For the past eight months, I find myself using the same resources over and over again in an attempt to dig up leads.  Of course, most of them are very common (i.e. MapQuest, Terraserver), but I was hoping that there would be a few worthy of collecting and sharing with everyone. The only one that I consistently use that wouldn't be considered mainstream is the Smithsonian Institute's online database of artwork.  They have a very extensive catalog of public and private art that you can search through variety of criteria.  You can also limit results by sculpture or paintings. The detail varies, and the results are text only, but I have found it helpful in exploring places like Forest Park, St. Louis and cataloging the various monuments and sculptures there. hxxp://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ Anybody have any other sites that they find particularily helpful?

Good idea dan.  I usually do the google and google images for research. It isnt as good as yours, but I find www.dictionary.com good in trying to rip apart the V's and find hidden meanings, synonyms and antonyms.

yes great idea...i use google and terraserver- thanks for the Smithsonian link!

2 casques have been located in parks and it seems we are well on our way to locating 2 more (in parks) so this may come in handy: hxxp://members.cox.net/ramero/cityparks.htm

Bartlett's Quotations - try searching for thucydides and xenophon here: hxxp://www.bartleby.com/100/ or Project Gutenberg which has the text of most novels - try searching for "romance retold" (including quotes and after selecting 'entire books' and 'all' from the pull down menus) here: [url]hxxp://public.ibiblio.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=abou t&c=gberg&ct=0[/url]

hxxp://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ct/?id=100007 good info and pics on buildings, businesses, good selection of random pictures taken in particular cities....

Here's one for Canada, perhaps more amusing than useful:  www.roadsideattractions.ca/type.htm.

If you think there's an anagram in the clue, try this anagram decoder: hxxp://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html wilhouse

yet another useful site; info on states, flags, emblems, official birds and trees and things: www.50states.com

heres a nice site I found with a good background on canadian history. might be useful for finding the canadian treasure hxxp://www.linksnorth.com/canada-history/

Google Maps has a new option called Hybrid, that blends satellite maps with road maps. Quite impressive, and very useful. hxxp://maps.google.com/

www.wikipedia.org is priceless.

Found another (but short-lived) discussion of The Secret on another forum. Thought you might be interested: hxxp://performanceprobe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6308

Here's a new one in case everyone hasn't heard about it: hxxp://print.google.com/ this web site will search any books in the public domain. It only searches books.  I quickly found Pierre by Herman Melville from the Verse 1 line "What we take to be our strongest tower of delight". wilhouse

AnotherDoth, over at the tweleve board, has created a wiki devoted to organizing information about The Secret : hxxp://thesecret.pbwiki.com

As an example of how much fun AnotherDoth and I are having at the Secret Wiki, check this out... hxxp://thesecret.pbwiki.com/1_solution ...scroll down to the big picture, and click on anything outlined in a box.

Brilliant!  If everyone could make there own personal website with all there ideas posted for all to see, we might fair a little better with this thing.

Thanks Boogie.  I hope we can really say we are "brilliant" when someone finds the next casque! By the way, hxxp://thesecret.pbwiki.com is a great place to organize and collaborate on the solutions to the casques.  However, the wiki can never replace the great discussion threads here at Q4T and over at TWELEVE.org.  I think that new ideas thrown out on the threads will lead us to the next solution!  I just hope that the wiki will include some germs of ideas that will spur some creative solutions out there! Thanks again, AnotherDoth

It is difficult to overemphasize how useful websites like hxxp://www.flickr.com/ and hxxp://www.webshots.com/ are for armchair treasure hunting. There are thousands of pictures to sift through on seemingly any topic. I just searched the words {Trinity Church Boston} at webshots.com and came up with 520 hits. Amazing.

Who could have imagine that Home Movies would survive into yet another medium!

and better yet, that we would clamor over them, and get endless joy out of looking at them real, real closely, even though we don't have any idea who the people in them are!

Very useful indeed!

If you're interested in overhead/satellite views and have never learned your way around... www.local.live.com ...then you really, really, really should. Coverage differs depending upon your location, but they seem to be continually adding -- especially to the "bird's eye" imagery.  Milwaukee just got added, as a matter of fact, and the Milwaukee tree and dig site are very easily seen.

Pine is not kidding about local.live.com - it's amazing. Here are two bird's eye screenshots of the Milwaukee dig site, from two different angles. The detail is incredible.

wow...even clearer than GoogleEarth... now which tree is "our" tree?

Fox - The tree where we dug is easily the biggest one in the first picture above, very near the road. I don't know where regulus' tree is, but it would be a simple matter for him to show us using local.live's bird's-eye view.

I was searching for items on E. Blyden and found this handy summary of the items used in the 1976-77 Exhibition at the Smithsonian that goes with the "Abroad in America" book. hxxp://siarchives.si.edu/findingaids/faru0361.htm Check out series 12.  I don't have the book, but it appears that many of the pictures in the book are on this list, and presumably appeared at the exhibition.  For example, there appears to be a painting by A. C. Goodwin of Copley Square.  Does that picture appear in the book, or was it only at the exhibit?

