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.
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.
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 was thinking last night about putting up #100. I realized that, if I waited a bit, wagga would have done it (and #99 too, of course). It's fitting, of course, as he has provided over half of these great puzzles. (And it seems like half of those were about cricket. )
> The official name of the island is French for "sand." Well doggone! I know the Spanish translation, but I never learned any French, except maybe "s'il vous plaît"
Now that anybody can find its name, I guess I should post a map. ...It's beginning to look like the Cheshire Cat's grin.
fooled me, Steve, I thought it looked like in warmer climes. I looked up Gulf Stream plots and it does not go up that far to Nova Scotia, instead it heads easterly to keep the British Isles inhabitable, and even points north of there.
Second Clue: All the running was done around 2 in the morning, headed generally West. Third Clue: If you had the coordinates and a Garmin or some other black box device, you could drive there. Fourth Clue. When this dastardly deed was perpetuated, one arm of our liberties was taken away from us.
I've had to put this on ice for a while, due to a confluence of issues. My best friends are solid gold, the help they have given me is like a miracle. So now I'll have some time to research answers & prepare some more puzzles. And I also hoped that others would continue to post.
OK, some insight, please. It looks like something I'd drive by headed for your neck of the woods. But I did not find it.
Damn! I recognize that cut. It is right in the area I looked on Google Maps when you posted the original picture. Unfortunately, I confined myself to looking along the bigger highway. So, your picture is near the road I would take in order to head for your neck of the woods. And it is on the road I take to get to Mt. Whitney.
OK, some insight, please. It looks like something I'd drive by headed for your neck of the woods. But I did not find it.
Damn! I recognize that cut. It is right in the area I looked on Google Maps when you posted the original picture. Unfortunately, I confined myself to looking along the bigger highway. So, your picture is near the road I would take in order to head for your neck of the woods. And it is on the road I take to get to Mt. Whitney.
Oh man! That's the first place I looked for a match when the picture was first posted.
I sure didn't recognize the pattern, though. Here's the Gmap4 view (click for full-screen), Beale's Cut at Newhall Pass. It is a peculiar site on the topo maps that Gmap4 can display -- only the Google Maps terrain view shows the new CA-14 freeway. Also, there are four generations of highways here: The wagon trail, the Newhall Pass tunnel, Sierra Highway (old Hwy 14) and now CA-14, all within half a mile of each other.
Presumably not one of the USA's Guano Islands. [For one of those, see WITWHH LXXV: (Link).]
Any creature that had the balls to live here mayhaps should be undisturbed, but Adam & Eve were forcibly removed and taken to Melbourne, Australia. They were found in a "tree", but it wasn't an apple tree.
Only in Australia would one find something like that. I was way off on the wrong track until I remembered that words in wagga clues are important. "Balls", for example, would not refer to cojones. It took some doing, but I kept at it and earned the lobster (-like) dinner.
Once a puzzle is solved, it would be very cool if the author of that puzzle would edit the original message, and post some sort of answer/information/links within a "spoiler" box... like this
the second picture with the palace named in Alan's clue has a famous small bridge behind it, not seen in the picture, but it connects the old prison to the interrogation rooms in the palace. So maybe someone famous got grilled.
the second picture with the palace named in Alan's clue has a famous small bridge behind it, not seen in the picture, but it connects the old prison to the interrogation rooms in the palace. So maybe someone famous got grilled.
I figured that Monet painting it was enough of an event.
It is at a similar height to our very own Smithsonian hut. Even though it has electrical power, 70 beds and a library, alas, it does not have a Starbucks.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CIX: (109)
This may be a very important discovery. On the other hand I have a neighbor working diligently on building a perpetual energy generator. Who knows?
A team of Italian radio boffins - and one Swede - have one-upped their pioneering countryman Guglielmo Marconi by demonstrating a method of simultaneously transmitting multiple signals on the same frequency.
It is at a similar height to our very own Smithsonian hut. Even though it has electrical power, 70 beds and a library, alas, it does not have a Starbucks.
I should have ID'd that one. The Monte Rosa hut was famous for high altitude medicine research:
The Monte Rosa is not only mountain climbing, history and passion but also science. There are two science laboratories operating up there: the Capanna Margherita at the Signalkuppe at an altitude of 4,554 meters and the Istituto Angelo Mosso at Col d'Olen at 2901 meters. Capanna Margherita has been inaugurated in 1893 on behalf of the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) and since the very beginning it has been a scientific laboratory of international repute. In 1903 it has been declared "International Institute" by the Academy of Sciences in Washington and through the XX° century it hosted the most innovative researches in different scientific areas: physiology and medicine (63%), glaciology (20%), environmental sciences ( 15%), physics (2%)
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CXI: (111)
This is the Capanna Regina Margherita at about 14,816 feet above sea level, on the Italian/Swiss border.
I thought I found a picture of every precarious mountain top hut in the Alps. How did Google miss this one? Time to sell my Google stock (if I had some of it).
The satellite picture was the first 113. Sawmill was 114, CXIV, not XCIII or CXIII.
Indeed. Here is 113, which is currently the highest numbered puzzle and is still in play: What In The World Happened Here? CXIII: (Link)
I am confused by this one: What In The World Happened Here? XCIII: (Link) It is labeled XCIII = 93 but also labeled 113. It shows the same site as: What In The World Happened Here? VIII: (Link) I am not sure what's going on.
Subsequently added note: Things are fixed regarding numbering and we need to figure out why the site is appearing for a second time.
The satellite picture was the first 113. Sawmill was 114, CXIV, not XCIII or CXIII.
Indeed. Here is 113, which is currently the highest numbered puzzle and is still in play: What In The World Happened Here? CXIII: (Link)
I am confused by this one: What In The World Happened Here? XCIII: (Link) It is labeled XCIII = 93 but also labeled 113. It shows the same site as: What In The World Happened Here? VIII: (Link) I am not sure what's going on.
113 mark II is now correctly numbered 114. Which is the same site as a previous puzzle - lightning can twice strike the same place & some of us have a bit of dsilexia going on. So I enjoy the works of the Reverend Spooner.
113 mark II is now correctly numbered 114. Which is the same site as a previous puzzle - lightning can twice strike the same place & some of us have a bit of dsilexia going on. So I enjoy the works of the Reverend Spooner.
Now this one is truly cryptic. You must be playing cat and mouse with us. Have to have coupla pints o Guinness and scratch my silky chin over it.
I had just started looking at pictures of cathedrals and figured out quite a few that it wasn't. Then came the rather helpful reference from a stout fellow. Than I was as stuck as that cat to that mouse in that tube of that Christchurch organ.
The first clues were the flying buttresses and the cars driving on the left. Narrowed it down considerably. Very few Romanesque/Gothic cathedrals in South Africa and India.
The first clues were the flying buttresses and the cars driving on the left. Narrowed it down considerably. Very few Romanesque/Gothic cathedrals in South Africa and India.
And it was certainly not in the Kamchatka Peninsula, either.
if it where I think it is, I visited it in 2004 on the way to The Routeburn. The quake was Feb 2011. I think it unrepairable so will be torn down the rest of the way.
I may be wrong. Wonder if part of the cathedral design is a rubber stamp and CXV 115 is somewhere else? The origins of Christchurch Cathedral date back to the plans of the Canterbury Association who aimed to build a city around a central cathedral and college in the Canterbury Region based on the English model of Christ Church, Oxford.
Wagga: thanks for the musical interlude. Meant a lot to Anna (you remember Anna), who is not only an a capella performer but in the middle of the with the "major" issue, including physics math and music
For those looking for the science clues, NASA (sort of), time travel, post nuclear apocalypse and evolution theory are heavily implicated.
For the more sociopolitically oriented, in addition to the suicide pact, the president of a powerful Washington lobby was once filmed cavorting naked with two other men.
For those looking for the science clues, NASA (sort of), time travel, post nuclear apocalypse and evolution theory are heavily implicated.
For the more sociopolitically oriented, in addition to the suicide pact, the president of a powerful Washington lobby was once filmed cavorting naked with two other men.
Alan had 116 right the first time. The stunt for the scene with the line "Next time ... let's go to someplace like Bolivia" was shot within the frame of the picture.
OF course I did: "painless"; "insane asylum". So Did Alan in his first response, painless and losing card. I added the monkeys and then Alan added Bolivia, both of which are accurately identified with M Canyon.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CXIII: (113)
Here is the site of a ripping yarn, close to home.
"Lost in a thunderstorm over southeastern Australia, Captain R.D. Parmentier and his crew were desperately trying to find a place to land the big DC2 airliner. They were just a few hundred miles from the finish of an epic 11,300-mile race from London to Melbourne and the storm had rendered their communications equipment useless.
While radio operators on the ground tried in vain to reach the aircraft, a mayor in a small town had an idea as bright as the lightning flashing in the sky. He dialed up the city's engineer and asked him to toggle the city's lights in morse code to spell out a message: A-L-B-U-R-Y. The town's name."
"And that is still the biggest thing that has ever happened to Albury. God that place is boring."
Albury is around 80 miles south of Wagga & was viewed as the competition. All this though, happened well before my time.
The racecourse (a feature of even the smallest Australian towns) is near the bottom, slightly left of center. The bigger picture was to show the Murray River and it's billabongs as a helpful clue. And North, of course.
And it was extra fun to stymie AlanK for a few days, knowing that his mother had actually witnessed the event. WITWHH posters need that delicious streak of cruelty!.
And it was extra fun to stymie AlanK for a few days, knowing that his mother had actually witnessed the event. WITWHH posters need that delicious streak of cruelty!.
This is our first guest post. I found a wonderful pano where something very significant happened. I emailed the photographer, asking for permission to post an image. She graciously rose to the occasion & asked me to post in her name. She & her husband like our little game.Thank you Eva!
