Find the Building: Solve the Clues & Show the Map!

[OCR]

OK, here it is. All the clues that you ever going to need are there:

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[1oldman2]

Oh child of our first President
What brought you to this town?
To agitate il popolo
And subjects of the Crown?

The syntax has me struggling with the context, il popolo leans towards Italy, And subjects of the Crown, British?
Oh child of our first President
What brought you to this town? Reminds me of Washington DC, as usual I'm having trouble focusing.

 

[OCR]

as usual I'm having trouble focusing.

Damn... me too.....

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[tionis]

The syntax has me struggling with the context, il popolo leans towards Italy, And subjects of the Crown, British?
Oh child of our first President
What brought you to this town? Reminds me of Washington DC, as usual I'm having trouble focusing.

Well done, Mr. 1oldman
Three nations in strife
To finish this sad riddle
Just add a bloody knife

 

[1oldman2]

Well done, Mr. 1oldman
Three nations in strife
To finish this sad riddle
Just add a bloody knife

"Et tu, Brute?"

 

[tionis]

"Et tu, Brute?"

Wrong! Try again.

 

[1oldman2]

Wrong! Try again.

I was just kinda' joking around there, (not to be confused with a serious attempt, if this had been a serious attempt your answer would have been the same). Okay I'm off to ponder your "bloody knife"clue.

 

[tionis]

I was just kinda' joking around there, (not to be confused with a serious attempt, if this had been a serious attempt your answer would have been the same). Okay I'm off to ponder your "bloody knife"clue.

lol I thought so. No U.S. back then.

 

[1oldman2]

No U.S. back then.

That would be a significant clue, Would England, Ireland, Scotland be relevant ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Three_Kingdoms

 

[OCR]

Would England, Ireland, Scotland be relevant?

Yeah, relevant enough for me to hit the 1,000 post number...

Sorry ... ... (not) ..

Do carry on, though ....

 

[1oldman2]

hit the 1,000 post number...

Do carry on, though

Sounds like a plan, I think I'll go with it.

 

[OCR]

Sounds like a plan, I think I'll go with it.

Thank you... now it's one thousand two...

Oh look!... I made a poem... ...
OK! enough!... lol

 

[tionis]

That would be a significant clue, Would England, Ireland, Scotland be relevant ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Three_Kingdoms

I meant to say that in the times of Brutus there was no US. The riddle refers to a contemporary event.

 

[hsdrop]

hay guys we still playing??

 

[tionis]

hay guys we still playing??

Apparently.

 

[wolram]

hay guys we still playing??

I am still playing, though the questions are getting harder for me

 

[tionis]

I feel people don't want to participate 'cause they don't want to bother with having to come up with a riddle.

 

[hsdrop]

well i may not put it in riddle form but i can give interesting clues

 

[tionis]

well i may not put it in riddle form but i can give interesting clues

If you have one post it up. Don't wait for mine to be solved.

 

[1oldman2]

give interesting clues

Tell me what you know about the bloody "bloody knife" clue in post # 994

 

[collinsmark]

If you have one post it up. Don't wait for mine to be solved.

I strongly suggest we do this one at a time. Multiple riddles/challenges at once will make this thread really confusing.

If there isn't any progress for a while, that might be a signal to the riddle/challenge creator to offer a new hint.

 

[hsdrop]

I strongly suggest we do this one at a time. Multiple riddles/challenges at once will make this thread really confusing.

If there isn't any progress for a while, that might be a signal to the riddle/challenge creator to offer a new hint.

that sounds fair to me

 

[tionis]

Knife that much trouble is causing
No one can sense make

Only I hold the answer

Xeroxed in my brain

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I've not had much time for this recently but I've got nowhere with the current clues, except stuff which @1oldman2 has already mentioned (especially Italy and Britain) which didn't lead anywhere. Again, I don't even know what sort of thing we are looking for (when this thread started, it was a building or landmark, but that seems to have got somewhat lost).

 

[tionis]

A town. We are looking for a town lol.

What brought you to this town?

 

[collinsmark]

OK, here it is. All the clues that you ever going to need are there:

Oh child of our first President
What brought you to this town?
To agitate il popolo
And subjects of the Crown?

I'm stuck after researching Enrico De Nicola, the first president of the Italian Republic. I can't seem to find any mention of his children, if he even had any. I did find that he died unmarried, for what that's worth.

So I think I must be off track.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

A town. We are looking for a town lol.

Well, that explains quite a lot. It appeared that we were supposed to be looking for the answer to "What brought you to this town?" so I didn't expect it to be the town! However, I'm still not making any progress.

The phrase "subjects of the Crown" usually refers to the British Empire, but it could be something else. "Il popolo" is "the people" in Italian and was also the name of Benito Mussolini's newspaper, but that doesn't seem to help. The only recent relationship between Britain and Italy which comes to mind is Malta, which has links with both, but I can't find any obvious link with the president clue. I can't find a link with a bloody knife either (although to me the combination of Italy, Britain and a bloody knife suggests Verdi's Macbeth).

Is any of that correct?

 

[tionis]

The phrase "subjects of the Crown" usually refers to the British Empire

Correct

"Il popolo" is "the people" in Italian

Correct.

I'm stuck after researching Enrico De Nicola, the first president of the Italian Republic. I can't seem to find any mention of his children, if he even had any. I did find that he died unmarried, for what that's worth.

So I think I must be off track.

Totally off track.

OK, so here is the entire riddle with a new clue added. Good luck.

Oh child of our first President
What brought you to this town?
To agitate il popolo
And subjects of the Crown?

Well done, Mr. 1oldman
Three nations in strife
To finish this sad riddle
Just add a bloody knife

Knife that much trouble is causing
No one can sense make
Only I hold the answer
Xeroxed in my brain

Ah, distinctly I remember, tho it was not a bleak December
Mystery that made many shudder
As they read the news and chatter
No one failed to opine and blabber and no motive left unturned
Deep into this riddle peering, now the lounge grows very weary
As they search for clues in Italy where this sad event occurred

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I've now spotted your new initial clues and know the answer, but I don't think it's a good thing to be reminded about. But I still don't get the "president" reference unless it's a very vague reference to her previous educational institution.

 

[tionis]

I've now spotted your new initial clues and know the answer, but I don't think it's a good thing to be reminded about. But I still don't get the "president" reference unless it's a very vague reference to her previous educational institution.

I knew you would. The president reference is in allegorical form; she was born there, so she is indeed a child of that state.