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Bulletin Board

2007-01-31T10:35:26Z

Rkuhler: added some explanation regarding the fireworks clues

[[Image:BulletinBoard.jpg]]

<spoiler>
The fireworks in the video appear to be 4 Red, 2 White, 4 Green, 2 White, 7 White. From the puzzle we have "13124" in different colors. Taking the 1st, 3rd, 1st, 2nd and 4th letters from the firework colors we get RIGHT. Making the clue, "A DEATH CHASE, AM I RIGHT?" Which anagrams to "DAME AGATHA CHRISTIE" with an "H" leftover.

All the pictures match a form of murder in her books:

*Ukulele String 1/8 The Bird with the Broken Wing' (short story in The Mysterious Mr. Quin)
*Marble Clock 1/11/47 "And Then there Were None";
*Apple Bobbing Tub 7/10/17 "Halloween Party"
*Dagger 6/4/16 "Murder on the Orient Express"
*Raincoat Belt 14/13/62 "Three Blind Mice"
*Crowbar 5/39/57 "Witness for the Prosecution"
*Tennis Racquet 3/2/11/7 ("Towards Zero"); "Murder at the Vicarage"
*Golf Club 1/4/6 ("The Murder on the Links")
*Chocolate 9/14/2 "The Chocolate Box"
*Nylon Stocking 1/6/40 "A Pocket Full of Rye"
*Fire 32/28 "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"

The answer is '''Murder at the Vicarage'''.
</spoiler>

''Next puzzle [[Room_with_a_View]]''

Drive In

2007-01-31T10:21:08Z

Rkuhler: added some explanation for solution

[[Image:DriveIn.jpg|Drive In puzzle]]

<spoiler>
A Google search for all the movie titles shown reveals the thing they have in common. "Movies From Two Ages Of Theremin Music". The text "RE-COMPOSE" in the puzzle also hints at composers/music. The video clue is 2 sets of 6 fireworks in this pattern ...

Blue Blue Blue Red Blue Blue
Blue Blue Blue Blue Red Blue

It's not clear what this means exactly. It's possible that this is to be interpreted as 45 (the fourth and fifth fireworks in each set are red). This may be a reference to the 1945 movie The Lost Weekend "One of the first and best-known American movies to extensively feature the instrument on its soundtrack" or to 45 RPM records which marks the era it first became popular in music. The letters missing from the sign are ERETATHEE but an explanation for those letters is unknown.

The answer is '''Theremin'''.
</spoiler>

''Next puzzle [[Bulletin_Board]]''

Room with a View

2007-01-31T09:50:40Z

Rkuhler: added one of the video clues

[[Image:RoomWithAView1.jpg]]

[[Image:RoomWithAView2.jpg]]

<SPOILER>
1st Video Clue: At the beginning of the video, this puzzle's key is shown and Loki says "Is the axis around which this age of the world will spin" - Indicating that we need to rotate the image at some point.

Imagine looking straight down on a city with tall buildings. Create a colored 3D chart. Each of the numbers represent height in units. Once the chart is created, rotate it 90 degrees (so the tops of the buildings are moving away from you). You should see an image similar to the following: [note that this only works when you have filled in the blank squares with numbers, which presumably came from the fireworks clue - e.g the yellow squares in the third to sixth columns need 7s in them]

[[Image:Gemini2.gif]]

http://vanishingpointwiki.com/wiki/Image:Gemini2.gif

Answer is: '''gemini2'''

</SPOILER>

''Onto the [[Collection_Plate]]''

Music Charts

2007-01-31T09:41:06Z

Rkuhler: added detailed explanation for solution

[[Image:MusicCharts.jpg|Music Charts Puzzle]]

<spoiler>
There are exactly 26 songs with colors beside them in the list (the same as there are letters in the alphabet). Assign each song a letter of the alphabet going straight down ...

1. RR A
2. RP B
3. RY C
4. RG D
5. RB E
6. YR F
7. YP G
8. YY H
9. YG I
10. YB J
11. GR K
12. GP L
13. GY M
14. GG N
15. GB O
16. BR P
17. BP Q
18. BY R
19. BG S
20. BB T
21. PR U
22. PP V
23. PY W
24. PG X
25. PB Y
26. OO Z

The video clue has pairs of fireworks of different colors (exactly like appear beside each song). Take the corresponding letter from each firework shown ...

1. PY W
2. YY H
3. RB E
4. BY R
5. RB E

6. RG D
7. YG I
8. RG D

9. YY H
10. RB E

11. YP G
12. GB O

This spells "where did he go"? From wikipedia we find "Hours after Presley's death was announced, a man by the name of Jon Burrows (Presley's traveling alias) purchased a one way ticket with cash to Buenos Aires."

The answer is '''Buenos Aires'''
</spoiler>

''Next puzzle [[Drive_In]]''

Talk:Composers

2007-01-28T00:26:58Z

Rkuhler:

I don't understand how anyone got to Cage: is it reverse engineering from the answer?

Is there any significance to the notes that are wrong in the identified pieces?

No one has posted an logical solution to this problem yet. The answer was guessed at and then some possible connections to composers were deduced.

Composers

2007-01-27T22:50:48Z

Rkuhler: added another identified song fragment

[[Image:Composers.png]] 

[[Image:Composers 1.png]]

<spoiler>
From Singapore clue [http://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/images/7/7e/Projections_Singapore.jpg] for composers: "City of Birth", 
Here is the list of cities of birth... still trying to figure out from there:

beethoven - bonn

stause - munich

ravel - ciboure

liszt - Doborján

mozart - salzburg

bach - eisenach

bizet - paris

verdi - le roncole

Notes on the music page: certain lines of the music correspond to the writers on the right hand side. Trying to figure out if the star icon and background has any relevance to this as well.
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Notes from jnm.
Johann Strauss was born in Vienna.
Richard Strauss was born in Munich.
Liszt was born in Doborján which is now called Raiding.
Bizet was actually born in and died in Bougival near Paris.
Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto.

Note from leonmj: The only composer of note I can find who was born in LA was John Milton Cage, composer of 4 minutes 33 seconds which is silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The Dvorak of LA is a columnist.

Note from xctrex: Dvorak is also the name of a type of encoding.

Note from rieuwa: This was all my mistake, apologies... My new hypothesis:Cage's most famous work is called 4 minutes 33 seconds, which when converted to seconds is equal to 273 seconds..

It was widely hypothesized that "Cage chose the length deliberately, four minutes and thirty-three seconds being 273 seconds and absolute zero being temperature of −273 °C. " Quote from wikipedia.