When the puzzle is solved, I will post a link to her website.
This is the equirectangular image, from which the pano was made. Apparently, it contains a lot of redundant information which is used to construct the scrollable panorama.
Alan has the location, and the date is warm, but could be a lot warmer. Actually looking for an event here. You may have seen it once before, but you will never see it again.
WAGGA has the right audience, and we could conceivably make that number in time.
Not for everyone, but if you climb after Alana and before EJ, you'll have a front row seat, and you'll see more than most of us.
Well, the picture reminds us that Thursday is the 176th anniversary of the birth of the only person to discover a chemical element that was somewhere other than Earth.
Well, the picture reminds us that Thursday is the 176th anniversary of the birth of the only person to discover a chemical element that was somewhere other than Earth.
Alan has the location, and the date is warm, but could be a lot warmer. Actually looking for an event here. You may have seen it once before, but you will never see it again.
WAGGA has the right audience, and we could conceivably make that number in time.
Not for everyone, but if you climb after Alana and before EJ, you'll have a front row seat, and you'll see more than most of us.
Jimmy and the Banksia Man saw it once, as well, but not from Whitney. And we sprinted over the half-million mark. That's 360 views for each post.
I'm amazed that not one of our photo geeks on the WZ have taken the original equirectangular image of the church and processed those redundant pixels to a pano.
Actually looking for an event here. You may have seen it once before, but you will never see it again.
An aside here, but in 1986 I wanted to take my then-9-year-old son to see Halley's Comet. At the time we lived in Port Hueneme, and figured that we would need to get to South Mountain, near Santa Paula to get an unrestricted South-facing view devoid of city lights.
Well, some problem cropped up, and we only had a few minutes to get anywhere, so we ended up driving to Point Mugu. Imagine our surprise to find literally dozens of telescopes assembled in the parking lot with owners very willing to share the viewing! Mugu is separated from greater LA by the Santa Monica Range, and so is in a city-light shadow.
Halley's 1986 apparition was the least favorable on record. The comet and the Earth were on opposite sides of the Sun in February 1986, creating the worst viewing circumstances for Earth observers for the last 2,000 years. Just my luck.
So, I told Paul that when he was only 84 that he could score a double-Halley. I, however, might not make it...
The WITWHH view counter reaches half a million and we put on a special event. Not for everybody in the world, though.
The longer a thread gets, the more hits the spiders make. This thread is active, and runs for 71 pages, so every new post probably causes them to crawl through all 71 pages every time. The counter will double in a few months!
At least I thought Wagga had it. Nope, its not the eclipse, but it was a fundamental purpose of Jimmy and the B-Man's Kahiki Holiday, and Whitney will see most of it. How else do you calculate the absolute value of the AU?
At least I thought Wagga had it. Nope, its not the eclipse, but it was a fundamental purpose of Jimmy and the B-Man's Kahiki Holiday, and Whitney will see most of it. How else do you calculate the absolute value of the AU?
You're talking about the thing that happens the day before the 68rh anniversary of D-Day. wagga obviously got it in time to make the preceding post.
Well, the picture reminds us that Thursday is the 176th anniversary of the birth of the only person to discover a chemical element that was somewhere other than Earth.
The longer a thread gets, the more hits the spiders make. This thread is active, and runs for 71 pages, so every new post probably causes them to crawl through all 71 pages every time. The counter will double in a few months!
So that means the view counter is rising according to some kind of exponential function.
So, in time, the whole Internet will collapse into this thread, just like Lake Peigneur.
Oops! I meant to write "too few engines." But I provided an excuse for a pic of the Wright Brothers. Meanwhile, that other aircraft looked like it had no engine at all.
Someone who is not an active player, but is entrusted by the original poster (OP) with the exact event (by PM or email).
In the case of AlanK's CXXIII (123), the location can be found & demonstrated - but many events have occurred here over the years. Nobel Prize? Can't find one. AC-powered Machinery? I'm sure AlanK has something in mind. A banker would be the arbitrator for the correct answer. The Aviator's Chapel at the Mission Inn in Riverside was an example of place, not event. I really didn't have a specific event in mind, thinking finding the place was sufficient. In the case of the Cat & Rat mummified in the pipe organ, the specific event that I had in mind was the quotation by Joyce in "Finnegans Wake" - that was found with amazing speed.
I have no problem with the idea of a "banker" if one can be found. On the other hand, I am happy to trust the original poster with keeping track of what hs/she is after.
In the case of #123, there is current controversy that was featured in an LA Times article this month. wagga clearly has the location pictured in my original post, so I guess it is up to me to push for identification of what is going on there.
Didn't read the LA Times - it's got to be sex out there in the desert. Or lack of it.
I don't know how much sex there is out there, but everyone around has a Y chromosome.
I was struck by the fact that a certain formerly monastery-like institution in Pasadena made the leap over 40 years ago that this place in the desert is contemplating today..
I can assure you that this place really does exist, in fact I have been there. And I can also assure you that no-one has bungled it up with Photoshop.
Nice picnic spot. You bring the butter, I'll bring the knife.
Good. So what is the event.
Other than an ancient volcano, not much happened in a place with names in surrounded towns like Coonamble, Gilgandra, Gulargambone, Tooraweenah and Coonabarabran. At least the last one does have an astronomy observatory. Good place to be later this year.
Other than an ancient volcano, not much happened in a place with names in surrounded towns like Coonamble, Gilgandra, Gulargambone, Tooraweenah and Coonabarabran. At least the last one does have an astronomy observatory. Good place to be later this year.
Harvey, you just beat me to the punch on this one. My Geologist friend checks out this thread occasionally and he nailed it immediately. He's been there and has pictures with horses in the shot.
As for the historical event? Four corners landmark with all that history, remnants of an ancient volcano (similar to Breadknife Rock), movie background?
Close, but no cigar. This place has something in common with the Breadknife, but for a different reason.
Climbers are banned from both formations. In the Breadknife case it is to protect walkers below from rockfall. In the Shiprock case, it is for (Native American) religious reasons.
Close, but no cigar. This place has something in common with the Breadknife, but for a different reason.
Climbers are banned from both formations. In the Breadknife case it is to protect walkers below from rockfall. In the Shiprock case, it is for (Native American) religious reasons.
Exactly! Ask me how I know.
Also in Cuba, too (if you missed the cigar clue), but for no other reason than the capricious Random Control Freak Oddness of a doddering, dying despotic dictator.
Close, but no cigar. This place has something in common with the Breadknife, but for a different reason.
Climbers are banned from both formations. In the Breadknife case it is to protect walkers below from rockfall. In the Shiprock case, it is for (Native American) religious reasons.
After he waved to the Queen on her trip to Oz, he was in Warrumbungle, a rock fell off Breadknife, hit him in the head, and ever since then he has had a mental disorder forcing him to write the cryptic letters WITWHH an infinity number of times.
After he waved to the Queen on her trip to Oz, he was in Warrumbungle, a rock fell off Breadknife, hit him in the head, and ever since then he has had a mental disorder forcing him to write the cryptic letters WITWHH an infinity number of times.
And here we are, the beneficiaries of that falling rock.
After he waved to the Queen on her trip to Oz, he was in Warrumbungle, a rock fell off Breadknife, hit him in the head, and ever since then he has had a mental disorder forcing him to write the cryptic letters WITWHH an infinity number of times.
Here is the real story:
My friend Steve (not that Steve) and I hitchhiked out to the 'bungles. On the way we stopped off in Coonabarabran, where we discovered that running down the sidewalk and skating on the metal access plates with carbide steel hobnails at night produced an awesome spark array. Hoons.
We hitched out to an intersection where traffic was measured in vehicles per fortnight. Camped for the rest of the night, then packed up & started a fire to keep warm, as it looked like it would rain soon. Almost immediately, a dump truck stopped. We stomped out the fire, and because the truck cab was full, climbed up into the dump part of the truck (whatever that is called).
Several miles down the road, it started to rain, just as a car came up behind the dump truck. We waved to the car, which passed the truck, giving the truck driver some kind of signal, so the truck stopped & we transferred to the car. With our packs.
It turned out the the car driver was a member of the family that donated a rather large property to the newly-established National Park. He asked us if we would like to visit the private Aviary - Australia's premiere collection of native birds. Yup.
We had planned to climb the Breadknife, having come equipped with hobnail boots & a meager hemp rope. However, it had just been closed to climbing.
We did, however, run all the trails, including the High Tops. Other friends of ours did camp on Bluff Mountain. They noted car headlamps appearing on opposite sides of the horizon and waiting an hour before they met. That is a vista.
We had arranged to meet with John, Robert & the Hawkins bloke, who had driven out to Coober Pedy to hunt for opals. On the way, they had picked up a joey, so, after declaring our very own kangaroo at the gate, we kept him in one of the tents, eventually taking him home to Cooranbong and raising a handsome boomer.
Great story, but I give Harvey full credit for a pretty plausible version.
I commuted to a summer job many years ago with a fellow student who hailed from Down Under. He had good stories -- a high percentage of Aussie stories seem to involve hitching rides. I recall one that involved picking up a couple of sheilas who weren't really... of course I don't know what that means.
Let's see if I can pull the trigger on this one: the guy who pimped this ride wasn't really naked, but he did clothe The (other) King all in gold, and his store is in another valley altogether from this museum. There aren't many apples growing in the valley, and after riding over hill and dale, the best joke about the driver is a pun on the tune by Harry and Mack. Oh, and land speed records are involved. The happy trails lead about 1500 miles east, but have now come to full closure. Apparently, all of us fans are too old and too broke to sustain them. Junior carries on, though.
> Let's see if I can pull the trigger on this one It sounds like you have this one. If wagga declares it, I'd sure like to see a translation of what Salty just wrote.
