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

[wolram]

Your getting warm Infinitum

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

I think the location is Dresden given that TU Dresden is quite popular. And perhaps 173 refers to the highway? I wonder.

Completely clueless as to what the jigsaw statue is. Nice one, wolram.

Nice deduction! I guess that we can presume that the location can be reached with the 173 highway from TU Dresden. There are hundreds statues in Dresden. A famous statue is the one of King Johann of Saxony right in front of the Semperoper Opera House (which, according to Google maps, is about a 12 min drive from TU Dresden using the 173). Semperoper is walking distance from the Elbe. But this all has nothing to do with “jigsaw”.

That’s what throws me off. It’s in parentheses, I’m not sure what that hints . . .

 

[wolram]

This statue was in pieces.

 

[wolram]

Nice deduction! I guess that we can presume that the location can be reached with the 173 highway from TU Dresden. There are hundreds statues in Dresden. A famous statue is the one of King Johann of Saxony right in front of the Semperoper Opera House (which, according to Google maps, is about a 12 min drive from TU Dresden using the 173). Semperoper is walking distance from the Elbe. But this all has nothing to do with “jigsaw”.

That’s what throws me off. It’s in parentheses, I’m not sure what that hints . . .

It is not within walking distance of Dresden,

 

[1oldman2]

It is not within walking distance of Dresden,

Hats off, . This is a good one, I have to stop thinking thinking so literally.

 

[1oldman2]

Tiergarten, Berlin on 5?

 

[wolram]

You have gone to far 1oldman2 the 173 is your clue

 

[wolram]

It weighs 40 tons and is approximately 7 Mtrs tall

 

[1oldman2]

meet Mr. Marx, he lives on Bruckensstrabe in Chemnitz Germany

 

[wolram]

Well done 1oldman 2 you did well when i did not even mention a country.

 

[1oldman2]

give me a few to get back with my next one

 

[wolram]

1oldmans2 is going to be a stinker now i bet,

 

[1oldman2]

Heed well the title of this thread,
before you begin to scratch your head.

Google maps is useless now,
but I'm not going to tell you how.

A pic of it I can show you here,
but where it is, that's just not clear.

If I was inclined to give one more clue,
maybe 51.6 would equal = true.

 

[collinsmark]

Oh, that's good. Excellent! I never would have thought of that. Nice poem too!

Here is an image of it that I captured myself, several years ago, from my back patio:

The 51.6 degrees is the station's orbital inclination.

Edit: Just for clarity, by station here I mean the International Space Station (ISS).

 

[1oldman2]

Oh, that's good. Excellent! I never would have thought of that. Nice poem too!

Here is an image of it that I captured myself, several years ago, from my back patio:

The 51.6 degrees is the station's orbital inclination.

Man that is good time, even better than AC/DC. good show, do you follow ISS? by the way I just pirated your pic. Thank you

 

[collinsmark]

do you follow ISS?

I used to a lot (at least more than I do now). The site http://www.heavens-above.com/ by Chris Peat has been an invaluable resource for planning ahead.

Getting a good image of it is not an easy task though. The thing moves way to quickly.

The "camera" I used is nothing more than a modified webcam, where I tore off the normal lens and replaced it with a hollow eyepiece tube that can be attached to a telescope. (You can buy more specialized imagers for this these days, but back in 2009, there wasn't much out there.) Essentially I just attached the camera to telescope and a took a one or two minute video as the station passed over. (The webcam camera is connected to laptop, next to the telescope, via USB.)

There's no way to focus on the station itself (it moves across the sky way too quickly), so I just try to keep the station centered in the finder scope as best I can and cross my fingers.

The hope is that out of the many, many thousands of frames of the video, at least one or two frames will have an image.

For preparation, I focus on the star Deneb and use that to set the camera's exposure. If Deneb isn't available, any star with a similar magnitude (~1.25) will do, if it's well above the horizon.

I've had several failed attempts though. Sometimes I don't capture anything but a blur in the corner. I haven't tried repeating the effort in awhile.

by the way I just pirated your pic. Thank you

That's fine.

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Give me bit to think of a new location.

 

[wolram]

Jees i did not even get a go at that one, well done collinsmark

 

[1oldman2]

Jees i did not even get a go at that one, well done collinsmark

You have to admit, He is good!

 

[collinsmark]

Here is my poem of clues:

Climb up the hill to the "topmost city"
Where Athena may choose to show you pity

A building awaits that you may find
That stands in spite of its state of decline

Columns twenty-three inner and fourty-six outer
There once were; no need to doubt her

Sculptors did well in making a frieze
Of processions of sorts, if you please

Rest sore feet from walking fatigue
In a treasury for the Delian League​

 

[1oldman2]

Here is my poem of clues:

Climb up the hill to the "topmost city"
Where Athena may choose to show you pity

A building awaits that you may find
That stands in spite of its state of decline

Columns twenty-three inner and fourty-six outer
There once were; no need to doubt her

Sculptors did well in making a frieze
Of processions of sorts, if you please

Rest sore feet from walking fatigue
In a treasury for the Delian League​

Am I getting close? pardon the duplicate.

 

[collinsmark]

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Am I getting close? pardon the duplicate.

Yes, that would be the one.

The answer is the Parthenon.

The Parthenon is the most notable building within the Athens Acropolis. Acropolis means highest or topmost city; acro from "highest" or "topmost" and polis from "city."

The Parthenon was once a temple dedicated to Athena.

