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 		Trout

We have #12! Mrtoasty found it last page. Ohh, I never trouted before, I feel special inside.

Applause on all the awesome work done though. How many to go???

ETA: I've read somewhere before where that house in Clockwork Orange was, I KNOW I have...let me go snooping. Was called "Home" wasn't it?
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:46 pm
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Agent Lex
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 		Yeah, it was called "Home". I've been able to find the following on the interior shots...

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The cat woman's house is a real mansion in the Hertfordshire countryside. Also in Hertfordshire is 'Home', Patrick Magee's futuristic pad and site of the notorious 'Singin' in the Rain' rape of Adrienne Corri (when the two met in Hollywood, Gene Kelly allegedly snubbed Kubrick for the use of this number in the scene). The interior of the house is Skybreak, tucked invisibly away in the tiny village of Warren Radlett, Hertfordshire.

(from here)
The closest I can find to Warren Radlett is Radlett...

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MrToasty
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danteIL wrote:
EDIT: oops I just looked back and saw this was already posted. My bad, hard to keep track.

Spreadsheet of finds here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pblB-nU-XfU26OYs1UCJyaA&hl=en
Anyone can view or edit. Should be close to up to date.

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Nighthawk
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 		I shun thee, Gene Kelly! Best use of that song ever! Very Happy

Found "The Warren, Radlet, Hertfordshire, England" but nothing further.
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kornable
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 		#39
sorry i thought everyone had 39

someone posted a wiki link which had the location in it

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45.965, 9.2025


#4 http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/placemarks/446091-BorleyRectory.kmz

someone has that as a location it points to the middle of a field though and the co-ordinates don't work i'm wondering if it's near that location or what
i'll do a little more research



sorry for the big post below but i pulled this from google earth also it's frustrating me because this is the exact spot for it but it won't accept

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http://kh.google.com:80/flatfile?lf-0-icons/community_64_n.png
href>http://kh.google.com:80/flatfile?lf-0-icons/community_64_n.png</href>

Borley Rectory
Google Earth Community
From around 1885, there were sightings of a ghostly nun in the grounds of the rectory, and poltergeist activity was observed. According to local lore, the ghostly nun was the spirit of a 13th century nun from a local convent, who had fallen in love with a monk from the local monastery. They were said to have fled from the area in a coach and horses. Captured shortly afterwards, they were brought to swift justice; the monk was hanged, and the nun was walled up inside the convent. It is difficult to say whether this story had been around for a long time, or was a result of sightings during the Reverend Bulls tenancy.
What is certain, is that there are a lot of reports of sightings during the time that H.D.E Bull and his son Harry were in residence. In 1886 a nurse is said to have left because of strange phenomena, possibly phantom footsteps. Around 1900, the two sisters of Harry Bull saw the ghostly nun in the garden during the daytime. Many local people were also witness to the spectre.
Mr and Mrs Edward Cooper, who lived in a cottage near to the rectory saw the ghost, and also witnessed a phantom coach and horses. The Bulls must have taken the strange happenings in their stride, as they were in residence until the death of Harry Bull in the Blue Room in 1927. It must be noted that Harry Bull had jokingly remarked that he would return after his death, and make his presence known by throwing mothballs around, he must have had a good sense of humour. In the year after the reverend's death, in the time when Borley was unoccupied, the ghostly nun was seen several more times by local witnesses.
The next real concentration of reports comes from Eric Smith and his wife. During their short stay they complained of mysterious footsteps, doorbells ringing of their own accord, and phantom stone throwing. In response to this poltergeist phenomena, the reverend phoned the Daily Mirror, who sent along a reporter, and then contacted Harry Price from the SPR. So began his long and controversial association with the rectory.
His first response was to ask permission to stay at the Rectory for a short period of time. While staying there, Price witnessed first hand the poltergeist activity, and is said to have got in touch with a spirit, (The Reverend Bull) while holding a seance in the Blue Room. The phenomena continued and the Smiths, having enough of either the haunting, or the publicity had left by 1930.
The next residents were the Reverend Lionel Foyster, and his wife Marianne Foyster. The strange events within the rectory continued, and the Foysters were witness to poltergeist phenomena, ranging from smashed glasses and stone throwing, to mysterious writing on the walls. Marianne is also said to have been thrown from her bed by a strange force. The strange writing is the most curious part of the phenomena, which defies mistaken identification of natural events, although a rational explanation cannot be ruled out in any circumstance.
The Foysters left after a five-year stay, and Price now got the opportunity to study the rectory in isolation, with a team of different researchers. Price leased the property from June 1937 to 1938, but the results were relatively disappointing in comparison to what had been observed before. An account of the haunting was published by Price in 'The Most Haunted House in England'.
The rectory was gutted by fire in 1939 when the occupier, Captain William Gregson, who had bought the property, accidentally turned over an oil lamp near a bookstand. The fire caught hold quickly destroying the rectory beyond repair. The ruin was finally demolished in 1944. http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/borley.html
http://www.bizarreingredients.co.uk/strange/borley/borley.html
http://www.prairieghosts.com/brectory.html
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<coordinates>0.6825885502170337,52.04842668553211,0</coordinates>
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edited to a normal size font and to eliminate html code. ~drizjr