This is our first guest post. I found a wonderful pano where something very significant happened. I emailed the photographer, asking for permission to post an image. She graciously rose to the occasion & asked me to post in her name. She & her husband like our little game.Thank you Eva!
When the puzzle is solved, I will post a link to her website.
This is the equirectangular image, from which the pano was made. Apparently, it contains a lot of redundant information which is used to construct the scrollable panorama.
The War of the Roses ended. Can we close this puzzle too?
> Let's see if I can pull the trigger on this one It sounds like you have this one. If wagga declares it, I'd sure like to see a translation of what Salty just wrote.
I've read it a couple of times and it grows on you. Maybe it's good not that it did not get spilled too early.
The doors closed, the hammer came down (in New York, actually), and it went for 100,000 over estimate, with a caveat that all the firearms are disabled. Except the trigger that also activates the gearshift.
The doors closed, the hammer came down (in New York, actually), and it went for 100,000 over estimate, with a caveat that all the firearms are disabled. Except the trigger that also activates the gearshift.
Holdit! I take it all back.. THe car in Wagga's picture is NOT Roy's 64 Bonneville. The Kid Rock car is, but the one in Wagga's entry is, is, well different. Cowhide seats, no Bonneville markings, different ornaments, maybe a precursor. Roy's had hand tooled leather interior, not natural cowhide, slightly different ornaments.
Oh sure, its a Nudiemobile, and in a museum. Just not the RR Nudiemobile and not in the RR Museum, which is the key here. I don't think its a Caddy either. Nudie favored 64 Pontiacs (did only one Caddy, I think), and I am pretty sure this is one of the Pontiacs, just not a Bonny. Anyway, its not the car, but the location and what goes on there, that is the obscura here.
I don't think its a Caddy either. Nudie favored 64 Pontiacs (did only one Caddy, I think), and I am pretty sure this is one of the Pontiacs, just not a Bonny. Anyway, its not the car, but the location and what goes on there, that is the obscura here.
not a Pontiac to my eye looks like a de Ville to me - see those huge front side lights? year looks more like maybe 1970
That scenery has to be on the way to Whitney for some of us. Except that I am in Raleigh right now. But what's that (better, who's that) on top of the plane?
That scenery has to be on the way to Whitney for some of us. Except that I am in Raleigh right now. But what's that (better, who's that) on top of the plane?
The most famous stunt with a 707 was Tex Johnston doing a barrel roll, not exactly expected on demo day for a commercial passenger airliner. But he was in the pilots seat.
WHy is this still listed as active: I thought it was nailed long ago (not be me) as the Lone Pine Film Museum, housing not only Nudies" 75 Eldo but our own camera obscura. :confused:
WHy is this still listed as active: I thought it was nailed long ago (not be me) as the Lone Pine Film Museum, housing not only Nudies" 75 Eldo but our own camera obscura.
Originally Posted By: wagga
The event is the camera installation. The processor is hidden behind the secret magic door just behind the photographer. So you have it.
I was waiting for the event. It seemed to be related to our camera, but no one, including me, named it.
Good job, salty. I was thinking maybe "movie set" but explored for other faux neighborhoods and understand your reference to fortresses. It took longer to figure out where Jerry and Tony came in. Or don't, although they are more relevant than the Space Needle.
This one is a real treasure. I landed in a similar spot once as this man with three first names. Lots of supposed firsts on this trip (although more like first in literature, than in reality), one sheepish, another quite Modest, maybe seven in all.
This one is a real treasure. I landed in a similar spot once as this man with three first names. Lots of supposed firsts on this trip (although more like first in literature, than in reality), one sheepish, another quite Modest, maybe seven in all.
Nice obscure answer but with sufficient clues. We've seen the guy before. Did you recognize the picture, or something in it?
A few key words in combination narrowed it down: more synonyms for journey than I had imagined, but the animal was easy. Its still a surprisingly popular story, and the title is characteristically literal, so the hits weren't that long in coming.
A few key words in combination narrowed it down: more synonyms for journey than I had imagined, but the animal was easy. Its still a surprisingly popular story, and the title is characteristically literal, so the hits weren't that long in coming.
I just flew Southwest across the USA and the planes were all WiFi hubs. Someone must have attached a cheap-assed antenna onto the fuselage(s).
I am kidding about everything except the "cheap-assed" part. That looks like a home job, if not an antenna. Maybe the aerodynamics of that particular plane were too good?
(This is not an obscure answer. I am currently clueless.)
Well, lets see, this has been a busy little place. Wagga could be thinking about some brief unpleasantness about 30 years back, involving an inconvenient occupation, disputed claims, a particularly nasty flying fish: who knew Sheffield steel could burn?
Well, lets see, this has been a busy little place. Wagga could be thinking about some brief unpleasantness about 30 years back, involving an inconvenient occupation, disputed claims, a particularly nasty flying fish: who knew Sheffield steel could burn?
these animals are not in heat but they might be hot
Hot wildlife in Google produces a lot of links to a failed plant in Ukraine, which this picture does not show. I was going to give up and then I recognized Bullwinkle Ridge in the background.
Hot wildlife in Google produces a lot of links to a failed plant in Ukraine, which this picture does not show. I was going to give up and then I recognized Bullwinkle Ridge in the background.
and did not know so many countries drove on the left - see map some of those are Northern Hemisphere, so must be UK, Japan, possibly even India, or maybe is this another obscure (to me as a scientist) James Joyce Irish thing?
Definitely different work. I was only pointing out that some science types have been fond of Joyce. I couldn't cite stately, plump Buck Mulligan for that.
Well, lets see, this has been a busy little place. Wagga could be thinking about some brief unpleasantness about 30 years back, involving an inconvenient occupation, disputed claims, a particularly nasty flying fish: who knew Sheffield steel could burn?
Thought this did it. Not ready to call it? What do I have to do, invade again?
Thank you Let me guess.....Is this where the Gutenberg Project began....is that round architectural structure a museum where it all started? Hmmm...is the famous museum on Manhattan a Gutenberg.....hmmmm. it may be Gutenheimer. ....been there but can't recall.
Okay...I want you all to know I have been working very hard this week so a glass of wine was on the agenda when I got home tonight. What I wrote above about 10 minutes ago I should erase but I won't ....Mainly because I was thinking of the Guggenheim Museum when I wrote the Gutenheim....I have a feeling I should stay off of this thread...although I do have a good WHAT HAPPENED HERE if I can ever figure out how to post it. 10-4...over and out thank you for listening to me ramble:)
Thank you Let me guess.....Is this where the Gutenberg Project began....is that round architectural structure a museum where it all started? Hmmm...is the famous museum on Manhattan a Gutenberg.....hmmmm. it may be Gutenheimer. ....been there but can't recall.
Okay...I want you all to know I have been working very hard this week so a glass of wine was on the agenda when I got home tonight. What I wrote above about 10 minutes ago I should erase but I won't ....Mainly because I was thinking of the Guggenheim Museum when I wrote the Gutenheim....I have a feeling I should stay off of this thread...although I do have a good WHAT HAPPENED HERE if I can ever figure out how to post it. 10-4...over and out thank you for listening to me ramble:)
That is an old balloon. Clearly, there were no airplanes around at the time. Lacking such alternatives, a balloon could prove very useful for looking at things that someone did not want you to see.
If it had been a cold time of year they may have worn union suits. Amazingly, they generated hydrogen to gain altitude.
Saltys date is in right ballpark. I have that they set it up May 18 and used it thereafter more than once. There are two words used in the first paragraph that are part of the two names the location and event is known as.
The pattern seems to be identifying the wavelength range of the EM radiation that produced the pattern in the first place. Now I need to figure out what the pattern means.
The pattern seems to be identifying the wavelength range of the EM radiation that produced the pattern in the first place. Now I need to figure out what the pattern means.
The pattern seems to be identifying the wavelength range of the EM radiation that produced the pattern in the first place. Now I need to figure out what the pattern means.
Its not the mysterious official research (non) site, but the number is the same. I wonder if the aliens have this stuff?
some (late) info on this one- already figured out by Salty, and also in Alan's summary page.
I underlined some of the clues: The balloons flown included both the the Intrepid and the Constitution, flown at the Battles of Gaines Mill and/or Fair Oaks, part of the more familiarly known First Battle of Cold Harbor by those in union suits. All of this part of the Peninsula Campaign east of Richmond, Va during the War between the States.
some (late) info on this one- already figured out by Salty, and also in Alan's summary page.
I underlined some of the clues: The balloons flown included both the the Intrepid and the Constitution, flown at the Battles of Gaines Mill and/or Fair Oaks, part of the more familiarly known First Battle of Cold Harbor by those in union suits. All of this part of the Peninsula Campaign east of Richmond, Va during the War between the States.
Animals playing instruments on the door to some place. One can search a lot of combinations of words related to that theme. Eventually, something saucy will turn up. The place is a plant of some kind.
The Clinton rock, or as I posted, slick Willie's willie, is plainly seen if you are looking anatomically. For another version, softer, is this tree seen just off the AT (rather than the PCT)
For extra credit, we hikers gave this tree a fake latin name. Anyone wanna guess?
Steve and Wagga have the place, but the specific answer(s) to the question may be more elusive. You may have to drill down more than a little bit.
By now, everyone knows the place. But who are those guys? We all know the four dead white guys who are the official residents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. In 1937, there was a bill in Congress to add Susan B. Anthony. There is something of a movement to add Ronald Reagan (presumably for his leadership of SAG). And there is an unofficial fifth face up there already.
Steve and Wagga have the place, but the specific answer(s) to the question may be more elusive. You may have to drill down more than a little bit.
