I know Gauri you will swat me now! Promise to be more disciplined, patient , linear from tomorrow. Level Medium (the answer to the image is continued as the real clue in the puzzle) Clue Puzzle# Who are we ? Antecedent who bears the root of his name Known in a faraway land as a different culture but the same Turn the pages in history till they blanc to a time Frozen in a still chime Keep your bearings straight and walk For they discovered something when they did not baulk Ghosts whispering, you remember us or not Wild, you are the progeny of our lot
Why I chose? BBC is doing some really good shows/reruns on chemistry , and no chemical schism is complete without contention between Lavoisier and Priestley Who discovered Oxygen ? Was it Sheele , Priestley ,or Lavoisier? BBC Four - Chemistry: A Volatile History BBC iPlayer - Every Breath We Take: Understanding Our Atmosphere Priestley was offered on board to travel by Captain Cook but he declined and accepted position as tutor for the kids of William Fitzmaurice-Petty, Second Earl of Shelburne. This is where he makes a cameo appearance in history of the Georgians. BBC Four - The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain Who I chose: As Laks sobriquetically identified the Rushmore scientists who had little to do with rappelling but rushed to be hailed as scientists who discovered Oxygen one after the other or before. Wiki article sums it up as - Oxygen was discovered independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774, but Priestley is often given priority because his work was published first. The name oxygen was coined in 1777 by Antoine Lavoisier,[8] whose experiments with oxygen helped to discredit the then-popular phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion.
You are treading a dangerously fine line. But when the puzzles are so much fun, I can't be too mad at you, can I?
I think I got both the puzzles but some of the words in the first rhyme are throwing me off. I am sure about the second one though. The doctor was credited (unfairly) for the invention, of the bringer of mechanical decapitation!
Well she is Marie Antoinette and He is Louis XVI. They were executed at the height of the French Revolution. Aria - I'm dense. Didn't understand your clue. The mechanical decapitator clue didn't work too. I just went by visuals.
The clue is the radio telescope in the background. Inject "radio telescope" into the puzzle, what is the event/scientific discovery described? I have subtlezed the puzzle to crack now.