the two historical events:
"... this tree is said to have been witness to the signing of the Magna Carta. It is also said to be the location where Henry VIII met Anne Boleyn in the 1530s."
Ann's beheading is a bit more "historic" than their meeting place, with the execution taking place in London Tower.
The wiki link Bee supplied lists the two historical events:
"... this tree is said to have been witness to the signing of the Magna Carta. It is also said to be the location where Henry VIII met Anne Boleyn in the 1530s."
Ann's beheading is a bit more "historic" than their meeting place, with the execution taking place in London Tower.
Another thing of little known hystorical importance is that Henry had the ax handle hewn from that very same tree.
Double points. Out of sheer curiosity, we'd like to know how you solved it. Was it the two clues in the first three words?
You get to post the next one.
I recognized the tree as a Yew, immediately. I went on line and googled "images of Yew trees". I scanned through the collection until I found the exact image that you used, right clicked the original source of the photo.....and read all about the famous events that took place under the tree. Took all of 5 minutes.
The key was recognizing the exact name of the tree, otherwise, the cache of photos would have been too large to sift through.
I am not sure that my extreme linear psyche allows for the creativity of making up a puzzle with all of the clever clues.
OK Definitely off topic, about 5000 miles off topic , Ive just got back from hiking a section of Hadrians wall, about 45 miles, Maybe I should post a trip report, Is that ok Steve ????
One location is 5168.055 miles from the Wall, the other is 7252.312 miles, Great Circle Route, of course.
Harvey: The sites are concrete as in mortar, although a lot of slide rules (a weapon of math instruction) were used in the making of the events. In fact, they used roomfuls of Computers.
The sites are concrete as in mortar, although a lot of slide rules (a weapon of math instruction) were used in the making of the events. In fact, they used roomfuls of Computers.
so now we know it was probably built in the 1950s or 1960s, but we kinda already knew that from looking. The use of NASA- grade computer rooms of IBM 360s or whatever suggests some sort of macroscientific study, maybe like timing of cosmic rays zapping through the Earth, or some such.
I not sure what gender computers are these days, but back then, a Computer (capital "C" deliberate) was female and lusted after by Engineers. And after the mating ceremony, everything was done above ground level.
We were obviously having trouble making progress on this one. The maps showing the locations obviously helped.
Enola Gay visited the first site. There had to be a pit to load the little guy. A lot of things happened in the vicinity of the second site. How about Glamorous Glennis? She needed a pit to be attached to a B-29.
So, we have the Little Boy loading pit on Tinian and the X-1 loading pit at Edwards.
But it is not over. There is the equation:
Originally Posted By: wagga
B## + P = B## + U = B## + X# = (BIG/P), # is 1 or 2 or 9.
My crack at it is: B29 + P = B29 + U = B29 + X1 = (BIG/P)
I am still in the dark about P and U. The Fat Man bomb was Pu, but Little Boy was U-235. i think that our picture is the Little Boy loading pit. Maybe I am on the wrong track about P and U.
P is the deliberate error - Pu would have been too easy. U is Uranium, and all three events included a big overpressure. And the jungle picture has both loading pits.
P is the deliberate error - Pu would have been too easy. U is Uranium, and all three events included a big overpressure. And the jungle picture has both loading pits.
All three? Fair enough. I was tacitly assuming two events. One needs to be careful in assuming anything around you!
Anyway, Tinian, A-bobms, Edwards AFB, and the sound barrier -- the right stuff?
This one was interesting. I quickly determined that we were probably dealing with missile silos, maybe missile silo explosions. I found an area in Arkansas where there had been an explosion in a Titan II silo. It looked reasonably similar to the Tinian picture.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? LIV: (54)
Originally Posted By: AlanK
This one was interesting. I quickly determined that we were probably dealing with missile silos, maybe missile silo explosions. I found an area in Arkansas where there had been an explosion in a Titan II silo. It looked reasonably similar to the Tinian picture.
Should we have saved that for a future WITWHH? SaraC missed a good one with Hadrian's Wall, too.
The uranium bomb was a canon. Fire a U-235-righ projectile into a U-235-rich target, reach critical mass, and boom. They figured out early on that the Pu equivalent would fizzle. Fission would commence before the projectile was close enough to the target to reach critical mass. The thing would make a modest explosion and prevent the desired big boom.
Okay, I will be very non-PC with this next bit: Some years ago, I visited the Enola Gay restoration at Garber/Smithsonian. Not in the gift shop, but under the counter, one of the guys was selling hats with this: Made in America, tested in Japan.
I need to brush the chalk off of my lab coat and get caught up. Before getting into LVI, I have a question about LV -- did Steve get it? I watched some of the video but missed anything that identified the site.
did I jump the gun on leaving LV (55)? Sorry, if so. I watched half of the video and by the way it was looking, I just assumed surely the site was in there.
LVI (56) Alan already has it. Think Canucks. We use a lot of their products (when we can get it) here in the US, and in my office.
did I jump the gun on leaving LV (55)? Sorry, if so. I watched half of the video and by the way it was looking, I just assumed surely the site was in there.
Maybe it is. I admit to having found a bunch of places in Kazakhstan that looked like wagga's picture... but not enough like it. So, I was far from Nevada.
... Before getting into LVI, I have a question about LV -- did Steve get it?
No WAY, guys! I did NOT get it. I just threw that one up for fun, since it is sort of in the spirit of the puzzle.
I went looking (Googling) for "Desert Triangle", and found several bizarre aerial pics. Then tried "120-degree desert" and found nothing but stuff about high temperature weather.
LV is UNsolved. (wagga, I think a hint might be welcome.... which hemisphere are we talking?)
BTW, pay attention to the Subject when you reply. Change the numbers to correspond to the appropriate puzzle.
Based on the usual focus on nuclear physics, I Googled for blast test sites. I just received a call from Homeland Security and my computer is flashing on and off... Just Kidding, so far.
Searching for Cosmos turned up this: Cosmos Flower I can see the similarity between the three flowers and the map below.
The Carl Sagan clue is off the track. "It is not, despite depictions in popular culture, used to assist in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence"
lots of blatant clues about gravity, physics, relativity, Newton, and the other extremely famous guy must be either Maxwell, Bolzman, Einstein, Bohr, Dirac, Heisenberg, or Feynman.
Even time travel in Back to the Future is a clue. But what is that building? Does not look like Einstein territory.
lots of blatant clues about gravity, physics, relativity, Newton, and the other extremely famous guy must be either Maxwell, Bolzman, Einstein, Bohr, Dirac, Heisenberg, or Feynman.
Even time travel in Back to the Future is a clue. But what is that building? Does not look like Einstein territory.
