Category: Reveal

By lachrimae72

Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design something amazing for the weekend getaway for the owners of Kaufmann’s Department Store in Pittsburgh. Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann were nature lovers had a plot of land a couple of hours outside Pittsburgh that they felt was beautiful. Their son was an apprentice at Wright’s Tallesin Fellowship and had introduced the couple to Wright. When the cabin on thier property near the waterfall began to deteriorate, they saw an opportunity and approached Wright to design a house overlooking the falls.

After visiting the site, he gave took a slightly different approach. He designed a cantilevered house built OVER the falls. Each room in the house would not only be afforded a view of some of the falls, but the whole house would ring with the sound of the falling water (hence the name) and carry the energy that motion conveyed. The Kaufmanns HATED the idea at first, but eventually relented and allowed construction to begin in early 1936. That didn’t mean the drama was over — there were many, many differences of opinion between Wright, the main contractor, and the Kauffmans (and the engineers they hired when they weren’t sure the design was safe). The original $35,000 cost estimate blew up to $155,000 (about $3.5 Million dollars in today’s value) by the time the project was done in 1941.

Those who found the house before the hint:

• Martin de Bock
• John-john Ken
• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• Phil Ower
• Garfield
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Andy McConnell
• Eloy Cano
• Bas van Limpt
• Graham Hedley
• Lighthouse

and after the hint:

• Robin
• Heidi Ibrahim
• LawnBoy
• David Kozina
• Andreas Meister
• Tamas Ny

Complements of contest #766, we have a single perfect score for this series. Congratulations to Lighthouse for a superbly played series. Close on her heels is Phil Ower with 19 points, and Martin de Bock, Paul Voestermans, Garfield, and Graham Hedley with 18 each.

Site of Frauenwörth, a Benedictine convent from the 8th century, this picturesque island is one of the prime tourist spots in Chiemsee. Visitors are particularly fond of the liquor made by the nuns. No cars or even bikes are allowed on the island.

Your fellow contestant Garfield lives not too far away and has been to the island many times before. She also mentions the Christmas market, which sounds quite wonderful, and labels the place “a gem of Bavarian culture and way of life”. Thank you for that wonderful description!

Those who found the site before the hint:

• Lighthouse
• hhgygy
• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Graham Hedley
• Andy McConnell
• Eloy Cano
• Glenmorren
• John-john Ken
• Heidi Ibrahim

And after the hint:

• Bas van Limpt
• Tamas Ny

This week’s contest location was Col de Galibier, France visited twice in the past 10 days by the Tour de France riders.

This location first appeared on the roster in 1911, just a year after the Tourmalet had first ushered high mountains into the race. As you may remember, those forced to do battle with the Pyrenees in 1910 accused the race’s mastermind, Henri Desgrange, of being ‘murderers’, but this clearly didn’t deter him.

More info on this climb in the Tour de France here: https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/7701/col-du-galibier-tour-de-france

Found before the hint:

• Graham Hedley
• Lighthouse
• Glenmorren
• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• John-john Ken
• Bad van Limpt
• Phil Ower

After the hint:

• hhgygy
• Andreas Meister

This week’s contest was a circle around a tower in the middle of nowhere just northeast of the community of Gillam, Manitoba, Canada.

While Belarus, the US, Malawi, Algeria, Venezuela and Burundi also celebrated their birthdays, July 1 was Canada Day, celebrating 155 years of independence.

And what the heck is it? Well, we picked it because of the odd look, but here’s what we’ve found so far. By checking the land ownership on Manitoba’s property assessor website, it belongs to the local hydro (power) company. It’s listed as “Electrode Station”. So, we believe it is a HUGE hybrid tower/ring grounding electrode station for the power plant. By HUGE, we mean nearly 800M diameter to the ring. It appears to be a component of the Nelson River HVDC Long Distance Transmission System. Nelson River uses a bipole HVDC transmission scheme, which requires large ground electrodes to provide return current should one side break. Since we are talking about megawatts of power, an electrode station of this size is required.

Found (just) before the hint:

• Lighthouse

And after:

• Phil Ower

The Prambaran temple compound, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia and the second-largest in Southeast Asia after Angkor Wat. It is characterized by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu architecture, and by the towering 47-metre-high (154 ft) central building inside a large complex of individual temples. Prambanan temple compounds originally consists of 240 temple structures; which represents the grandeur of ancient Java’s Hindu art and architecture, also considered as a masterpiece of the classical period in Indonesia. Prambanan attracts many visitors from around the world.

