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Post by passcrow on Oct 15, 2013 18:48:58 GMT
I was thinking 'through that hole go' had something to do with the medallion/coin thing. The paintings in the Jefferson building are in the SW pavillion and there is a hole roughly to the SW on the compass rose side of the mudallion but if you 'go through' that all you find is the 'founded 1876' on the opposite side....
Also a random thought...Discovery is the lost girl...and a NASA shuttle that had a piggyback flight from Florida to DC which is the same path as the Maynard paintings. And now I'm thinking too hard and grasping at straws.
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Post by chewbrocca on Oct 15, 2013 20:36:14 GMT
also, i agree it's not a bad idea, even if it might not be necessary, for someone ( chewbrocca) to stop in to the actual building if it's not too out of the way (and, if it's even open)... couldn't hurt! Yeah, it's the main building for Flagler College. I know most of it is off-limits as it's dorms. If I really don't have to I might just continue going north, but if there is some grey left I'll see about checking it out. I must be missing a lot of info, as I seem to be a step behind |
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Post by passcrow on Oct 15, 2013 20:42:55 GMT
I must be missing a lot of info, as I seem to be a step behind You're not alone. I'm still at the LoC and don't understand the reasoning behind the key that has been proposed... But I don't really know what's going on, so that could just be me... |
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Post by exicice on Oct 15, 2013 23:07:03 GMT
so, the "lost girl" was found because of the "letters in the lining"... there were letters that were supposed to spell out l o s t g i r l, but we didn't get them all as not everyone has shared information on the kits received. m helped a bit in the chat room, and because of the "element" markings on the vials. the positioning of the "maidens" on the rotunda www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=1b5d7015-c9ed-4d59-b1e3-dfed832973b6&gid=3 and m's help, we got to "discovery" as the lost girl (a figure between two of the "element" figures in the circular painting). and her "father" is maybe/probably the painter, which led to his paintings at the library of congress. i know it's hard to keep up - i have a difficult time with it sometimes, too! |
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Post by passcrow on Oct 16, 2013 0:59:30 GMT
so, the "lost girl" was found because of the "letters in the lining"... there were letters that were supposed to spell out l o s t g i r l, but we didn't get them all as not everyone has shared information on the kits received. m helped a bit in the chat room, and because of the "element" markings on the vials. the positioning of the "maidens" on the rotunda www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=1b5d7015-c9ed-4d59-b1e3-dfed832973b6&gid=3 and m's help, we got to "discovery" as the lost girl (a figure between two of the "element" figures in the circular painting). and her "father" is maybe/probably the painter, which led to his paintings at the library of congress. i know it's hard to keep up - i have a difficult time with it sometimes, too! I've followed that far but I'm not sure I follow some of the rational for making one of the architects the 'key'. I'm still working at 'mind her corner {The oval paintings in each corner of the Discovery painting, btw, are Winter(E) and Spring(W)} and through that hole go' (Left to the corridor with the Elements mural?) and Then the whole first name thing...hmmmm.... This is my first day, confusion is high.  |
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Post by exicice on Oct 16, 2013 5:03:06 GMT
oh, i fell ya! well, welcome! it's not really a "key" we are looking for, necessarily - we are just following the poem down line by line. the poem that is posted on findthestarlight.com. (the "maidens" were the women, the "lost girl" was the discovery maiden, and we're thinking "father" was the artist... if that helps at all with this key talk.) i think a lot of us are working on the "corner" as well, so you're not behind at all! i've heard suggestions about the elements mural, that very well could be it! have you been able to log into the chatroom to join the chaos and confusion there?  |
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Post by passcrow on Oct 16, 2013 6:33:29 GMT
oh, i fell ya! well, welcome! it's not really a "key" we are looking for, necessarily - we are just following the poem down line by line. the poem that is posted on findthestarlight.com. (the "maidens" were the women, the "lost girl" was the discovery maiden, and we're thinking "father" was the artist... if that helps at all with this key talk.) i think a lot of us are working on the "corner" as well, so you're not behind at all! i've heard suggestions about the elements mural, that very well could be it! have you been able to log into the chatroom to join the chaos and confusion there? There's a chatroom? That's something I missed. |
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Post by subjectoftowels on Oct 16, 2013 11:28:13 GMT
oh, i fell ya! well, welcome! it's not really a "key" we are looking for, necessarily - we are just following the poem down line by line. the poem that is posted on findthestarlight.com. (the "maidens" were the women, the "lost girl" was the discovery maiden, and we're thinking "father" was the artist... if that helps at all with this key talk.) i think a lot of us are working on the "corner" as well, so you're not behind at all! i've heard suggestions about the elements mural, that very well could be it! have you been able to log into the chatroom to join the chaos and confusion there? There's a chatroom? That's something I missed. #findthestarlight |
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Post by exicice on Oct 17, 2013 10:19:51 GMT
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Post by AF on Oct 17, 2013 14:05:20 GMT
Hey all, This picture shows the three doors leading from the discoveries room into the south exhibition gallery, the only real "holes" near the discovery painting. douglasathas.net/Sub/loc_jefferson_library.jpg It looks like there's plaques above each door and wall? I wrote in the finding the lost girl google doc a bit about the south exhibition gallery. I feel like I have all these clues but am not sure how to string them together to fit with the poem. |
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Post by summersumz on Oct 17, 2013 15:00:13 GMT
We need someone to go to the LoC soon!
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Post by passcrow on Oct 17, 2013 20:44:43 GMT
Hey all, This picture shows the three doors leading from the discoveries room into the south exhibition gallery, the only real "holes" near the discovery painting. douglasathas.net/Sub/loc_jefferson_library.jpg It looks like there's plaques above each door and wall? I wrote in the finding the lost girl google doc a bit about the south exhibition gallery. I feel like I have all these clues but am not sure how to string them together to fit with the poem. There's one more door off the East Wall too. |
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Post by idea on Oct 18, 2013 0:01:37 GMT
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Commerce, crowned with a wreath of peaceful olive leaves, holds in her right hand a model of a Yankee schooner and in her left a miniature locomotive.
• Commerce, sculptor:
John Flanagan (1865–1952)
• Above the figure of Commerce:
We taste the spices of Arabia yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth.
—Dudley North (1602–1677)
there is a statue in the main room commerce holding a train with the above inscription speaking of the sun
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Post by danagel on Oct 18, 2013 2:18:26 GMT
Mind her corner and through that hole go = Go through the corner of the SW pavilion, through the courtyard (hole in building) into the Reading Room
Her first name follows - Spain = Discovery in the circular dome
News You must know = it's important
That marked with the eleventh breath = count eleven from Spain and you reach Italy (also noted as West).
Tells a tale = Discovery America (Christopher Columbus)
Where the train took the son is the end of the trail = finishing the circuit yields a circle. The circle is the end of the trail (Columbus Circle)
When you get there look out at the words set in stone the door will open the third that is shown = The monument at Columbus Circle has the following inscription: TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS / THE ITALIANS RESIDENT IN AMERICA, / SCOFFED AT BEFORE, / DURING THE VOYAGE, MENACED, / AFTER IT, CHAINED, / AS GENEROUS AS OPPRESSED, / TO THE WORLD HE GAVE A WORLD. /
My answer was "Columbus"
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Post by exicice on Oct 18, 2013 8:20:13 GMT
had to quote this, it was too good- passcrow: I think that we're all over thinking it and by the time we figure it out we're gonna realize that while we were throwing out mathematical formulas to solve for x we were just supposed to be playing tic tac toe... EDIT: so now my updated "joke" to this is that it was actually the letter "t" and we were looking at the damn thing sideways. |
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