Doc Brown in the original Back to the Future named his dog after a famous gravity guy. A guy on your list.
I'd sure like to know how wagga's initial clue, "Please Bee cryptic" relates to some dude's palm tree.
My guess is that it refered to the WZ's own Bee rather then being an actual clue as the guy with the palm tree definitely didn't say anything about the impact on the world if bees disappeared.
So without any clues whatsoever, I'd appreciate Alan K revealing the thought processes he used to solve the puzzle. I'm clueless.
The first tree said "apple" to me, so I looked for images of the world's most famous apple tree (I am assuming that Eve ate some other fruit). Since that tree is related to a gravity guy and the other image was a palm, I looked for references to the other most famous gravity guy and palm trees. That did it.
Scroll through this article for some fascinating pictures.
Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein and their party traveled by ship and the two got to know each other. Weizmann supposedly remarked, "Every day he explained his theory to me, and now I am convinced that he understands it."
Ok may be way off here but it looks similar to some NASA development rocket , satellite launch, engines, which the Chinese have recently been using
(see phot above)
A cryogenic rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses a cryogenic fuel
The YF-77 is currently China's most powerful cryogenic rocket engine using liquid hydrogen (LH2) fuel and liquid oxygen (LOX) oxidizer. Engine development began in the 2000s, with testing directed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) commencing in 2005. The engine has been successfully tested by mid-2007.
YES????
American cryogenic engines
In staged combustion and gas generator, a small amount of fuel and propellant are burnt and used to the hot gases are used to turn a turbine, which in turn drives the pumps that pump oxidizer and fuel into the combustion chamber.
The difference between staged combustion and gas generator is that in the gas generator, after driving the turbine, the gases are vented out into the atmosphere. In a staged combustion the gases that leave the turbine (usually a fuel rich mixture, though the Russians use a more difficult oxygen rich mixture) and sent into the combustion chamber where they are burnt . That way the staged combustion generates a couple of percentage points more thrust and is more efficeint (coz the gases are used to propel and not wastefully vented out).
The MSRE went critical on June 1, 1965 and operated for 4.5 years until it was shut down in December 1969. The MSRE was the first (and probably only) reactor to operate on all three fissile fuels: U-233, U-235, and Pu-239. During its operation, uranium was completely removed from the salt through fluorination by bubbling gaseous fluorine through the salt. The fluorine caused the uranium tetrafluoride to convert to uranium hexafluoride, which is gaseous, and could then be removed. In 4 days, 218 kg of uranium was separated from the intensely radioactive fission products and its activity was reduced by a billionfold. The reactor was then loaded with U-233 that had been made by early runs of thorium fuel at the Indian Point reactor in New York.
Guess it is not that missle silo in the back yard. It looks so familar and I know I have seen this picture before. Damn if I can recall where.Not mechanical enough to know what it is but it looks like a huge furnace with a large gas inlet and burner and a large engine and drive shaft.
No you are good AlanK on 59 and 60 except,61 is a little too obvious. But it is too easy an entry anyways. wagga empty your PM I sent you a PM and your box is too full!!!!
Ok I got It I should of got it sooner , obviously its someone's parents house I think they should take up the paving and put down a hard drive, easy Job
Honoré de Balzac Sarah Bernhardt Georges Bizet Maria Callas (who really isn't there) Frédéric Chopin Colette Isadora Duncan Stéphane Grappelli Heloïse Ferdinand de Lesseps Marcel Proust Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas Simone Signoret Georges-Pierre Seurat Oscar Wilde
Honoré de Balzac Sarah Bernhardt Georges Bizet Maria Callas (who really isn't there) Frédéric Chopin Colette Isadora Duncan Stéphane Grappelli Heloïse Ferdinand de Lesseps Marcel Proust Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas Simone Signoret Georges-Pierre Seurat Oscar Wilde
OK The road in the picture is the Watling street. Even by modern standards the Romans moved pretty fast around here and by Roman standards what happened here was really fast
Is there a lady with a 'take no prisoners attitude' involved?
Im afraid this is more 1940s than AD40s No chariots Involved, but Roman standards is a clue, in a way. I was thinking more of the symbol of the roman standards and what sort of locomotion the symbol used (too cryptic ?) you seem to have the area correct though Would a map reference be helpfull, or another photo This is close to the centre of Roman Britain and when AlanK said Magna Carta he was in the right ballPark
I thinks its fair to say Alan you have been the engine for this solution I thought Id link it to the MSR question well done The history of the park is more interesting than the park itself and of course involves the Air Commodore
Bill Clinton could have dropped his tool here. Wagga already knows this one.
Titan II Silo Accident in Damascus Arkansas
Former Titan II Missile Silo. On September 19th 1980 a dropped wrench punctured a fuel tank. Hours later it blew with such force that the 740 ton silo lid was blown off and the warhead (relatively undamaged) landed 600 feet away.
Former Titan II Missile Silo. On September 19th 1980 a dropped wrench punctured a fuel tank. Hours later it blew with such force that the 740 ton silo lid was blown off and the warhead (relatively undamaged) landed 600 feet away.
That's what I was hinting at. It was not the first fatal Titan accident in Arkansas, either.
Former Titan II Missile Silo. On September 19th 1980 a dropped wrench punctured a fuel tank. Hours later it blew with such force that the 740 ton silo lid was blown off and the warhead (relatively undamaged) landed 600 feet away.
Brian -- Note for the future -- The idea is to make an obscure reference to the answer so that there is some opportunity for several people to solve the puzzle. At some arbitrary point, it is declared solved. When I think that has happened, I update the summary thread.
Brian -- Note for the future -- The idea is to make an obscure reference to the answer so that there is some opportunity for several people to solve the puzzle. At some arbitrary point, it is declared solved. When I think that has happened, I update the summary thread.
Yeah, y'all hinting and smirking with all those obscure hints... drives me nuts and keeps me wondering, both at the same time.
...now, if we can just get wagga to update the Subject line to the correct number along with his Fancy Red Text when he starts a new puzzle.
HikeUp, our new victim player seems to have gotten the location first. I'm reading a fine whodunnit which uses the site, but the geographic names are all obfuscated.
So, name the book.
Ms. NEXT! is kipping, so I'm goanna sneak a new one in. Soon.
To all players: Steve C will give everybody edit access to a single post in the Gallery so that we can upload pics there rather than Flikr, etc, One benefit is that the site carries the actual image. If you were to delete a Flikr image, WZ won't be able to display it.
So, show your interest & Steve can give you access...
To all players: Steve C will give everybody edit access to a single post in the Gallery so that we can upload pics there rather than Flikr, etc, One benefit is that the site carries the actual image. If you were to delete a Flikr image, WZ won't be able to display it.
