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  1. Feb 17, 2016 #5761
    PriyaSrini

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    Solution to Puzzle # 5655

    S. A. Andree's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897


    Salomon August Andree was a Swedish balloonist who proposed to pass over the North pole in a hydrogen balloon. The polar balloon Ornen ( The Eagle) lifted off from Svalbard in July 1897, carrying Andree, Knut Fraenkel the engineer and Nils Strindberg the photographer.


    The expedition was probably never meant to succeed. Shortly after lift off, Andree realized that the balloon had lost it's "drag rope" which was used to steer the craft. Two days later the balloon crashed on the Arctic ice pack. Ill equipped and ill clothed, the explorers tried to trek back, but the shifting ice and the severe weather condition left them stranded on Kvitoya (White Island). 33 years later their bodies were discovered by a group of seal hunters.


    Image 1 : A Christmasy snow covered sign pointing to North pole
    Image 2: Eagle or Flight of the eagle, a book by Per Olof Sundman which was made into a movie directed by Jan Troell based on the Arctic expedition.
    Image 3: Lanterns ....come on I cannot make it too simple and have a pic of hot air balloons here.
    Image 4: White island Kvitoya
    Image 5: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who along with King Oscar II and Alfred Nobel funded the expedition.

    For further reading click here and here to view the photographs taken by Nils Strindberg.
     
    PriyaSrini, Feb 17, 2016
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  2. Feb 17, 2016 #5762
    kaniths

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    PriyaSrini's puzzle got me curious & I made one... Quickie type again... Coffee anyone? ;-) :biggrin2:
    (let me know... will post in the evening, my time)
     
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  3. Feb 17, 2016 #5763
    Gauri03

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    Sure. We don't have any lined up.
     
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  4. Feb 17, 2016 #5764
    kaniths

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    Arrrre you guys enjoying the silence in this thread... a rarity these days... mm? Am I interrupting? :tongue
     
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  5. Feb 17, 2016 #5765
    Viswamitra

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    Priya,

    A very well constructed puzzle. Thank you.

    Viswa
     
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  6. Feb 17, 2016 #5766
    jskls

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    will try later .... Been too busy any more clues?
     
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  7. Feb 17, 2016 #5767
    kaniths

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    Oh you don't remember? thinkingsmiley I thought you knew... :oops: Nevermind... Nothing important... Just joking!
     
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    jskls

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    oh the mustache one?
     

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  9. Feb 17, 2016 #5769
    kaniths

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    errrr... nope! But am glad you at least remembered that! You know n...r? The person who hates all the vowels in her name? Thats who I was taking a dig at! faintingsmiley At least tell me you liked the pic! :rotfl

    I ll post a coffee puzzle later tonight / today whatever, you better focus on that! :coffee
     
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  10. Feb 17, 2016 #5770
    kaniths

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    Sorry for the distraction... Here it is...

    #CoffeeBreakPuzzle #SimpleChina #Easy

    All text clues, in the first row, should help you guess what am talking about! #GoFigure (yeah...literally!) :)

    Very easy, should take only a minute or two to solve...

    PS :
    .....little less cryptic or little more direct so I get your hints?
    .....or use the yellow bars for my sake please?     :)

    Thanks, have fun!
     

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