Good question - I read the whole book and I don't remember. If it's genuinely of interest I can make a trip to the library sometime.

have been using this one for tower like buildings, as so far most of the pics seem to have that and a garden theme would like to find a good link to park gardens at bottom of pg fill in your specs hxxp://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/ ?

Bing Maps just enabled a major update of their software. See the beta version here: hxxp://www.bing.com/maps/explore/ Bing has street-side views comparable to or better than those in Google Maps / Google Earth. So far the coverage is not very good, but for urban areas it's very nice.

From National Lampoon, December, 1982:

From the Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 1982:

From the Asbury Park Press, November 6, 1982:

From the Los Angeles Times, November 28, 1982:

From the Arizona Republic, November 19, 1982:

From the Chicago Tribune, November 26, 2017:

From the Chicago Tribune, January 12, 1984. This article appeared in several papers around this time, but I provide only one scan here:

From Heavy Metal, November, 1982 (scan credits: Wapta):

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 25, 1982:

Good job finding that resource. I'm embarrassed to say I had the all issues from 1979 up until 1990. Great stories and art. (Intended for adults).

MrSeabass - I have now resized and sectioned the larger images, so they should all fit now unless your monitor resolution is low.

forest_blight wrote:: MrSeabass - I have now resized and sectioned the larger images, so they should all fit now unless your monitor resolution is low. This is a great resource... however... Since these images are all hosted elsewhere (not within this forum's server), is there any reason to embed the images at all? Just post the links. An ideal compromise would be to create thumbnails or preview images and let people click on those, but i realise that adds an extra burden on you. I prefer to open images in a new window (or tab) and resize them to fit my screen, and being able to right-click on a link is easier. A list of links would make this thread load much more quickly, and would be easier to skim and scroll to see how much is available. (yes, i run a smaller dimension on my monitor and have things zoomed larger for my old eyes than some of you probably do) The topic is called "Internet Resources", and I thought it was for discussing other tools (such as reference works). For this to be a repository of clippings, it might have been better to create its own thread, for clarity. Besides all that, it is still a great contribution to the community. (I'm just being grumpy today, sorry)

catherwood - I like seeing the articles right here, without having to work for them. In any event, Q4T won't let me edit old posts, but I see the value in what you suggest. I add the links here: Cleveland Plain Dealer of June 13, 2004: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_1.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_2.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_3.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_4.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_5.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_6.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_7.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_8.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_9.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_10.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_Drawing_1.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_Drawing_2.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_Drawing_3.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/Secret_Drawing_4.jpg Book Magazine: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/book_magazine.jpg The Chicago Tribune, November 16, 1982: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_111682a.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_111682b1.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_111682b2.jpg The Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1983: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_080983a.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_080983b1.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_080983b2.jpg National Lampoon, December, 1982: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/national_lampoon_dec1982_Page_1.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/national_lampoon_dec1982_Page_2.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/national_lampoon_dec1982_Page_3.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/national_lampoon_dec1982_Page_4.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/national_lampoon_dec1982_Page_5.jpg Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 1982: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/phil.inquirer.121082.png Los Angeles Times, November 28, 1982: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/la.times.112882.jpg Asbury Park Press, November 6, 1982: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/asbury.park.press.110682.jpg Arizona Republic, November 19, 1982: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/arizona.republic_111982.jpg The Chicago Tribune, November 26, 2017: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_112617.jpg The Chicago Tribune, January 12, 1984: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_011284a.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/ct_011284b.jpg St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 25, 1982: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/st.louis.post-dispatch.102582a.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/st.louis.post-dispatch.102582b.jpg Heavy Metal, November, 1982: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/TheSecretHeavyMetal1982_Page_1.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/TheSecretHeavyMetal1982_Page_2.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/TheSecretHeavyMetal1982_Page_3.jpg hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/TheSecretHeavyMetal1982_Page_4.jpg

Here are a couple more, from strictly online publications: hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/vice.053116.pdf hxxp://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/hornet.102415.pdf

adding this link from JamesV: /quote Just wanted to pass along this resource if anyone's interested, online (and free!) historical park maps, brochures & guidebooks courtesy of the National Park Service. May be helpful for pinning down 80s-era clues around Boston, St. Augustine, etc. Link: hxxp://npshistory.com/brochures/

For those of you who enjoy drawing colored lines over Google Earth imagery, the US Geological Survey now has an online database of historical topographical maps: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/

Website to show direction and size of shadow for any date, time and location. Use site to pinpoint exact location, add overhead image if desired, selected date, time of day and add other specifics. https://www.findmyshadow.com/

Does anyone have all the translated "hints" from the Japanese edition in text form or just images?

Dominick wrote:: Does anyone have all the translated "hints" from the Japanese edition in text form or just images? Spiritr got five of his best men on it. I'm sure he'll share his work as soon as it's confirmed.

Thanks Choice. I was listening to the pod cast and some parts were hard to hear.

Thanks Goldengate, I will check it out.

They are also translated on each of the 12treasures pages. Start here: https://12treasures.com/2019/01/10/236-2/

Thank you all for sharing.