i love to solve mysteries and this one was solved by yours truly in one hour during the school day at my dad's school when the seniors were done with finals ! my sister and i were at my dad's school where he works a computer drafting class. no idea what that is but... he had this old photograph in black and white that had no writhing to identify where it came from what it was or who took it except for unidentifiabule writing in the bottom right corner. so what to do but get on the computer? we typed in all sorts of things. the hague church because it was "churchy" according to my sister. we typed in 1909 and church. some of the writing on the buses and vendors. we got an australian chocolate shop and a couple of dead ends for the bus stations which are invariably out of order. of course the very last thing i type in after my sister and dad gave up half an hour ago, was "gothic churches 1909." what do you know the exact same print comes up as a catherdral in Milan Italy called Plazza Del Duomo,but... my curiosity was aroused once again when i noticed the statue. there was a statue in the middle of the picture with some writing on it that was just too small. i thoght that if i was able to find a picture taken in 1909 then why not the statue. so when i typed in staue milan italy 1909 it was a staute called Vittorio Emanuele II. i thought that the fact that my dad had brought this picture to school from a yard sale was pretty cool also.
the picture of the Picture( view full size)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Piazza_and_cathedral_milan_italy_1909.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Piazza_and_cathedral_milan_italy_1909.jpg&h=221&w=936&sz=42&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=41DRWdZRhsFjmM:&tbnh=35&tbnw=148&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmilan%2Bitaly%2B1909%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX
the picture of the Staue(view full size)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://z.about.com/d/goitaly/1/0/9/2/-/-/statue-piazza-duomo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://goitaly.about.com/od/italypictures/ig/Milan-Pictures/milan-statue-picture.htm&h=397&w=500&sz=42&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=jJcr0aEp5oDh7M:&tbnh=103&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstatue%2Bwith%2Bpigeons%2Bmilan%2Bitaly%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den
Thursday, June 19, 2008
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