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[e_quality]

But what is the significance of them vis a' vis THIS AAR?
The Cannae maneuver? Freedom for the occupied territories? (I have NOT read anything by Sholzenitsyn)

Regarding Sholzenitsyn – I’ve got no idea.

Scipio however was, AFAIK, a proponent of local superiority and applying overwhelming force against the enemy, an idea that Kanitatlan seems to have taken to heart indeed.

 

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The significance of Solzhenitsyn (if I may be so bold!) vis-a-vis this AAR may be twofold: 1) his recent passing should be noted and commemorated and 2) his works did concern the brutality of despotism which is an important theme of WWII.

Folks, we still have two unanswered challenges. Numbers 2 and 7 elude us. I will start a dialog so that we can come to some answer. I assume that #2 was a house lived in by someone of historical import during WWII. This is a total assumption on my part, but I offer it as a start for discussion. Regarding #7: It appears to be a building on a campus of some sort. Can anyone identify the sculptures in front of the building. I think therein lies our best clue. Any thoughts?

 

[seboden]

2. Who once lived here and what is the house called?

7. What is this building and where is it?​

Just so we have the pictures on this page, too.

There is some writing over the entry of no 7. I tried to zoom in, but the resolution is too small to decipher anything. As for the sculptures I have no idea.
For no2 we should probably narrow it down to which country it could possibly be in (perhaps England?, definitely not Japan) and than look for the leaders of those countries.

 

[Medi]

Number 7 seems to be Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge.

 

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Stay with me on this...

Let me start by introducing myself. I've been a long-time unregistered lurker on the forums, and I have drawn a great deal of enjoyment and education from the time I've spent here. I stumbled across this AAR several weeks back, and do not regret one minute of the time that I've diverted to get caught up. Last night, something happened that compelled me to finally bite the bullet, register, and start contributing. As this will be my first-ever post, I hope you will indulge my initial long-windedness as I savor this moment.....

Last night, i was reading a collection of essays by the late Stephen Jay Gould, world-renowned paleontologist and crusader in the evolution vs. scientific creationism "debates". In particular, I was reading about the life of Charles Darwin who, after returning from his famous voyage on HMS Beagle, retired to the "Quiet Life" at Down House, an estate in Kent. Of course, reading about HMS Beagle got me thinking about Darwin's famous voyage through the Galapagos Islands, and that got me thinking about this AAR.

Let's see...if I were Our Glorious Fuhrer, with my armies spread across the western pacific and the asian continent, how would I invade the Americas? For starters, I'm not going in from the Atlantic side, since it would involve shifting my forces three-quarters of the way around the world. I'm going in from the Pacific side. Of course, I'll need a staging area, and there's really only three choices.

(1) The Alaskan chain, for a northern invasion. (2) Pearl Harbor to the US west coast. I think it's safe to say that Herr K. isn't going with either of these...he's as much as said that he's looking to an initial invasion somewhere in the Central Americas. That leaves: (3) stage an invasion from the Galapagos. You are within spitting distance of the Panama Canal, and most importantly, you are well away from the principal US bases on the West Coast. (Why go into the "lion's den", further north--with a huge navy and doubtless an "aluminum overcast" of air cover, the US will be a tough nut to crack on their own doorstep. Better to lure the lion out of it's den, into your own aluminum overcast...)

With such thoughts ruminating through my head, I dozed off...and then snapped back awake with an insipration! First thing this morning, I booted up the computer and did a little research...yup! Got it.

Photo #2 in the contest is a picture of Down House. Ladies and gentlemen, the cat is out of the bag. We're going in, and we're going through the Galapagos!

(Time to submit this, before I get emu'd....)

 

[BlitzMartinDK]

Welcome to the Forums! And Thankyou for the wellwritten letter!

 

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Photo #2 in the contest is a picture of Down House. Ladies and gentlemen, the cat is out of the bag. We're going in, and we're going through the Galapagos!

(Time to submit this, before I get emu'd....)

Well, I hope you're right after a great initial post!

 

[seboden]

Well, I hope you're right after a great initial post!

Just google Down House. He is correct.
Unfortunately the Galapagos Islands are not in the game, but the smaller island of San Fèlix and the Juan Fernández Islands are.
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences also seems to be correct (even though I couldn't find the exact same picture).
So anyone volunteering to collect all the answers in one post?

 

[e_quality]

Photo #2 in the contest is a picture of Down House. Ladies and gentlemen, the cat is out of the bag. We're going in, and we're going through the Galapagos!

Positively brilliant!

And welcome to the forum!

 

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Unfortunately the Galapagos Islands are not in the game,

Doh! o

I knew I should have checked my game map before posting!

