Forum Game - Where's That Landmark? Part 2

[Jonathan Scott]

The event might have happened somewhere else, or simply be mythical, but the famous person involved in the event lived here.

 

[OmCheeto]

The event I have in mind is loosely related to the road sign and was only about 1000 years ago.

Good grief! How any of you Brits survived history class is a mystery to me.

I'm guessing the event is one of the following:

1. King Canute commanded the tide not to come in
2. King Canute's daughter drowned, when the tide refused to follow his command
3. Harold Godwinson may or may not have been buried there, following the Battle of Hastings, about 70 miles to the east
4. None of the abovehttp://www.bosham.org/chichester/about-bosham-early-history-c-3_45.html

King Canute had a palace at Bosham. It was here at Bosham that King Canute ordered the tide not to come in. He was continually being told how all powerful he was and he decided that his courtiers needed a practical lesson in his mortality and to demonstrate that he was just a King and nothing more he placed his throne at the edge of the sea and commanded that the waves should stop, obviously they didn't. King Canutes young daughter was buried in the church in 1020, she drowned when she slipped and fell into the millstream.​

King's grave mystery may be unearthed

The historians say if they break open the tomb at Holy Trinity Church in Bosham, West Sussex, they will uncover the mystery surrounding the final resting place of the last Anglo-Saxon king.

The debate over the burial site of Harold, killed by William the Conqueror's army during the Battle of Hastings in 1066, has raged for decades.​

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Good grief! How any of you Brits survived history class is a mystery to me.

I'm guessing the event is one of the following:

1. King Canute commanded the tide not to come in
2. King Canute's daughter drowned, when the tide refused to follow his command
3. Harold Godwinson may or may not have been buried there, following the Battle of Hastings, about 70 miles to the east
4. None of the above

It's option 1. The tide was intended to be the clue.

This area of land at Bosham (with a footpath across it) becomes a little bay at high tide, and is close to where King Canute (Cnut) is thought to have lived; it is often associated with the story of Canute and the tide, although there are other places, for example on the Thames, which are also associated with the story. When I was young, we sometimes visited someone who lived on the far side, via the footpath (as the road and path did not go right round), and sometimes got our feet wet hurrying back as the tide came in.

I've not heard any connection between the story of his daughter drowning in the millstream and the tide.

Your turn.

 

[Borek]

My first idea was that it is about King John losing the Crown Jewels.

 

[OmCheeto]

I've not heard any connection between the story of his daughter drowning in the millstream and the tide.

It may have been the fact that the two sentences were adjacent; "...commanded that the waves should stop, obviously they didn't. King Canutes young daughter was buried in the church in 1020, she drowned when she slipped and fell into the millstream.", and that I have no knowledge of the millstream, that made the connection. I imagined something like the Bay of Fundy, on a smaller scale.

Your turn.

Argh! I have no landmark ready, the monsoon season is scheduled to start in 10 hours, and I have 40 hours of outside work to get done before it arrives.
If anyone has a landmark to post before I get back this evening, be my guest.

 

[edward]

Here is a quick one I had on my computer without even thinking about it as being a land mark. That is me in the picture. My wife had the camera, she thinks shooting towards the sun makes her pictures brighter.

 

[OmCheeto]

Here is a quick one I had on my computer without even thinking about it as being a land mark. That is me in the picture. My wife had the camera, she thinks shooting towards the sun makes her pictures brighter.

Shore of the Pacific Ocean!

 

[edward]

Shore of the Pacific Ocean!

That is just not really exact enough to meet my stringent standards.

 

[edward]

My wife insisted that I was in this picture when she took it.

 

[edward]

It is an official National Recreational Area.

 

[edward]

I could u find no evidence m that King Canute p ever crossed q this bridge located u just about a three miles east of the landmark.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

OK, I like the "tide" connection with the island across the bridge (by which I mean behind the camera), but I don't have time to find another one right now so I'll leave it for others to try.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

... and I'm having a bit of difficulty locating the right dune, anyway. They all look rather similar.

 

[edward]

... and I'm having a bit of difficulty locating the right dune, anyway. They all look rather similar.

Regular Google maps has only one area named @@@@@@ dunes "National Recreation Area"

 

[Jonathan Scott]

If you go any further, you'll have to state the answer!

 

[Borek]

No more ore. Or something.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

OK, this is getting silly. As has happened several times, it suddenly went from being nearly impossible to having too many clues. It's the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The bridge is over the Umpqua River (of which the letters "Umpqua" are scattered rather weirdly through the clue, although I didn't understand why until after I found the bridge) and goes to Bolon Island Tideways State Park.

 

[OmCheeto]

OK, this is getting silly. As has happened several times, it suddenly went from being nearly impossible to having too many clues. It's the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The bridge is over the Umpqua River (of which the letters "Umpqua" are scattered rather weirdly through the clue, although I didn't understand why until after I found the bridge) and goes to Bolon Island Tideways State Park.

Being a local, I immediately recognized the Umpqua name, and found the landmark just before midnight on Tuesday. But being very tired, I decided to go to bed, instead of answering.

ps. I still want to know what edward's wife refers to him as. A Banshee, perhaps? :D

Banshee Hill is the highest dune in http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oregon_Dunes_National_Recreation_Area&action=edit&redlink=1 at 500 feet elevation.
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500 feet, is actually, a lot. Imagine a 50 story building.

