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jollytall
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Where am I? - in Great Britain
« on: Sep 5th, 2006, 9:21am » |
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Based on the example shown for Japan, let's start our journey around the earth (I hope faster than 80 days). The first appointment is in Great Britain. And the four postcards:
First postcard:
X2 + Y2 = 1
Second postcard:
4X2 ± 20X + 21 = -4Y2
16X2 ± 40X +13 = -16Y2 - 16Y
Third postcard:
I met Sunny Louis.
Fourth postcard:
We swear...
So let's meet.
P.S. The sign "±" is actually +/- but it does not appear well, at least in my browser.
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #1 on: Sep 5th, 2006, 9:45am » |
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Graphing the equations from the first two cards gives the Olympic rings. Don't yet have a clue about the other cards...
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cchris
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #2 on: Sep 5th, 2006, 2:43pm » |
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I'll guess London, since the Olympic games have been held there in the past (and will be in '12).
Sunny Louis is who again?
If he's some kind of blue singer, I may say "St. Louis, mississippi, where olympic games were held exactly 100 years since the last games.
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #3 on: Sep 5th, 2006, 3:55pm » |
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I have a feeling Sunny Louis isLouis XIV, aka "the Sun King"
But the only connection I've come up with between him and London is that XIV was the 1948 Olympiad in London.
Now if "we swear... "could have anything to do with Wembley Stadium , I'd say we're there.
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cchris
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #4 on: Sep 5th, 2006, 4:15pm » |
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I think that nails it. "Swear" is apparently some sort of clothing store or something.
Are we meeting in a clothing store changing room?
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jollytall
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #5 on: Sep 5th, 2006, 11:26pm » |
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Astrix is good in this (see also Japan)...
For the completeness...
London actually had two (plus one future) Olympic games. The XIVth was the last one where the oath started with the words "We swear..." Since then it has changed. And indeed the oath was - as part of the opening ceremony - in the Wembley.
But don't get relaxed. The show moves on. See you in Hungary...
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cchris
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #6 on: Sep 6th, 2006, 2:42pm » |
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Isn't this what you'd call 'european-centric' I guess?
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #7 on: Sep 6th, 2006, 3:03pm » |
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London is more like 'europe-excentric'.
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jollytall
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #8 on: Sep 6th, 2006, 11:36pm » |
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What do you mean cchris? If we want to go around the world we have to touch every continent, and it so happened that Phileas Fogg started his journey in England and went to east, just as we do. But don't worry we get to all other continents.
btw the first (sort of trial) city was in Japan.
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cchris
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #9 on: Sep 7th, 2006, 5:21pm » |
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Well it was more of a joke, someone made a comment about the Mojave desert being 'ameri-centric', which I disagreed with just because it took place in North America. But I suppose that meant people in other countries would have a hard time finding it out. I don't know much about Europe but I kind of smacked myself in the head after seeing the answer to this one.
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #10 on: Sep 7th, 2006, 5:39pm » |
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I couldn't solve this one. I still don't know what the Wembley is.
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cchris
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #11 on: Sep 7th, 2006, 7:27pm » |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wembley I believe.
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #12 on: Sep 7th, 2006, 11:19pm » |
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It is more like the Wembley Stadium. Also a good way to find is through the games.
And a bit more on the oath that was taken in 1948 starting with "We swear". Later it became "We promise". According to some sources the last time it started with "We swear" was actually in 1948.
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cchris
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Re: Where am I? - in Great Britain
« Reply #13 on: Sep 8th, 2006, 1:32pm » |
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It was linked to Wembley stadium, until I realized there was a place called Wembley.
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