By now, everyone knows the place. But who are those guys? We all know the four dead white guys who are the official residents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. In 1937, there was a bill in Congress to add Susan B. Anthony. There is something of a movement to add Ronald Reagan (presumably for his leadership of SAG). And there is an unofficial fifth face up there already.
tdtz got it with the four compass directions plus up and down. Known to the Lakota and others as the Six Grandfathers, this was the most sacred place in the sacred Black Hills, dwelling place of the six deities that figured so prominently in the visions of Black Elk, representing the four directions, the sky and the earth, before Doane Robinson and Gutzon Borglum took over.
tdtz got it with the four compass directions plus up and down. Known to the Lakota and others as the Six Grandfathers, this was the most sacred place in the sacred Black Hills, dwelling place of the six deities that figured so prominently in the visions of Black Elk, representing the four directions, the sky and the earth, before Doane Robinson and Gutzon Borglum took over.
OK, he nailed it and I failed to notice. I do not want to use the pictures of mineral and vegetable phalli as an excuse, though. I'll just say I was making some post-Borglum contributions.
Lot of consonants there, so maybe this the Element Song in Polish.
This is an experiment. When it is time for the reveal, y'all get a link to a magic decoder and a password. This way we don't need a banker. Besides, crypto is fun.
LOL! I love this part: "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch", and would be eligible to advance to first base."
Actually, it deserved all of any abuse it attracted. It failed to answer the question. It didn't begin to address the question of trying to hit it. It only discussed the effect of throwing it, and assumed way too much about how one might actually try to hit it.
If the effect of pitching it (which is all that was answered) is so easily predictable (and it is) then it would stand to reason that the act of trying to hit it would anticipate what one was trying to hit.
If I tried to hit it, it wouldn't be with a silly wooden bat while I am standing right in the path of the advancing plasma ball. Hey any hitter knows: bat speed is everything. I'd launch the bat at it (by a remote device BTW) at about T plus 70 nanoseconds, at .95c. Now let's see what would happen.
(What a horse does to rid itself of a rider) + (Valley pillaged by LA) + (Lake at the top of 39) + (Where a princess lives)
And it's not far from Rick Kent.
Not a venue I had ever seen, but I figured out the make of the car, which allows someone with fewer skills than Sherlock Holmes to search it out with a little help from Google.
(What a horse does to rid itself of a rider) + (Valley pillaged by LA) + (Lake at the top of 39) + (Where a princess lives)
And it's not far from Rick Kent.
Not a venue I had ever seen, but I figured out the make of the car, which allows someone with fewer skills than Sherlock Holmes to search it out with a little help from Google.
Now those are hints I can understand! Wagga looked up the joint Sunday afternoon, but it closed after brunch.
Sorry: someone is barking up the wrong tree. I should have known better: this is near where I went to school, and where many of us have climbed. This is Big Doug, not Big Monty, but its still Big Fingers
Sorry: someone is barking up the wrong tree. I should have known better: this is near where I went to school, and where many of us have climbed. This is Big Doug, not Big Monty, but its still Big Fingers
Sorry: someone is barking up the wrong tree. I should have known better: this is near where I went to school, and where many of us have climbed. This is Big Doug, not Big Monty, but its still Big Fingers
Yeah, Big Doug. I walked by him again on Friday.
Do you know the owner? I think we used to party in that house back in the day. A lot of frat cabins up in BC back then, and this looks really familiar. One reason I mistook it for farther north. I lived on Central Avenue, crawling distance from the Midway.
Do you know the owner? I think we used to party in that house back in the day. A lot of frat cabins up in BC back then, and this looks really familiar. One reason I mistook it for farther north. I lived on Central Avenue, crawling distance from the Midway.
I don't know the owner. I have walked by enough times and this time I was inspired to take a picture of the sign.
How long ago, exactly was "the day"? And, referring to "Meet me at the Midway", when exactly was the fire?
Do you know the owner? I think we used to party in that house back in the day. A lot of frat cabins up in BC back then, and this looks really familiar. One reason I mistook it for farther north. I lived on Central Avenue, crawling distance from the Midway.
I don't know the owner. I have walked by enough times and this time I was inspired to take a picture of the sign.
How long ago, exactly was "the day"? And, referring to "Meet me at the Midway", when exactly was the fire?
"Exactly"? You're kidding, right? This was Claremont, in the 60's; "when exactly" is a contradiction in terms. Especially having to do with the Midway. Anybody who tells you "exactly" when anything happened in Claremont before 1975 or so wasn't there; they looked it up.
The day, for me, was, oh late 60's into the mid 70's. Zappa had already been through, but the Padua Hills art colony was going strong.
If you can get one of the bumper stickers with your quote, its probably worth a fortune at the Pomona Art Museum. Fire was in the late 70's. I think the In'n Out might still be there, corner of Central & Foothill.
"Exactly"? You're kidding, right? This was Claremont, in the 60's; "when exactly" is a contradiction in terms. Especially having to do with the Midway. Anybody who tells you "exactly" when anything happened in Claremont before 1975 or so wasn't there; they looked it up.
The day, for me, was, oh late 60's into the mid 70's. Zappa had already been through, but the Padua Hills art colony was going strong.
If you can get one of the bumper stickers with your quote, its probably worth a fortune at the Pomona Art Museum. Fire was in the late 70's. I think the In'n Out might still be there, corner of Central & Foothill.
In a bit of searching, I looked at over a dozen pages of images -- mostly faces but also my posted picture of Lee Ho Fook's (not sure how that one turned up, although the person's name is mentioned in my post). But I also learned what a gaol is.
Well, there were a few stellar and almost stellar events that weekend, but I wouldn't want to hazard a guess: this doesn't look to me much like Brentwood, Higher Bebington, Sidney, North Carolina or Soweto
Well, there were a few stellar and almost stellar events that weekend, but I wouldn't want to hazard a guess: this doesn't look to me much like Brentwood, Higher Bebington, Sidney, North Carolina or Soweto
I didn't realize that Barack Obama's first birthday party was on August 4 of that year. He was, of course, born in Honolulu, which some Americans, poor geography students that they are, believe to be the capital of Kenya.
But that has nothing to do with this puzzle.
One of the locations listed is the site of an event that occurred on August 5 of that year. The picture is of a nearby place that dominated the main character's future.
Well, there were a few stellar and almost stellar events that weekend, but I wouldn't want to hazard a guess: this doesn't look to me much like Brentwood, Higher Bebington, Sidney, North Carolina or Soweto
* * *
One of the locations listed is the site of an event that occurred on August 5 of that year. The picture is of a nearby place that dominated the main character's future.
Can't identify which site fits that story. One main character had no future, one site had four main characters, one event actually occurred pretty far outside the city named (and its in doubt who the main character of the specific event really was) one main character definitely could not have come into the picture in any city, and one actually happened pretty far from the site mentioned (although is usually associated with it) and then moved nearby the named place later. This last one is the closest, but I can't match the picture to it, except generally in involves tall buildings. This one has me in a half nelson.
It was not in the Southern Hemisphere and, in the end, involved only one main character.
The pictured site is evidently a popular destination for celebrities but the selection criteria are strict.
Got it. Anybody with normal genes could. "Dominated the main character's future" That's good. Some will like it; I think its a misfit in the story. Next time I grab a burger in the nearby hamlet I'll stop by.
Does anyone recognize anything in the picture besides the horse??? Anyone! Seems like somebody can figure those out, which would likely provide fodder for others....
All man made objects in the picture are fully operational. Well, the horse is too, I suppose, but not man made.
That's what they are. But the ones in the puzzle are in a noteworthy place. Adding more, so this puzzle doesn't spiral out of control again, the area should be more noteworthy tomorrow.
According to Google Maps, the horse is approximately 96.38 miles from the Whitney summit hut. :grin:
That's what they are. But the ones in the puzzle are in a noteworthy place. Adding more, so this puzzle doesn't spiral out of control again, the area should be more noteworthy tomorrow.
According to Google Maps, the horse is approximately 96.38 miles from the Whitney summit hut.
What: Tehachapi Loop, a railroad loop where trains pass over themselves in the process of gaining or losing elevation. The loop is near Hwy 58 between Bakersfield and Tehachapi, CA. It is about a mile from Keene, CA, where the President dedicated a national monument on Oct 8, 2012, to Cesar Chavez, founder of the UFW.
Here's the entire picture with the horse:
I think this explains why wagga said the horse's name is NOT Chicken Little. The horse is standing at the edge of the "trench" where the trains head underneath the loop crossover on their way west to Bakersfield.
Now that snow has fallen on Whitney, we can get back to our winter games. I posted this earlier, but noticed that my post count was only 1318, so I deleted the post, did several more to make it right.
That penny made the LA Times last month, but I am not claiming to have solved the puzzle because maybe I have an unfair advantage. Still, I will comment that the thing reminds me of Mahler.
Now that snow has fallen on Whitney, we can get back to our winter games. I posted this earlier, but noticed that my post count was only 1318, so I deleted the post, did several more to make it right.
At first I thought that penny was counterfeit, since it appeared slightly different from other Lincoln pennies. But I guess it is the genuine article. A bit farther than most from its point of origin, though. Who would ever believe that a 9-year-old's dreams of "Joe the Martian" would lead to that penny? And I kind of like the dude in the upper left of the right-hand picture, myself.
Not sure of the 1321 significance, though. ...is the current post count any better?
That penny made the LA Times last month, but I am not claiming to have solved the puzzle because maybe I have an unfair advantage. Still, I will comment that the thing reminds me of Mahler.
I was, of course, assuming that Alma referred ot Gustav as "Mahli."
We still don't have the event, so, another clue: ET phone home.
And the original posting count, (which was not quite exact), was a very good clue indeed.
I thought that identfying the designer of the Lincoln penny as being "out of this world" (10/25 post) would have been enough to specify the event , but if you want explicit: the penny is attached to the Curiosity Mars rover as a calibration target, so I suppose the event would have been the first landing of US currency on Mars
I thought that identfying the designer of the Lincoln penny as being "out of this world" (10/25 post) would have been enough to specify the event , but if you want explicit: the penny is attached to the Curiosity Mars rover as a calibration target, so I suppose the event would have been the first landing of US currency on Mars.