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Nighthawk
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 		You're right on #4, but the coordinates are flipped:

Lat: 52.04842668553211
Lon: 0.6825885502170337
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MrToasty
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 		And I was trying user submissions in Google Maps for Borley. Guess I need to stick with Earth. Rolling Eyes

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kornable
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 		#2
this has been bugging me for a while
http://www.marcosacayaba.arq.br/simple.contato.chain
that's the company that designed the building there's a photo of it somewhere in their website but it's all in portaguise (sp) there is an english button but it still makes it confusing as heck!

if anyone else can handle digging through that website might be able to find the answer i was considering emailing the company to ask about it but the english barrier is holding me back

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fAr stAr
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 		#2
i think this is the house in #2
http://www.marcosacayaba.arq.br/lista.projeto.chain?id=18

the technical data about the house on the website is as follows:

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General data
Location: Jardim Vitória Régia - São Paulo, SP
Project year: 1987
Construction period: 1987-1990

Team
Architect Marcos Acayaba
Edison Hiroyama
Tânia Shirakawa
Mauro Halluli

collaborators
Hélio Olga de Souza Jr.
Zaclis Salvoni Engenheiros
Nelson Kon
Hélio Olga de Souza Jr.
Hélio Olga de Souza Jr.
Zaclis Salvoni Engenheiros

Program

$projeto.parsedPrograma

Materials

$projeto.parsedMateriais

Areas
Plot area: 900.0 m²
Building Projection: 171.0 m²
%: 19.0 %
Construction area: 220.0 m²
Internal areas: 200.0 m²
-----------------------------------

General Data and the Areas maybe of some help

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SuperSlug
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 		#2
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#2
Resid. Hélio Olga
-23.622114 Lat
-46.71685 Long


I had the acayaba site yesterday, but it didn't help. Ended up 9 pages into the image search where this: http://www.educatorium.com/projetos/projetos_int.php?id_projetos=142
gave a more complete address


#35
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#35
Bagacay Point Light, Liloan, Philippines
10.38291 Lat
124.018328 Long


#44
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#44
Likoni Light, Mombasa, Kenya
-4.083405 Lat
39.668342 Long


#26 Someone else has already supplied the coordinates on the spreadsheet but had the location as Nova Scotia
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#26
Lighthouse at Cap du sud (Ile du Havre Aubert Light), Amherst Island, Quebec
47.2124 Lat
-61.972 Long

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 		Quick summary of what we don't have...

  • #6 - Back in Black, AC/DC - 349318800
  • #10 - Island - Lat = Abs Sum / 36.2203, Lng = Abs Sum / 4.7845
  • #17 - Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd - 119318400
  • #18 - Something? - Jos 20:7, 5645, 5340, 12800
  • #19 - Lotus 25 - 78369
  • #20 - An island? - 1000 - 510, 278, 115, 84
  • #21 - A Clockwork Orange - 2847
  • #22 - A farm? - image from google maps, includes numbers 45 7900
  • #28 - Exile on Main St, Rolling Stones - 77587200
  • #31 - ?? - 101011, 000001, 110001, 000111
  • #42 - A person - 1933
  • #46 - ?? - HTROWELTTUHSTHGIR, WREISUBROCABAYACA - KMx15
  • #47 - With The Beatles, The Beatles - -173923200
  • #48 - A highway? - image clue


Random thoughts:

On #18 - Joshua 20:7 (in New International version) is
Quote:
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.


On #21 - I still think the numbers may be seconds. What's happening in ACO at 47:27, Nighthawk?

On #47 - The clue (and by association, the clues on the other albums) may be a Unix timestamp. It translates to 06/27/64 @ 8:00pm

Other album clue timestamps translate as follows:
#6 (AC/DC) - 01/25/81 @ 8:00pm
#17 (Pink Floyd) - 10/12/73 @ 8:00pm
#28 (Rolling Stones) - 06/16/72 @ 8:00pm

The fact that they all translate to 8pm makes me confident that I'm onto something there.

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Agent Lex
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 		Double post, but found one! #47...

Method:
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Timestamp was correct, the Beatles were touring New Zealand at the time. On 27th June, 1964, they were at Majestic Theatre, Christchurch, New Zealand, which is at co-ordinates...


Answer:
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-43.533880
172.639932


Gonna see if the same method deciphers the other albums.

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MrToasty
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 		Excellent work! Just found that they were on tour but couldn't find where they played.

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June 14-16, 1972: The Rolling Stones tour the southwest U.S., appearing for the first time in Tucson,
Arizona, and in New Mexico (Albuquerque); and performing again in Denver, Colorado.
June 16, 1972: Keith Richards and Stephen Stills draw knives in an argument in a hotel suite.

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Nighthawk
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Quote:
On #21 - I still think the numbers may be seconds. What's happening in ACO at 47:27, Nighthawk?


Well I admit I don't know the movie *THAT* well... Laughing

Ah, I just got an idea for that! Lemme go check...

*EDIT*
Not Beethoven's grave. Was worth a shot... Very Happy
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 		#28
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Denver Coliseum
39.779783
-104.96958


Thanks Lex!

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