So, show your interest & Steve can give you access...
sounds good, you will need to message me and explain it in simpler terms , also your mailbox is always full
I am so confussed. Don't know which game is being played by whom. Not sure i understand what wagga was saying about the one time access to download pics or if it was a crytic clue.I know that that wasn't a vegetarian stand that was redacted.
I am so confussed. Don't know which game is being played by whom
Players should reference the puzzle number when they reply. However, this is the Internet & there are no rules.
Originally Posted By: Rod
Not sure i understand what wagga was saying about the one time access to download pics or if it was a crytic clue.
Instead of puzzle posters using Flikr, etc. as the image source, there is an argument for storing the actual image on the WZ host site, using a single post which can be accessed by any poster.
Originally Posted By: Rod
I know that that wasn't a vegetarian stand that was redacted.
Yes, my next clue was to be something along the lines of "If the horse & the chooks knew what was going on in that hut they would flee"
Hmmm I think the cryptic answer part is great and adds to the fun, but can lead to confusion, which is also fun, abit like a game called mornington crescent played on the radio but I digress
(mornington crescent is a very confusing game played on a british radio show called "im sorry I havent a clue" which Im sure you guys would love)
Sometimes ive posted cryptic answers to clues which the posters has NOT fully understood
Re the bikini atoll answer I was thinking of putting shall I bring my bathing suit or wet suit after the evacuation, return photo
Finally I dont know if wagga was aware of this site
The first time this person met his best friend he might have said hello Mary Lou but I cant let Maggie go
this was the first of many houses he lived in
I'm not sure I know jack about this one. I saw a place like that while on the road once, though.
Note added a few hours back -- OK, I looked at the problem again and figured out that the posted picture is of 9 Lupine Rd. -- I was indeed on the right track.
It has nothing to do with cooking or stewing. Two people know the location already. What happened happened somewhere near here, say in fifty mile radius, any one need another clue ?
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? LXXI: (71)
There is a terrific article from the Reg which contains the unmolested picture.
To this day, decisions on register allocation and especially memory addressing continue to haunt & frustrate us. The 68K series had a greatly superior architecture.
As to what happened - you, the reader are sitting in front of a personal computer, connected to the rest of the world through the internet. That's a revolution.
I mostly posted this to show how small a slice of the Earth's surface could be almost instantly recognizable.
Well, I for one have been stewing on this one. At least I was able to zero in on the map area. But SaraC seems to prefer to hyder clues so well that I cannot find anything that might solve this one.
Here's a Gmap4 embedded map showing the area. Switch to Satellite mode and zoom out to see the same view as above. Gmap4 embedded version (Same map, separate window)
Well, I for one have been stewing on this one. At least I was able to zero in on the map area. But SaraC seems to prefer to hyder clues so well that I cannot find anything that might solve this one.
Not all that much happens in that area. Are we talking about a disaster? Another lost bomb, maybe?
Sheesh! With all that white in the satellite picture, I was looking for some shoreline with glaciers involved. Is it tropical coral that makes the satellite view so light?
Sheesh! With all that white in the satellite picture, I was looking for some shoreline with glaciers involved. Is it tropical coral that makes the satellite view so light?
I believe so. One thing I did learn in digging up that picture:
Originally Posted By: Wikipedia
The English translation of cochinos as pigs is erroneous. In the Caribbean, it is a common name for the Orangeside triggerfish (Sufflamen verres), that inhabits coral reefs in BahÃa de Cochinos, rather than swine (Sus scrofa).
Well, I for one have been stewing on this one. At least I was able to zero in on the map area. But SaraC seems to prefer to hyder clues so well that I cannot find anything that might solve this one.
Not all that much happens in that area. Are we talking about a disaster? Another lost bomb, maybe?
Dumb Americans don't know anything. Especially about Canada.
Not all that much happens in that area. Are we talking about a disaster? Another lost bomb, maybe?
Dumb Americans don't know anything. Especially about Canada.
Far be it from me to dispute that.
Nevertheless, I can produce a post-1938 story about a lost US nuclear bomb in which Stewart-Hyder plays a important role.
But if you want to provide the real solution, be our guest.
I'll let the border collie tell the real story. All I found was that maybe some RCMP found aliens bodies in a nearby cave, and or a nearby avalanche disaster. No royalty involved though. A lot has happend in BC but nothing in this part of BC that I can find.
I'll let the border collie tell the real story. All I found was that maybe some RCMP found aliens bodies in a nearby cave, and or a nearby avalanche disaster. No royalty involved though. A lot has happend in BC but nothing in this part of BC that I can find.
The avalanche was my candidate until I found the lost bomb story. But royalty seemed to be lacking.
73 looks like the impression left by the aircraft that had Jabba the Hut and Princess Laya in the final movie of the first set of three Star Wars 5 I believe.
I'll sit on my iron bottom and try to sound it out.
You've nailed it already. I guess I should clarify that the on land part was merely a last gasp effort by the aggressor to fulfill their mission after a resounding defeat.
This is the only one of it's kind, though there was a prototype running successfully in Spain. It's been torn down, so there was no meaningful picture. A much larger version was planned for Australia, but has not been built yet. And it is an energy provider.
I captured it from google earth (ver 6.1.0.5001) today. I've been scouring that area looking for your view, and now I know why I couldn't find it! Your latest clue gave me the name of the town and I was able to find it.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? LXXIII: (73)
This is apparently the world's first commercial Solar Updraft Tower, though the illustration offered showed it under construction. Oddly enough, Google Earth now has a different view, though, an up-to-date image would show the completed project. Here is the wiki.
We could use some input from Sara. I think that everyone knows that the original photo is of the Stewart, British Columbia- Hyder, Alaska area. Events identified with the area were a killer avalanche and a nuclear bomber crash.
I'm not a sailing man, but that ship seems to be in trouble. It's apparent vintage inspired me to think about things that happen to dams (referring to #80). Distress seemed like a good theme, since the dam was obviously not one of our famous US ones. To me, though, the ship looks like a lot of ships that had trouble back around mid-century.
well, it is not the Edmund Fitzgerald that went down on Lake Superior when the winds of November came early, but the clue 'mid-century' suggests munitions had something to do with it. Must have been some more of those torpedoes, but from who?
well, it is not the Edmund Fitzgerald that went down on Lake Superior when the winds of November came early, but the clue 'mid-century' suggests munitions had something to do with it. Must have been some more of those torpedoes, but from who?
Well, it is not the USS Indianapolis and it is not the boat from Jaws.
does not look to me like a Channel Island (anywhere near the Lizard or not). We were given a 1925 clue. For that year a famous person was Mussolini, so perhaps was this an island in the Med?
