What's today?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:07 pm

CosmicCoyote wrote:But it does seem to be the author Mary Shelley's birthday.

Indeed it does!
Well done, CC!

You nailed it!

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:28 am

So let's see if I can do this right...

Something happened one particular September 28th. And this painting should provide the hint of what that particular event was.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:05 am

No guesses, huh?

Then I'll add some more context.

Here's the mural in its proper location. It was commissioned in 1936 as decoration for a (at the time) new building, which had finished construction towards the end of the previous year.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:59 pm

Reminds me of the Jefferson Memorial

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:29 pm

Nope! Right city, wrong landmark.

The building in the picture is the National Archives Building in Washington, DC.

(that's your next hint, by the way)

Post by **Render** » Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:40 pm

I've tried to find something but failed...

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 1:14 am

Well, I suppose maybe I've been a bit too oblique, but I also don't want to be too obvious either... still, I'll try to be better.

Building on our previous hints and expanding our viewpoint...

At the heart of the National Archives Building is this rotunda, here in full panoramic view. The two murals on either side are by Francis Barrett Faulkner and depict imagined versions of the signing of the two most important documents of the United States - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Those documents, along with the Bill of Rights, are housed within.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 1:37 am

I didn't think it was this hard.

If you guys don't get it within the next couple clues, I'll just spit it out and try something else, I guess.

What's this ship got to do with all the previous things? You should find out.

Post by **Render** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:28 pm

Okay, I'll give it a try.
According to Wikipedia, this has happened on 28 September 1787: The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:41 pm

Render wrote:Okay, I'll give it a try.
According to Wikipedia, this has happened on 28 September 1787: The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

Ding! Hooray!

After the Constitutional Convention approved and signed it on September 17, 1787, it was sent to the US Congress, at the time the only branch of the federal government as per the Articles of Confederation, the governing document of the time (it was also different from the Constitutional Congress, having only one house). 11 days later, they officially approved it and submitted it to the states. That was the event I was looking for.

Post by **Render** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:41 pm

Ah, finally found something.

Today, 15 October, I'm searching for a person. It's the person on the following picture and something the person was involved in happened today.

Have fun finding him.

PS: I know that there are two people on the picture... It's part of the fun to find out which one I mean.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:35 pm

Well, unless I'm greatly mistaken, the guy on the right is Winston Churchill... which means you're probably asking for the guy on the left.

Can't say I recognize him at a glance, but it does give a pretty good timeframe for him.

Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:50 pm

with some google magic (typing "Winston Churchill and " and cycling through letters til I got a suggested result that looked right) the second guy is Charlie Chaplin.

so something on October 15 that has to do with either Winston Churchill or Charlie Chaplin

Edit: sort of both, since it's about something involving Churchill). The Great Dictator was released today.

Post by **Render** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:35 pm

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:Edit: sort of both, since it's about something involving Churchill). The Great Dictator was released today.

Exactly that. It was Charlie Chaplin!

Seems that this was easier as I thought. Gratz Brent, it's your turn now.

Fri Oct 16, 2015 6:26 pm

alright then, what happened on October 16th that was somewhat related to this guy

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 12:09 am

Well, uh... according to the image file name, that's Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Looking at people associated with him finds Wu Zetian (his former concubine), who, on October 16, 690, proclaimed herself Emperor of China.

Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:46 am

yep. figured I may have made it too easy, with that URL, probably should have found a different image, but I'm lazy

your turn.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 11:21 pm

Maybe this one will work better...

Looking for a place where something happened on October 17th. It revolved around the man in this portrait - and a statue of him still adorns the place today.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:07 am

Are we looking for Reims, France, where Louis XIII was coronated on October 17th, 1610? There's a statue of him on a horse on the Hotel de Ville (town hall) there.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:21 am

While we are talking about a European monarch and there is a statue of said monarch on a horse at the location I'm looking for, it's not Louis XIII, and thus not Reims.

Good guess, though!

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:01 am

Aha. 1660, October 17. Nine of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant are hanged, drawn and quartered in Charing Cross. Today there's a statue of Charles I in Charing Cross.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:43 am

Charing Cross it is! (The portrait is the center portion of Van Dyck's Charles I in Three Positions)

Quollity answer.

Your turn.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 9:05 am

Yay! So, what happened today, October 18, related to this photo?

Post by **Render** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:37 pm

First I thought it's the release of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home but that has been on November 26, 1986...

So I assume you mean something a tad older and I guess it's the first publishing of Moby-Dick in 1851 or The Whale as it was called at that time.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 3:42 am

That was quick. Well done, Render! Nailed it!

Post by **Render** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:28 pm

Found something for today, 23 October. What happened today?

Post by **Render** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:28 am

hmmm... maybe this helps:

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:00 pm

Hmm, well I could tell from the first photo that it was something diplomatic from probably 40s-60s, but couldn't tell what in particular.

But the second photo means it has to be something from the end of the German occupation after WWII, given the countries involved. Looking through those events, I find that the signing of the Paris Agreements was on October 23, 1954, which lifted most of the occupation restrictions and entered West Germany into NATO. Should have recognized Adenauer, now that I think of it.

Post by **Render** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:18 pm

That is fully correct! Nice that you think you should have recognized Adenauer, I have to admit that I'm not sure if I would have recognized him...
It's your turn now.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 3:53 pm

Looking for a person, whose October 30th was probably pretty good, all told, many years ago.

Here's your hint:

Post by **Render** » Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:40 pm

Are you looking for Henry Tudor who was crowned and became Henry VII King of England 1485?

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:57 pm

Henry VII was indeed who I am looking for.

Post by **Render** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:10 pm

Hello again, today (05. November) I'm searching for a person.

Here's your hint:

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Sun Nov 08, 2015 7:39 pm

Well, since no one else seems to want to guess...

It's Art Garfunkel, of Simon & Garfunkel fame's birthday - he was born November 5th, 1941.

Post by **Render** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 8:58 am

Yeah, that's correct. I feared it was too easy...

It's your turn again.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:11 am

I'm looking for a certain something related to November 12th.

It resides in this fair (if at times foggy) city:

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:34 am

in 1936 the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened, connecting San Francisco to Oakland Bay. It's one of the longest bridges in the US and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the widest bridge.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:41 am

That... didn't take long. >_>

Guess it's your turn, then.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 2:23 pm

Yay!

What happened today, November 17th, related to this image?

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:23 pm

It's August Ferdinand Möbius's 225th birthday today! He was a German mathematician and astronomer known mostly for discovering the concept of the Mobius strip, a shape with only one side when placed in a 3D Euclidean space.