 

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Well done one and all! Herr K will be stricken (once again) by the brilliance of the posters (and lurkers - of recent vintage - well done & welcome PDM!) and the pool of Trivia from which we all drink! I venture to say that since the answers occur in a relatively brief space there is no need to compile a list in one post. However, that's actually laziness on my part. o

 

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However, that's actually laziness on my part. o

Well, in fairness to you WD, until someone actually steps up and completes the task, it's really laziness on all of our parts.

 

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So anyone volunteering to collect all the answers in one post?

I know! Let's make the newbie do it!...uhhh...(looks around sheepishly)...what do you mean I'm the newbie?

(Damn! That 'PDM' sure is a devious b*stard. I can't believe I let him trick me into this.)

OK, OK! Y'all twisted my arm. I'll post compilation of results by some time tomorrow. I'll do my best to properly credit all contributions. If I get anything wrong, well--that's what you get for leaving it to a n00b.

 

[Beakmiester]

J As for the sculptures I have no idea.

They're Radio Frequency Antenna's - a variation on your standard TV antenna.

 

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COMPETITION​

This competition is intended for collective completion, I am not expecting individual attempts to answer. Try to elect a representative to post your agreed answers at the end with an indication of who provided each answer or part answer and how the answer was found . Some of the questions are easy and some are quite difficult. You may use any resources to answer the questions especially including reference to other Paradox forums or even external Internet forums. Additional credit will be given for NOT simply asking on Yahoo Answers or similar. Extensive discussion in the AAR thread is permitted and I will provide a skip link afterwards if it gets rather long winded. Marking will be on the first Friday in September (just under 3 weeks)​

I have assembled the various contributions that were posted, and will summarize them below. In each case, I've credited the person who first provided the correct answer, and where relevant I have noted co-credit for anyone who added additional clarifying information.

Please note the highlighted phrase above--Kan has asked us to indicate how we obtained each particular answer. I have done my best to make note of the sources of information, in those cases where it was provided. For all the others, if the individuals involved would like to "cite" their sources, I will edit them into this post. (No doubt in some cases, "I just knew it already" is the "source" for the answer.)

1. Please give the name and class of the ship and the location. As a rather useless clue, my grandfather was chief wireless operator some years earlier than this picture. I hesitated on the location but I recognised it so you have a reasonable chance.​

Lord Strange: "...Malta Harbour I believe"

El Pip: "HMS Warspite, Queen Elizabeth Class, entering the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta"

2. Who once lived here and what is the house called?​

PDM: This is Down House, in Kent--the home of Charles Darwin for 40 years after his voyage on HMS Beagle. Source: late-night brain-storm (i.e. lucky guess) after reading a Stephen Jay Gould essay. A google search using "charles darwin + down house" confirmed my guess.

3. Who is this and what is the connection to the Fatherland AAR?​

El Pip: "Mr. Flibble. Connection is one of the many AARs readers who is a general has a picture of Rimmer as their avatar in the game." Source: "August 7th-9th update."

VladAntlerkov: "That would be Alexus, IIRC."

4. What exactly is this (answers like “a model aircraft” will not do well)?​

trekaddict: "a HE-162 A-10 with the two pulse-jets from the V-1."

5. Who is this and what is his military significance?​

TheExecuter: "...the Nez Pierce tribal chief Joseph. He led his tribe on an approximately 1000 mile trek to avoid the US army and seek safety in Canada...within miles of their goal they were captured and sent to Oklahoma instead." Source: "I knew about my answer from school history classes back in my childhood...I merely confirmed my hypothesis with wikipedia to make sure that my recollection jived with the photo."

6. What and where?​

Lord Strange: "the Krak de Chevaliers in Syria."

Kasakka: "Krak de Chevaliers, built by the Knights Hospitaller in Syria."

7. What is this building and where is it?​

Medi: "..[the] Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge."

8. What and where?​

rem78: "...the Menenpoort in Ieper, Belgium. A memorial to british soldiers who fought and died in WWI. Inscribed on it's surfaces are the names of about 54.000 soldiers whose bodies were never found. Each night someone playes 'the last post' to remember the soldiers who fought for belgium freedom."

Wolfhound: "The Menin Gate Memorial. It contains the names of 54,896 officers and men of the British and Commonwealth forces who fell in the Ypres Salient before 16 August 1917." Source: "I found the Menin Gate by the Lion statue on its top and some Googling."

9. What and where?​

Roman_legion: "The Douaumont ossuary, World War One memorial. It is located in Douaumont, France, near Verdun." Source: "I noticed that it was the Douaumont ossuary, simply because I have been there."

10. Who?​

WhisperingDeath: "Scipio Africanus" Source: "...my 'sources' were my own recollection (the Scipio bust was the exact same one in my Latin grammar book)..."

e_quality: "...definitely Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (the older Scipio) who took command in Hispania 211 b. c. He brought the war against Carthage to Africa and led the Roman legions to victory at Zama 202 b. c. He was, btw, the paternal great grandfather to the younger Scipio Africanus." Also: "Scipio however was, AFAIK, a proponent of local superiority and applying overwhelming force against the enemy, an idea that Kanitatlan seems to have taken to heart indeed."