Regarding LXXVIII, AlanK and the original poster appear to be on the same wavelength. You can see why you'd visit the place to escape the ravages of hay fever.
On 18 April 1947 British engineers attempted to destroy the entire North Sea island of Heligoland in what became known as the "British Bang". Roughly 4000 tons of surplus World War II ammunition were placed in various locations around the island and set off. The island survived, although the extensive fortifications were destroyed. According to Willmore, the energy released was 1.3×1020 erg (1.3×1013 J), or about 3.2 kilotons of TNT equivalent. The blast is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under largest single explosive detonation, although Minor Scale would appear to be larger.
"This was the biggest one-man heroism story since Lindbergh. He was honored on his return to England, and when he got to New York, he was given a ticker tape parade. He refused to cash in on his fame; even while he was awaiting rescue, a beer tycoon had arranged for a packet to be dropped to him offering him $30,000 to endorse a particular brew. He declined an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. He was quickly put back at work for his shipping line, and was a hero to all, except for himself. For one thing, he never understood why people would get so worked up over a man who was simply carrying out his duty; for another, he felt a deep personal shame that he had become a captain who had lost a ship. It is a true touch of tragedy within a spellbinding tale of a hero pitted against the vicious sea. "
Time for a harder puzzle. Made even more fun by the fact the building is no longer there. It's now an archeological site. And, as is often the case in this thread, there was a Nobel awarded.
It looks like a perfectly nice old building that could be at any number of eastern US universities, not to mention European ones. Or it could be some other institutional building.
The "symmetry" clues are non operational. This building is was in a country that has produced 120 Nobel winners. Another image?
Well, the US has 333 and Germany has 102, so that leaves...
OK, you made this one take some work.
I found a couple of references to an archaeological site formerly occupied by a building at a famous university. (Incidentally, the university has been featured before on WITWHH.) And quite a site it is, with prehistoric monuments and a 6th century settlement.
No Nobel Prize in archaeology, though. Literature? I don't recall the creator of 007 ever winning. More likely Physiology and Medicine.
If I flew over today, would the picture look the same? Or would there be another island? I mean, what if a volcano erupted after they took the picture? And, by the way, how did Moses... oh, never mind.
They did a re-enactment of LXXXIII. Fortunately though, far fewer casualties.
"Taking place <almost> 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, this disaster is "remarkably similar," McKesson said. "Titanic similarly grazed an object on her side. In her case, it was an iceberg and in her case, as the water came in, she tore multiple compartments open.."
okay, must be in one of these - the list of National Parks in the Great Lakes area, by state or province, alphabetically:
National Parks and Scenic Trails INDIANA George Rogers Clark National Historical Park National Park Service A classic memorial stands on the site of Fort Sackville to commemorate the capture of the fort from British Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton and his soldiers by Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark and his frontiersmen on February 25, 1779.
MICHIGAN Father Marquette National Memorial National Park Service Father Marquette National Memorial and Museum is located in Straits State Park and is interpreted in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
Isle Royale National Park National Park Service Wolves and moose, the wild North Woods forest, everchanging weather and a cool climate, and the crystal clear waters and rugged shoreline of Lake Superior characterize Isle Royale National Park.
Isle Royale: unoffical site Dedicated to providing information on Isle Royale National Park
Keweenaw National Historical Park National Park Service Keweenaw National Historical Park preserves the heritage of copper mining in this unique setting amid many of the original structures and landscapes of the copper era.
North Country National Scenic Trail National Park Service The North Country National Scenic Trail links scenic, natural, historic, and cultural areas in seven northern states.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore National Park Service Multicolored sandstone cliffs, beaches, sand dunes, waterfalls, inland lakes, wildlife and forests of the Lake Superior shoreline beckon visitors to explore the 73,000-acre park.
Warren Dunes State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Located in southwestern Michigan, the Warren Dunes tower 240 feet above Lake Michigan, attracting hikers and hang gliders and other outdoor enthusiasts.
MINNESOTA Grand Portage National Monument National Park Service Reopened in 1951 as Grand Portage National Historic Site, designated a National Monument in 1958, its nearly 710 acres lying entirely within the boundaries of Grand Portage Ojibwe Indian Reservation, the reconstructed depot celebrates fur trade and Ojibwe lifeways.
Mississippi National River & Recreation Area National Park Service From visitor centers to trails, from industrial centers to Mississippi River backwaters, this park has a bit of something for everyone.
North Country National Scenic Trail National Park Service The North Country National Scenic Trail links scenic, natural, historic, and cultural areas in seven northern states.
Pipestone National Monument National Park Service As commanded by the spirit bird in the Sioux story of its creation, the pipestone here is quarried by anyone of Indian ancestry.
Voyageurs National Park National Park Service The park lies in the southern part of the Canadian Shield, representing some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the world.
Voyageurs National Park: unofficial site This site is dedicated to providing information on Voyageurs National Park.
NEW YORK Appalachian National Scenic Trail National Park Service The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,174-mile footpath along the ridgecrests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in northern Georgia.
Castle Clinton National Monument National Park Service On August 3, 1855, Castle Garden, now leased to New York State, opened as an immigrant landing depot. During the next 34 years, over 8 million people entered the United States through Castle Garden, until it was closed on April 18, 1890.
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network National Park Service Experience the diversity of the Chesapeake Bay through the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network - a system of over 120 parks, refuges, museums, historic communities and water trails in the Bay watershed.
Ellis Island National Monument National Park Service Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million steerage and third class steamship passengers who entered the United States through the port of New York were legally and medically inspected at Ellis Island.
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor National Park Service The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor covers 524 miles in Upstate New York, including four navigable waterways: Erie, Champlain, Oswego and Cayuga-Seneca; sections of the first Erie Canal; and over 200 municipalities adjacent to the canals.
Gateway National Recreation Area National Park Service Park sites offer a variety of recreation opportunities, along with a chance to explore many significant cultural and natural resources.
Governors Island National Monument National Park Service Governors Island is a 172-acre island located a half-mile from the southern tip of Manhattan in New York harbor.
Manhattan Sites National Park Service Manhattan Sites is a unique urban park that consists of six separate sites representing the Seventeenth through the Twentieth Centuries.
National Parks of New York Harbor National Park Service The National Parks of New York Harbor represents a collaboration, or organizational network, of these parks: Gateway National Recreation Area, Governors Island, Manhattan Sites and Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island, as well as one affiliated site, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
North Country National Scenic Trail National Park Service The North Country National Scenic Trail links scenic, natural, historic, and cultural areas in seven northern states.
Saratoga National Historical Park National Park Service Site of the first significant American military victory during the Revolution, the Battles of Saratoga rank among the fifteen most decisive battles in world history.
