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

[wolram]

Well done Infinitum, boy if ever i get in i have a good one

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

This was fairly tough. The country clue helped! I knew this place but I only realized it after a couple of Google searches -- and I did not know H. C. Andersen was Danish!

Nyhavn in Copenhagen?

So many colours!

Congratulations, Infinitum! That's the answer! (great effort from @collinsmark by the way)

A painter's palette -- Nyhavn's buildings are covered with colorful facades (it was also home to prominent artists)
Birthplace of cherished fairytales -- Hans Christian Anderson lived there for many years. This is where he wrote stories like the "princess and the pea".
An old place for commerce -- Nyhavn used to be strewn with freight boats going back and fourth through the canal. It was a stop for sailors.
A now delightful (once seedy) place for merriment -- It is and was an entertainment destination with plenty of music, cafes, and pubs. However, part of Nyhavn used to be considered seedy because the sailors would hang around in the pubs and make the place undesirable.
Split in half by a waterway -- Nyhavn's split up by a canal.
Dug by captives -- The king at the time, Christian V, had prisoners of war dig up the canal.
From a war a decade prior -- The prisoners were from the Dano-Swedish war that ended in 1660. Work for Nyhavn began in 1670, which makes the time in between one decade.

Lots of places fitted some of the clues, but only Nyhavn fits them all

 

[1oldman2]

Can you imagine how different this would be without the "almighty search engine", even searching the web for clues is keeping me guessing on a lot of this.

 

[1oldman2]

Well done Infinitum, boy if ever i get in i have a good one

I know what you mean, I have had a little time to think up a "good one", now if I can just get a shot at using it.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Can you imagine how different this would be without the "almighty search engine", even searching the web for clues is keeping me guessing on a lot of this.

I know . . . I would like to thank Google and Bing and Duck, Duck Go, and all the others. Well, except Yahoo. I don't like Yahoo If Yahoo was my only option, I might try a print version of World Atlas instead

 

[1oldman2]

I know . . . I would like to thank Google and Bing and Duck, Duck Go, and all the others. Well, except Yahoo. I don't like Yahoo If Yahoo was my only option, I might try a print version of World Atlas instead

I like the "duck" myself, That hard copy atlas is great for perspective on just how things have changed in the "info age", I'm still basically an "analog life form" so I'll always prefer a printed book to a digital file, but its nice to have the best of both worlds. (yes my clocks still have hands instead of digits)

 

[Infinitum]

Well done Infinitum, boy if ever i get in i have a good one

Go for it, wolram.

I know what you mean, I have had a little time to think up a "good one", now if I can just get a shot at using it.

Hopefully you can solve wolram's riddle and go next.

 

[1oldman2]

Go for it, wolram.
This had better be good Hopefully you can solve wolram's riddle and go next.

I'll try my best

 

[wolram]

Okay:
This place is on the Elbe and is home to a university of technology
From there you have to find a 4 or a 173
This place is home to a (jigsaw) statue.

EDITED.

 

[Infinitum]

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.

 

[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