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Locations |
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Day 1 |
Puzzle 1 |
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Day 2 |
Puzzle 2 |
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Day 3 |
Puzzle 3 |
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Does not go well with pepperoni
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Heading southeast
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1173
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183.27 feet from the lowest side
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186.02 feet from the highest side
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Estimated weight 14,500 tons
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294 steps
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5.5 degree tilt
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Day 4 |
Puzzle 4 |
- Chestnut Street
- State House of the Province
- Currently the home of the Centennial Bell
- Completed 1753
- U.S. Landmark
- 3 Documents signed
- Original home of the Liberty Bell
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Day 5 |
Puzzle 5 |
- Covers 1.8 hectares of land
- 183 meters long
- 120 meters wide
- Supported on 580 concrete piers
- Covered with 1.056 million glossy white and matte cream Swedish-made tiles
- A series of large precast shells
- Bennelong Point
- A World Heritage Site
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Day 6 |
Puzzle 6 |
- 1st 250 feet brickwork
- Remainder cast iron
- Interior volume 164.200 cubic feet
- 576 pieces of opal glass
- 316 feet high
- Completed 1858
- Clock faces – four
- Victorian Gothic design
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Day 7 |
Puzzle 7 |
- Predecessor Ferry
- First drawings not approved
- 11 men killed
- 19 men saved by the net – member of the “half way to hell” club
- Approximately 1,200,000 rivets
- Actual cost $36.7 dollars
- Open April 1937
- 59241
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Day 8 |
Puzzle 8 |
- Looks like Chicken but doesn’t taste like it
- Area has no above ground rivers
- At the mouth of the well
- Ancient Chronicles – Uucyabnal
- Ruins Federal property – but
- Land owned privately by Babachano family
- Rose to Prominence 600 AD
- Temple of Kukulcan
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Day 9 |
Puzzle 9 |
- From Ancient to Modern
- Home to Used Vehicles
- 9% of the land developed
- 15-17,000 people work there
- 34 miles long
- 6 miles wide
- 219 square miles
- Complex 39
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Day 10 |
Puzzle 10 |
- 20,000 people a day used elevator when first opened-Trip took 43 seconds bottom to top
- Weighs 9550 tons
- 138 feet at widest point
- Can withstand 200 mph winds
- Can withstand 9.5 magnitude earthquake
- 25 lightning rods attached to the top – 605 high
- When completed – tallest building west of the Mississippi River
- 1962 World’s Fair - symbol
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Day 11 |
Puzzle 11 |
- Located off Highway 73
- Overlooking the villages below
- Bran - Brasov
- Stronghold of the Teutonic Knights – 1212
- Construction began 1378 as defense against the Turks
- It’s a myth – Home of Vlad III
- Vampires PPP#12
- Between Transylvania and Wallachia SS#12
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| Day 12 |
Puzzle 12 |
- Monolith
- Key plot device for a 1977 movie
- Igneous Intrusion
- Rises 1267 feet above surrounding terrain
- 5112 feet above sea level
- 44 degrees, 35 minutes, 26 seconds N
- 104 degrees, 42 minutes, 56 seconds W
- Located near Huelett and Sundance above the Belle Fourche River
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| Day 13 |
Puzzle 13 |
- Official residence of the president
- Occupied by the French in 1812
- Area continuously inhabited since the 2nd millennium BC
- Was known as the grad - until the 14th century
- Destroyed by the Mongols 1237
- Rebuilt in oak 1339
- St. Basil’s Cathedral often mistaken for this place
- Borovitsky Hill across from the Moskva River
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| Day 14 |
Puzzle 14 |
- 191 feet long x 146 feet wide
- Living space 15,000 square feet
- Tourist welcome but very expensive
- 199 x 215 miles
- Can be see in it’s entirety with the naked eye
- Completes 15.7 per day
- Weighs when fully assembled 1,040,000 pounds
- Average speed 17,240 MPH
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| Day 15 |
Puzzle 15 |
- Bridal Veil
- Shut off June 1969
- Canadian/American
- Ontario/New York
- Annie Edson Taylor
- 202,000 cubic feet per second
- Formed after the Wisconsin glaciation
- Slowly I turned – step by step – inch by inch
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| Day 16 |
Puzzle 16 |
- Made of earth, stone and wood
- Bricks used later
- Often used smoke signals to communicate
- Built to protect the northern border
- Largest man made structure in terms of surface and mass
- Shanhai Pass to Lop Nur
- Longest man made structure
- 4000 miles long