Thanks, there were several staged pictures (rare that three trains would be crossing simultaneously) and I did not know that actual picture was in Nat Geo
Yes, bigtime water diversion there. Two canals bleed water from the Kings River, while San Joaquin River water tunnels underneath on its way south. Google map
Interesting trivia: Before water from the Kings River was diverted for irrigation of the San Joaquin Valley desert, it fed Tulare Lake, which is now dry farmland. Before the diversion, Tulare Lake apparently was the largest freshwater lake on the western side of the continent.
Second interesting trivia: Looking up Rio de los Santos Reyes, I stumbled upon this incredible kayak trip report. These guys kayaked from the Kings River headwaters to Pine Flat reservoir. Take a peek at their pictures. The Next Big Idea: Rio de los Santos Reyes
Edit: More funny stuff: Years ago, I was talking with a couple who were new to the valley area. They mentioned that for fun, they were going to go check out Tulare Lake. I'd not heard of the lake then, so I asked them about it, and they showed me where it was on a road map. Apparently in very wet years, it does reappear when all the Kings River water cannot be stored behind dams. I told them I was pretty sure all they would find was swampy farm land.
...in fact, check it out: Google Map All green farmland, at least 15 miles across, and not a single building on any of it.
So what is the waggabrain thinking, here? Last white water on the Kings? Point of confluence of Kings, San Joaquin and Kern water? Jedediah Smith's swimmin' hole? (Nope, W said its still goin on). Resurgence of castor canadensis in California? Something to do with the little blue circle, top left?
Now that snow has fallen on Whitney, we can get back to our winter games. I posted this earlier, but noticed that my post count was only 1318, so I deleted the post, did several more to make it right.
Talking with wagga last night, I learned that the real hint is the number 1320, not any sort of "321" countdown.
And these:
Originally Posted By: wagga
We still don't have the event, so, another clue: ET phone home.
And the original posting count, (which was not quite exact), was a very good clue indeed.
Landing the penny on Mars and using it as a gauging target was not specific enough??? Of all the events associated with that landing, how do you get just the soil sampling from the presence of the penny???
Landing the penny on Mars and using it as a gauging target was not specific enough??? Of all the events associated with that landing, how do you get just the soil sampling from the presence of the penny???
The Hawaii taste was specifically not a clue.
The Forbes article has all the numbers you need.
More clues if anybody wants them, just don't want to drag this out.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CLXVIII: (148)
Originally Posted By: saltydog
So what is the waggabrain thinking, here? Last white water on the Kings? Point of confluence of Kings, San Joaquin and Kern water? Jedediah Smith's swimmin' hole? (Nope, W said its still goin on). Resurgence of castor canadensis in California? Something to do with the little blue circle, top left?
Glad to see that you are still beavering away at the puzzle, but it's time to drop the penny, so to speak.
This is the crossing of two rivers. After several self-crossing railroads and a railroad triple stack, it seemed time to do a river crossing. The San Joaquin crosses the Kings on it's way south to Bakersfield. I know of no other river crossing another.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CLXVIII: (148)
Originally Posted By: saltydog
So what is the waggabrain thinking, here? Last white water on the Kings? Point of confluence of Kings, San Joaquin and Kern water? Jedediah Smith's swimmin' hole? (Nope, W said its still goin on). Resurgence of castor canadensis in California? Something to do with the little blue circle, top left?
Glad to see that you are still beavering away at the puzzle, but it's time to drop the penny, so to speak.
This is the crossing of two rivers. After several self-crossing railroads and a railroad triple stack, it seemed time to do a river crossing. The San Joaquin crosses the Kings on it's way south to Bakersfield. I know of no other river crossing another.
Uh, I don't think so. The North distributary of the Kings joins the San Joaquin about 15 miles west of Fresno, but that's way downstream from this point. What is crossing the Kings in in the pic is not the San Joaquin, but the Friant-Kern Canal, as noted above. The F-K carries water from the San Joaquin, but it's pretty much of a stretch to say that's the river itself. The SJ river flows NW to the SJ/Sac delta, not south to Bikersfield. In fact, there's a bunch of canal crossings like this in the Valley, including the one Steve linked to, but river crossing river?
Landing the penny on Mars and using it as a gauging target was not specific enough??? Of all the events associated with that landing, how do you get just the soil sampling from the presence of the penny???
The Hawaii taste was specifically not a clue.
The Forbes article has all the numbers you need.
More clues if anybody wants them, just don't want to drag this out.
saltydog: Uh, I don't think so. The North distributary of the Kings joins the San Joaquin about 15 miles west of Fresno, but that's way downstream from this point. What is crossing the Kings in in the pic is not the San Joaquin, but the Friant-Kern Canal, as noted above.
Well actually, salty, up until a year ago, the F-K canal took ALL the San Joaquin water in dry years. The river only got what they couldn't hold behind all the dams upstream. The San J riverbed was dry as a bone every summer, while the canal ran deep. Just this year, the fish won a victory, and the farmers are sharing a bit. So it all depends on how you look at it. In waggaspeak, the rivers cross there.
saltydog: Uh, I don't think so. The North distributary of the Kings joins the San Joaquin about 15 miles west of Fresno, but that's way downstream from this point. What is crossing the Kings in in the pic is not the San Joaquin, but the Friant-Kern Canal, as noted above.
Well actually, salty, up until a year ago, the F-K canal took ALL the San Joaquin water in dry years. The river only got what they couldn't hold behind all the dams upstream. The San J riverbed was dry as a bone every summer, while the canal ran deep. Just this year, the fish won a victory, and the farmers are sharing a bit. So it all depends on how you look at it. In waggaspeak, the rivers cross there.
Yeah, I understand the hydrology, but if the canal is the river, then this is not the only place rivers cross: it happens all over the valley. (And , it's not "still going on", since the great Fish Victory). By the same reasoning, the Tuolomne River crosses the San Joaquin and San Francisco Bay and empties into the San Francisco sewer system. Is that how we want to think of a river? Not I, any more than ethanol is corn on the cob.
Given that the Valley Project produced North/South canals that cross several East/West rivers, I do agree that there are several significant river crossings, which are at least as as interesting (from the dinner table point of view) as railroad crossings.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CXLVI: (146)
Dropping the penny.
The Reg & the Forbes articles both mentioned a 20 foot test drive, plus a 1300 foot drive to Glenelg. Which adds up to 1320 feet. And the posting count serendipitously happened to be close enough to a quarter-mile.
So, the waggabrain saw that, no matter how long it took, Curiosity would own the lowest ET (Elapsed Time) Quarter Mile record for a nuclear-powered rover on Mars. Even if you needed a calendar rather than a stop-watch. What a drag! OK, it's a bit of a stretch, but that is what WITWHH is all about, even if it is not on this world.
Which leads me to believe that posting an encrypted answer on all new puzzles is fair and reasonable. Even if it looks like the Polish National Anthem.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CXLVI: (146)
Dropping the penny.
The Reg & the Forbes articles both mentioned a 20 foot test drive, plus a 1300 foot drive to Glenelg. Which adds up to 1320 feet. And the posting count serendipitously happened to be close enough to a quarter-mile.
So, the waggabrain saw that, no matter how long it took, Curiosity would own the lowest ET (Elapsed Time) Quarter Mile record for a nuclear-powered rover on Mars. Even if you needed a calendar rather than a stop-watch. What a drag! OK, it's a bit of a stretch, but that is what WITWHH is all about, even if it is not on this world.
Which leads me to believe that posting an encrypted answer on all new puzzles is fair and reasonable. Even if it looks like the Polish National Anthem.
I see. Sorry, I missed the memo announcing that the rules had changed from having some hope of being able to discern the solution from the original posting to having to read the waggamind not only for the solution but for what the intervening clues might be, even having identified the original post. I thought the game was "What Happened Here?" rather than "What is the WaggaBrain thinking of among all the many things that happened here and all the many ways of characterizing them?"
I see. Sorry, I missed the memo announcing that the rules had changed from having some hope of being able to discern the solution from the original posting to having to read the waggamind not only for the solution but for what the intervening clues might be, even having identified the original post. I thought the game was "What Happened Here?" rather than "What is the WaggaBrain thinking of among all the many things that happened here and all the many ways of characterizing them?"
Thanks for, uh, clarifying.
The rules have always been BCATSK style, ie, none. As a notable contributor in the past, please note that you are (were) the sole arbiter of the "Answer". Posting the answer as encrypted code seems to me to be totally fair.
PM me for instructions for posting encrypted answers.
Since this thread was started, web tools have appeared which makes identifying the original image too simple, so, stating the "place" is no longer the "answer".
The Original Poster needs to supply an exact "what", because the "here" is no longer sufficient. Just sayin'.
He (or She) who posts a puzzle is the final arbiter of the correct answer.
Stay in good health, because, ultimately, that is all that matters. WITWHH is just a game.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CXLVI: (146)
Dropping the penny.
The Reg & the Forbes articles both mentioned a 20 foot test drive, plus a 1300 foot drive to Glenelg. Which adds up to 1320 feet. And the posting count serendipitously happened to be close enough to a quarter-mile.
So, the waggabrain saw that, no matter how long it took, Curiosity would own the lowest ET (Elapsed Time) Quarter Mile record for a nuclear-powered rover on Mars. Even if you needed a calendar rather than a stop-watch. What a drag! OK, it's a bit of a stretch, but that is what WITWHH is all about, even if it is not on this world.
Which leads me to believe that posting an encrypted answer on all new puzzles is fair and reasonable. Even if it looks like the Polish National Anthem.
