Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Mark of a person

Connect the 3 images. Click for enlarged view

Answered by anonymous..refer comment for answer

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Kindness

This is a memorial to someone who contributed all that he had to a hospital, the first of its kind that started of a compassionate social idea. Put Funda

Sunday, September 13, 2009

110:Revolution












An attack here was the beginning of a revolution. Identify this place.

This is Moncada Barracks, Cuban revolution sparked off from here. Answered by Stryker

Monday, September 7, 2009

108:The greatest newspaper article ever




















Identify the context in which this newspaper article was published

Letter send by Emile Zola to the French President, titled J'Accuse (I accuse), about the imprisonment of Richard Dreyfus as he was convicted of espionage even though the evidence against Dreyfus was cooked up and it was obvious he was innocent.
Answered by KAKA and v.chandrashekar

Friday, September 4, 2009

107:Cocktail




















What is happening here? What did this lead to?

Signing of Molotov-Ribbontrop pact or the non-aggression pact between USSR and Nazi Germany on Aug24th, 1939. This lead to the division of Poland and its invasion of by Germany a week later, sparking off WW2.
Answered by V.Chandrashekhar

Thursday, August 13, 2009

97:Politricks!

This cartoon lead to a word associated with elections. Which word?

Answer is Gerrymandering. Answered by-Aditya Venkataraman aka Jicks

Friday, August 7, 2009

93. Another Tribute....

Pretty easy. What is being spoken about here?

"For scientists and laymen alike, this week's historic ____ was the first indication of the progress made in the greatest and most secret research race of this era. Except for a few breathless tales of mysterious walled laboratories and factories whose workers were interned for the duration, scarcely a word leaked out....hidden under the official designation '___________ ________', the vast forbidden areas in Tennessee, Washington and New Mexico got top priorities not only on material but also on scientific brains and effort."

- Time Magazine, August 13, ____


The 64th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki disaster was commemorated on 6th August, 2009.

The blanks are 'blast', 'Manhattan Project', and 1945.
Cracked by T.R., Nidheeshwar and Anon.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

From Sophia with Deadly Love....


Identify this deadly device. It has been used twice and worked only once, but it is a very clever creation




This is the Bulgarian Umbrella. This was used twice, once effectively to kill Georgi Markov on the London Waterloo Bridge. The method involves an umbrella specially designed to shoot out a poisoned bullet(Ricin used here) to kill a person. It was discontinued since the assassin would have to get too close to the victim and ricin was also unstable at certain temperatures(either doesn't work or might affect the handler)

Cracked by Kamal Rathi, Lakshmy, Raghav and Lord Labak Das(O.o)