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Old 03-07-2013, 09:04 PM   #11086
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This one too will probably boggle your mind.
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Old 03-08-2013, 01:31 AM   #11088
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6) Who broke the news of Wilbur an Oliver Wright's manned powered flight?
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That may or may not be true, I am looking for the publication.
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Old 03-08-2013, 02:01 AM   #11090
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Old 03-08-2013, 02:20 AM   #11091
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Correct, did you look it up?
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Old 03-08-2013, 03:54 AM   #11092
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Correct, did you look it up?
To add to #6 while Mr Root printed the first accurate report describing the events at Kitty Hawk in Gleanings in Bee Culture a few months later, a very inaccurate story was printed 2 months earlier in the Virginia-Pilot. I believe the telegraph operator who transmitted the brothers message to their father notified the local paper and they printed the story. Neither person witnessed the brothers flight at KH. Their father contacted the newspaper in Dayton but they wouldn't print it as they felt it was insignificant.
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Old 03-08-2013, 04:16 AM   #11093
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Correct, did you look it up?
To be fair, now that the answer's out there I recall it being mentioned in one of Bill Bryson's books - so it is possible that somebody here would have known it.
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Old 03-08-2013, 05:08 AM   #11094
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Degrees of Longitude of various capital cities?
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Hints: This is not a mathematical question. It does not require obscure knowledge that you'd have to look up.
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Old 03-08-2013, 05:19 AM   #11095
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To add to #6 while Mr Root printed the first accurate report describing the events at Kitty Hawk in Gleanings in Bee Culture a few months later, a very inaccurate story was printed 2 months earlier in the Virginia-Pilot. I believe the telegraph operator who transmitted the brothers message to their father notified the local paper and they printed the story. Neither person witnessed the brothers flight at KH. Their father contacted the newspaper in Dayton but they wouldn't print it as they felt it was insignificant.
An amazing amount of esoteric knowledge.
I just found it funny that news of that magnitude would first be published in a rather obscure magazine.
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Old 03-08-2013, 06:18 AM   #11096
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To Paul's question:

When you change the order of the numbers is it the timetable of some train with its stops? Perhaps Edinburgh-London (really don't know how long it takes)?
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Old 03-08-2013, 06:35 AM   #11097
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To Paul's question:

When you change the order of the numbers is it the timetable of some train with its stops? Perhaps Edinburgh-London (really don't know how long it takes)?
I think that counts as obscure knowledge you'd need to look up.

I assure you that everyone reading this forum has all the necessary information to identify the link between these times:

9:27
13:48
8:59
19:17
2:08
18:43

Perhaps some more examples and counter-examples will help.

These ARE some more examples
11:21
10:38
9:14

These DO NOT belong in the list
8:10
7:58
6:27
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Old 03-08-2013, 11:37 AM   #11098
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I presume this only works on a 24 hour clock, given the way you have specified the times? Is it that the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand is always the same?
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Old 03-08-2013, 11:47 AM   #11099
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...6) Who broke the news of Wilbur an Oliver Wright's manned powered flight?...
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To add to #6 while Mr Root printed the first accurate report describing the events at Kitty Hawk in Gleanings in Bee Culture a few months later, a very inaccurate story was printed 2 months earlier in the Virginia-Pilot. I believe the telegraph operator who transmitted the brothers message to their father notified the local paper and they printed the story. Neither person witnessed the brothers flight at KH. Their father contacted the newspaper in Dayton but they wouldn't print it as they felt it was insignificant.
How did you come up with The Virginian-Pilot, Fbone? As a teenager, I delivered that newspaper on my bicycle, and I still subscribe to it. That paper's been around a loooong time.
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In Hawaii, Ohana means family, and family means you never run out of mouth$ to support. One of my children remembered a Discovery Channel episode about the Wright brothers, and the rest, you know, is history ...

Are we close on the answer to #9?
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