Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

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  1. Jul 31, 2014 #141
    deepslikes

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    I think I know it, but then maybe not!
     
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    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


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    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
     
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  3. Jul 31, 2014 #143
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    I heard you say, I did not hear you say , did I hear it correctly, may be? ;-)
     
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    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.
     
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  5. Jul 31, 2014 #145
    Gauri03

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    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? :)
     
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    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!
     
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  7. Jul 31, 2014 #147
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    She reminds me of Marie Antoinette!
     
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    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.
     
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    Puzzle# What episode....

    Are we talking verdant visitors from afar?
     
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    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.
     
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