Statue Of Liberty National Monument National Park Service To better understand this monumental work of art, visitors will be able to view inside the Statue through a glass ceiling, guided by a park ranger and an enhanced lighting and new video system.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River National Park Service The longest free-flowing river in the Northeast, it includes riffles and Class I and II rapids between placid pools and eddies.
Women's Rights National Historical Park National Park Service The park consists of four major historical properties and a state of the art Visitor Center.
OHIO Cuyahoga Valley National Park National Park Service Just a short drive from the major metropolitan areas of Cleveland and Akron, Cuyahoga Valley National Park protects 33,000 acres along the banks of the Cuyahoga River.
David Berger National Memorial National Park Service This site honors the memory of David Berger, an American citizen who was one of the 11 Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park National Park Service Dayton Aviation Heritage commemorates three exceptional men - Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Paul Laurence Dunbar - and their work in the Miami Valley.
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park National Park Service The park contains nationally significant archeological resources including large earthwork and mound complexes that provide an insight into the social, ceremonial, political, and economic life of the Hopewell people.
North Country National Scenic Trail National Park Service The North Country National Scenic Trail links scenic, natural, historic, and cultural areas in seven northern states.
Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial National Memorial National Park Service Constructed between 1912 and 1915 by a commission of nine states and the federal government, Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial was built not only to commemorate the American naval triumph, but also "to inculcate the lessons of international peace by arbitration and disarmament."
ONTARIO Bruce Peninsula National Park Great Canadian Parks Bruce National Park, located on the Bruce Peninsula, which almost cuts off Georgian Bay from Lake Huron, is a patchwork of limestone cliffs, beach and ancient forest scenery.
Fathom Five National Marine Park Great Canadian Parks Fathom Five, Canada's first national marine park, consists of 20 islands to the north and east of the Bruce Peninsula, 130 square kilometres of surface water, the ecosystem reaching 200 metres below, and the park's tiny landbase at Tobermory Harbour.
Georgian Bay Islands Great Canadian Parks Composed of 59 islands and shoals, this tiny park is part of the largest group of fresh-water islands in the world.
Point Pelee Great Canadian Parks Point Pelee, a 10-kilometre sandspit stretching as far south as the northern border of California, contains one of Canada's smallest but most unusual national parks.
Pukaskwa National Park Great Canadian Parks Ontario's only wilderness park, Pukaskwa National Park covers 1880 square kilometres of rugged terrain and frigid water along the rocky north shore of Lake Superior halfway between Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay.
St. Lawrence Islands Great Canadian Parks Primarily a water-based park, its 21 granite islands and numerous tiny islets are a unique river landscape strewn along 80 kilometres of the upper St. Lawrence River.
PENNSYLVANIA Appalachian National Scenic Trail National Park Service The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,174-mile footpath along the ridgecrests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in northern Georgia.
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network National Park Service Experience the diversity of the Chesapeake Bay through the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network - a system of over 120 parks, refuges, museums, historic communities and water trails in the Bay watershed.
Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor National Park Service Come journey through five Pennsylvania counties bursting with heritage and brimming with outdoor adventure.
Delaware National Scenic River National Park Service The section of the Delaware River that is designated the Middle Delaware National Scenic River is 40 miles long and is contained completely within Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park system.
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area National Park Service This park preserves 40 miles of the middle Delaware River and almost 70,000 acres of land along the river's New Jersey and Pennsylvania shores.
Flight 93 National Memorial National Park Service On September 11, 2001, the passengers and crew of Flight 93 courageously gave their lives thwarting a planned attack on our Nation's Capital.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield National Park Service Colonial troops commanded by 22 year old Colonel George Washington were defeated in this small stockade at the "Great Meadow".
Gettysburg National Military Park National Park Service Gettysburg National Military Park incorporates nearly 6,000 acres, with 26 miles of park roads and over 1,400 monuments, markers, and memorials.
Independence National Historical Park National Park Service Independence National Historical Park, located in downtown (called "Center City"), Philadelphia, is often referred to as the birthplace of our nation.
Johnstown Flood National Memorial National Park Service The park contains nearly 165 acres and preserves the remains of the South Fork Dam and portions of the former Lake Conemaugh bed.
Lower Delaware National Wild & Scenic River National Park Service The river valley houses cliffs rising 400 feet above the rivers that provide for magnificent scenery and habitat unique to the region.
North Country National Scenic Trail National Park Service The North Country National Scenic Trail links scenic, natural, historic, and cultural areas in seven northern states.
Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail National Park Service Citizens in the Potomac Heritage Trail corridor are rediscovering history and reclaiming access to rivers and other outdoor places.
Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial National Park Service In a small rented room on the second floor of this house, Kosciuszko spent the winter of 1797-98 reading, sketching and receiving distinguished visitors like Vice-President Thomas Jefferson.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River National Park Service The longest free-flowing river in the Northeast, it includes riffles and Class I and II rapids between placid pools and eddies.
Valley Forge National Historical Park National Park Service Valley Forge National Historical Park commemorates more than the collective sacrifices and dedication of the Revolutionary War generation, it pays homage to the ability of everyday Americans to pull together and overcome adversity during extraordinary times.
White Clay Creek National Wild & Scenic River National Park Service The White Clay Creek is renowned for its scenery, opportunities for birding and trout fishing and historic features.
QUEBEC Forillon Parks Canada Forillo, located at the farthest reach of the Gaspé Peninsula, protects a representative sample of the Notre-Dame and Mégantic mountain regions and certain elements of the Gulf of St. Lawrence marine region.
La Mauricie Parks Canada Located in the Laurentians, the mountian range flanking the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River.
Mingan Archipelago Parks Canada This national park reserve, located along the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, contains spectacular natural monuments which bear witness to the never-ending wear of the sea and of the centuries.
Saguenay-St. Lawrence National Park Great Canadian Parks The first park in Quebec dedicated to the protection of a marine environment.
WISCONSIN Apostle Islands National Lakeshore National Park Service These 21 forested islands and 12 miles of mainland Lake Superior shoreline feature pristine stretches of sand beach, spectacular sea caves, remnant old-growth forests, resident bald eagles and black bears, and the largest collection of lighthouses anywhere in the National Park System.
Ice Age National Scenic Trail National Park Service The Ice Age National Scenic Trail travels through the edges of the glacier that passed into Wisconsin.
North Country National Scenic Trail National Park Service The North Country National Scenic Trail links scenic, natural, historic, and cultural areas in seven northern states.
Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway National Park Service Whether solitude or a shared experience is desired, you too can come to know this river.
I am not proud of my lack of results in looking over the Great Lakes for #84. My hat is off to Sierra Nevada and I hope we get some more clues.