11. What is the background of this letter?​

trekaddict: "Roosevelt's answer to Einstein's letter that started the American Nuclear program" Source: "I identified the Einstein letter by the blurred out adress. If you look closely you can see the letters A and E, and the only publically known physicist from that timeperiod is Einstein."

WhisperingDeath: "Albert Einstein and Company (several other noted physicists of the time; there is some suggestion that the letter was actually written by Leo Szilard) wrote a letter to President Roosevelt warning him of the dangers of an atomically armed Germany. This [led] to the creation of the Manhattan Project and, ultimately, the nuclear arms race (by extension)." Source: "...I did corroborate the Einstein letter via the Wiki and other on-line sources..."

12. Who is this and complete the phrase “one day in the life…”​

WhisperingDeath: "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, recently departed author of the 'Gulag Archipelago' and 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'." And: "The significance of Solzhenitsyn (if I may be so bold!) vis-a-vis this AAR may be twofold: 1) his recent passing should be noted and commemorated and 2) his works did concern the brutality of despotism which is an important theme of WWII." Source: "I aslo admit to having to look up the correct spelling of Solzhenitsyn and 'Denisovich'."

Wolfhound: "To the Solzenitzin answer, maybe we should add, that his most famous works (Archipelago Gulag and One day in the life of Ivan Dontrememberhisname) were about living in a work/prison camps. That may be a commemoration of thousands or even millions of POWs that are now living in the POW camps all over the Reich."

13. Name the ship and where this is.​

trekaddict: "...the Tirpitz in after she was sunk in that norwegian Fjord." Source: "I was not sure about the bit with the Tirpitz until I just now found one of the pictures on the Internet."

aagema: "... I felt like specifing the 'Norwegian fjord' it sunk in. It is Tromsofjorden, more specificly close to the island Haakoya." Source: "I know all this because I live in Tromso, which is a 20 minutes drive from Haakoya."

14. Name the AAR and explain why​

trekaddict: "No. 14 is from Remble's 'The Setting Sun' AAR because it is the Japanes Shinden Jet-fighter."

PDM: And might I add a conjecture (as to the why)? It is quite clear that in this AAR, the sun is quite seriously about to set on the Imperial Petal Throne...BIG time!

15. Name the AAR and explain why​

trekaddict: "'The Empire of Fu-Man-Chu' because it us an occult symbol on the book."

Sebodan: More specifically I think this is the Necronomicon, which plays an important role in this AAR.

16. Name the AAR and explain why​

trekaddict: "'Resistance Fall of man - A Oral History' because the pic is a screenshot from the game."

17. What is this? (green is chlorine, yellow is sulphur)​

Zuckergußgebäck: "Mustard Gas (C4H8Cl2S)" Source: "I thought it looked like a hydrocarbon, which led me onto the right track."

18. What is this a brief statement of?​

seboden: "R is the set of all sets that do not contain themselves. This is of course paradoxical since we cannot answer the question: Does R contain itself? This is called Russell's paradox and ruined Cantor's perfectly good set theory."

G ="G cannot be proved within the theory T".

19. What is this a very brief statement of?​

Lord Strange: "...the Gödel Statement. I don't understand the maths, but I have [learned] that this is important." Source: "...I had to search for this..."

seboden: "This is Gödel's incompleteness theorem which basically means that for any axiomatic system (e.g. all of Maths) there exist statements that can be neither proven nor disproven."

20. What game is better than the HOI series?​

trekaddict: "none"


That summarizes our answers so far. The challenge was posted on August 17, with a deadline of September 5--giving us nineteen days. We obtained the final answer on August 21--just four days in (Ay carumba! Was it really that quick?), and fifteen days ahead of the deadline!

Edit: added source information from subsequent posters.

 

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To the Solzenitzin answer, maybe we should add, that his most famous works (Archipelago Gulag and One day in the life of Ivan Dontrememberhisname) were about living in a work/prison camps. That may be a commemoration of thousands or even millions of POWs that are now living in the POW camps all over the Reich.

 

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Thanks PDM for the effort of putting together the answers to the competition. For my part, my "sources" were my own recollection (the Scipio bust was the exact same one in my Latin grammar book); although I did corroborate the Einstein letter via the Wiki and other on-line sources. I also admit to having to look up the correct spelling of Solzhenitsyn and "Denisovich".

 

[trekaddict]

I identified the Einstein letter by the blurred out adress. If you look closely you can see the letters A and E, and the only publically known physicist from that timeperiod is Einstein.

 

[Roman_legion]

I noticed that it was the Douaumont ossuary, simply because I have been there

 

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I found the Menin Gate by the Lion statue on its top and some Googling.

And I second the thanks to PDM for putting it all together.