JPL once got in serious trouble on Mars when it failed to catch the use of mixed units by a contractor. So, I am skeptical of records for English distances. After all, there is no quarter mile record for people. That is admittedly too bad, since we have here a case of covering a furlong in a fortnight (or thereabouts).
Saltydog made some good points about this puzzle being pushing obscurity to new realms.
I am not sure I see the need for encryption (which doesn ot address the availability of various tools on the Internet). I see this as a gentlemsn's (oops... lady's and gentlemsn's) game. I trust people to stick with their original solutions. I don't think this was ever supposed to be about just place -- the event is the answer, especially if wagga made the puzzle. And I think it would be nice to maintain some linkage between original (or at least early) clues and solutions.
Saltydog made some good points about this puzzle being pushing obscurity to new realms.
I think that is inevitable, because we probably picked all the low-hanging fruit. "Ford's Theatre" (IV) was at the easy end of the spectrum, "Curiosity" (CXLVI) was maybe as obscure as we should get. Though I thought the "Cat & The Rat" (CXV) was unsolvable - there was an exact answer within minutes! I guess the happy medium is something like "Cooper Vane" (CXXIX), which even produced an outstanding pun.
The "Solvang Conference" (III) and again "Ford's Theater" (IV) were seminal, as they changed the early character of the thread and enormously expanded the possibilities.
As AlanK states, the event is the answer, and we had drifted away from that. Not that we have any rules...
Now I'll put on my Goldilocks hat and find one not too hot, not too cold - Just right!
I see. Sorry, I missed the memo announcing that the rules had changed from having some hope of being able to discern the solution from the original posting to having to read the waggamind not only for the solution but for what the intervening clues might be, even having identified the original post. I thought the game was "What Happened Here?" rather than "What is the WaggaBrain thinking of among all the many things that happened here and all the many ways of characterizing them?"
Thanks for, uh, clarifying.
The rules have always been BCATSK style, ie, none. As a notable contributor in the past, please note that you are (were) the sole arbiter of the "Answer". Posting the answer as encrypted code seems to me to be totally fair.
PM me for instructions for posting encrypted answers.
Since this thread was started, web tools have appeared which makes identifying the original image too simple, so, stating the "place" is no longer the "answer".
The Original Poster needs to supply an exact "what", because the "here" is no longer sufficient. Just sayin'.
He (or She) who posts a puzzle is the final arbiter of the correct answer.
Stay in good health, because, ultimately, that is all that matters. WITWHH is just a game.
That boulder made me think of Potwisha or Hospital Rock and Indian pictographs. But TinEye.com got zero hits, so maybe you could dribble out at least one small hint.
The photo (Tintype? Daguerreotype?) appears to have been taken after the Civil War, when there were conservatories to the sides of the White House, but before the East/West Wings were built.
Are we to assume that the event took place at or before this time?
The photo (Tintype? Daguerreotype?) appears to have been taken after the Civil War, when there were conservatories to the sides of the White House, but before the East/West Wings were built.
Are we to assume that the event took place at or before this time?
Assume? No. Conclude? Maybe. If by this time you mean "After the Civil War, but before the wings were built".
Assume? No. Conclude? Maybe. If by this time you mean "After the Civil War, but before the wings were built".
Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later? He was also the only President to be married in the White House?
That boulder made me think of Potwisha or Hospital Rock and Indian pictographs. But TinEye.com got zero hits, so maybe you could dribble out at least one small hint.
"NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 12, 2011, as the first day of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. I call upon all Americans to observe this Sesquicentennial with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that honor the legacy of freedom and unity that the Civil War bestowed upon our Nation"
"Hospital Rock in Sequoia NP was the site of several convalesences for injured early settlers
Hospital Rock was once home to 500 Potwisha Native Americans. Archaeological evidence shows settlement as early as 1350, and bedrock mortar sites and petroglyphs remain. The Native Americans mostly used this site in the winter months. In 1860, Hale Tharp and his brother-in-law, John Swanson, were exploring the Giant Forest when Swanson sustained an injury to his leg. Swanson was transported to the locale where the injury was treated by local Indians. Hale Tharp gave the spot its name after a second similar incident. In 1873, James Everton recovered from a gunshot wound at the site. He had been injured by a shotgun snare set to trap bear.
"NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 12, 2011, as the first day of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. I call upon all Americans to observe this Sesquicentennial with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that honor the legacy of freedom and unity that the Civil War bestowed upon our Nation"
I get the facepalm, but how do you square your answer with this?
Originally Posted By: saltydog
Assume? No. Conclude? Maybe. If by this time you mean "After the Civil War, but before the wings were built".
Until Steve pointed out the non-native trees, I thought that the picture looked like the view from Little Round Top, hence the reference to the 20th Maine.
Needful of a clue? Harry Anderson was not involved, nor David Copperfield.
Oh, thought I already posted this: must have been distracted by our recent namesake storm. The land that never was, a figment of googlation, apparently, so one answer to "what happened here?" would be "nothing".
The Eli Cohen picture posted by wagga made it clear that it was the Golan Heights. Now Steve has posted a plausible answer to "what?"
Quote:
This is a broad view down from the hills. You can see remains of old Syrian army installations that were destroyed in the war when Israel recovered the Golan Heights. There is a story about an Israeli spy in the confidence of the Syrians who convinced the Syrians to plant fast growing eucalyptus trees around the gun installations and armaments to provide shade for the poor Syrian soldiers who must be on duty in the harsh, hot and open Golan Heights. Of course it also provided targets for the Israeli Air Force as well. The spy was discovered and killed in the main square in Damascus and a book written about him called Our Man In Damascus . His exploits are legendary in Israel.
The question is: Is this the answer wagga was after?
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CLI: (151)
This is perhaps the best spy trick of all time. Eli Cohen (after several false starts) began spying for Israel in Syria. He was granted access to the Golan Heights, whereupon he suggested that the soldiers in bunkers manning the armaments would be more comfortable and productive if they were sheltered by trees. Eli suggested quick-growing non-native Eucalyptus, which led to the infamous Bomb The Foreign Eucalyptus Trees. There is some irony here, as "Eucalyptus" (with respect to the sexual parts of the genus) means "Well Hidden".
This is a new light-hearted puzzle to make up for the black mystery that is CLIV (154). As far as we know, no one named CLIVe was murdered in that building, though.
This is a new light-hearted puzzle to make up for the black mystery that is CLIV (154). As far as we know, no one named CLIVe was murdered in that building, though.
That island looks like a great place to kick back and have a beer. Nice hint, BTW.
This is a new light-hearted puzzle to make up for the black mystery that is CLIV (154). As far as we know, no one named CLIVe was murdered in that building, though.
That island looks like a great place to kick back and have a beer. Nice hint, BTW.
Cinderella needs to keep an eye on the clock calendar.
It looks like that site, www.whitehousemuseum.org is down for the time being. Google still had a smaller version of the picture, so I copied it to the Zone's gallery here:
It looks like that site, www.whitehousemuseum.org is down for the time being. Google still had a smaller version of the picture, so I copied it to the Zone's gallery here:
I believe that we have established that the picture is of the White House c. 1870 and that "what happened" occurred between the end of the Civil war and the building of the wings.
wagga made a post about the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and this was the sesquicentennial puzzle -- seemed relevant at the time, but the Civil War did not end in the White House.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? XXXX CLV (155):
This is a new light-hearted puzzle to make up for the black mystery that is CLIV (154). As far as we know, no one named CLIVe was murdered in that building, though.
A brewer in Queensland, Australia leased a Barrier Reef island named Pumpkin Island and renamed it "XXXX" Island.
Purchasers of XXXX beer might find a ticket in the slabbie that entitles them & 3 mates to a short sweet holiday.
Ah, right you are! It was just one store, not a national ad. Which raises another interesting question about the coincidence: was it a coincidence? Or did some Colorado Springs local just happen to know a certain telephone number. I mean, what are the odds? This was after all, before the days when the NSA would pick you up just for having a camera or a notebook out at certain gas station off the BW Parkway. Can you imagine the Christmas visitors that Sears store would get if this happened last week?
...This was after all, before the days when the NSA would pick you up just for having a camera or a notebook out at certain gas station off the BW Parkway...
...This was after all, before the days when the NSA would pick you up just for having a camera or a notebook out at certain gas station off the BW Parkway...
...This was after all, before the days when the NSA would pick you up just for having a camera or a notebook out at certain gas station off the BW Parkway...
Update: What In The World Happened Here? LVIII (58):Link.
Yesterday one of my best friends (who I see around once a year) dropped by for a visit. Knowing that he was originally from Oak Ridge, I asked him if his father was involved with any of the reactors. Yup, he said, the Molten Salt experiment. But because most stuff was secret, he wasn't told any details. Dave did tell me that his dad was involved with the Tower Shielding Reactor, which investigated the feasibility of nuclear-powered aircraft. And that Alvin Weinberg was a family friend.
The DOT labels are fuzzy but look to be yellow on top. Is someone burying radioactive waste?
Very mildly radioactive material, not necessarily waste.
A friend posted a link to an article that appeared in The Telegraph (UK) on Sunday. it was about an approach to nuclear power. I was merrily reading along when I saw "The Americans have buried tonnes of it, a hazardous by-product of rare earth metal mining." I googled "burial" and the name of the stuff the article was talking about and the above picture came up. What a lucky break.
Not bad, Steve. I noticed the wires but your comment pushed me to google a description of the vehicle and the name of what must have been the communications technology. That netted a link to the same picture. I guess one could say that we're battering clues around.
I thought I would dive in to this thread. But as usual, I am more confused with the answers than I am the questions. Did I miss reading an explanation somewhere in this long thread?
I thought I would dive in to this thread. But as usual, I am more confused with the answers than I am the questions. Did I miss reading an explanation somewhere in this long thread?