For #85, I thought that the unique-looking island might be found where wagga would hide something. I guessed that the piece at the top was part of a land mass, putting the island on the southern coast. This turned out to be a wrong assumption that led to a correct conclusion.
What is historical about this particular island? A pirate murdered by his crew?
OK, this place is fit for Kings and Queens, but the question remains, WITWHH? What's the historical tie-in, Wagga? Biosphere Reserve?
Well, Ryan's Island could be called Recursion Isle. It contains Moose Flats, a seasonal pond, which contains Moose Boulder. When Moose Flats is a pond, Moose Boulder becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.
AlanK: Good research. It's obvious that this island is a lot hillier than Ryan Island. What happened here involves a lacustrine feature which, to this day, is not understood. Besides, I liked that it resembles a Brahma Bull or maybe a cat going off.
AlanK: Good research. It's obvious that this island is a lot hillier than Ryan Island. What happened here involves a lacustrine feature which, to this day, is not understood. Besides, I liked that it resembles a Brahma Bull or maybe a cat going off.
The island definitely resembles some 4-legged animal.
Evidently, an African-American pirate, Black Jack Anderson, and his crew lived on this island for about 10 years. His treasure has never been found.
Hillier is a striking feature. A color whose origin is not understood, despite attempts to analyze it. Hmmmm... a worthy puzzle.
I have been away. Is this one still an active puzzle, or do I need to labor until Labor Day to get it?
Harvey, look at my #86 post on the previous page (click here) with the map of the site.
The Gmap4 map is interactive, so you can play with the controls. Try switching from Satellite to Hybrid view, zoom in and out, scroll the map around, and pretty soon the answer will be burning in your brain, man.
> Rules? ...What rules? Seems like AlanK could just declare the puzzle solved, and post a link.
Rules are for knife fights and Calvinball.
I figure that anyone can post a solution any time. I do try to hold off on, rather than updating the summary too early, but admit that my criteria are arbitrary and variable.
Sorry for the delay, looks like there's a burning desire to confirm that you've got this one solved. It's Black Rock City, NV, home of the Burning Man Labor Day Week celebration of whatever you want to celebrate, man. I've always wanted to attend one of these and the aerial is pretty cool looking. I was expecting to provide some clues but this group is already on fire. Amazed again...
Sorry for the delay, looks like there's a burning desire to confirm that you've got this one solved. It's Black Rock City, NV, home of the Burning Man Labor Day Week celebration of whatever you want to celebrate, man. I've always wanted to attend one of these and the aerial is pretty cool looking. I was expecting to provide some clues but this group is already on fire. Amazed again...
Ponting a Yank in that direction is hardly cricket.
Well, the third-highest scorer was caught by the highest scorer of all time in test cricket. This game, cast in junior stick&ball terms, would be like Ty, Hank & Babe playing in the same game. Or something like that.
Ponting a Yank in that direction is hardly cricket.
Well, the third-highest scorer was caught by the highest scorer of all time in test cricket. This game, cast in junior stick&ball terms, would be like Ty, Hank & Babe playing in the same game. Or something like that.
Gotta agree. I know nothing of cricket, but I learned a bit today.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? LXXXV: (85)
For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to use the word lacustrine in a sentence.
Lake Hillier is a lake on Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia. It is the most prominent lacustrine feature on any island of the archipelago and air passengers often take note of it.
The specialty of this lake is its flamboyant color, rose pink. The color is permanent, as it does not alter when the water is taken in a container. The length of the lake is about six hundred meters. A narrow strip of land composed of sand dunes covered by vegetation separates it from the ocean. The lake is surrounded by a rime of white salt and a dense woodland of Paperbark and Eucalypt trees with sand dunes separating the lake from the Southern Ocean to the north.
The island and lake are thought to have been first explored by the Flinders expedition in 1802. Captain Flinders is said to have observed the pink lake after ascending the island's peak. John Thistle, the ships master collected some of the lake's water which he found to be saturated with salt [2].The reason for the lake's color is still under investigation, and so far no one has come up with a reasonable explanation. However, the most probable explanation according to some scientists involves the low nutrient concentrations and different types of bacteria and algae that are responsible for the lake's pink color.But their is no traces of algae in the samples of water which is taken by lake hillier. The lake is one of the natural wonders of Australia.
And yes, this island is hillier than Ryan Island (biggest island in biggest lake...), and some of you did good research, too.
Actually, users of that major appliance were members of a very exclusive club. Although they would accept any Tom, Dick or Harry, any Jerry was blackballed. Enthusiastically.
Actually, users of that major appliance were members of a very exclusive club. Although they would accept any Tom, Dick or Harry, any Jerry was blackballed. Enthusiastically.
It sure looks like a California coastal scene, but it is not the big W from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
California. Check.
So you think it's a movie link?
I did not see a movie link. But a picture of a few palm trees always reminds me of that movie. And, of course, palm trees have had lots of movie roles over the years.
Texas Tower #4, one of three Distant Early Warning system towers, was built in 1957 in 180 feet of water in the Atlantic 58 miles offshore from New York. It collapsed in a storm in January 1961, killing 28 men and prompting courts martial and a Senate investigation.
Update: What In The World Happened Here? LXXX (80):
Top secret film made from a German soldier during his vacation risking his life. Filmed at the early morning of May 17th 1943 from the north bound of the dam.
There is a resemblance to #42. I thought of big events that would use something of that shape and size, but earlier than the one in #42. Thanks to Wikipedia, I could start in Athens and proceed. Thanks to wagga, he did not force many iterations.
There is a resemblance to #42. I thought of big events that would use something of that shape and size, but earlier than the one in #42. Thanks to Wikipedia, I could start in Athens and proceed. Thanks to wagga, he did not force many iterations.
You might be on the right track for where... but what?
There is a resemblance to #42. I thought of big events that would use something of that shape and size, but earlier than the one in #42. Thanks to Wikipedia, I could start in Athens and proceed. Thanks to wagga, he did not force many iterations.
You might be on the right track for where... but what?
There was a major international event at that site in the last year of the 19th century. A certain baron was involved and later commented that it was amazing that the institution he founded survived that particular staging.
I don't have a Coubertin recipe, and don't have a clue about French cooking, so let's honor the late Samaranch.
Skillet Samaranch:
In a 12" cast iron skillet:
Saute several onions in olive oil under Medium High. Reserve. Do the same for some Broccoli florets. And some red & green Bell Peppers, as well. This is a good time to nuke up any other refrigerator leftovers, too. Tater Tots excluded.
Brown some meat (hot dogs/chicken/beef/whatever) and reserve, or skip this step for a vegetarian meal - <but tofu is quite amazing>.