It was once a treasury used by the Delian League.

Here is the obligatory google maps link.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/P...0x14a1bd19ca39ee61:0x1b3fa079b878a218!6m1!1e1

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Okay, @1oldman2, you are up again.

 

[1oldman2]

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[1oldman2]

Toward a gap in the pines, Ralph's wife springs,
these are a few of my favorite things.

Stuart where is the highway, to Hatt creek road,
it leads to a place that deals in NSA code.

The snowman's falcon,dealt with this place,
back in the days of the cold war space race.

 

[256bits]

Toward a gap in the pines, Ralph's wife springs,
these are a few of my favorite things.

Stuart where is the highway, to Hatt creek road,
it leads to a place that deals in NSA code.

The snowman's falcon,dealt with this place,
back in the days of the cold war space race.

Tough one. I have some of it but not all.
Who in tarnation would Ralph be?

 

[wolram]

I think we need another clue 1oldman2

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Toward a gap in the pines, Ralph's wife springs,
these are a few of my favorite things.

Stuart where is the highway, to Hatt creek road,
it leads to a place that deals in NSA code.

The snowman's falcon,dealt with this place,
back in the days of the cold war space race.

Ugh, this is hard . . . Here's what I'm thinking:

"The snowman's falcon" is reference to the book and film The Falcon and the Snowman. In the story, two guys disclose United States security to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was also part of the "cold war space race" against the US, battling for who was better in achieving spaceflight.

So is the place somewhere in Russia? Ukraine? Somewhere in that region?

 

[wolram]

Ugh, this is hard . . . Here's what I'm thinking:

"The snowman's falcon" is reference to the book and film The Falcon and the Snowman. In the story, two guys disclose United States security to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was also part of the "cold war space race" against the US, battling for who was better in achieving spaceflight.

So is the place somewhere in Russia? Ukraine? Somewhere in that region?

Copy that Profusely, but who is Ralph?

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Copy that Profusely, but who is Ralph?

The only Ralph I now is Ralph Lauren

I'm looking, I'm looking . . .

 

[wolram]

Alice springs Australia

 

[wolram]

Pine Gap is the commonly used name for a satellitetracking station approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the center of Australia which is operated by both Australia and the United States. Since 1988, it has been officially called the Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap; previously, it was known as Joint Defense Space Research Facility.[1

 

[wolram]

Assuming that is right here is another:
First you must travel to the land of the famous biscuit
Then you must find two buildings one vertical one not
Built circa 1100 used for some form of flag waving.
Famous for its opera,

 

[1oldman2]

Way to go gang! Quarky, you hit it dead on with the book Falcon and the Snowman. Wolram you get the nod for "Pine Gap" Alice Springs.
So to clarify, Ralph's (Cramden from the honeymooners) wife was the famous Alice (rumored to be the first woman on the moon) .
So she "Springs" toward the "gap in the pines"
To get to pine Gap you would take the Stuart highway to Hatt creek Rd. "Pine gap is still affiliated with the NSA"
And finally Profusely, The book you mentioned ties it all together.
(One more note, when the Falcon was finally captured he was playing "mountain man" near where I live but over in northern Idaho)

Okay sorry about the delay in responding, good show everyone.

 

[1oldman2]

Assuming that is right here is another:
First you must travel to the land of the famous biscuit
Then you must find two buildings one vertical one not
Built circa 1100 used for some form of flag waving.
Famous for its opera,

I have feeling "cracking" the famous biscuit part is going to be the most important part of solving this one...hmmm, let me think.

 

[1oldman2]

Totally unrelated but I keep pondering this cluster mash up while contemplating the biscuit clue...

 

[wolram]

Beautiful picture, while you are solving this clue i am going to watch the world series of snooker

 

[1oldman2]

Beautiful picture, while you are solving this clue i am going to watch the world series of snooker

Hoping your latest riddle doesn't have me "snookered"

 

[1oldman2]

Could Belgium biscuits figure into this?

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Digestive biscuits from the UK are pretty famous.

 

[wolram]

There is one biscuit one can put a name to.

 

[1oldman2]

Digestive biscuits from the UK are pretty famous.

Great, I'll try that angle too! problem I'm finding is there are a lot of famous biscuit locations. so I'm working the other clues at the same time hoping something comes together. Did I mention this thread is fairly educational also?

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Did I mention this thread is fairly educational also?

I'm learning more from this thread than Geography.

 

[1oldman2]

There is one biscuit one can put a name to.

Keep those clues coming.

 

[wolram]

He, He, i am getting eddmucated all the time

 

[wolram]

Keep those clues coming.

This biscuit is named after some one famous, a captain or even a general maybe.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

This biscuit is named after some one famous, a captain or even a general maybe.

Garibaldi biscuits?!

 

[1oldman2]

There I go thinking literally again, stop that, stop that!

 

[wolram]

Garibaldi biscuits?!

Could be.

 

[collinsmark]

Are the buildings themselves famous for opera or just the land in which the buildings are in?

 

[wolram]

Are the buildings themselves famous for opera or just the land in which the buildings are in?

Just the place they are in.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Piazza del Duomo? It's one of the only building that I found in Italy that was built in circa 1100. It's located in Pisa, which has the Teatro Verdi di Pisa, an opera house. The not-so-vertical building could be the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The vertical one can be the cathedral.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/P...2!3m1!1s0x132a54023b4bd26f:0x8d34b89a4bd812ae

Good one, wolram, this is a toughy. And then again, they all are . . .