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[daihiey]

FINALLY! sometihng helpful

pic 1)No idea what language that is...Greek maybe?

pic 2)well first notable thing is in the lower left corner a ...er soemthing is holding a sign that says AV.The second horse appears to be looking at it. Theres defintly a whole bunch of little demons around.

[AngBa]

The language is definitely Greek - I've managed to translate the first word which is: "some, somebody, someone" - but I can't find translation for the next 2 words. I believe ardiente was able to translate the first clue, but he's not around.

I also got some more conversation from the Dr. just now, I'm convinced he's somewhere in Louisiana, just can't find where!!!

Me:

[daihiey]

Hmmm got a link to a picture of the greek alphabet with letters below em?
Also just realised something, coudl it be possible that AV is written in greek and the V stands for a letter in greek?

[AngBa]

We've already checked into that - and I've been pounding my head on the greek - I need to get the full translation installed on my pc...

Here's what I've got so far - ardiente, where are you when we need you

[November]

Hello, I'm new in the world of ARGs.. but you have to start somewhere, so I've tried to translate the greek text from the envelope, just via altavista Babel Fish, which means it is probarly not completely correct, but it is something like this, a bit different than yours Angba:

[AngBa]

http://www.aiwaz.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=31

Here's some interesting reading on the woodcut in the postcard... Notice that tablet in the original has been modified from "AD" to AV" - Knights of the Templar... Hmmmm - I don't think these people are too "religious" in the traditional sense...

[oraclle]

OK so the postcard is a picture by Albrecht Dürer entitled "Knight, Death and Devil" and is an engraving from 1513:

http://www.wisc.edu/arth/ah202/jch/05.html

Here's the wikipedia entry for Dürer that I haven't read yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer

EDIT: OK so I took so long writing this that it's now redundant

I have been searching for the skyline but no luck there There must be someone hanging around that can recognise the city - I don't live in the states so I don't know how common the buildings look but there are some fairly distinctive skyscrapers there:

The twin glass skyscrapers in the middle of the picture
The twin skyscrapers with the reddish slopping roofs on the left
The short blue building on the right with a pyramid roof
The sign on the building in the middle of the picture that looks like a backwards S or a rearing snake in a circle on a blue background
The stepped(or three separate) glass skyscraper(s) to the right of centre

Please! Someone must know! I'm going insane looking at US cityscapes!
:bursts in to tears:

:composes himself:

The picture from the coffee house shows a sign outside the window(partially hidden by the "Gelato" sign). It reads:

___ST
___O___N SQUA_____
____ING OF______

I think that the first line can have no more than 3 missing letters(maybe 4 if there's an I). I think the second line is TOWN SQUARE.

So that's what I have so far...

...back to the cityscapes :sniff:[/spoiler]

[daihiey]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FSFZOWOVvMc

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[ardiente]

Ah... I see you've got there before me with the translation: I got the same as November, but the somebody translated to Ka'pojoz



And the postcard is indeed Durer - its from a series of three woodcuts which in some interpretations are claimed to illustrate the four humours (the fourth was lost or never made). This is an ancient Greek medical concept: four fluids that flowed through the body and dictated health.
Also, if you look at the composition, it has been created in accordance to geometric rules derived from Da Vinci.

daihey, I think that's what they call a trout round here That's the entrance to his appartment and its been up for a while.

[AngBa]

I don't think we're dealing w/ a facist group - It almost looks like an "extension" of the Knights Templar... Let me know what you think.

[November]

In the german wikipedia entry for Dürer (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Dürer) there is an analysis of this woodcut (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritter%2C_Tod_und_Teufel): The brave fighter, the knight, is riding in to the Valley of Hinnom (the valley of dead).