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Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:28 am
by HoundInATree
I suppose so, but I do wonder how far the connections can/are pushed here... Still fun working it out though. :D

Re: What's today?

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:22 am
by Hlaoroo
The Blue Fox wrote:That looks suspiciously like Anne Boleyn. Let's see, what did Henry the 8th do to her again?

Ooooh! 28th June 1941. Henry the 8th himself was born!

Too easy :P
Well done, Thom! Nailed it! Only, you got the year slightly wrong. :P

Re: What's today?

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:09 pm
by The Blue Fox
Oh, woops. Of course I meant to put 1841 =^w^;=

Oookay let's see what we can dig up for the 1st of July...

Oooh, here's a good one.

Okay, what happened today, July 1st, in relation to this location;


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Re: What's today?

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:40 pm
by Render
The Blue Fox wrote:Oh, woops. Of course I meant to put 1841 =^w^;=
You probably meant 1491...

Hmm.. Presently no idea what library that is. Have to search.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:36 pm
by kurowolfe
I'm gonna try this.

In 1862, the Russian State Library was founded as the first public library in Russia. Its original name was The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, and it was also nicknamed "Leninka".

Re: What's today?

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:18 am
by The Blue Fox
Nope. Try again. Here's another clue.

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:20 am
by The Blue Fox
Nobody?

Okay this last clue should be a dead giveaway.


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Re: What's today?

Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 3:20 pm
by HoundInATree
Well, I would like to guess at the day Charles Darwin published his theory on Evolution.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:30 am
by The Blue Fox
Yep. The first picture is supposed to be of the place he posted it at.

Name the place if you can, and I'm still gonna need the year he posted it too.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:38 pm
by HoundInATree
You see, this is where my History/Biology falls down.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 5:03 pm
by Render
HoundInATree wrote:You see, this is where my History/Biology falls down.
I'm gona help you with this:
On July 1st, 1858 two scientific papers, one from Charles Darwin and the other from Alfred Russel Wallace, have been presented to the Linnean Society of London under the joint titel "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection".

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 3:02 am
by The Blue Fox
You got it, Render. :mrgreen:

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:16 am
by Render
The Blue Fox wrote:You got it, Render. :mrgreen:
YAY!

I'll give it to Hound since he had the solution first, I just added the details.

Please come up with the next "What's Today?".

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:55 am
by HoundInATree
Render wrote:
The Blue Fox wrote:You got it, Render. :mrgreen:
YAY!

I'll give it to Hound since he had the solution first, I just added the details.

Please come up with the next "What's Today?".
awww, thank you. (<3?)

Well, for me today is 5th July. So the picture for today is...

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It was a bit of a pain to try and find a photo of these, plenty of detailed drawings though.
Good luck to you all.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 11:45 am
by Render
Are you asking for a person, an object or an event?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 3:26 pm
by HoundInATree
It's something that happened.

Edit:

Ok, here's another clue...

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:44 am
by Render
Sir Isaac Newton published his PhilosophiƦ Naturalis Principia Mathematica on July 5th, 1687.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 6:45 am
by HoundInATree
Yes! Thought this had gone dead for a while. Out of interest did you get the first clue?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:10 am
by Render
I've had no idea at all for a long time and then I searched again for things that happened that day and I suddenly saw the name Isaac Newton nd together with the apple...
I only found out about the first thing being a test-object for experiments after reading throught stuff about Newton. ;) I thought all the time it's something to move furniture :P

This was never dead for me, I just had no clue what it could be... And I always wanted to give it another try but sadly forgot... :?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:02 am
by HoundInATree
Your most likely to come across those trolleys in A-level physics (or an equivalent). They're good for demonstrating the principle of conservation of momentum, especially with explosions (doesn't necessarily mean fire and stuff). I'm not able to explain that simply though. :?

Anyway, congrats and enjoy choosing what today is. :mrgreen:

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:36 am
by Render
Well... We might have had those (or something similar) in school, but that was about 25 years ago... xD

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Okay I found some event that happened today, 10th August and here's your picture:

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 11:10 am
by Render
You need a hint? Here it is:

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:30 pm
by HoundInATree
First broadcast of the Olympics?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:49 pm
by Render
nope

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:44 am
by Hlaoroo
On August 10, 2003, Russian astronaut Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to be married in space when he was on the ISS and married Ekaterina Dmitrieva who was on the ground in Texas at the time.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:03 am
by Render
That's exactly what I meant, Hlaoroo!

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:44 am
by Hlaoroo
Yay!

So, what happened today, August 18, in relation to this guy?

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 11:04 am
by HoundInATree
The day Gengas Khan died from a nose bleed?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:42 pm
by Hlaoroo
Close enough. We don't actually know for sure how he died but yes, that's what I was looking for. Well done!

Re: What's today?

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:46 pm
by HoundInATree
Also yay!

Before I post should I wait a day? It's still the 18th here, by 15 minutes.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:52 pm
by Hlaoroo
It's up to you. You can post whenever you like. :)

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:23 am
by HoundInATree
Ok, found one for what's today (22nd August). It's an event in relation to this...

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:05 am
by Hlaoroo
Captain James Cook claims the East of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III in 1770?

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:13 am
by Render
1851 Gold has been found north east of Melbourne and that started a gold rush.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:31 am
by HoundInATree
Roo got it.

Bonus Question: Can you name the Island he landed on?
Render wrote:1851 Gold has been found north east of Melbourne and that started a gold rush.
I didn't notice that one...

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 7:50 am
by Hlaoroo
It was Possession Island. :)

So, what happened today, August 30, relating to this picture?

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:54 am
by HoundInATree
Well the black and white picture narrows the time period done a lot. So what ever happened was in the last 200 years, but no later then WWII. So, I'm going to take a guess at the invention/discovery of Nitroglycerine.

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:35 pm
by Hlaoroo
Erm, sorry for the delay, guys.
Sorry, Hound, but that's not right.

Here's another clue.

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Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:42 pm
by CosmicCoyote
Well it's something to do with Frankenstein, that's for sure. It's not the publication date... nor the date it was first adapted on film...

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

Re: What's today?

Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:42 pm
by Saturn381
Is it the day Frankenstein got published?