Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

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    Because of my agenda :) Did you guys get the factoid I was referring to?
     
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    Spaniel in the Ark.
     
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    In keeping with Deeps' textless stumpers, here's another purely visual puzzle. Identify the common link between the images.

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    I am getting a fire breathing vibe.. am I imagining it all?
     
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    You might be. :) Fire breathing? Closer to wind harnessing perhaps!
     
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    The images provide clues to the names of a type of object associated with one very well-known, at least to us Indians, company. If you search with at least three of the correct terms, the answer should show up on the very first page. Will wait until tonight, then post the answers.

    With my real life commitments beckoning, and Aria and Soka on sabbatical, it's time to put the thread into cryostasis. I'll keep peeping in whenever possible.
     
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    I think I am not going to get it. I did try... :biggrin2: Will wait for the answer.
     
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    The images are:

    1. The great red dragon and the woman clothed in sun: a painting by the English poet William Blake. You might remember it as the tattoo Ralph Fiennes' character had on his back in the movie Red Dragon.
    2. Lord Nelson: Famous British naval officer, remembered for the Battle of Trafalgar.
    3. The Howrah bridge at Calcutta
    4. The logo of the Buffalo Bills, an NFL team.
    5. Robert Goddard, father of modern rocketry, after whom NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Baltimore was named.

    Red Dragon, Lord Nelson, HMS Calcutta, HMS Buffalo, and General Goddard, were names of ships belonging to the East India Company. :)
     
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    I got all the images but couldn't make the connection.... because.... I can't think simple? laugh1smiley

    I thought something to do with dragons.. because:

    1. Red dragon painting(image search for 'famous dragon paintings')
    2. Horatio Nelson (image search for 'napoleon uniform portrait'..thought Napoleon.. :oops:because of the hat)-> ........but didn't find anything dragon-y about him.
    3. Howrah bridge (had to go through a lot of cantilever bridges to get to it)-> the old Madhubala movie.. a dragon mask is stolen..
    4. The serial killer in Silence of the Lambs is called Buffalo Bill.. thought maybe there was some connection to the Red Dragon movie/novel that I cannot recall.
    5. Robert Goddard (image search for 'rocket stamp us airmail')-> created first liquid fuel rocket. SpaceX.. first private liquid fuel rocket.. has plans for a Mars mission called red dragon..
     

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