Now, if you count the number of notes that appear in the puzzle:- 16*17=272... isn't that rather close to 273?
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Cities of birth along with lat/long (no connection found)

Beethoven - Bonn, Germany [50.7333 7.1000]
Strauss - Vienna, Austria [48.1514, 16.4575]
Ravel - Ciboure, France [43.3621, -1.6727]
Liszt - Doborján, Hungary (now Raiding, Austria) [47.5663, 16.5303]
Mozart - Salzburg, Austria [47.7393, 13.0737]
Bach - Eisenach, Germany [50.9688, 10.3107]
Bizet - Paris, France [48.8667, 2.3333]
Verdi - Le Roncole, Italy [44.9794, 10.0429]

Transcriptions of each line of music (in http://www.musipedia.org search format for further research)

1. <nowiki>a'4 a'4 g'4 f'8 g'8 a'8 a'8 gis'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''4 b'4 g'16 a'16 g'16</nowiki>
2. <nowiki>g'8 b'8 b'8 c''4 c''4 b'4 b'8 c'4 g'4 a'8 dis'16 cis'16 d'8 e'8 c''4 b'4</nowiki>
3. <nowiki>e'4 e'4 f'4 g'4 g'4 f'4 e'4 d'4 c'4 c'4 d'4 e'4. d'8 d'2 b'4</nowiki>
4. <nowiki>e'4 f'8 fis'4 fis'8 a'4 a'4 f'4 e'4 c''4 e'4 g'8 fis'8 g'4 g'4 f'8 g'8</nowiki>
5. <nowiki>g'4. d'8 g'4. d'8 g'8 d'8 g'8 b'8 d''2 e''2 g'4 f'4 g'4 f''4 d'8 g'4</nowiki>
6. <nowiki>g'2 f'2 g'4 c''4 e'8 b'4 f'8 d'8 c'8 a'16 a'4 g'2 b'4 a'4 a'4 f'2</nowiki>
7. <nowiki>f'4 g'4 f'4 g'4 c'8 e'8 f'4 f'4 d'4 d'8 d'8 d''16 g''4 b'4 a'4 e'16</nowiki>
8. <nowiki>c'16 b'16 b'16 f'16 d'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''8 a'8 c''4 g'2 a'4 g''2 e''8 d''8</nowiki>
9. <nowiki>a'4 b'4 e'2. dis'8 e'8 fis'8 e'8 dis'8 cis'8 e'4 e'8 cis'8 e'2 f'8 e''4 c'8</nowiki>
10. <nowiki>d'4 e'4 dis'4 e'4 f'8 fis'8 f'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 e'8 e'16 c'16 e''2</nowiki>
11. <nowiki>f'4 f'8. b'8. f'4 g'8 f'2 e'8. g'16 gis'2. f'8 e'16 cis'16 f'4 a'4 bis'4 g'16</nowiki>
12. <nowiki>b'2. ais'2. g'4 dis'2 fis'8 a'16 f'4 c''2 a'16 g'16 b'8 a'8 a'4 fis'4 dis'4 e'4</nowiki>
13. <nowiki>b'8 c''8 a'8 d''4 g'8 a'8 b'8 c''8 d''4 g'4 g'4 dis'4 f'8 fis'4 gis'4 a'4</nowiki>
14. <nowiki>e'2 b'2 a'4 a'4 e'8 e'8 b'8 b'8 a'8 ais'8 dis'8 fis'8 g'4 fis'4 d'4 c'8</nowiki>
15. <nowiki>g'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 f'8 g'4 c''4 d''8. c''16 a'4 a'4 a'8. g'16 a'8. ais'16 a'2</nowiki>
16. <nowiki>f'8 e'2. a'16 c''8 g'16 e''8 f'16 e'16 cis'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 c'8 g'16 e'16 b'4</nowiki>
17. <nowiki>a'4 g'4 dis'2 g'4 f'4 b'4 a'8 c'8 c'8 e'8 g'4 g'2 c''2 e'2 dis'2 c'1</nowiki>

Here are midi files for each song (wiki site won't allow upload so external links)

1. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_01.midi
2. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_02.midi
3. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_03.midi
4. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_04.midi
5. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_05.midi
6. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_06.midi
7. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_07.midi
8. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_08.midi
9. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_09.midi
10. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_10.midi
11. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_11.midi
12. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_12.midi
13. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_13.midi
14. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_14.midi
15. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_15.midi
16. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_16.midi
17. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_17.midi

The following have been identified:

3. Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' finale (not last note?)
5. Mozart - Serenade K525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik (first 9 notes?)
9. Ravel - Bolero (first 13 notes?)
13. Bach - Minuet, BWV Anh. 114 (middle 9 notes?)
15. Bizet - Carmen Act II: Toreador's song, 2nd theme (last 10 notes?)
17. Strauss - The Blue Danube Waltz (CCEGG near end?)
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Solved: City = '''Los Angeles'''.
</spoiler>

''Next book: [[Letters From Home]]''

Composers

2007-01-27T20:16:04Z

Rkuhler:

[[Image:Composers.png]] 

[[Image:Composers 1.png]]

<spoiler>
From Singapore clue [http://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/images/7/7e/Projections_Singapore.jpg] for composers: "City of Birth", 
Here is the list of cities of birth... still trying to figure out from there:

beethoven - bonn

stause - munich

ravel - ciboure

liszt - Doborján

mozart - salzburg

bach - eisenach

bizet - paris

verdi - le roncole

Notes on the music page: certain lines of the music correspond to the writers on the right hand side. Trying to figure out if the star icon and background has any relevance to this as well.
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Notes from jnm.
Johann Strauss was born in Vienna.
Richard Strauss was born in Munich.
Liszt was born in Doborján which is now called Raiding.
Bizet was actually born in and died in Bougival near Paris.
Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto.

Note from leonmj: The only composer of note I can find who was born in LA was John Milton Cage, composer of 4 minutes 33 seconds which is silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The Dvorak of LA is a columnist.

Note from xctrex: Dvorak is also the name of a type of encoding.

Note from rieuwa: This was all my mistake, apologies... My new hypothesis:Cage's most famous work is called 4 minutes 33 seconds, which when converted to seconds is equal to 273 seconds..

It was widely hypothesized that "Cage chose the length deliberately, four minutes and thirty-three seconds being 273 seconds and absolute zero being temperature of −273 °C. " Quote from wikipedia.

Now, if you count the number of notes that appear in the puzzle:- 16*17=272... isn't that rather close to 273?
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Cities of birth along with lat/long (no connection found)

Beethoven - Bonn, Germany [50.7333 7.1000]
Strauss - Vienna, Austria [48.1514, 16.4575]
Ravel - Ciboure, France [43.3621, -1.6727]
Liszt - Doborján, Hungary (now Raiding, Austria) [47.5663, 16.5303]
Mozart - Salzburg, Austria [47.7393, 13.0737]
Bach - Eisenach, Germany [50.9688, 10.3107]
Bizet - Paris, France [48.8667, 2.3333]
Verdi - Le Roncole, Italy [44.9794, 10.0429]

Transcriptions of each line of music (in http://www.musipedia.org search format for further research)

