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Post by choice on Feb 22, 2020 14:02:26 GMT -5
People have kicked around the rocket park. I looked at Sam Houston Park because of the Spirit of the Confederacy looking character in the image with ghostly shapes in the funnel. I couldn't get very far unless there were lion drinking fountains there too!
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Post by canuck on Feb 22, 2020 14:45:09 GMT -5
Hey at least you are looking in the right part of the city, Choice. Hermann Park is a complete waste of time. People fixate on it due to the Melville clue in the verse while completely ignoring Hermann Square, which is the area Byron intended that hint for.
What about the 982 right? Well the seal for the City of Houston has always had a locomotive on it. Houston City Hall is right next to Hermann Square, so all the verse is telling you is to go to the Houston City Hall/Hermann Square area. You never physically needed the 982, just to know what the 982 is. It’s that simple....
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Post by choice on Apr 7, 2020 17:53:02 GMT -5
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Post by SluggoZim on Apr 20, 2020 8:00:48 GMT -5
any significance to the circled items? the only rounded end leaf on the right and a suspicious loop at left. cant figure out what is being obscured by leaves, yet. onward.
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Post by TxTH on Apr 20, 2020 8:53:11 GMT -5
It is a larkspur, one of two in the painting, which is the flower of July.
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Post by SluggoZim on Apr 20, 2020 10:15:34 GMT -5
thanks. found the second. different orientations, but about the same distance and angle above 95 and 96. hmmm.
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Post by SluggoZim on Apr 24, 2020 20:00:06 GMT -5
Larkspur. also suggests space shuttle, launch and landing positions?
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Post by canuck on Apr 24, 2020 21:41:33 GMT -5
Larkspur. also suggests space shuttle, launch and landing positions? Yep, absolutely...smart man, wish more people thought like you Sluggo!
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Post by TxTH on Apr 25, 2020 11:12:27 GMT -5
It is interesting that the picture you posted above shows more than what the Nov. 1982 book shows. If it was allowed to be cropped in the book I would think that, though interesting, it may not have any purpose. But you can't be sure.
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Post by SluggoZim on Apr 25, 2020 11:16:45 GMT -5
yep. the pic is from the original paintings choice has been posting. cropping is curious.
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Post by choice on Apr 25, 2020 12:00:33 GMT -5
One could argue that cropping happened to make the image fit the page format of the book. One VERY interesting cropping is at the bottom of the painting. The curved feature that looks like baseball stitching that is commonly referred to as the parking lot in Hermann Park has a long extension to it that didn't exist at the lot.
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Post by xmarksdspot on Apr 25, 2020 16:37:53 GMT -5
One could argue that cropping happened to make the image fit the page format of the book. One VERY interesting cropping is at the bottom of the painting. The curved feature that looks like baseball stitching that is commonly referred to as the parking lot in Hermann Park has a long extension to it that didn't exist at the lot. The stitching is how every railroad track is shown on any map.
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Post by choice on Apr 25, 2020 17:52:27 GMT -5
That's exactly what I was getting at. With the new image the parking lot option is eliminated. Mini train tracks more likely.
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Post by xmarksdspot on Apr 26, 2020 10:28:27 GMT -5
That's exactly what I was getting at. With the new image the parking lot option is eliminated. Mini train tracks more likely. I agree totally. if you consider that part of the image a map, the curve in the track may also be important, look for that in the real world. I'm sure I'm way behind everyone else on this puzzle as it was the last one I have worked on. I just want to mention a couple things that i'm sure have already been brought up but that I just recently noticed. The shadow on the big sphere and the star above it must be the religious symbol of the Star and crescent moon. The whole sphere looks like the moon, Houston, we have a problem.
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Post by choice on Apr 26, 2020 13:01:50 GMT -5
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