kizolk
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 23:16:52 GMT
.A game where we post pictures of objects, landmarks, people, etc. and people have to guess what/who/where it is on earth. Initially I just wanted to post a pic of some monument on the ET thread, and ask if I was the only one who didn't know about it, but I figured that's a game I'd like, partly because of GeoGuessr. Anyway, do you know what this is?  (reminder in case you want to post a pic: taking a screenshot, clicking "import images" and Ctrl+V works!) |
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 23:21:52 GMT
(no "it's your turn if you win" kind of rule; post if you want to post, that's it)
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Post by kizolk on Feb 2, 2024 10:18:58 GMT
It's the Heddal Stave Church in Norway, built entirely out of wood in the 13th and restored in the 20th century. Downright magnificent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heddal_Stave_Church#Pacifica kinda posted a hint on the ET thread yesterday, but I'm not sure if the noticed it: the association between black metal and church burnings is due to a wave of Norwegian stave church burnings by black metal musicians in the 1990's. The Norwegian black metal scene mainly consisted of a bunch of self-serious assholes, but thankfully things have evolved since then. You don't even have to pretend you're a Satanist to make black metal these days! |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Feb 2, 2024 13:25:18 GMT
I'd never heard of it. I don't suppose guessing that it was a church would have garnered any points, given the hints supplied by the crosses and the gravestones.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 2, 2024 13:45:01 GMT
I don't suppose guessing that it was a church would have garnered any points Indeed but it would have earned you a pat on the back. I would have preferred it if those visual hints weren't there, but I thought the general look of the building was confusing enough that the crosses could have been mistaken for random architectural elements that happened to be cross-shaped. |
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Post by terentiusfaber on Feb 2, 2024 22:17:18 GMT
I've seen that before somewhere. I knew it was somewhere up north but couldn't say exactly where. What's weird about it for me, is that it was built as a Catholic church, but looks like a western interpretation of the old wooden churches of Orthodox Russia.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 10, 2024 4:52:09 GMT
Pacifica kinda posted a hint on the ET thread yesterday, but I'm not sure if the noticed it I only saw this thread now, and I didn't know about the stave-church burnings! Wow! If I'd seen the picture in time, I could have told you with certainty that it was a church in Scandinavia, for I've seen pictures of it before, but I would have had to take a guess at the exact country as I didn't remember that. |
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 10, 2024 7:18:37 GMT
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Post by kizolk on Feb 10, 2024 9:30:19 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen it but I could be wrong.
I'm bad at art and architecture styles, but one thing I can say is that the columns of the ground floor look like Ionic; now I don't know if they're associated to a particular period or place, and it could simply be an influence anyway. As for the function of the building, knowing what the statues (which look at least vaguely Greco-Roman) are would help, but it seems relatively modest in size which might be a clue. And as previously established, palm trees can be found just about everywhere so they probably can't help, but I'd tend to associate them with the Mediterranean.
Anyway, I'll try a private palace on a Greek island.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 10, 2024 9:34:27 GMT
No. But you aren't too far off culturally and geographically.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Feb 10, 2024 9:37:17 GMT
Edit: never mind.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 10, 2024 10:30:57 GMT
An alternative theory would be that there's a trap, like a slightly unexpected location e.g. in the Levant.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 10, 2024 10:39:08 GMT
It seems that this place is indeed sometimes included in "the Levant" though that isn't the most usual classification.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 10, 2024 11:17:15 GMT
All right... let's hybridize this game. Fill in the blanks:
The L______ of C______ in E______, p______-d______ T______.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 10, 2024 11:28:01 GMT
Everything can be advantageously FitB'ed up.
p_____-d_____ looks like a variant of "modern-day"... Or maybe not a variant, but the opposite: I don't think I've ever seen "past-day" but maybe it's in use!
But maybe E is Egypt or T is Turkey. I don't know which one has a stronger claim at being classified as part of the Levant.
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