From the first post "It's perfectly OK to post cryptic answers.", meaning the answer should indicate to the puzzle poster that the answer is known, without spoiling it for others.
So, my answer is 6,288, and I think Salty has it, though he has a geographical advantage.
I thought I would dive in to this thread. But as usual, I am more confused with the answers than I am the questions. Did I miss reading an explanation somewhere in this long thread?
From the first post "It's perfectly OK to post cryptic answers.", meaning the answer should indicate to the puzzle poster that the answer is known, without spoiling it for others.
So, my answer is 6,288, and I think Salty has it, though he has a geographical advantage.
I also have the advantage of posting something that HAPPENED, as distinct from merely identifying the location.
Yea, I saw the cryptic answers explanation--I just have never been able to decrypt them. Now for answers to my puzzle there are two numbers which mean....what?
I thought I would dive in to this thread. But as usual, I am more confused with the answers than I am the questions. Did I miss reading an explanation somewhere in this long thread?
From the first post "It's perfectly OK to post cryptic answers.", meaning the answer should indicate to the puzzle poster that the answer is known, without spoiling it for others.
So, my answer is 6,288, and I think Salty has it, though he has a geographical advantage.
Another guideline should be: After at least one player (or maybe two) has properly identified the location and the "what happened" part to the author's satisfaction, it would be very kind of y'all to post a fuller explanation and description so that those of us with more obtuse abilities might be enlightened.
Actually, I am more geographically advantaged about this one than the MWO: my high school is a couple of blocks from an associated site. Rally round the flag to get this one, boys!!
I think it's clear that nobody has the answer as yet, according to the new pic.
So, I'm guessing a dewy evening with an incredibly scary moonrise.
Close, but nights here are well below the dew points, and the design is older, although this particular installation is a bit newer. The later upgrade here was akin to cleaning the Augean stables.
Okay I finally figured out the numbered answers---which as already noted incorrectly pointed to Mt. Washington. Not sure if anyone picked up on my hint in the post with the second picture.
Another guideline should be: After at least one player (or maybe two) has properly identified the location and the "what happened" part to the author's satisfaction, it would be very kind of y'all to post a fuller explanation and description so that those of us with more obtuse abilities might be enlightened.
Another guideline should be: After at least one player (or maybe two) has properly identified the location and the "what happened" part to the author's satisfaction, it would be very kind of y'all to post a fuller explanation and description so that those of us with more obtuse abilities might be enlightened.
Agreed.
OK Wagga's got it. That makes two of us. Want the story?
Here are the secret magic incantations to make titles...
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OK:Chicagowright's unnumbered WITWHH is the last remaining Nike/Hercules missile site, Site Summit at Elmendorf Joint Site (FKA Elmendorf AFB) overlooking Anchorage, Alaska.
Interpretation of the clues:
6288 and 231 referred to Mt Washington, our first (wrong) stab at it, because the Nike site bears a striking resemblance to the Mt Washington Observatory, el 6288 and location of the highest recorded surface wind speed on the planet 231 MPH
I actually didn't notice CWright's "Just do it!" clue until wagga repeated it, but that would be the famous Nike shoe slogan.
My first answer about rallying round the flag refers to Max Shulman's satirical novel (and later movie) "Rally Round The Flag, Boys!" based on the controversy around the siting of a Nike base in Westport, Connecticut, where I grew up, in the 50's.
Wagga's clue about the dewy night and moonrise refers to the Distance Early Warning radar array line, installed a couple thousand miles north of the Summmit site in 1957, designed to detect Soviet bombers coming over the pole, a scary moonrise indeed. No doubt the Nike sites were in communication with the DEW line, but were not part of it.
My mention of the rust on the clamshell radar cowlings was a hint that this site is way out of date and not operating.
The fact that nothing actually happened here is an observation that if this site had actually ever been used for its intended purpose - to fire on Soviet strategic bombers - we would probably not be having this conversation.
The Augean stables is a reference to one of the twelve tasks of Hercules. In 1962 or so, all these sites (there were hundreds of them, 25 or ore in the Bay Area alone) were upgraded to the Hercules missile.
Thank you much. Great summary. This site is on military property just adjacent to popular Anchorage area hikes. Some hikers have been known to "more closely" explore the site and have had MPs waiting for them at their cars at the trailhead with citations.
I don't know any more about their history other than what you can find on typical google searches. Hopefully I will find some Alaskan who can tell me some stories.
Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CLXV (165):
This a statue which was originally designed to attract tourists to a motel in Cairns, FNQ. The council member assigned to approve the statue assumed the dimensions were in feet, when they were actually in meters. So this street is graced with an almost 50-foot statue, which now advertizes a popular bar down near the beach.
The local joke is that Captain Jimmy is saying "This is how high the cannabis grows around here".
A similar error happened on the way to Mars more recently.
Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CLXVI (166):
The biggish shed is a fire station, and it would not have been useful either way.
I won the answer when I beat Big Daddy at Pharaoh
Didn't happen anywhere near Chicago.
And something ended up hanging in a tree...
Chicago? How did Chicago come up?
What? Identifying the intersection wasn't good enough? How about this: it didn't exactly hang in the tree, but some of the ropes did. And if you dig deep enough, you might find that some of the pieces to the puzzle are still there. And it didn't happen anywhere near Oklahoma, either, although one name for the incident might be mistaken for a location there.
Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CLXVI (166):
Now that it is so easy to locate a picture published on the Internet, we have to resort to Google Earth, or our own original photos.
The biggish shed is a fire station, and it would not have been useful either way.
I won the answer when I beat Big Daddy at Pharaoh
Didn't happen anywhere near Chicago.
And something ended up hanging in a tree...
So, assuming Wagga by his absence is not objecting, here's the beans. On January 23, 1961, a B-52 carrying two nuclear bombs broke up in flight and crashed near Goldsboro, NC. The two bombs were released and landed about a mile from the location in the photo.
the fire station is in Faro, NC at the corner of Faro and Big Daddy Roads. The incident was the first so-called broken arrow, or lost nuke. the bombs descended on parachutes, one of which failed and the other of which snagged a tree.
I have no idea what the Chicago comment was about, but the rest of the clues ought to be clear now.
The Union Army used wagons as cars had not yet been invented
Cars evolved from wagons.
Older messages: Hint: built pre-1900 Michigan? - just a guess... No. But warm. Twas somebody's mansion. hint: has a Civil War connection. Another hint: car manufacturer Lincoln? No, not Lincoln. He was president during the Civil War, but that is not really a link to this mansion. The Union Army used wagons as cars had not yet been invented Cars evolved from wagons.
Steve, I guess no one wants to play anymore. I have been away a long time myself. The answer lies here:
List of automobile manufacturers of the USA
Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Coda Chrysler Dodge Ram Falcon Fisker Ford Global Electric Motorcars GMC International Harvester Jeep Lincoln Navistar International Tesla Callaway Saleen Panoz Mosler E-Z-GO Hennessey Motorsports Honda Toyota
Defunct
Adams-Farwell American Motors Apollo Auburn Bates Motor company Cord Davis Motor Car DeLorean Motor Company Duesenberg Eagle Edsel Essex Geo Graham-Paige Hummer Hupmobile Kaiser Motors Kissel Motor Car Company Laforza Lasalle Locomobile Marmon Mercury Nash Motors Oldsmobile Packard Pierce-Arrow Plymouth Pontiac Regal REO Saturn Sterling Studebaker Tucker TH!NK Thomas B. Jeffery Company Willys Sound
must break the record for longest WITWHH, not for difficulty, but apparent lack of active participants. I've dropped off to looking at it once every 2 weeks or so just to see if it has resurrected. Surprised to see this today.
No clue provided, it's just too popular of a spot, and many books have been written about it. And besides, any puzzle I've ever posted has been solved within a day.
Confirmed solve, but Wagga is referring to a big holiday event at this location, rather than the world famous location. It appears that Wagga enjoys world class wine.
Confirmed solve, but Wagga is referring to a big holiday event at this location, rather than the world famous location. It appears that Wagga enjoys world class wine.
I'm assuming this refers to the (originally) unnumbered CLXXII (172)?
I'm confident you solved it, John, but I've never heard that phrase "Big D" before. Another cryptic clue to confirm, please.
I believe the words to the song go something like: Big D little a double L as
Also, for those of you that have traveled to Texas there is only one "Big D".
Confirmed.
I've been to Texas. Except for Austin, yeah, seems like one big "dump" for the most part. Sorry, Texicans, that was just too easy to pass up from California.
This tragedy will be in the news a lot in a couple weeks, 50 years. [Edit: Nobody caught this? What a goofy mistake from an engineer. It's going to be 51 yrs this year. It was a historical error, not a math error.]
[quote=SierraNevada]Puzzle Solve: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXIII (173):
You can go out to this island on a catamaran.
Nice clue, Wagga. You crack me up, doggone it.
I actually solved this one with visual clues and hunches, scrolling around in Google Earth. Then I figured out the rest. Who has time for that, right? Once you know you're close, it's addicting.
Awright, for the rest of us, how about explaining the historical error with the Big D puzzle.
Time and Date of the event was: 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, so 51 years is correct (as of Nov. 22, 2014). Not sure why Sierra thought his "50 years" was a "historical" error, unless he just thought/remembered the date as 1964.
Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee . . . where Martin Luther King was assassinated (Room 306) on April 4, 1968. (Today the National Civil Rights Museum.)
(I guess these puzzles are easy to solve if you've been there, especially if you've personally taken essentially the same picture.)
It's not my puzzle, but I confirmed your solve on Google Earth, +@ti2d
Nice job.
Wagga can correct me if I'm out of bounds here, and it's not an official "rule" as far as I know, but we try to give cryptic answers that indicate you solved it without giving it away. With some creativity, your answer can serve as a clue for others to find their way to the solution.