Found the spot before the hint:

• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Graham Hedley
• hhgygy
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Bas van Limpt
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• Heidi Ibrahim
• Tamas Ny

After the hint:

• Jeather

The Taukkyan War Cemetery, Rangoon, Myanmar is operated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for British casualties in what was then called Burna during World War 2.

Before the hint:

• hhgygy
• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Andy McConnell
• Heidi Ibrahim
• Graham Hedley
• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• Bas van Limpt
• Eloy Cano
• Glenmorren

After the hint:

• Ashwini Agrawal
• Andreas Meister
• Tamas Ny

On July 17, 1959 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered a fossilized skull from a previously unknown species of hominid that she and husband Louis Leakey named Zinjanthropus boisei. The 1.75-million-year-old fossil from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, turned the Leakey’s into household names, and firmly established that the roots of the human family tree extended deep into antiquity. The name of the genus “Zinjanthropus” has since been dropped. Whether the fossil belongs to the genus Australopithecus along with its smaller cousins, Australopithecus afarensis and A. africanus, or deserves to be part of a separate genus called Paranthropus along with other large hominid species like Paranthropus robustus has been the subject of debate. Some population of the smaller, or gracile, Australopithecines were the ancestors of Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and eventually Homo sapiens, while Paranthropus was probably an evolutionary dead end. Whatever genus the fossil is assigned to, it is no longer believed to be a direct ancestor of modern humans, but one of a number of hominid species that lived in Africa millions of years ago.

Near the Olduvai Gorge Museum, this location is listed as the Mary Leakey Camp Living Museum.

Found before the hint:

• hhgygy
• Garfield
• Martin de Bock
• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• Phil Ower
• Bas van Limpt
• Andreas Meister
• Heidi Ibrahim
• Graham Hedley

After the hint

• Nobody else.

Well known by locals, the La Chorrera / Gocta waterfall became more well known in the early 2000’s when “discovered” by a German engineer out for a hike. This impressive two-tiered waterfall is over 770 metres tall.

As the hint suggested, there is dispute over how tall they are – depending on how you measure them, they could be the 3rd tallest in the world. No doubt it’s an impressive feature – with the two tiers combined, the water plummets the height of well over two Eiffel Towers. But how do you measure a waterfall? Do you combine the two tiers, where is the top when it’s on a slope? All questions that will have waterfallologists chatting for a very long time (and yes, it does appear that waterfallologist is a real title).

Found the spot before the hint:

• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Andy McConnell
• Eloy Cano
• Tamas Ny
• Lighthouse
• Graham Hedley
• Martin de Bock
• hhgygy
• Glenmorren
• Bas van Limpt

After the hint:

• Ashwini Agrawal
• Andreas Meister

“The Sin in Mölle” — that’s what they called it in the early 1900’s. Men and women were allowed to swim here together! Shocking and disgraceful. So disgraceful, in fact, that the place became thick with wealthy and influential from all over northern Europe. So great was the draw that a weekly train from Berlin to Mölle ran until the beginning of WWI.

Those who found the spot before the hint:

• Garfield
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Bas van Limpt
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower

and after the hint:

• hhgygy
• Graham Hedley

And alas, our beach adventures are complete. We had 6 perfect scores for this series: Garfield, Paul Voestermans, Martin de Bock, Bas van Limpt, Lighthouse, and Phil Ower. Congratulations to those and the several others with nearly perfect scores.

By Mister No, CC BY 3.0, Link

Any time you read an article or see a video of someone setting a record for surfing the tallest wave in history, they are probably doing it down the beach from this beautiful spot, complements of a large underwater canyon (the Nazaré canyon). Waves of over 60′ / 18 m crest to trough are not unusual – the world record is from here and is 80′ (24.4 m). A few waves of over 100′ / 30 m have been measured here. In 2021, HBO released a documentary about chasing those gargantuan waves

Those who found the site before the hint:

• Graham Hedley
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• Glenmorren
• Martin de Bock
• Andy McConnell
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Bas van Limpt
• hhgygy
• Eloy Cano
• Jesus Rodriguez
• Tamas Ny

And after the hint:

• Robin
• Robert