1. <nowiki>a'4 a'4 g'4 f'8 g'8 a'8 a'8 gis'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''4 b'4 g'16 a'16 g'16</nowiki>
2. <nowiki>g'8 b'8 b'8 c''4 c''4 b'4 b'8 c'4 g'4 a'8 dis'16 cis'16 d'8 e'8 c''4 b'4</nowiki>
3. <nowiki>e'4 e'4 f'4 g'4 g'4 f'4 e'4 d'4 c'4 c'4 d'4 e'4. d'8 d'2 b'4</nowiki>
4. <nowiki>e'4 f'8 fis'4 fis'8 a'4 a'4 f'4 e'4 c''4 e'4 g'8 fis'8 g'4 g'4 f'8 g'8</nowiki>
5. <nowiki>g'4. d'8 g'4. d'8 g'8 d'8 g'8 b'8 d''2 e''2 g'4 f'4 g'4 f''4 d'8 g'4</nowiki>
6. <nowiki>g'2 f'2 g'4 c''4 e'8 b'4 f'8 d'8 c'8 a'16 a'4 g'2 b'4 a'4 a'4 f'2</nowiki>
7. <nowiki>f'4 g'4 f'4 g'4 c'8 e'8 f'4 f'4 d'4 d'8 d'8 d''16 g''4 b'4 a'4 e'16</nowiki>
8. <nowiki>c'16 b'16 b'16 f'16 d'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''8 a'8 c''4 g'2 a'4 g''2 e''8 d''8</nowiki>
9. <nowiki>a'4 b'4 e'2. dis'8 e'8 fis'8 e'8 dis'8 cis'8 e'4 e'8 cis'8 e'2 f'8 e''4 c'8</nowiki>
10. <nowiki>d'4 e'4 dis'4 e'4 f'8 fis'8 f'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 e'8 e'16 c'16 e''2</nowiki>
11. <nowiki>f'4 f'8. b'8. f'4 g'8 f'2 e'8. g'16 gis'2. f'8 e'16 cis'16 f'4 a'4 bis'4 g'16</nowiki>
12. <nowiki>b'2. ais'2. g'4 dis'2 fis'8 a'16 f'4 c''2 a'16 g'16 b'8 a'8 a'4 fis'4 dis'4 e'4</nowiki>
13. <nowiki>b'8 c''8 a'8 d''4 g'8 a'8 b'8 c''8 d''4 g'4 g'4 dis'4 f'8 fis'4 gis'4 a'4</nowiki>
14. <nowiki>e'2 b'2 a'4 a'4 e'8 e'8 b'8 b'8 a'8 ais'8 dis'8 fis'8 g'4 fis'4 d'4 c'8</nowiki>
15. <nowiki>g'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 f'8 g'4 c''4 d''8. c''16 a'4 a'4 a'8. g'16 a'8. ais'16 a'2</nowiki>
16. <nowiki>f'8 e'2. a'16 c''8 g'16 e''8 f'16 e'16 cis'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 c'8 g'16 e'16 b'4</nowiki>
17. <nowiki>a'4 g'4 dis'2 g'4 f'4 b'4 a'8 c'8 c'8 e'8 g'4 g'2 c''2 e'2 dis'2 c'1</nowiki>

Here are midi files for each song (wiki site won't allow upload so external links)

1. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_01.midi
2. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_02.midi
3. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_03.midi
4. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_04.midi
5. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_05.midi
6. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_06.midi
7. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_07.midi
8. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_08.midi
9. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_09.midi
10. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_10.midi
11. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_11.midi
12. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_12.midi
13. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_13.midi
14. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_14.midi
15. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_15.midi
16. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_16.midi
17. http://www.rkuhler.com/vpg/composers_17.midi

The following have been identified:

3. Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' finale (not last note?)
5. Mozart - Serenade K525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik (first 9 notes?)
9. Ravel - Bolero (first 13 notes?)
13. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Minuet, BWV Anh. 114 (middle 9 notes?)
15. Bizet, Georges: Carmen Act II: Toreador's song, 2nd theme (last 10 notes?)
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Solved: City = '''Los Angeles'''.
</spoiler>

''Next book: [[Letters From Home]]''

Composers

2007-01-27T20:00:09Z

Rkuhler: fixed some notes in music notation

[[Image:Composers.png]] 

[[Image:Composers 1.png]]

<spoiler>
From Singapore clue [http://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/images/7/7e/Projections_Singapore.jpg] for composers: "City of Birth", 
Here is the list of cities of birth... still trying to figure out from there:

beethoven - bonn

stause - munich

ravel - ciboure

liszt - Doborján

mozart - salzburg

bach - eisenach

bizet - paris

verdi - le roncole

Notes on the music page: certain lines of the music correspond to the writers on the right hand side. Trying to figure out if the star icon and background has any relevance to this as well.
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Notes from jnm.
Johann Strauss was born in Vienna.
Richard Strauss was born in Munich.
Liszt was born in Doborján which is now called Raiding.
Bizet was actually born in and died in Bougival near Paris.
Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto.

Note from leonmj: The only composer of note I can find who was born in LA was John Milton Cage, composer of 4 minutes 33 seconds which is silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The Dvorak of LA is a columnist.

Note from xctrex: Dvorak is also the name of a type of encoding.

Note from rieuwa: This was all my mistake, apologies... My new hypothesis:Cage's most famous work is called 4 minutes 33 seconds, which when converted to seconds is equal to 273 seconds..

It was widely hypothesized that "Cage chose the length deliberately, four minutes and thirty-three seconds being 273 seconds and absolute zero being temperature of −273 °C. " Quote from wikipedia.

Now, if you count the number of notes that appear in the puzzle:- 16*17=272... isn't that rather close to 273?
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Cities of birth along with lat/long (no connection found)

Beethoven - Bonn, Germany [50.7333 7.1000]
Strauss - Vienna, Austria [48.1514, 16.4575]
Ravel - Ciboure, France [43.3621, -1.6727]
Liszt - Doborján, Hungary (now Raiding, Austria) [47.5663, 16.5303]
Mozart - Salzburg, Austria [47.7393, 13.0737]
Bach - Eisenach, Germany [50.9688, 10.3107]
Bizet - Paris, France [48.8667, 2.3333]
Verdi - Le Roncole, Italy [44.9794, 10.0429]

Transcriptions of each line of music (in http://www.musipedia.org search format for further research)