And the person who solved the puzzle is encouraged to post the next one. Is this right Wagga, or are the rules supposed to be cryptic too?
Or they just post another puzzle and we move on...
For any one interested... google searching "rock tower brick base" gets you a plethora of pictures of lighthouses, legos, castles, and some smattering of lighthouses or castles made of legos.... ;-)
The fiberglass statue looks old, but it was just unveiled at a war-bombed St Lukes church, Liverpool. The statue is part of a campaign called one million handshakes for peace. It recognizes the historic event 100yrs ago when soldiers came out of their trenches at Messines in Belgium and enjoyed a Christmas break from the horrors of trench warfare including a soccer game (er, "football" game). And then the bloodshed resumed. This time period (late 1914-early 1915) is when poison gas was ramping up to large scale attacks.
I just read "Alone on the Ice" over the holidays, story of Mawson, Mertz, Ninnis, and company exploring Antarctica. Lots of similarities with Burke, Wills, and King, except there were no aboriginals to save Mawson. The accidental food poisoning, caused by not preparing the seedcakes correctly, reminds me of "Into the Wild". Good reminder that a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous.
What In The World Happened Here? Puzzle CLXXIX (179)
hilly, cloudy, raindrops on camera lens, dirty water. Tropical. Dynamiting to expand the canal. Picture in color, so not the original canal, but the current expansion.
Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXXI (181):
The answer is of the form: The last <something> of the <something>.
I've been a bit of a laggard in posting lately, due to comprehensively crashing my system. Good to see other posters setting up puzzles. By the way, although there is a paucity of puzzle posters, checking "Who's Online" will often show a dozen or so lurkers reading this thread, and lots of spider activity.
So, in the New Year, I want to rock all with interesting and even difficult puzzles.
And I wish we still had Allan the K keeping score...
Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXXI (181):
The answer is of the form: The last <something> of the <something>.
I've been a bit of a laggard in posting lately, due to comprehensively crashing my system. Good to see other posters setting up puzzles. By the way, although there is a paucity of puzzle posters, checking "Who's Online" will often show a dozen or so lurkers reading this thread, and lots of spider activity.
So, in the New Year, I want to rock all with interesting and even difficult puzzles.
And I wish we still had Allan the K keeping score...
But how about the bridge over troubled waters? Definitely got that one. Goes to show a ship named for a Lake shouldn't be up a river. At least I zinc that's right. Ore maybe not.
But how about the bridge over troubled waters? Definitely got that one. Goes to show a ship named for a Lake shouldn't be up a river. At least I zinc that's right. Ore maybe not.
You got that on the first reply. Dere went the neighborhood. Did like the Gatling Puns, though.
Well if an anniversary, then, that would be geo:49.880471,-6.413552. And a the reciprocal lessons: ships named for rivers, you know. Its either that, or perhaps sunk by association.
Well if an anniversary, then, that would be geo:49.880471,-6.413552. And a the reciprocal lessons: ships named for rivers, you know. Its either that, or perhaps sunk by association.
Higher than the cold-water coral, and higher than the periwinkles.
65 still doesn't answer the question of "what HAPPENED here", which the Stardate of 52075 and the choppers not going in the drink does. So while Pos is getting his 'tude back, how about it, Wagga?
65 still doesn't answer the question of "what HAPPENED here", which the Stardate of 52075 and the choppers not going in the drink does. So while Pos is getting his 'tude back, how about it, Wagga?
I have not the first clue what the Apollo 11 landing reference means. That crew was picked up by Hornet, CVA 12.
The shot is of USS Enterprise, CVA (later CVN) 65, the first nuke carrier. It was taken on May 20, 1975, on a return cruise back to the US. The choppers on deck had been used in the evacuation of Saigon three weeks earlier.
I have not the first clue what the Apollo 11 landing reference means. That crew was picked up by Hornet, CVA 12.
The shot is of USS Enterprise, CVA (later CVN) 65, the first nuke carrier. It was taken on May 20, 1975, on a return cruise back to the US. The choppers on deck had been used in the evacuation of Saigon three weeks earlier.
Ah, where are the hueys? I see the CH-53's but no UH-1s...
I have not the first clue what the Apollo 11 landing reference means. That crew was picked up by Hornet, CVA 12.
The shot is of USS Enterprise, CVA (later CVN) 65, the first nuke carrier. It was taken on May 20, 1975, on a return cruise back to the US. The choppers on deck had been used in the evacuation of Saigon three weeks earlier.
Ah, where are the hueys? I see the CH-53's but no UH-1s...
CH-53s actually did much of the heavy lifting in Frequent Wind, probably more than the Hueys. The Hueys were mostly a desperation move toward the end, such as for the embassy rooftop, when there was no more deck space on the Hancock, for example. But they weren't the only ones that went in the drink. I have seen film of 3 Chinooks being ditched. The famous footage is all of Hueys, but it created an impression that they were all deep sixed. Hence the clue.
In any event, these CH-53s were all being returned from that operation.
I have not the first clue what the Apollo 11 landing reference means. That crew was picked up by Hornet, CVA 12.
The shot is of USS Enterprise, CVA (later CVN) 65, the first nuke carrier. It was taken on May 20, 1975, on a return cruise back to the US. The choppers on deck had been used in the evacuation of Saigon three weeks earlier.
Ah, where are the hueys? I see the CH-53's but no UH-1s...
CH-53s actually did much of the heavy lifting in Frequent Wind, probably more than the Hueys. The Hueys were mostly a desperation move toward the end, such as for the embassy rooftop, when there was no more deck space on the Hancock, for example. But they weren't the only ones that went in the drink. I have seen film of 3 Chinooks being ditched. The famous footage is all of Hueys, but it created an impression that they were all deep sixed. Hence the clue.
In any event, these CH-53s were all being returned from that operation.
Ahh yes....boots on the ground...I remember it well...
Got it. This is a good one, hey? Now show us your work.
OK: for everyone watching at home: Its Dead Horse Point, in the Utah state park of the same name, about 35 miles from Moab.
I was pretty sure from the start it was not the Grand Canyon, based on the white limestone band, mainly, but also dead certain it was in the region, based on more general features: the basic geology is pretty continuous from around Moab, Utah, to the Red Rocks of Sedona AZ, so I assumed it was in this formation and probably on the Colorado River. So I ran the obvious traps first to eliminate: Horseshoe Bend, Evel Kneivel and Nick Wallenda. Negative, and tended to confirm eliminating the GC itself. Also noted the building and overlook right on the edge: definitely not the Skywalk, but something similar. So then I focussed on all the Panoramio icons, obviously a very popular spot so I figured it would be described in a way that included the important features. So I ran a search with key words including these features and Colorado River, and got some matches that looked interesting at the State park website. It took Google Earth to confirm, however, as all of the avaialble images are taken FROM this point, not OF it. Once the site was confirmed, the clues were the most fun, involving mustangs and Thunderbirds.
Nice work, Salty! I knew I had seen terrain like that, but couldn't quite place it. I scanned all around Grand Canyon for an end-of-road overlook like that, even checked Grand Canyon West. No luck, gave up.
But those cliffs are so much like those around Moab, and I've mountain biked the Slick Rock trail. But then I didn't go looking for an overlook.
Now how does the clue, "Where cowboys corral mustangs and (66) Thunderbirds fly." fit in? I'm the clueless type.
Now how does the clue, "Where cowboys corral mustangs and (66) Thunderbirds fly." fit in? I'm the clueless type.
Oh, sorry, didn't finish showing my work. The actual answers to the question are:
1. (generic) The place got its name because cowboys were said to use it as a corral for mustangs by fencing off the narrow neck leading to it. The story goes that one herd got left there without water and died, hence the name.
2. (virtual) the final sequence of "Thelma and Louise" was filmed here, including the drive off the cliff in Louise's (wait for it) 1966 Ford Thunderbird.
Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXXVII (187):
This place has at different times been first in the world rankings for two three different achievements, and third in the world for another. Need them all for the win.
Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXXVII (187):
This place has at different times been first in the world rankings for two three different achievements, and third in the world for another. Need them all for the win.
Income (per capita), obesity, diabetes and smallness
Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXXVII (187):
This place has at different times been first in the world rankings for two three different achievements, and third in the world for another. Need them all for the win.
Income, obesity, diabetes and smallness
Probably also a contender for most bombed airstrip, most invaded or changing sovereignty in the 20th century, and phosphate ought to be in there somewhere
Here's an instance of having to guess exactly what the Waggoid one is thinking. Glass of burgundy and gorgonzola sandwich describes the main even with enough specificity to identify it, while not giving it away yet. Want me to give it away?
In fact your 9 word answer might not nail it for non-Joyceans
OK, enough time has passed. the 9 word answer is Bloomsday, June 16, originally June 16, 1904, the day the fictional Leopold Bloom the semi-hero of James Joyce's "Ulysses" visited the real Davey Byrnes's pub at 21 Duke Street, Dublin, and ordered a glass of Burgundy and a Gorgonzola cheese sandwich.
187 is the Island of Nauru, one of the Marshalls but a sovereign nation - third smallest in the world after Vatican City and Monaco - and once home to a thriving phosphate mining industry. So thriving, in fact that at one time Nauru had the highest per capita income in the world, which led eventually to the highest rates of obesity and type II diabetes.
Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXXVIII (188):
Vanna made up a word for the third pic: anageoistic, and thought "u" would be helpful as it is the most frequent vowel in the answer, even if many folks think there should be 1 more "u".
Those of you who see my FaceBook page will know that I have a new lease on life. So we are up to 99 pages - and I do have some nostalgia for my first 9 million-plus page view thread.
So, wanna keep playing? I'll post answers for the last few unanswered...
Those of you who see my FaceBook page will know that I have a new lease on life. So we are up to 99 pages - and I do have some nostalgia for my first 9 million-plus page view thread....