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

[tionis]

This one should be easy:

I drift in the silence
feeling, touching heaven
flying over the world.

 

[1oldman2]

This one should be easy:

I drift in the silence
feeling, touching heaven
flying over the world.

My first thought was a cloud, but ISS would fit also.

 

[hsdrop]

ok mmmm the world's big menagerie without a single living thing

 

[tionis]

My first thought was a cloud, but ISS would fit also.

Yeah, good guess, but no.

 

[hsdrop]

This one should be easy:

I drift in the silence
feeling, touching heaven
flying over the world.

is it the moon

 

[tionis]

is it the moon

No. Not the moon. Time for a clue:

A professor took a picture of me in the midnight hour
then I faded away like the freshness of a morning shower

 

[hsdrop]

No. Not the moon. Time for a clue:

A professor took a picture of me in the midnight hour
then I faded away like the freshness of a morning shower

the Aurora borealis??

 

[tionis]

the Aurora borealis??

lol No!

 

[hsdrop]

lol No!

ok is it attached to the ground / the Earth if you don't mind me asking

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Yes, indeed. "Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)" painted 1816-17.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatford_Mill_(Scene_on_a_Navigable_River)

We're planning to visit the area in a few days from now as part of our family vacation, which is why I thought of it.

The river is the River Stour, as in this hidden clue, which I believe in this case is actually correctly pronounced like the "tour" in "tourist". (There are other rivers with the same name "Stour" but pronounced differently).

The more famous picture painted in the same area but looking in a different direction is The Hay Wain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hay_Wain
The river is considered the boundary between the counties of Suffolk and Essex, so one bank is in each county, but the Hay Wain is in the river, so it's not clear what county it is in.

After having actually visited it (and taken a very pleasant boat trip up to Dedham) I've found that some of this information (which I found in an article about the The Hay Wain) was incorrect. At that point, the original River Stour is indeed the county boundary, but the section at Flatford Mill is a man-made navigable section, pre-dating Constable, which bypasses a section of the original river (now partly called the "Dedham Old River") marking the boundary, so the whole of that section is in Suffolk!

 

[wolram]

If no one else is going to pose a riddle i will post this one.
This angelic statue is 66ft tall and 177ft wide, where is it?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I thought we were still waiting for further clues from @tionis.

(And your new one is immediately obvious to me and I'd guess also to most people in the UK).

 

[hsdrop]

i got a good one guys if no one minds letting me try

 

[wolram]

Please have a go hsdrop

 

[Jonathan Scott]

No. Not the moon. Time for a clue:

A professor took a picture of me in the midnight hour
then I faded away like the freshness of a morning shower

The Milky Way?

 

[hsdrop]

ok mmmm the world's big menagerie without a single living thing

 

[Jonathan Scott]

ok mmmm the world's big menagerie without a single living thing

Is this what you mean?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ly-embalms-150-victims-keeps-living-room.html

 

[hsdrop]

Is this what you mean?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ly-embalms-150-victims-keeps-living-room.html

nop but that is a good guess throw

 

[Pepper Mint]

If no one else is going to pose a riddle i will post this one.
This angelic statue is 66ft tall and 177ft wide, where is it?

In ebay there are a lot of them. http://www.ebay.com/bhp/angel-statue

 

[hsdrop]

If no one else is going to pose a riddle i will post this one.
This angelic statue is 66ft tall and 177ft wide, where is it?

the angel of the north

The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Sir Antony Gormley, located near Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England.

 

[hsdrop]

ok mmmm the world's big menagerie without a single living thing

would you guys like another clue??

 

[OCR]

ok mmmm the world's big menagerie without a single living thing

The Hollywood Wax Museum...?

 

[wolram]

the angel of the north View attachment 104558
The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Sir Antony Gormley, located near Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England.

You got it

 

[hsdrop]

The Hollywood Wax Museum...?

nope but good guess throw hehehe ok time for a clue
it also the world's oldest and it is in the southern hemisphere and you guys are not thinking big anuf

 

[hsdrop]

still no guesses guys? are we still playing?

 

[wolram]

still no guesses guys? are we still playing?

We are still here, your riddle is tough.

 

[1oldman2]

In the interest of narrowing the field...are we talking about a geographical region, say a desert ?

 

[hsdrop]

In the interest of narrowing the field...are we talking about a geographical region, say a desert ?

yes and in shair that will give it away too lol

 

[hsdrop]

ok last clue it's the biggest sketch pad in the world

 

[1oldman2]

ok last clue it's the biggest sketch pad in the world

Now I'm thinking Antarctica, that's a pretty much blank slate... and it is a very dry desert, yup I'm going to try Antarctica and see how close I get with that guess.

 

[hsdrop]

Now I'm thinking Antarctica, that's a pretty much blank slate... and it is a very dry desert, yup I'm going to try Antarctica and see how close I get with that guess.

nop it not quite that big lol

 

[1oldman2]

nop it not quite that big lol

*goes back to pondering the clues*

 

[hsdrop]

*goes back to pondering the clues*

and just to give you an extra one it is man made

 

[tionis]

The Milky Way?

No, but close.

 

[hsdrop]

No, but close.

Andromeda GalaxyView attachment 104738