Open the Spanish Rice Package, dump into the skillet & nuke. Quench with several cups of water. Or rough red Spanish wine.
Add & stir in the Chemical Package from the SRP. Add a 28 oz. can of Whole Peeled Tomatoes, cutting the WPT to desired size.
Add all the reserved components back into the skillet. Simmer for 20 minutes or a week or so. Serves 2 geeks.
There are two stories that purport to explain the curiously out-of-place palm trees on the beach. First story: the palms are courtesy of a movie company that filmed a feature there in the 1920's. Story #2 comes to us from Jeffrey LaBarre, who wrote "I was having dinner as a reciprocal guest at the Santa Barbara YC and talking with a couple at the table next to me about my visit to Cuyler Harbor. I was telling story #1 when another older gentleman piped up. He said that, while this story has been repeated many times, it was false. The four palms were planted, he said, by a fellow SBYC member. He said he knew this was true because he knew the man and his son who did the planting and that it was much later than 1935, in the early 50's he thought (this is, I think, consistent with the size of the palms). I can't say for certain that this guy was right but it is certainly commonly accepted knowledge at SBYC and I have since heard this from other sources as well."
Frankly, we like the movie-maker story legend better, even if it's not true.
[quote=Harvey Lankford]I see that you are able to find part of the 1375 square miles where something happened, more than once.
wonderful story by Bob
you have it
the dry lake is Frenchman's Flat -north of Mercury, NV and south of Yucca Flat - on 1/27/51 began Project ABLE - the first nuc test there, one of many, many
In an ancient monastery, a new monk arrived to dedicate his life to God and to join the others copying ancient records. The first thing he noticed was that they were copying by hand books that had already been copied by hand.
He had to speak up. "Forgive me, Father Justinian, but copying other copies by hand allows many chances for error. How do we know we aren't copying someone else's mistakes? Are they ever checked against the originals?"
Father Justinian was startled. No one had ever suggested that before. "Well, that is a good point, my son. I will take one of these latest books down to the vault and study it against its original document."
He went deep into the vault where no one else was allowed to enter and started to study. The day passed, and it was getting late in the evening.
The monks were getting worried about Father Justinian. Finally one monk started making his way through the old vault, and as he began to think he might get lost, he heard sobbing. "Father Justinian," he called.
The sobbing grew louder as he came closer. He finally found the old priest sitting at a table with the new copy and the original ancient book in front of him. It was obvious that Father Justinian had been crying for a long time.
"Oh, my Lord GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!," sobbed Father Justinian, "the word is 'celebrate' NOT CELIBITE!!!!"
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? LXXXIX: (89)
This was the entrance to "Harry", the successful tunnel in the Great Escape. Paul Brickhill wrote the book. The movie starring Steve McQueen took a lot of liberties with the facts - at least as far as motorcycles were involved. Although only three tunnelers returned to England, the war effort in Germany was affected by the half a million soldiers and police required to conduct a search for the escapees. Fifty escapees were shot by the Nazis in cold blood. Stalag Luft III was evacuated on the anniversary of the posting.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? LXXXIX: (89)
This was the entrance to "Harry", ...
Originally Posted By: AlanK
Originally Posted By: wagga
Actually, users of that major appliance were members of a very exclusive club. Although they would accept any Tom, Dick or Harry, any Jerry was blackballed. Enthusiastically.
And your picture was the birthplace of Harry.
Just to be clear, Harry began under the stove in the original picture for this puzzle.
I'm pretty sure that must be the Lord's Cricket Field where the Starship Bistromath landed and was hidden with the use of an SEP Field (Somebody Else's Problem)....but I could be wrong
Douglas Adams has his character Ford Prefect describe Somebody Else's Problem in Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series:
An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye. The technology involved in making something properly invisible is so mind-bogglingly complex that 999,999,999 times out of a billion it's simpler just to take the thing away and do without it....... The "Somebody Else's Problem field" is much simpler, more effective, and "can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery." This is because it relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. In this case, the Starship Bistromath ("a small upended Italian bistro" with "guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches") has been hidden from the crowd watching a Cricket match at Lord's by an SEP field. People may see it, but they take absolutely no notice of it.
The book says that the SEP field is derived from Bistromathics and in particular the concept of an imaginary number called a "recipriversexcluson" whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. Modern science has been slow to investigate this further, though Professor John Wettlaufer (of Yale University) has apparently observed that it is very important for physicists working outside the mainstream "to have a genuine interest in learning about someone else's problem." However, he admitted that "not many people want to do this."[10]
Good answer, tdtz, but what really happened here is just about as improbable as the Bistromath. (HHGTTG seems to be a recurring theme around here.) Recipriversexcluson sounds a lot like the Windows mutex.
"Lord's Cricket Field" - 1 out of 3 is OK for Baseball but not so good in Cricket.
Here is the wiki for Lord's Cricket Ground. If you look at the stats, you'll see that Lord's has a really strong home ground record.
"Cuyler WAS used as a location for the 1935 filming of Mutiny on the Bounty but the crew "mutinied" over the remoteness of the location, bad weather (a crew member was reportedly swept overboard and lost), and the constant wind. The site was abandoned in favor of the Isthmus at Catalina."
SteveC & I lead a Sierra Club outing there last century, with 9 backpackers. It was in July, and we were the first campers on the entire island that year. We had a phenomenal trip out, the water was like a mill pond and we could see a long way up the coast. The ranger stated that he had never seen such conditions in his 12 years on the island.
We hiked out to Point Bennett and slaughtered a pineapple or 2 and had a great time.
We like to point out that Tongass Forest in Alaska - a long ways off - gets around 10,000 visitors a year. San Miguel, only 55 miles from Greater LA, gets around 200 campers.
I think everybody is stumped on this one: You are looking for something unique.
Well, ok. I think that we established earlier that it was the site of the 1900 Summer Olympics. The most unique feature was that they were the only Olympic Games not run by the IOC. Control was handed over to a special committee associated with the 1900 Exposition Universelle.
At the center of the picture is the Velodrome de Vincennes. It was the main stadium for the Games, although Athletics (or, as we Yanks say, Track and Field) was contested elsewhere. The velodrome was also the finish of the Tour de France from 1968 - 1974, a period that included the five victories of Eddy Merckx.
Jim Murray was a sports writer for the LA Times. Had he not gone with the casual version of his name (and had he also grown a long white beard), he might have taken on more formal writing projects, like a major league dictionary. But someone beat him to it. An ancestor?
The skeptics will say, "Inconceivable! The OEDILF, in a word: unbelievable!" But I'm feeling secure If we only endure It's a goal that is wholly achievable.
