Who / What / Where Game - Page 497

Aktungbby · 04-01-19, 08:53 PM

BATTERY POWERED? OR PLUGGED IN?

Armistead · 04-01-19, 10:39 PM

anything to do with the Vatican? or ..some burial ceremony

bracer · 04-02-19, 03:49 AM

Can you spin one of the parts?

u crank · 04-02-19, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

BATTERY POWERED? OR PLUGGED IN?

Not electric.

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Originally Posted by Armistead

anything to do with the Vatican?

There is a connection in the story.

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Originally Posted by bracer

Can you spin one of the parts?

Yes.

Jimbuna · 04-02-19, 06:48 AM

A lantern?

u crank · 04-02-19, 07:26 AM

Nope.

Catfish · 04-02-19, 07:29 AM

From Dan Browne's Da Vinci Code?

Don't know how you would call this in english though. Cryptex?
It holds a message which will be destroyed if you enter a false code

u crank · 04-02-19, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish

From Dan Browne's Da Vinci Code?

Don't know how you would call this in english though. Cryptex?
It holds a message which will be destroyed if you enter a false code

You are right Catfish.

Over to you.

Aktungbby · 04-02-19, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

is it real?

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Originally Posted by u crank

If you mean does it physically exist, yes.

I really must protest!

" it is a fictional device" created by the author...but methinks I doth 'protest too much'

Catfish · 04-02-19, 01:19 PM

Maybe too easy lol, but:
Who's that, where is he, and why is he depicted like that?

Jimbuna · 04-02-19, 01:24 PM

San Pietro in Vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains) was built during the fifth century to house the relic of Saint Peter’s chains when he was imprisoned in Jerusalem.

Catfish · 04-02-19, 01:31 PM

^ right!

Well this was the location, but the statue depicts Moses. With horns!
It's over to you, but why those horns?

edit: ok i see there are different theories.. what was told to us is that the translation from hebrew to latin ws initially corrcet, from hebrew crowned to "coronata", but the later scribers made an error changing it to "cornata" leaving out an o, so cornata is "horned".
Yes, there are now other theories and conspiracies ..

Here's Michelangelo's whole work of Moses:

And those are the chains exhibited, that St. Peter is said to have worn:

Jimbuna · 04-03-19, 06:42 AM

What is this?

u crank · 04-03-19, 09:09 AM

Is it biological?

Jimbuna · 04-03-19, 10:21 AM

It is.

04-01-19, 08:53 PM	#7441
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,968 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	BATTERY POWERED? OR PLUGGED IN? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

04-01-19, 10:39 PM	#7442
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,864 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	anything to do with the Vatican? or ..some burial ceremony __________________ You see my dog don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

04-02-19, 03:49 AM	#7443
bracer Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sweden Posts: 765 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Can you spin one of the parts? __________________ My WIP Battleship simulator, Battleship Command: Scharnhorst Want to support the project on Patreon? Here's the link!

04-02-19, 06:48 AM	#7445
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	A lantern? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-02-19, 07:26 AM	#7446
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,566 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	Nope. __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

04-02-19, 07:29 AM	#7447
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,904 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	From Dan Browne's Da Vinci Code? Don't know how you would call this in english though. Cryptex? It holds a message which will be destroyed if you enter a false code __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

04-02-19, 01:19 PM	#7450
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,904 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Maybe too easy lol, but: Who's that, where is he, and why is he depicted like that? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

04-02-19, 01:24 PM	#7451
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	San Pietro in Vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains) was built during the fifth century to house the relic of Saint Peter’s chains when he was imprisoned in Jerusalem. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-02-19, 01:31 PM	#7452
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,904 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	^ right! Well this was the location, but the statue depicts Moses. With horns! It's over to you, but why those horns? edit: ok i see there are different theories.. what was told to us is that the translation from hebrew to latin ws initially corrcet, from hebrew crowned to "coronata", but the later scribers made an error changing it to "cornata" leaving out an o, so cornata is "horned". Yes, there are now other theories and conspiracies .. Here's Michelangelo's whole work of Moses: And those are the chains exhibited, that St. Peter is said to have worn: __________________ >^..^<)))>{ All generalizations are wrong. Last edited by Catfish; 04-02-19 at 01:57 PM.*

04-03-19, 06:42 AM	#7453
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	What is this? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-03-19, 09:09 AM	#7454
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,566 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	Is it biological? __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

04-03-19, 10:21 AM	#7455
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It is. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)