1. <nowiki>a'4 a'4 g'4 f'8 g'8 a'8 a'8 gis'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''4 b'4 g'16 a'16 g'16</nowiki>
2. <nowiki>g'8 b'8 b'8 c''4 c''4 b'4 b'8 c'4 g'4 a'8 dis'16 cis'16 d'8 e'8 c''4 b'4</nowiki>
3. <nowiki>e'4 e'4 f'4 g'4 g'4 f'4 e'4 d'4 c'4 c'4 d'4 e'4. d'8 d'2 b'4</nowiki>
4. <nowiki>e'4 f'8 fis'4 fis'8 a'4 a'4 f'4 e'4 c''4 e'4 g'8 fis'8 g'4 g'4 f'8 g'8</nowiki>
5. <nowiki>g'4. d'8 g'4. d'8 g'8 d'8 g'8 b'8 d''2 e''2 g'4 f'4 g'4 f''4 d'8 g'4</nowiki>
6. <nowiki>g'2 f'2 g'4 c''4 e'8 b'4 f'8 d'8 c'8 a'16 a'4 g'2 b'4 a'4 a'4 f'2</nowiki>
7. <nowiki>f'4 g'4 f'4 g'4 c'8 e'8 f'4 f'4 d'4 d'8 d'8 d''16 g''4 b'4 a'4 e'16</nowiki>
8. <nowiki>c'16 b'16 b'16 f'16 d'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''8 a'8 c''4 g'2 a'4 g''2 e''8 d''8</nowiki>
9. <nowiki>a'4 b'4 e'2. dis'8 e'8 fis'8 e'8 dis'8 cis'8 e'4 e'8 cis'8 e'2 f'8 e''4 c'8</nowiki>
10. <nowiki>d'4 e'4 dis'4 e'4 f'8 fis'8 f'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 e'8 e'16 c'16 e''2</nowiki>
11. <nowiki>f'4 f'8. b'8. f'4 g'8 f'2 e'8. g'16 gis'2. f'8 e'16 cis'16 f'4 a'4 bis'4 g'16</nowiki>
12. <nowiki>b'2. ais'2. g'4 dis'2 fis'8 a'16 f'4 c''2 a'16 g'16 b'8 a'8 a'4 fis'4 dis'4 e'4</nowiki>
13. <nowiki>b'8 c''8 a'8 d''4 g'8 a'8 b'8 c''8 d''4 g'4 g'4 dis'4 f'8 fis'4 gis'4 a'4</nowiki>
14. <nowiki>e'2 b'2 a'4 a'4 e'8 e'8 b'8 b'8 a'8 ais'8 dis'8 fis'8 g'4 fis'4 d'4 c'8</nowiki>
15. <nowiki>g'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 f'8 g'4 c''4 d''8. c''16 a'4 a'4 a'8. g'16 a'8. ais'16 a'2</nowiki>
16. <nowiki>f'8 e'2. a'16 c''8 g'16 e''8 f'16 e'16 cis'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 c'8 g'16 e'16 b'4</nowiki>
17. <nowiki>a'4 g'4 dis'2 g'4 f'4 b'4 a'8 c'8 c'8 e'8 g'4 g'2 c''2 e'2 dis'2 c'1</nowiki>

The following have been identified:

3. Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' finale (not last note?)
5. Mozart - Serenade K525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik (first 9 notes?)
9. Ravel - Bolero (first 13 notes?)
13. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Minuet, BWV Anh. 114 (middle 9 notes?)
15. Bizet, Georges: Carmen Act II: Toreador's song, 2nd theme (last 10 notes?)
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Solved: City = '''Los Angeles'''.
</spoiler>

''Next book: [[Letters From Home]]''

Composers

2007-01-27T09:25:59Z

Rkuhler: added another identified song

[[Image:Composers.png]] 

[[Image:Composers 1.png]]

<spoiler>
From Singapore clue [http://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/images/7/7e/Projections_Singapore.jpg] for composers: "City of Birth", 
Here is the list of cities of birth... still trying to figure out from there:

beethoven - bonn

stause - munich

ravel - ciboure

liszt - Doborján

mozart - salzburg

bach - eisenach

bizet - paris

verdi - le roncole

Notes on the music page: certain lines of the music correspond to the writers on the right hand side. Trying to figure out if the star icon and background has any relevance to this as well.
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Notes from jnm.
Johann Strauss was born in Vienna.
Richard Strauss was born in Munich.
Liszt was born in Doborján which is now called Raiding.
Bizet was actually born in and died in Bougival near Paris.
Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto.

Note from leonmj: The only composer of note I can find who was born in LA was John Milton Cage, composer of 4 minutes 33 seconds which is silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The Dvorak of LA is a columnist.

Note from xctrex: Dvorak is also the name of a type of encoding.

Note from rieuwa: This was all my mistake, apologies... My new hypothesis:Cage's most famous work is called 4 minutes 33 seconds, which when converted to seconds is equal to 273 seconds..

It was widely hypothesized that "Cage chose the length deliberately, four minutes and thirty-three seconds being 273 seconds and absolute zero being temperature of −273 °C. " Quote from wikipedia.

Now, if you count the number of notes that appear in the puzzle:- 16*17=272... isn't that rather close to 273?
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Cities of birth along with lat/long (no connection found)

Beethoven - Bonn, Germany [50.7333 7.1000]
Strauss - Vienna, Austria [48.1514, 16.4575]
Ravel - Ciboure, France [43.3621, -1.6727]
Liszt - Doborján, Hungary (now Raiding, Austria) [47.5663, 16.5303]
Mozart - Salzburg, Austria [47.7393, 13.0737]
Bach - Eisenach, Germany [50.9688, 10.3107]
Bizet - Paris, France [48.8667, 2.3333]
Verdi - Le Roncole, Italy [44.9794, 10.0429]

Transcriptions of each line of music (in http://www.musipedia.org search format for further research)

1. <nowiki>a'4 a'4 g'4 f'8 g'8 a'8 a'8 gis'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''4 b'4 g'16 a'16 g'16</nowiki>
2. <nowiki>g'8 b'8 b'8 c''4 c''4 b'4 b'8 c'4 g'4 a'8 dis'16 cis'16 d'8 e'8 c''4 b'4</nowiki>
3. <nowiki>e'4 e'4 f'4 g'4 g'4 f'4 e'4 d'4 c'4 c'4 d'4 e'4. d'8 d'2 b'4</nowiki>
4. <nowiki>e'4 f'8 fis'4 fis'8 a'4 a'4 f'4 e'4 c'4 e'4 g'8 fis'8 g'4 f'8 g'8</nowiki>
5. <nowiki>g'4. d'8 g'4. d'8 g'8 d'8 g'8 b'8 d''2 e''2 g'4 f'4 g'4 f''4 d'8 g'4</nowiki>
6. <nowiki>g'2 f'2 g'4 c'4 e'8 b'4 f'8 d'8 c'8 a'16 a'4 g'2 b'4 a'4 a'4 f'2</nowiki>
7. <nowiki>f'4 g'4 f'4 g'4 c'8 e'8 f'4 f'4 d'4 d'8 d'8 d''16 g''4 b'4 a'4 e'16</nowiki>
8. <nowiki>c'16 b'16 b'16 f'16 d'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c'8 a'8 c'4 g'2 a'4 g'2 e'8 d'8</nowiki>
9. <nowiki>a'4 b'4 e'2. dis'8 e'8 fis'8 e'8 dis'8 cis'8 e'4 e'8 cis'8 e'2 f'8 e''4 c'8</nowiki>
10. <nowiki>d'4 e'4 dis'4 e'4 f'8 fis'8 f'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 e'8 e'16 c'16 e''2</nowiki>
11. <nowiki>f'4 f'8. b'8. f'4 g'8 f'2 e'8. g'16 gis'2. f'8 e'16 cis'16 f'4 a'4 bis'4 g'16.</nowiki>
12. <nowiki>b'2. ais'2. g'4 dis'2 fis'8 a'16 f'4 c'2 a'16 g'16 b'8 a'8 a'4 fis'4 dis'4 e'4</nowiki>
13. <nowiki>b'8 c''8 a'8 d''4 g'8 a'8 b'8 c''8 d''4 g'4 g'4 dis'4 f'8 fis'4 gis'4 a'4</nowiki>
14. <nowiki>e'2 b'2 a'4 a'4 e'8 e'8 b'8 b'8 a'8 ais'8 dis'8 fis'8 g'4 fis'4 d'4 c'8</nowiki>
15. <nowiki>g'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 f'8 g'4 c''4 d''8. c''16 a'4 a'4 a'8. g'16 a'8. ais'16 a'2</nowiki>
16. <nowiki>f'8 e'2. a'16 c''8 g'16 e''8 f'16 e'16 cis'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 c'8 g'16 e'16 b'4</nowiki>
17. <nowiki>a'4 g'4 dis'2 g'4 f'4 b'4 a'8 c'8 c'8 e'8 g'4 g'2 c''2 e'2 dis'2 c'1</nowiki>