I think everybody is stumped on this one: You are looking for something unique.
Well, ok. I think that we established earlier that it was the site of the 1900 Summer Olympics. The most unique feature was that they were the only Olympic Games not run by the IOC. Control was handed over to a special committee associated with the 1900 Exposition Universelle.
At the center of the picture is the Velodrome de Vincennes. It was the main stadium for the Games, although Athletics (or, as we Yanks say, Track and Field) was contested elsewhere. The velodrome was also the finish of the Tour de France from 1968 - 1974, a period that included the five victories of Eddy Merckx.
No valid answer as yet. Are you all still stumped?
No valid answer as yet. Are you all still stumped?
You're telling me that the Olympic business plus Eddy Merckx is not valid? Man, you're tough.
OK, I give up on the velodrome. Moving to the foreground, is Louis de Broglie involved?
You are clearly still stumped.
for the record, de Broglie was a really unique guy and is buried in that picture.
Do I really have to go back to that velodrome? And do we have to drag cricket into this?
Cricket was an Olympic sport exactly one time, at the Paris non-Olympics of 1900. The British played the French and, of course, the French did not win. They got slaughtered. The Brits did not win gold medals because there weren't any. They got models of the Eiffel Tower.
Do I really have to go back to that velodrome? And do we have to drag cricket into this?
Cricket was an Olympic sport exactly one time, at the Paris non-Olympics of 1900. The British played the French and, of course, the French did not win. They got slaughtered. The Brits did not win gold medals because there weren't any. They got models of the Eiffel Tower.
Now, that's unique.
Given our recurring themes of really big explosions, Nobel Prizes, floods, cemeteries, HHGTTG and cricket - this should have been a full toss.
Yeah, it was too easy. But at least it has some relationship to WhitneyZone. I guess the sage / desert landscape surrounding an oasis with so many cars is pretty easy to identify.
AlanK wrote: Whoa, Nellie! I've been there but not often enough to be accused of a monomaniacal fixation. Did something actually happen there?
Only thing is the great food and sometimes fun music too.
Yeah, it was too easy. But at least it has some relationship to WhitneyZone. I guess the sage / desert landscape surrounding an oasis with so many cars is pretty easy to identify.
AlanK wrote: Whoa, Nellie! I've been there but not often enough to be accused of a monomaniacal fixation. Did something actually happen there?
Only thing is the great food and sometimes fun music too.
I liked this one. My initial reaction was "Owens Valley" -- the terrain is quite similar to that near the Eastern Sierra Interagency Center south of Lone Pine. When that turned out to be obviously wrong, I ran through the Owens Valley in my mind and then headed rapidly north.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? XCIII: (93)
This a photo of James Murray in the Scriptorium at Banbury Road. The Scriptorium was a tin shed where the volunteer's word usage slips were collected in pigeonholes.
"According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to 'key in' text to convert it to machine readable form which consists a total of 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically.[3] As of 30 November 2005, the Oxford English Dictionary contained approximately 301,100 main entries. Supplementing the entry headwords, there are 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives; 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations; 616,500 word-forms in total, including 137,000 pronunciations; 249,300 etymologies; 577,000 cross-references; and 2,412,400 usage quotations. The dictionary's latest, complete print edition (Second Edition, 1989) was printed in 20 volumes, comprising 291,500 entries in 21,730 pages."
That's 375 floppy disks.
J. R. R. Tolkien was employed by the OED, researching etymologies of the Waggle to Warlock range.
An odd note: In High School, I accidentally dropped Follow-Hat in the library. It landed exactly flat and sounded like the crack of doom.
I do have two copies, the First & Second Editions. The Second is on CD and doesn't hurt my back at all.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? XCV: (95)
There is a body of opinion that a cricketer actually hit the clock (that would be a Sixer). Probably an Urban Legend.
Given the Soccer Riot deaths in Egypt, my first thought was that "Cricket Riot" would return zero Google entries. Millions of results for "Soccer Riot", but the riot at the SGC at the 4th International Test was a surprise for me. And I traveled past the SGC most every day on the way to UNSW.
Of note is that one Umpire was Edmund Barton, who later became the first Prime Minister of Australia. He was a good bloke, and makes me think that "Umpire" is a better qualification for high political office than "Lawyer".
Also present - a rioter! was Banjo Patterson, who wrote "Waltzing Matilda".
The lesson here is to not pick a footballer to umpire cricket.
assuming that north is at the top, then the waves crashing on the rougher western beach suggests the prevailing winds are from the west. Those clouds are apparently coming in from the west, and are neither banner clouds on a peak nor active-smoking volcano clouds because both of those would be to the leeward. The green, smooth-beached point to the east suggest tropical or semitropical location.
edit: the location of the cloud shadows says that the location is in the Southern Hemisphere, so presumably South Pacific or Indian Ocean. With "ring of fire" being Pacific, this seems the more statistically-likely location.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? XCVII: (97)
The Russian equivalent of the Saturn V moon rocket was the N1.
Here are some more details. This puppy leveled the playing field & illustrated why spectators are made to watch this kind of event from 5 km. away. Some more photos & models here.
"July 3, 1969 - Vehicle serial number 5L - At liftoff a loose bolt was ingested into a fuel pump, which failed. After detecting the inoperative fuel pump, the automatic engine control shut off 29 of 30 engines, which caused the rocket to stall. The rocket exploded 23 seconds after shutting off the engines, destroying the rocket and launch tower in the biggest explosion in the history of rocketry and also the largest manmade non-nuclear explosion ever (nearly 7 kilotons of TNT equivalent.) The destroyed complex was photographed by American satellites, disclosing that the Soviet Union was building a Moon rocket. The rescue system saved the dummy spacecraft again. After this flight, fuel filters were installed in later models."
They didn't work so well, either.
And just for fun, here is a KeyHole8 photo taken more than 40 years ago.
NBC newscaster Tim Russert, then a student at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, attended the game. "I went with $2 in my pocket," recalled the Meet the Press host. "You do the math."
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? XCVIII: (98)
This is the way Krakatoa looked after the explosion:
The clue was just Anak Krakatau (Krakatoa's Child), which has changed since:
All in all, an interesting Island/Explosion combination. And it will blow again. They are considering building a bridge across the Sunda Straight, which is less than 30 miles from the growing monster.
NBC newscaster Tim Russert, then a student at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, attended the game. "I went with $2 in my pocket," recalled the Meet the Press host. "You do the math."
I didn't recognize that you gave the wright answer when you posted it. 
). However, my previous picture was of somewhere else. (I temporarily forgot about the Big C disaster on April 26, 1986). I guess the best date to associate with my picture is April 17, 1986.
Thanks, Tom.
