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Points: 24583 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2012 at 05:23

Originally posted by James James wrote:

So what on earth was that clue about?

Is he from a Germanic speaking country?

I'll explain later.
 
No.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Eastern Europe?
 
No.
 
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Is this person not in fact a person but rather an animal?
 
LOL... He was a real person and I think I can tell a person from an animal as I can tell black from white (though I have to admit there is something like a grey scale Wink).
 
 
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3632


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Portugese?
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Points: 24583 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2012 at 05:40
Originally posted by James James wrote:


Is he from a Germanic speaking country?
  
 
My apologies. I read 'German', not 'Germanic', but the answer must be Yes here.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Portugese?
 
No. See above.
 
He loved the Italian countryside.
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Dutch?
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2012 at 05:50
I didn't understand that top clue either... that person is Portuguese.  Ah...

An explorer?
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A Nordic country?
He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2012 at 06:02
Most Norse countries have a language based on old Norse.  Except for Finland but that's closer to Russian which is not really Germanic.

So I still say Dutch as that's more Germanic.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages

But it’s not very likely lince he loved the Italian countryside.


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It could be Belgian too, with Flemish.

Hmm.

Hopefully s_e will be back soon to confirm and give us another clue.
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Points: 24583 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2012 at 06:18
He was Dutch.  And as far as he was an explorer: not in the Portuguese sense of the word, in spite of the reference to the Magellan album. 
Improving upon the Moors.


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My last comment was a bit stupid. Of course Nordic people can love the Italian countryside as well. I just assumed that the plates and vases were really old, and I thought maybe the Magellan clue was Hymn for a Heathen. Even so, the vikings travelled far.
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Aha! Dutch! Was he a painter?
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Was he a Berber?

Unusual if he was... don't know of any Dutch Berbers.
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So he was someone who travelled the countryside?

A painter could indeed do that.
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Points: 24583 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2012 at 06:31
Originally posted by refugee refugee wrote:

Aha! Dutch! Was he a painter?
 
No, but you are quite close.
 
@James: He was not a Berber.
 
Mott added some colours.


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It's M. C. Escher.

Ooooh I'm good.

He loved Italy and liked the Alhambra, a Moorish castle.
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Male, deceased.
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European?
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Although he's not confirmed as correct, I am sure it is.

No, he wasn't.
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Points: 24583 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2012 at 06:53
ClapClap Well done, James!
 
Here are the explanations for the hints:
 
1: The end text of the response to Mick Jagger's request to Escher to design a cover for the next Rolling Stones album (the 'Dear Maurits'-letter) was:
 
By the way, please tell Mr. Jagger I am not Maurits to him, but

Very sincerely,
M.C. Escher.
I replaced Mr. Jagger' by 'BaldFriede', 'Maurits' by 'Something_else' and 'M.C. Escher' by 'someone_else'.
 
2: I referred to Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach.
3: The house where he was born is now part of a ceramics museum.
4: Many of his works depict impossible figures. This was the easiest hint imho.
5: No further explanation needed.
6: Escher used the Alhambra of Granada as a source of inspration.
7: The cover of Mott the Hoople's debut album was a colorized rendition of Echer's Reptiles.
 
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