The following have been identified:

3. Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' finale (not last note?)
5. Mozart - Serenade K525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik (first 9 notes?)
9. Ravel - Bolero (first 13 notes?)
13. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Minuet, BWV Anh. 114 (middle 9 notes?)
15. Bizet, Georges: Carmen Act II: Toreador's song, 2nd theme (last 10 notes?)
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Solved: City = '''Los Angeles'''.
</spoiler>

''Next book: [[Letters From Home]]''

Composers

2007-01-27T08:44:08Z

Rkuhler:

[[Image:Composers.png]] 

[[Image:Composers 1.png]]

<spoiler>
From Singapore clue [http://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/images/7/7e/Projections_Singapore.jpg] for composers: "City of Birth", 
Here is the list of cities of birth... still trying to figure out from there:

beethoven - bonn

stause - munich

ravel - ciboure

liszt - Doborján

mozart - salzburg

bach - eisenach

bizet - paris

verdi - le roncole

Notes on the music page: certain lines of the music correspond to the writers on the right hand side. Trying to figure out if the star icon and background has any relevance to this as well.
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Notes from jnm.
Johann Strauss was born in Vienna.
Richard Strauss was born in Munich.
Liszt was born in Doborján which is now called Raiding.
Bizet was actually born in and died in Bougival near Paris.
Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto.

Note from leonmj: The only composer of note I can find who was born in LA was John Milton Cage, composer of 4 minutes 33 seconds which is silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The Dvorak of LA is a columnist.

Note from xctrex: Dvorak is also the name of a type of encoding.

Note from rieuwa: This was all my mistake, apologies... My new hypothesis:Cage's most famous work is called 4 minutes 33 seconds, which when converted to seconds is equal to 273 seconds..

It was widely hypothesized that "Cage chose the length deliberately, four minutes and thirty-three seconds being 273 seconds and absolute zero being temperature of −273 °C. " Quote from wikipedia.

Now, if you count the number of notes that appear in the puzzle:- 16*17=272... isn't that rather close to 273?
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Cities of birth along with lat/long (no connection found)

Beethoven - Bonn, Germany [50.7333 7.1000]
Strauss - Vienna, Austria [48.1514, 16.4575]
Ravel - Ciboure, France [43.3621, -1.6727]
Liszt - Doborján, Hungary (now Raiding, Austria) [47.5663, 16.5303]
Mozart - Salzburg, Austria [47.7393, 13.0737]
Bach - Eisenach, Germany [50.9688, 10.3107]
Bizet - Paris, France [48.8667, 2.3333]
Verdi - Le Roncole, Italy [44.9794, 10.0429]

Transcriptions of each line of music (in http://www.musipedia.org search format for further research)

1. <nowiki>a'4 a'4 g'4 f'8 g'8 a'8 a'8 gis'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''4 b'4 g'16 a'16 g'16</nowiki>
2. <nowiki>g'8 b'8 b'8 c''4 c''4 b'4 b'8 c'4 g'4 a'8 dis'16 cis'16 d'8 e'8 c''4 b'4</nowiki>
3. <nowiki>e'4 e'4 f'4 g'4 g'4 f'4 e'4 d'4 c'4 c'4 d'4 e'4. d'8 d'2 b'4</nowiki>
4. <nowiki>e'4 f'8 fis'4 fis'8 a'4 a'4 f'4 e'4 c'4 e'4 g'8 fis'8 g'4 f'8 g'8</nowiki>
5. <nowiki>g'4. d'8 g'4. d'8 g'8 d'8 g'8 b'8 d''2 e''2 g'4 f'4 g'4 f''4 d'8 g'4</nowiki>
6. <nowiki>g'2 f'2 g'4 c'4 e'8 b'4 f'8 d'8 c'8 a'16 a'4 g'2 b'4 a'4 a'4 f'2</nowiki>
7. <nowiki>f'4 g'4 f'4 g'4 c'8 e'8 f'4 f'4 d'4 d'8 d'8 d''16 g''4 b'4 a'4 e'16</nowiki>
8. <nowiki>c'16 b'16 b'16 f'16 d'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c'8 a'8 c'4 g'2 a'4 g'2 e'8 d'8</nowiki>
9. <nowiki>a'4 b'4 e'2. dis'8 e'8 fis'8 e'8 dis'8 cis'8 e'4 e'8 cis'8 e'2 f'8 e''4 c'8</nowiki>
10. <nowiki>d'4 e'4 dis'4 e'4 f'8 fis'8 f'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 e'8 e'16 c'16 e''2</nowiki>
11. <nowiki>f'4 f'8. b'8. f'4 g'8 f'2 e'8. g'16 gis'2. f'8 e'16 cis'16 f'4 a'4 bis'4 g'16.</nowiki>
12. <nowiki>b'2. ais'2. g'4 dis'2 fis'8 a'16 f'4 c'2 a'16 g'16 b'8 a'8 a'4 fis'4 dis'4 e'4</nowiki>
13. <nowiki>b'8 c''8 a'8 d''4 g'8 a'8 b'8 c''8 d''4 g'4 g'4 dis'4 f'8 fis'4 gis'4 a'4</nowiki>
14. <nowiki>e'2 b'2 a'4 a'4 e'8 e'8 b'8 b'8 a'8 ais'8 dis'8 fis'8 g'4 fis'4 d'4 c'8</nowiki>
15. <nowiki>g'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 f'8 g'4 c''4 d''8. c''16 a'4 a'4 a'8. g'16 a'8. ais'16 a'2</nowiki>
16. <nowiki>f'8 e'2. a'16 c''8 g'16 e''8 f'16 e'16 cis'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 c'8 g'16 e'16 b'4</nowiki>
17. <nowiki>a'4 g'4 dis'2 g'4 f'4 b'4 a'8 c'8 c'8 e'8 g'4 g'2 c''2 e'2 dis'2 c'1</nowiki>

The following have been identified:

3. Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' finale (not last note?)
5. Mozart - Serenade K525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik (first 9 notes?)
13. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Minuet, BWV Anh. 114 (middle 9 notes?)
15. Bizet, Georges: Carmen Act II: Toreador's song, 2nd theme (last 10 notes?)
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Solved: City = '''Los Angeles'''.
</spoiler>

''Next book: [[Letters From Home]]''

Composers

2007-01-27T07:52:06Z

Rkuhler: fixed formatting problems in music notation

[[Image:Composers.png]] 

[[Image:Composers 1.png]]

<spoiler>
From Singapore clue [http://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/images/7/7e/Projections_Singapore.jpg] for composers: "City of Birth", 
Here is the list of cities of birth... still trying to figure out from there:

beethoven - bonn

stause - munich

ravel - ciboure

liszt - Doborján

mozart - salzburg

bach - eisenach

bizet - paris

verdi - le roncole

Notes on the music page: certain lines of the music correspond to the writers on the right hand side. Trying to figure out if the star icon and background has any relevance to this as well.
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Notes from jnm.
Johann Strauss was born in Vienna.
Richard Strauss was born in Munich.
Liszt was born in Doborján which is now called Raiding.
Bizet was actually born in and died in Bougival near Paris.
Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto.

