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Dragon ?
 
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wolram said:
Dragon ?

No...

Where is a super volcano located? What might you find there? Your looking for something there that has a name that has common thread with religions both new and old...so as not to confuse you...
 
yomamma said:
old faithful?

yep... :smile:
 
Very cryptic. :smile: let me go find one
 
in 1908, a worker's mistake made a clean return to the surface, and he was responsible for inventing what?
 
yomamma said:
in 1908, a worker's mistake made a clean return to the surface, and he was responsible for inventing what?

spectroheliograph
 
I have no idea what that is.
 
yomamma said:
in 1908, a worker's mistake made a clean return to the surface, and he was responsible for inventing what?

I need a clue yomamma.
 
Yay I got it!

The tea bag was accidentally invented by American tea importer Thomas Sullivan in 1908. He had sent samples of his tea out to customers packaged in silk bags. Customers put the entire bags into the pot, thinking that was what Sullivan had intended.
 
no, sorry. maybe I should've emphasized 'clean'
 
Townsend said:
No...

Where is a super volcano located? What might you find there? Your looking for something there that has a name that has common thread with religions both new and old...so as not to confuse you...
Aira Caldera, Ky?sh?, Japan
Aso, Ky?sh?, Japan
Campi Flegrei, Campania, Italy
Kikai Caldera, Ry?ky? Islands, Japan
Long Valley Caldera, California, United States
Lake Taupo, North Island, New Zealand
Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia
Valle Grande, New Mexico, United States
Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, United States
Brazilian Highlands, Brazil
Columbia River Plateau, United States
Deccan Traps, India
Siberian Traps, Russian Federation

Old Faithful, geyser is in Yellowstone National Park!
 
'clean' 'return to the surface'
 
yomamma said:
'clean' 'return to the surface'
Well I mean ones that aren't in the question!
 
'elephants'
'clean'
'rise to the surface'

get something out of that
 
Come on, we need another clue.
 
hypatia said:
Ivory soap
w00t! That HAS to be it.

Ivory is a bar soap which is one of the best-known products of the Procter & Gamble Company. It is whipped with air in its production so that it floats in water. The soap was made to float only after a worker accidentally left the mixing machine on for too long. The company decided to use the supposedly ruined material and hoped that the buying public wouldn't notice, but after they got so many fan letters, they decided to switch to the new recipe!
 
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It looks like a lumbering combine harvester, made to harvest clouds.
 
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is that your clue? it makes no sense
 
hypatia said:
It looks like a lumbering combine harvester, made to harvest clouds.

I think it is that machine that shakes trees to gather ?? it has a net like thing
that folds around the tree to catch ?

I can not remember :blushing:
 
Olive picker machine ??
 
Cloud harvester... has a wing...

I remember well the fog harvesters used in the mountains of Nepal (?? I forget where, somewhere high altitude) they're HUGE but have no wings.