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MrToasty
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 		#23
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
34.01418
-118.28543

From the hint, where Daley Thompson (thanks driz!) won a gold medal in the Decathlon with a score of 8797 (from hint, can vary based on source).

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danteIL
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 		#38

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Somewhere on the China/Mongolia border:
latitude: 45.291
longitude: 90.514


EDIT- #27:

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Botticelli's grave (Abbazia di Ognissanti, Florence)
latitude: 43.77213
longitude: 11.24615


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MrToasty
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 		I just came post #27 - good work!

Any ideas on how some of these clues are actually supposed to help?

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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		The filming locations from Casino Royale sure seems to include a lot of these places.
#39 = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_del_Balbianello
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SuperSlug
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 		#24
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#24
http://www.kenshuttleworth.com/
Crescent House, Winterbrook, Compton Bassett, Calne, Wiltshire SN11, UK

51.433852 Lat
-1.968355 Long



#13
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#13
Tomb of Sir Thomas Gainsborough
Saint Anne's Church, Kew Green, London

51.483641 Lat
-0.287833 Long

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kornable
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 		#9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot-Weiss_Tennis_Club

that club has a stadium named after steffi graf. but the co-ordinates don't work.

perhaps it's not steffi

actually
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lat:"33.090975",long:"-117.267063 steffi beat someone at la costa 6-3, 6-2



#18 http://bible.ckoma.net/jos/20/7?version=ukjv think that might be what the clue is referring to it does list 3 mountains there's also 3 number clues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tabor that i think is the 1st mountain i'm not sure if i'm heading in the wrong direction with this i can kinda see some sort of city on top of a mountain in the picture i could be completely wrong


Just found this i was looking for lighthouses and WF which is included in the clue to 3 of the 4 lighthouses could be completely off track.
"Also included is a one-page holograph letter from the Atlantic Steam Engine Works to W. F. Reynolds, engineer of the Fourth Light-House District in Philadelphia (dated May 16, 1876)."

#42 might it be Erwin Schrödinger who won the nobel prize in 1933?

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SuperSlug
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drizjr wrote:

* #19 Lotus Racecar #2 housed at Donington F1 Museum, Castle Donington. (It's not the exact photo but you can see the Dunlop sign on the wall.)


And some wikis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_25

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clark

This is the last of the sports themed ones, haven't figured out what the 78369 is yet.
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kornable
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 		#19
your definatly on the right path
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lotus_25_Jim_Clark_Donington.jpg

is the exact picture just trying to fit co-ordinates of different things

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#3
Isla Quiriquina, Chile

-36.6104 Lat
-73.0511 Long


focal plane 90 m (295 ft); white flash every 10 s. 7 m (23 ft) lantern

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kornable
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 		nice 1 superslug this should make the other lighthouse ones easier to solve it's amazing that you got it. i was looking through pictures of lighthouses 4 ages!

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danteIL
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 		Yes, excellent work on that lighthouse!

Also, I find it interesting that #24 is a house by Ken Shuttleworth, given that the clue for #46 is:

Code:
HTROWELTTUHSTHGIR
WREISUBROCABAYACA

KMx15


and if you read the first two lines backwards you get:
ACAYABA
CORBUSIER
WRIGHT
SHUTTLEWORTH


who were/are all architects.

EDIT: and this information led me to identify #2 although I can't find the lat/long yet: http://www.brindilles.net/olga-marcos-acayaba/

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Nighthawk
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danteIL wrote:
EDIT: and this information led me to identify #2 although I can't find the lat/long yet: http://www.brindilles.net/olga-marcos-acayaba/


According to the source on THIS page...

http://www.marcosacayaba.arq.br/lista.projeto.chain?id=18

...the location is:

Jardim Vitória Régia - Săo Paulo, SP

...which isn't coming up properly on Google Earth, at least. We're close, though. Nice find!
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Agent Lex
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 		On the clues... I'm thinking within each set, the clues are in the same format (the lighthouses are the obvious example). Using the movie ones we have so far (The Exorcist, Amityville, Mad Max) can we find out what those numbers have to do with the locations, and work it the other way for the other movies (Clockwork Orange, Casino Royale)?

ETA: At a complete guess, is it number of seconds? So what's happening in Mad Max at 1:16:26?

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danteIL
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SuperSlug wrote:
We may not have the exact name of #12 yet, but we do know its off the east end of Choiseul Sound, Falkland Islands


Well, some people upthread mentioned the "mysterymap" user on YouTube, but I didn't think much of it until I realized that the clue for #12 was a YouTube file id:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC0og6xVhLU


It zooms in right on that island...

#12:
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latitude: -51.896377
longitude: -58.352149


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

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Nighthawk
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Agent Lex wrote:
On the clues... I'm thinking within each set, the clues are in the same format (the lighthouses are the obvious example). Using the movie ones we have so far (The Exorcist, Amityville, Mad Max) can we find out what those numbers have to do with the locations, and work it the other way for the other movies (Clockwork Orange, Casino Royale)?

ETA: At a complete guess, is it number of seconds? So what's happening in Mad Max at 1:16:26?


The location I found that worked for that was a user submitted entry in to Google Earth that was the location where Max "begins his revenge." I could be wrong, but I somehow don't think that's an hour in to the movie. Confused

And, like I said, Clockwork Orange is my favorite movie of all time, and I've found and tried every location I can think of (the apartments, the record store, the prison, even the hotel window Alex jumps out of near the end) except for the house in the rape scene (which who knows if that's a real house or not).

For Casino Royale it's well documented what the location is, but I can't find a precise set of coordinates for it. These coordinates need to be pretty much dead on; I haven't figured out what range of error there is, but if the Mad Max coordinates are any indication (lots of them were close together, in and around the same town in Australia), it ain't much.

ETA:
In The Exorcist, the entire movie is in Georgetown, Washington. The coordinates that worked are the city coordinates in Wikipedia, which obviously wouldn't match to filming locations. Perhaps that's all it takes?
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