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Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:55 am
by Hlaoroo
Well done, Whozjama! It is indeed!
Victor Hugo wrote both "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables" among many other notable works. That child is Cosette and she's featured on pretty much every modern Les Miserables logo.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:51 am
by The Blue Fox
Awwww, shoulda checked the info on the author, I woulda got it. *facepaws*

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:13 pm
by Whozjama
*Celebrates with orange soda

The Les Mis marketing department would be proud.
The only place that girl shows up is with Les Mis.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:46 pm
by Hlaoroo
Yup. Next hint would have been a statue of the man himself.
Nice to see someone else who knows their musicals. :D

You get to pick the next challenge, Whozjama! :D

Re: What's today?

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:33 am
by Whozjama
OH SNAP

Alrighty then, after skimming the rules a bit more thoroughly this time.

First hint. Edit: OMG it's too big, how do I even forum.
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Re: What's today?

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:34 am
by Whozjama
All right, a bit late, but second hint for March 3 = Image

Re: What's today?

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:41 pm
by Whozjama
Okay, something more obvious.

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:07 am
by Hlaoroo
"Storm of the Century" in Quebec in March 1971 dumped 17-18 inches of snow in one day, a record not broken until 2012?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:49 pm
by Whozjama
Yes! You're correct, it comes easy if you know french.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:55 pm
by Hlaoroo
Yay! Yeah, I do speak French so that was a bit of a giveaway. :P

Okay. What happened today, March 8, relating to this fellow?

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:25 am
by The Blue Fox
Oooh, is that Ratty from Wind In The Willows? If so, I'm guessing it's either the date the story was first published, or the birthday of the original author.

One quick Google search should soon reveal which...one moment...

...yep, here we go. Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind In The Willows, born March 8th 1859.

Too easy.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:38 am
by Hlaoroo
I should have known better than to try to stump a British person with Wind in the Willows. :P
Nailed it, Thom!

Fun fact: Ratty is actually a water vole and not a rat at all.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 1:01 pm
by The Blue Fox
Yeah I know he's actually a water vole and not a water rat. I've watched my fair share of nature programs over the years. Rats CAN swim if they need to, though.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:44 am
by The Blue Fox
Okay let's see if you can figure this one out.

What happened today, March 9th, in relation to this picture? ;

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Might be a beet of an easy one, n'es pas?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:06 am
by The Blue Fox
Non? Okay, zen, let's try zis...

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:09 am
by Hlaoroo
Napoleon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Josephine de Beuharnais?
Only thing combining France and women I can find for today. :P

Re: What's today?

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 3:46 pm
by The Blue Fox
Correct.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:32 am
by Hlaoroo
Yay!

What happened today, March 12, related to this picture?

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:37 pm
by Render
Hmmm... aside from the founding of the Fulda monastery in 744 I found this:
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.

(and I'll pick the 1994 event...)

Re: What's today?

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:28 pm
by Hlaoroo
Well, that was easy. Well done, Render!

Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:33 pm
by Render
Yeah!

So, today (13.03.) I'm looking for an OBJECT. Is this the first object we look for? Maybe... :mrgreen:

This guy has something to do with it.

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:20 pm
by VEB152
Hmh, let's try...
Are you looking for a little huge planed called Uranus, which was noticed by this person here in 1781?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:28 pm
by Render
Yes, Veb. That's true.
234 years ago, between 10 and 11 pm (just now...) Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel dicovered planet mumber seven with his self build telescope from his garden in the English city Bath.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:55 pm
by VEB152
Urgh, sorry for keeping you all waiting. Should check forums more often >.<

Aaaanyways, today for me is March 20, and that means you have a person to guess!
Your clue is... *reaches in comic tophat for a picture* this:
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It is an easy one, or should be.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 2:18 am
by Hlaoroo
Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter was born in 1915?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 3:43 am
by VEB152
Grrrr. Out of all evemts, you had to pick the correct one xD

Carry on, and find something nice!

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:40 am
by Hlaoroo
Yay! Must have been birthday luck. :P

What happened today, March 22, relating to this person?

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 11:40 am
by deepskycyan
Tangled! Great movie!

Marcel Marceau, French actor and mime, born in 22nd March 1923?

Also, Happy belated birthday, Furrhan! :D

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:00 pm
by Hlaoroo
Well done, depskycyan!
The "father of mime" and I share a birthday!

And thanks for the birthday wishes! :D

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:27 am
by deepskycyan
It's not quite the 24th of March, but I'm only 1.5 hours away.

Here's a THING.

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Guess an event! This one's a little tricky.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:52 am
by deepskycyan
Hint hint!

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:59 am
by Hlaoroo
Pluto was officially named on March 24, 1930.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:37 pm
by deepskycyan
Yep, ya got it. Your turn Hlaroo!

Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 7:52 am
by Hlaoroo
Yaay!

What happened today, Mach 27th, related to this picture?
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Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:29 am
by GreatKitsune
Why does difficulty ever-increase?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:59 pm
by The Blue Fox
Well we don't want it to be too easy, now, do we?

Martin Cooper, who publicly demonstrated the first ever publicized handheld mobile phone on April 4th 1973, built said phone just a few days earlier on March 27th?

This is just an educated shot in the dark...can't be his birthday coz that's way back in December...the demostration is a much closer date...it would make sense if he only just built the first working prototype. I can't seem to find any specific date of when he officially created the thing, though.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:02 pm
by Hlaoroo
Sorry, Thom. That ain't it.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:02 am
by Hlaoroo
Not sure if this will be helpful or not but here's a hint:

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:19 am
by GreatKitsune
The first long-distance telephone line was established on March 27, 1884. I love history.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:27 am
by Hlaoroo
Yes! Well done, GK!

The call was from New York to Boston. :)