Note from leonmj: The only composer of note I can find who was born in LA was John Milton Cage, composer of 4 minutes 33 seconds which is silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The Dvorak of LA is a columnist.

Note from xctrex: Dvorak is also the name of a type of encoding.

Note from rieuwa: This was all my mistake, apologies... My new hypothesis:Cage's most famous work is called 4 minutes 33 seconds, which when converted to seconds is equal to 273 seconds..

It was widely hypothesized that "Cage chose the length deliberately, four minutes and thirty-three seconds being 273 seconds and absolute zero being temperature of −273 °C. " Quote from wikipedia.

Now, if you count the number of notes that appear in the puzzle:- 16*17=272... isn't that rather close to 273?
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Cities of birth along with lat/long (no connection found)

Beethoven - Bonn, Germany [50.7333 7.1000]
Strauss - Vienna, Austria [48.1514, 16.4575]
Ravel - Ciboure, France [43.3621, -1.6727]
Liszt - Doborján, Hungary (now Raiding, Austria) [47.5663, 16.5303]
Mozart - Salzburg, Austria [47.7393, 13.0737]
Bach - Eisenach, Germany [50.9688, 10.3107]
Bizet - Paris, France [48.8667, 2.3333]
Verdi - Le Roncole, Italy [44.9794, 10.0429]

Transcriptions of each line of music (in http://www.musipedia.org search format for further research)

1. <nowiki>a'4 a'4 g'4 f'8 g'8 a'8 a'8 gis'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''4 b'4 g'16 a'16 g'16</nowiki>
2. <nowiki>g'8 b'8 b'8 c''4 c''4 b'4 b'8 c'4 g'4 a'8 dis'16 cis'16 d'8 e'8 c''4 b'4</nowiki>
3. <nowiki>e'4 e'4 f'4 g'4 g'4 f'4 e'4 d'4 c'4 c'4 d'4 e'4. d'8 d'2 b'4</nowiki>
4. <nowiki>e'4 f'8 fis'4 fis'8 a'4 a'4 f'4 e'4 c'4 e'4 g'8 fis'8 g'4 f'8 g'8</nowiki>
5. <nowiki>g'4. d'8 g'4. d'8 g'8 d'8 g'8 b'8 d''2 e''2 g'4 f'4 g'4 f''4 d'8 g'4</nowiki>
6. <nowiki>g'2 f'2 g'4 c'4 e'8 b'4 f'8 d'8 c'8 a'16 a'4 g'2 b'4 a'4 a'4 f'2</nowiki>
7. <nowiki>f'4 g'4 f'4 g'4 c'8 e'8 f'4 f'4 d'4 d'8 d'8 d''16 g''4 b'4 a'4 e'16</nowiki>
8. <nowiki>c'16 b'16 b'16 f'16 d'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c'8 a'8 c'4 g'2 a'4 g'2 e'8 d'8</nowiki>
9. <nowiki>a'4 b'4 e'2. dis'8 e'8 fis'8 e'8 dis'8 cis'8 e'4 e'8 cis'8 e'2 f'8 e''4 c'8</nowiki>
10. <nowiki>d'4 e'4 dis'4 e'4 f'8 fis'8 f'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 e'8 e'16 c'16 e''2</nowiki>
11. <nowiki>f'4 f'8. b'8. f'4 g'8 f'2 e'8. g'16 gis'2. f'8 e'16 cis'16 f'4 a'4 bis'4 g'16.</nowiki>
12. <nowiki>b'2. ais'2. g'4 dis'2 fis'8 a'16 f'4 c'2 a'16 g'16 b'8 a'8 a'4 fis'4 dis'4 e'4</nowiki>
13. <nowiki>b'8 c''8 a'8 d''4 g'8 a'8 b'8 c''8 d''4 g'4 g'4 dis'4 f'8 fis'4 gis'4 a'4</nowiki>
14. <nowiki>e'2 b'2 a'4 a'4 e'8 e'8 b'8 b'8 a'8 ais'8 dis'8 fis'8 g'4 fis'4 d'4 c'8</nowiki>
15. <nowiki>g'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 f'8 g'4 c''4 d''8. c''16 a'4 a'4 a'8. g'16 a'8. ais'16 a'2</nowiki>
16. <nowiki>f'8 e'2. a'16 c''8 g'16 e''8 f'16 e'16 cis'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 c'8 g'16 e'16 b'4</nowiki>
17. <nowiki>a'4 g'4 dis'2 g'4 f'4 b'4 a'8 c'8 c'8 e'8 g'4 g'2 c''2 e'2 dis'2 c'1</nowiki>

The following have been identified:

3. Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 D minor 'Choral' finale (not last note?)
5. Mozart - Serenade in G K525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik (first 9 notes?)
13. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Minuet for Harpsichord in G major, BWV Anh. 114 (middle 9 notes?)
15. Bizet, Georges: Carmen Act II: Toreador's song, 2nd theme (last 10 notes?)
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Solved: City = '''Los Angeles'''.
</spoiler>

''Next book: [[Letters From Home]]''

Composers

2007-01-27T07:43:42Z

Rkuhler: added music notations and some identifications

[[Image:Composers.png]] 

[[Image:Composers 1.png]]

<spoiler>
From Singapore clue [http://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/images/7/7e/Projections_Singapore.jpg] for composers: "City of Birth", 
Here is the list of cities of birth... still trying to figure out from there:

beethoven - bonn

stause - munich

ravel - ciboure

liszt - Doborján

mozart - salzburg

bach - eisenach

bizet - paris

verdi - le roncole

Notes on the music page: certain lines of the music correspond to the writers on the right hand side. Trying to figure out if the star icon and background has any relevance to this as well.
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Notes from jnm.
Johann Strauss was born in Vienna.
Richard Strauss was born in Munich.
Liszt was born in Doborján which is now called Raiding.
Bizet was actually born in and died in Bougival near Paris.
Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto.

Note from leonmj: The only composer of note I can find who was born in LA was John Milton Cage, composer of 4 minutes 33 seconds which is silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The Dvorak of LA is a columnist.

Note from xctrex: Dvorak is also the name of a type of encoding.

Note from rieuwa: This was all my mistake, apologies... My new hypothesis:Cage's most famous work is called 4 minutes 33 seconds, which when converted to seconds is equal to 273 seconds..

It was widely hypothesized that "Cage chose the length deliberately, four minutes and thirty-three seconds being 273 seconds and absolute zero being temperature of −273 °C. " Quote from wikipedia.

