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Here is a map of the newly discovered cities and waterways on our nearest neighbor planet, Mars. Start at the city marked T, at the south pole, and see if you can spell a complete English sentence by making a tour of all the cities, visiting each city only once, and returning to the starting point.
When this puzzle originally appeared in a magazine, more than fifty thousand readers reported, “There is no possible way.” Yet it is a very simple puzzle.
A Christmas puzzle by Sam Loyd (January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911) The particular puzzle was reprinted after his death in 1914
Image detail and answer below: Continue reading “A Merry Christmas by Sam Loyd”
There’s always hope… Happy New Year!
By Prof. Sothnos Latillier
The Distinguished Astrologer.
THIS is the predestined year in which the Star of Bethlehem reappears in the heavens to herald the battle of Armageddon. Already in the evening skies the star, which is really a comet, is dimly discernible, and as the titanic conflict now raging reaches its climax it will be visible to all eyes. This celestial body has Recently been named by astronomers “Delevan’s Comet,” but it has always been known to astrologers as “the Star of Bethlehem.”
Couple of postcards showing a group of tourists by the still mostly covered sphinx in 1914
Continue reading “Tourists at the Pyramids, 1914”
“Granting the Martians an older and wiser civilization, and a better knowledge of our affairs than we have of theirs, our warring earth must seem rather silly in their eyes.”
“Airships will carry vast lenses that will concentrate the rays of the sun, withering and destroying everything beneath them.”
Page from a Majestic Theater program, Chicago, May, 11, 1914
Artwork for the 1914 film Million Dollar Mystery. A twenty-three episode serial that told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars. No copy of the film is known to exist.