 

[Mark44]

I could u find no evidence m that King Canute p ever crossed q this bridge located u just about a three miles east of the landmark.

The hidden word is Umpqua, a river on the Oregon coast that flows to the Pacific. Oregon Dunes NRA

 

[edward]

OK, this is getting silly. As has happened several times, it suddenly went from being nearly impossible to having too many clues. It's the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The bridge is over the Umpqua River (of which the letters "Umpqua" are scattered rather weirdly through the clue, although I didn't understand why until after I found the bridge) and goes to Bolon Island Tideways State Park.

I just didn't want people to become discouraged so I gave everything except the coordinates. .)

This is the correct answer of course.

 

[edward]

The hidden word is Umpqua, a river on the Oregon coast that flows to the Pacific. Oregon Dunes NRA

That is it Mark44. Unfortunately to win the $30,000 prize money you must be the first to post the name of the landmark. Stick around and try again.

Who is up? It was OmCheeto's turn but he was too busy hosing off his driveway before it rained , so I posted a quick one and Jonathon Scott found the landmark.

 

[Borek]

I just didn't want people to become discouraged so I gave everything

Wait at least half a day (better: a day) between hints. Otherwise you post everything you can between the moments some of us are able to visit the thread.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

OK, new one, shouldn't be difficult:

 

[TumblingDice]

Looks like OmCheeto's top-secret, hydroponic "grow" location of genetically altered brocolli. You even included the backup "rain dance" setup Om planned ahead for times of drought! (Can't say any more, lest I place my life in danger...)

 

[Jonathan Scott]

This really shouldn't be difficult; I tried a Google search on one obvious word and only had to look at a couple of Wikipedia pages to find this location.

 

[OmCheeto]

This really shouldn't be difficult; I tried a Google search on one obvious word and only had to look at a couple of Wikipedia pages to find this location.

Well, I'm assuming "labyrinth" was the word, and "Wikipedia" was a good clue.
I usually slog through tens of thousands of Google images to find landmarks.

The fact that it looked like the one from Knossos did not seem to help at all.

Silver coin from Knossos representing the labyrinth, 400 BC.​

The keywords apparently were: england garden labyrinth
Which brought up http://www.labyrinthos.net/turflabuk.html , where I recognized the curves immediately.

Anyways, after only an hour, the landmark appears to be The Winchester Mizmaze at St Catherine's Hill.
coordinates: 51.045662, -1.311743

ps. "broccoli" & "labyrinth" did not help at all...

[edit]Just found this:

"Sheep worrying"? :D

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Yes, that's our local mizmaze. The picture was from Bing birds-eye view. I went to school at Winchester, and we could walk up the hill from there. There's a great view of the whole grounds of the college and most of Winchester, and I've been familiar with that spot for about 45 years. My children have always had great fun walking round the mizmaze whenever we visit the hill. There used to be hundreds of wild rabbits on the hill, but we now only see them occasionally, along with wild deer and lots of butterflies.

I had assumed the obvious word (even if less technically correct) was "maze" which would then take you to "labyrinth" and hence to the "mizmazes".

OK, your turn again.

 

[OmCheeto]

Yes, that's our local mizmaze. The picture was from Bing birds-eye view. I went to school at Winchester, and we could walk up the hill from there. There's a great view of the whole grounds of the college and most of Winchester, and I've been familiar with that spot for about 45 years. My children have always had great fun walking round the mizmaze whenever we visit the hill. There used to be hundreds of wild rabbits on the hill, but we now only see them occasionally, along with wild deer and lots of butterflies.

I had assumed the obvious word (even if less technically correct) was "maze" which would then take you to "labyrinth" and hence to the "mizmazes".

OK, your turn again.

Yay!

Sometimes I think we should start another game called: "Where's the landmark in Om's brain that he saw 300 webpages back but can't remember the name".
I saw something yesterday that was very magical. A hill, with a spiraling trail to the top...

Anyways, I can't find it now.
Here's the next one.

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This digging through my parents negatives is very much like this game. It took me two hours to positively identify this landmark. From the associate negatives on the roll, my father was apparently buying a car this day. By this year, ≈1954, he had apparently already transferred from the Army to the Air Force, to become a jet engine mechanic.

ps. Before we get too far along, I'd like to thank you for bringing up Bosham. That was very interesting about the plague:

http://www.bosham.org/chichester/about-bosham-early-history-c-3_45.html
In 1664 the Great Plague was sweeping through the country, when the plague reached nearby Chichester the citizens shut the City gates and sealed themselves in, in an attempt to stop the plague from spreading to people outside the City. The fishermen of Bosham took it upon themselves to help as best they could and left food outside the city gates, this continued until the plague had passed. In recognition of this, the fishermen were allowed to sell their fish in the market without having to pay a fee.​

As I believe I mentioned somewhere before, one of my ancestors moved from Chichester to the Colonies around 1649. I'll have to go visit someday, and thank them for taking care of the rest of the family. :)

 

[TumblingDice]

ps. "broccoli" & "labyrinth" did not help at all...

I was expecting you to recognize differences between helping and "poking the bear".

 

[OmCheeto]

Oh! I just discovered that it's a National Historic Landmark, and is also a quantum landmark, as it's both where I thought it was, and, in India?

per wiki; "A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, site, structure, or object that is officially recognized by the United States government for its national-level historical significance. Out of more than 85,000 places on the National Register of Historic Places, only about 2,500 are NHLs."