Now, if you count the number of notes that appear in the puzzle:- 16*17=272... isn't that rather close to 273?
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Cities of birth along with lat/long (no connection found)

Beethoven - Bonn, Germany [50.7333 7.1000]
Strauss - Vienna, Austria [48.1514, 16.4575]
Ravel - Ciboure, France [43.3621, -1.6727]
Liszt - Doborján, Hungary (now Raiding, Austria) [47.5663, 16.5303]
Mozart - Salzburg, Austria [47.7393, 13.0737]
Bach - Eisenach, Germany [50.9688, 10.3107]
Bizet - Paris, France [48.8667, 2.3333]
Verdi - Le Roncole, Italy [44.9794, 10.0429]

Transcriptions of each line of music (in http://www.musipedia.org search format for further research)

1. a'4 a'4 g'4 f'8 g'8 a'8 a'8 gis'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c''4 b'4 g'16 a'16 g'16
2. g'8 b'8 b'8 c''4 c''4 b'4 b'8 c'4 g'4 a'8 dis'16 cis'16 d'8 e'8 c''4 b'4
3. e'4 e'4 f'4 g'4 g'4 f'4 e'4 d'4 c'4 c'4 d'4 e'4. d'8 d'2 b'4
4. e'4 f'8 fis'4 fis'8 a'4 a'4 f'4 e'4 c'4 e'4 g'8 fis'8 g'4 f'8 g'8
5. g'4. d'8 g'4. d'8 g'8 d'8 g'8 b'8 d''2 e''2 g'4 f'4 g'4 f''4 d'8 g'4
6. g'2 f'2 g'4 c'4 e'8 b'4 f'8 d'8 c'8 a'16 a'4 g'2 b'4 a'4 a'4 f'2
7. f'4 g'4 f'4 g'4 c'8 e'8 f'4 f'4 d'4 d'8 d'8 d''16 g''4 b'4 a'4 e'16
8. c'16 b'16 b'16 f'16 d'8 f'8 e'8 b'8 c'8 a'8 c'4 g'2 a'4 g'2 e'8 d'8
9. a'4 b'4 e'2. dis'8 e'8 fis'8 e'8 dis'8 cis'8 e'4 e'8 cis'8 e'2 f'8 e''4 c'8
10. d'4 e'4 dis'4 e'4 f'8 fis'8 f'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 e'8 e'16 c'16 e''2
11. f'4 f'8. b'8. f'4 g'8 f'2 e'8. g'16 gis'2. f'8 e'16 cis'16 f'4 a'4 bis'4 g'16.
12. b'2. ais'2. g'4 dis'2 fis'8 a'16 f'4 c'2 a'16 g'16 b'8 a'8 a'4 fis'4 dis'4 e'4
13. b'8 c''8 a'8 d''4 g'8 a'8 b'8 c''8 d''4 g'4 g'4 dis'4 f'8 fis'4 gis'4 a'4
14. e'2 b'2 a'4 a'4 e'8 e'8 b'8 b'8 a'8 ais'8 dis'8 fis'8 g'4 fis'4 d'4 c'8
15. g'4 f'4 b'4 d'4 f'8 g'4 c''4 d''8. c''16 a'4 a'4 a'8. g'16 a'8. ais'16 a'2
16. f'8 e'2. a'16 c''8 g'16 e''8 f'16 e'16 cis'8 dis'8 e'4 f'4 c'8 g'16 e'16 b'4
17. a'4 g'4 dis'2 g'4 f'4 b'4 a'8 c'8 c'8 e'8 g'4 g'2 c''2 e'2 dis'2 c'1

The following have been identified:

3. Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 D minor 'Choral' finale (not last note?)
5. Mozart - Serenade in G K525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik (first 9 notes?)
13. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Minuet for Harpsichord in G major, BWV Anh. 114 (middle 9 notes?)
15. Bizet, Georges: Carmen Act II: Toreador's song, 2nd theme (last 10 notes?)
</spoiler>
<spoiler>
Solved: City = '''Los Angeles'''.
</spoiler>

''Next book: [[Letters From Home]]''

Mural

2007-01-25T10:37:40Z

Rkuhler:

[[Image:Mural.png]]
[[Image:Vanishbox3puz11.PNG]]
[[Image:Vanishbox3puz11(2).PNG]]
[[Image:Vanishbox3puz11(3).PNG]]

<spoiler>
Hint: "People and dates with lasting effect."

The initials on the mural correspond to the names of the inventors, most of whose whose inventions depicted:

*EW = Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin 1794
*HD = Humphrey Davy - Demonstrated electric lamp to the Royal Society - 1806
*JW = John Whitehurst - Pulsation Engine (hydraulic pump) - 1722 other possible answer James Watt - Improved steam engine - 1763
*BF = Benjamin Franklin - Pointed light rod conductor - 1752
*GLL = George Louis Lesage - Used a single wire system to telegraph a message - 1774
*LP = Louis pasteur - Process of sterilizing milk - 1862
*'''GS - George Stephenson - Locomotive - 1814'''
*GM = Guglielmo Marconi - Radio - 1901
'''*AGB = Alexander Graham Bell - Phonophone (or more commonly, the telephone) - 1880'''
*CM = Cyrus McCormick - Inventor the Reaper - 1809
*TE = Thomas Edison - Invented phonograph - 1877

The San Francisco picture shows 3 items above the same starburst(?) pattern: A locomotive (invented by George Stevenson/GS), a telephone (invented by Alexander Graham Bell/AGB); both represented in the mural. The only one not represented is the statue of Poseidon, whose son is TRITON. ((Great! What does that have to do with the puzzle?))

The puzzle clearly indicates that dates are somehow significant "PEOPLE AND DATES WITH LASTING EFFECT". The complication I ran into were that dates attributed to the inventions shown are very sketchy in many cases. When I decided to take the first date associated with the invention or underlying principle behind each item I came up with this (quotes taken from web references found with Google):

Eli Whitney - cotton gin - 1793 - "Whitney produced the first crude model of his gin in 1793"

Humphrey Davy - electric lamp - 1801 - "In 1801 Sir Humphry Davy, an English chemist, made platinum strips glow by passing an electric current through them"

James Watt - steam engine - 1764 - "Watt’s work with the steam engine began in 1764, when he was requested to repair a Newcomen steam engine used at the university."

Benjamin Franklin - lightning rod - 1747 - "In 1747 Franklin began his experiments in electricity with a simple apparatus that he received from a friend in England."

George Louis Lesage - telegraph - 1774 - "The first telegraph was demonstrated in Geneva, Switzerland in 1774 by George Louis Lesage."

Louis Pasteur - pasteurized milk - 1856 - ".. in 1856 .. Pasteur’s experiments on bacteria began, resulting in the process that still bears his name (pasteurization)."

George Stephenson - locomotive - 1814 - "Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814"

Guglielmo Marconi - radio - 1895 - "late in the summer of 1895, Guglielmo Marconi made the first tentative wireless transmissions"

Alexander Graham Bell - telephone - 1876 - "until 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell placed the first phone call."

Cyrus McCormick - reaper - 1831 - "By the end of the same 1831 harvest, Cyrus had the first successful demonstration of his reaper."