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| Day 17 |
Puzzle 17 |
- Sea battles fought here
- 300 tons of iron clamps
- Base covers 6 acres
- Used for 500 years
- Flavian Amphitheatre
- Seats 50,000 – some said 87,000
- East of the Forum Construction started 70-72 AD
- Vespasian started – Titus finished
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| Day 18 |
Puzzle 18 |
- On the edge
- Like walking on glass
- 65 feet beyond
- A visit requires special shoes
- Capable of holding 70 tons
- Cost $40 million
- 4000 foot drop
- Horseshoe shaped – opened March 28, 2007
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| Day 19 |
Puzzle 19 |
- Purchased in 1915
- As a gift for his wife who was not impressed
- Lot 15, about 30 acres, 2 rods, 37 perches of adjoining downland
- Cause of the Battle of the Beanfield
- Heel Stone or Friar’s Heel near the entrance
- Erected circa 2200 BC
- Pilgrimage site for neo-druids
- Located in Wiltshire
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| Day 20 |
Puzzle 20 |
- Copper Clad
- Spikes represent the seven seas and continents
- Stands on an 11 point star
- On the tablet MDCCLXXVI
- Broken shackles lie at it’s feet
- One of the engineers was Alexander Eiffel
- 151’ 1” tall pedestal adds 154’
- Presented in 1866
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| Day 21 |
Puzzle 21 |
- Until the Lincoln Cathedral – tallest building on earth
- Largest covers 13 acres
- Weather and robbers have taken their toll
- In a country where the main river runs north
- Peak capped with gold
- The only ancient Wonder still in existence
- A place to spend eternity
- If you are looking for her - a good place to find your mummy
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| Day 22 |
Puzzle 22 |
- First in a chain
- Built by the Spanish
- Authorized in 1716 - cornerstone laid May 8, 1744
- Abandoned 1793
- One theory says it was named after the Cottonwood grove nearby
- San Antonio de Valero Mission
- 187 vs. 6000
- Travis, Crockett, Bowie
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| Day 23 |
Puzzle 23 |
- Made of sandstone
- Inselberg -Monadanock
- 1142 feet high
- Circumference 5.8 miles
- 208 miles southwest of nearest town
- Sacred to Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara
- 2831 feet above sea level down under
- Uluru
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| Day 24 |
Puzzle 24 |
- Near Keystone
- Covers 1278 acres
- Six Grandfathers
- 5725 feet above sea level
- 60 foot faces
- George, Tom, Teddy and Abe
- Started 1927 finished 1941
- Gutzon Borglum wanted them to go to waist
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| Day 25 |
Puzzle 25 |
- Born August 12, 1833
- Largest in the Midwest
- In the 2nd most populous county
- French rendering skikaakwa
- Worldly Event in 1893
- Treaty of St. Louis ceded land to US
- Site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Watershed
- 59209
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| Day 26 |
Puzzle 26 |
- Once a City-State
- Became an Imperial power following the 4th Crusade
- Winged Lion of St. Mark
- Conquered on May 12, 1797 during the First Coalition
- Queen of the Adriatic
- Built on a archipelago of 122 islands
- Formed by 150 canals and 400 bridges
- Today transportation in the city only by foot or water
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| Day 27 |
Puzzle 27 |
- Once a Capital City
- Football Stadium holds 95,000 people
- a.k.a “The Marvelous City
- River of January
- Carnival Celebrations
- Samba
- Copacabana & Ipanema
- Giant Jesus
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| Day 28 |
Puzzle 28 |
- Sanford City Council turned down the opportunity
- Covers 30,000 acres
- Has it’s own Fire Department
- Has it own Transit system
- Ayefour Corporation bought the first 5 acres on 10/24/64
- RETLAW – bought more land – note what that spells backwards
- WD first flew over site 11/22/63 – a day most of us will never forget
- Home of the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
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| Day 29 |
Puzzle 29 |
- Babe Ruth played for the home team
- Capital of the commonwealth
- Founded on Shawmut Peninsula
- Founded September 17, 1630
- Puritans not Pilgrims
- Tea Anyone --- NO!
- Big Dig – Big Bucks!
- One if by land – two if by sea – listen my children – and you shall hear
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| Day 30 |
Puzzle 30 |
- Sits at an altitude of 1578 feet
- Great view from Gower Street
- Originally advertised a new housing development
- Originally LAND was at the end
- First erected 1923
- Near the top of Mount Lee
- Originals 50 feet high
- 1978 they were only 45 feet high
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| Day 31 |
Puzzle 31 |
- Really located in Paradise and Winchester
- Translated – “The Meadows” or the “Grasslands”
- The seat of Clark County
- The most populous city in the state
- Established 1905
- Became a city 1911
- Largest US city founded in the 20th century
- 4 ½ mile strip mostly outside the city limits
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