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214: Bill W. – the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. 215: If there were a god, he wouldn’t have let us invent Photoshop. Identify Emma Watson’s doppelganger.
214: Bill W. – the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. 215: If there were a god, he wouldn’t have let us invent Photoshop. Identify Emma Watson’s doppelganger.
213: György Ligeti’s etude (study) for piano solo no. 14 – created in tribute to Brancusi’s The Endless Column. It is composed within proportions of Brancusi’s endless column (16 modules + one half module), as a spiral of “endlessly” rising musical scales. 214: Identify this man, who refused to appear on the cover of Time…
212: Ferdinand de Lesseps. His statue was removed from the entrance of the Suez Canal. 213: This piece of music was created in tribute to a remarkable work of art. Explain. Listen to it using the widget below or download it here. [blip.tv ?posts_id=1651187&dest=-1]
211: For reasons of linguistic interest, these entities are to be prefixed with “The”. The Gambia, the Lebanon, the Matterhorn and the Hague. 212: Once he stood proudly. Now he’s been removed off the pedestal and kept aside. Who and where?
210 – Fauvism. From Wikipedia, “The group gained their name, after critic Louis Vauxcelles described their show of work with the phrase “Donatello au milieu des fauves!” (“Donatello among the wild beasts”), contrasting the paintings with a Renaissance-type sculpture that shared the room with them.” Henri Rousseau himself was not a Fauve though. 211 –…
209: Zwieback – a generic name for a rusk in the US and other countries and Biscuit – both mean “twice baked” in their source languages. 210: An exclamation uttered by a critic – on seeing these two together, gave rise to what? (First visual is indicative.)
208: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. You can watch the original sequence here. 209: What etymological connection?
207: The xkcd strip is an amusing look at a day in the life of Bill Nye, the science educator and TV personality. The TV series Numb3rs was inspired by a speech he gave and he also has a cameo on the show. 208: Identify the source of the music used in this commercial directed…
206: Fantasy writer Robert Jordan supposedly named himself after the hero in Hemingway’s “For whom the bell tolls.” Gary Cooper played the character in the film. 207: Connect.
205: Chinese Water Torture. Popularized by a trick by Houdini called “Escape from the Chinese Water Torture Cell” and by the Fu Manchu books of Sax Rohmer. 206: Officially it’s been denied. But what’s the story?