Thomas Edison - phonograph - 1877 - "August 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph,"

I'll be the first to say that the date attributed to Benjamin Franklin seems to be a stretch given that the picture appears to be a lightning rod which he did not invent for many more years.

Now, taking the last digit of each year as an index into the inventors name we get:

I HEIR PRINCE

Triton could indeed be called the heir prince of Poseidon (depicted in the 3rd image with the matching key symbol from this puzzle).

The accepted answer is: triton

</spoiler>

''Next book: [[Tomb]]''

Tomb

2007-01-24T03:48:05Z

Rkuhler:

[[Image:Tomb.png]]

[[Image:Tomb 1.png]]

<spoiler>
The images are different yo-yo tricks.

In order of the pictures:
Rock the baby 
Sleeper 
Man on a flying trapeze 
Eiffel Tower 
Flag 
Around the world 
Double or Nothing 
Three Leaf Clover (missing in puzzle; picture given in the projection in London) 
Behind bars 
Flying saucer 

These fit into the spaces on the second image in the following order. 
DOUBLE OR NOTHING 
MAN ON A FLYING TRAPEZE 
FLAG 
SLEEPER 
BEHIND BARS 
ROCK THE BABY 
EIFFEL TOWER 
FLYING SAUCER 
THREE LEAF CLOVER 
AROUND THE WORLD 
 
'''Solved by Wynn from unfiction.com forums.''' 

The boxes on the paper represent the Great Pyramids with the point in the top left corner being the "vanishing point". By overlaying a map of the pyramids such as found, [http://goodfelloweb.com/giza/fig3.html here], you get the following: 
[[Image:tomb-overlay.jpg]] 
Look at the inside and the outside arc. They cross through the following letters:
TIFNIEOMSTRN 

'''Contributed by InsaneProdigy:'''
Taking the original yo-yo trick hieroglyphs as they are laid out in the puzzle image, we can replace them with the letters that are crossed from their names in the diagram. This gives: 
<pre>
T S MI I F
N OT R N E
</pre>
Hieroglyphs can be written either left to right or right to left. The bird on the right side of the image is facing left which is the standard notion that the glyphs are to be read right to left. However, this doesn't quite look right. My guess is that the blank in the bottom row should have been in that position on the top row and the middle top row should have been on the bottom row at the far right. This would give: 
<pre>
T S R I F
N OT N E MI
</pre>
Reading from right to left, this can clearly be seen as FIRST on the top line and MENTION on the bottom line.

The first hit of the search for FIRST MENTION yo-yo says:[http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=first+mention+yo-yo&mkt=en-us&FORM=LVSP (search)]
"The first historical mention of the yo-yo, however, was from Greece in the year 500 B.C."
</spoiler>

''Onward to: [[Collection Plate]]''

Tomb

2007-01-24T03:45:36Z

Rkuhler:

[[Image:Tomb.png]]

[[Image:Tomb 1.png]]

<spoiler>
The images are different yo-yo tricks.

In order of the pictures:
Rock the baby 
Sleeper 
Man on a flying trapeze 
Eiffel Tower 
Flag 
Around the world 
Double or Nothing 
Three Leaf Clover (missing in puzzle; picture given in the projection in London) 
Behind bars 
Flying saucer 

These fit into the spaces on the second image in the following order. 
DOUBLE OR NOTHING 
MAN ON A FLYING TRAPEZE 
FLAG 
SLEEPER 
BEHIND BARS 
ROCK THE BABY 
EIFFEL TOWER 
FLYING SAUCER 
THREE LEAF CLOVER 
AROUND THE WORLD 
 
'''Solved by Wynn from unfiction.com forums.''' 

The boxes on the paper represent the Great Pyramids with the point in the top left corner being the "vanishing point". By overlaying a map of the pyramids such as found, [http://goodfelloweb.com/giza/fig3.html here], you get the following: 
[[Image:tomb-overlay.jpg]] 
Look at the inside and the outside arc. They cross through the following letters:
TIFNIEOMSTRN 

'''Contributed by InsaneProdigy:'''
Taking the original yo-yo trick hieroglyphs as they are laid out in the puzzle image, we can replace them with the letters that are crossed from their names in the diagram. This gives: 
<pre>
T S MI I F
N OT R N E
</pre>
Hieroglyphs can be written either left to right or right to left. The bird on the right side of the image is facing left which is the standard notion that the glyphs are to be read right to left. However, this doesn't quite look right. My guess is that the blank in the bottom row should have been in that position on the top row and the middle top row should have been on the bottom row at the far right. This would give: 
<pre>
T S R I F
N OT N E MI
</pre>
Reading from right to left, this can clearly be seen as FIRST on the top line and MENTION can be read on the bottom line.

The first hit of the search for FIRST MENTION yo-yo says:[http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=first+mention+yo-yo&mkt=en-us&FORM=LVSP (search)]
"The first historical mention of the yo-yo, however, was from Greece in the year 500 B.C."
</spoiler>

''Onward to: [[Collection Plate]]''

Tomb

2007-01-24T03:44:30Z

Rkuhler:

[[Image:Tomb.png]]

[[Image:Tomb 1.png]]

<spoiler>
The images are different yo-yo tricks.

In order of the pictures:
Rock the baby 
Sleeper 
Man on a flying trapeze 
Eiffel Tower 
Flag 
Around the world 
Double or Nothing 
Three Leaf Clover (missing in puzzle; picture given in the projection in London) 
Behind bars 
Flying saucer 

These fit into the spaces on the second image in the following order. 
DOUBLE OR NOTHING 
MAN ON A FLYING TRAPEZE 
FLAG 
SLEEPER 
BEHIND BARS 
ROCK THE BABY 
EIFFEL TOWER 
FLYING SAUCER 
THREE LEAF CLOVER 
AROUND THE WORLD 
 
'''Solved by Wynn from unfiction.com forums.''' 

The boxes on the paper represent the Great Pyramids with the point in the top left corner being the "vanishing point". By overlaying a map of the pyramids such as found, [http://goodfelloweb.com/giza/fig3.html here], you get the following: 
[[Image:tomb-overlay.jpg]] 
Look at the inside and the outside arc. They cross through the following letters:
TIFNIEOMSTRN 

'''Contributed by InsaneProdigy:'''
Taking the original yo-yo trick hieroglyphs, we can replace them with the letters that are crossed from their names in the diagram. This gives: 
<pre>
T S MI I F
N OT R N E
</pre>
Hieroglyphs can be written either left to right or right to left. The bird on the right side of the image is facing left which is the standard notion that the glyphs are to be read right to left. However, this doesn't quite look right. My guess is that the blank in the bottom row should have been in that position on the top row and the middle top row should have been on the bottom row at the far right. This would give: 
<pre>
T S R I F
N OT N E MI
</pre>
Reading from right to left, this can clearly be seen as FIRST on the top line and MENTION can be read on the bottom line.

The first hit of the search for FIRST MENTION yo-yo says:[http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=first+mention+yo-yo&mkt=en-us&FORM=LVSP (search)]
"The first historical mention of the yo-yo, however, was from Greece in the year 500 B.C."
</spoiler>

''Onward to: [[Collection Plate]]''