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Puzzle Fantastic 3 (third clue)
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Posted on: October 12, 2007 10:59 PM, by David Ng
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Captain James Cook's clockwise circumnavigation of the longitudes and latitudes of the Sandwich Islands?
Posted by: Joe in LA | October 14, 2007 5:15 AM
Endeavour?
Posted by: Joe in LA | October 14, 2007 5:21 AM
Ventures?
Posted by: Joe in LA | October 14, 2007 5:24 AM
The transit of Venus?
Posted by: Joe in LA | October 14, 2007 7:56 PM
Eukaryotic cytoskeleton keratin filaments?
Posted by: Joe in LA | October 14, 2007 10:37 PM
Perturbations causing boundary-induced spiral wave drift?
Posted by: Joe in LA | October 15, 2007 1:27 AM
Seems astronomical somehow.
Take the first clue: someone said epicycles, and maybe that's a start.
The second clue has Hawaii 5-0 in the foreground, but the wave is the interesting part. And waves would lead to some thought about the moon and tides and so on.
Then this third clue, and a ship at sea, which could be exploration, could be about longitude, could be referemce to an earlier version of a final frontier.
And in each there's something about space, which is what I meant at the top, that maybe it's astronomy related.
Posted by: Baldwin Somwhere Besides LA | October 15, 2007 1:25 PM
Specifically, this ship is the H.M.S. Bellerophon, a 74 gun Arrogant class ship. She fought at Trafalgar among others. In August of 1815 at Plymouth (the setting of the painting) she contained a famous prisoner, Napoleon Bonapart. Bonapart never left the ship, instead being taken away where he was transfered to another ship to be transported to exile on St. Helena. The painting is dated the 6th of August, although I believe the ship had actually left Plymouth on the 4th.
Bellerophon is the name of the warrior who tamed and rode the horse Pegasus.
Posted by: Dave S. | October 15, 2007 2:17 PM
From Wikipedia , coninuing on the astronomical theme, there are several other entries for Bellerophon including "the first exosolar planet discovered around a main sequence star", as well as "a moon in Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity universe".
Posted by: Matthew | October 15, 2007 3:05 PM