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 |Hex8a: ??
-|Hex8b: Whirlpool (?). Messier 51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, is a grand design spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It's one of the most famous galaxies in the sky, appearing face-on when viewed from Earth. M51 was one of Charles Messier's original discoveries on October 13, 1773.
+|Hex8b: Whirlpool/vortex. ''Katchikatchi les étoiles'', the 11th movement of Messiaen's Harawi song cycle, describes the moment when the stars and planets are hurled into the vortex [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7ag3ymWqvfgC&pg=PT101&lpg=PT101&dq=messiaen+vortex&source=bl&ots=gzb3RqLArH&sig=3xG2CcO05gw-G63PIMZE-Z6KW8g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi35OWy4pDYAhVHAcAKHfIwAAMQ6AEITDAL#v=onepage&q=messiaen%20vortex&f=false]; it has the lyrics "Katchikatchi the stars, make them leap, Katchikatchi the stars, make them dance"; for a version with piano played by Yvonne Loriod, see [http://www.deezer.com/en/track/3587083]. Messier 51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, is a grand design spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It's one of the most famous galaxies in the sky, appearing face-on when viewed from Earth. M51 was one of Charles Messier's original discoveries on October 13, 1773.
 |Hex8c: An [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot ondes Martenot]. "The ondes Martenot has been used by many composers, most notably Olivier Messiaen."
 |Hex8d: CAT [https://www.cat.com/en_GB/products/new/equipment/track-loaders.html track loader]. Their logo is recognizable even with the word "CAT" removed

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 |Hex3c: Olga García Pérez, who plays for the FC Barcelona women's football team and wears the same shirt number as Messi (no. 10).
 |Hex3d: Part of WW1-era photo showing Australian troops marching past the ruins of the Cathedral and Cloth Hall in Ypres, 1917.  Messines Ridge lay at the southern end of the Ypres battlefield on the Western Front.
-|Hex3e: ??
+|Hex3e: The first movement of Messiaen's ''Preludes'' is called ''La colombe'' (the dove); it has the colour association of orange, with violet veins ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludes_(Messiaen)])
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 |Hex2e: Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer; in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines.
 |Hex2f: Garden cress (?) (''Lepidium sativum''). It is reported that Nicholas Messier first grew watercress in Erfurt, Germany, in the middle of the 16th century. English cultivation started in early 1800 [https://www.bwqualitygrowers.com/watercress/history-and-facts/]
-|Hex2g: ?? Indian Elephant?
+|Hex2g: Indian Elephant. Messiaen used Hindu rhtythms and rhythmic principles (the Hindu ''decî-tâlas'') extensively in his work, citing as an example ''gajalîla'', the elephant's step (e.g. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DTQrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=indian+elephant+messiaen&source=bl&ots=gXdd6JM3uY&sig=pQbkESnhFJk_Hfagr61DZwqqU8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHgev03ZDYAhVcFMAKHdi4AvgQ6AEINzAF#v=onepage&q=indian%20elephant%20messiaen&f=false])
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 |Hex12b: Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand; 18 May 1869 – 2 August 1955) was the last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne. During the first half of the First World War he commanded the German Sixth Army on the Western front. His Bavarian Army Group unsuccessfully defended Messines in 1917.
 |Hex12c: A whorl fingerprint pattern, bears some resemblance to certain of the Messier objects, e.g. M96
-|Hex12d: Ontario; province in Canada; capital is Toronto
+|Hex12d: Ontario; province in Canada; capital is Toronto. There is a Messy Lake in Ontario [http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/FEBTP]
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 |Hex4a: A keshi pearl ring, cf. [https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=keshi+pearl+ring&client=firefox-b&dcr=0&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh_7-U0Y_YAhUCKMAKHYLvABsQsAQItQE&biw=1440&bih=700]. The Japanese word ''keshi'' also means 'poppy', which is the symbol for the fallen of the World Wars.
 |Hex4b: ?? Musical notation
-|Hex4c: ?? Red heraldry/coat of arms with two fish and four crosses, the arms of the House of Salm (Luxemburg), see [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_Salm here]
+|Hex4c: ?? Red heraldry/coat of arms with two fish and four crosses, the arms of the House of Salm (Luxemburg), see [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_Salm here]. Charles Messier was born in Badonviller, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France (20 miles from Luneville), then part of the Principality of Salm.
 |Hex4d: Part of the Jonah window, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford University, showing the city of Nineveh. Made by Abraham van Linge in 1631. "The earliest references to comets are difficult to distinguish from meteorological annotations but begin to appear in astrological omen texts dating from the seventh or eighth century B.C. (Such a text from an Assyrian library at Nineveh is quoted in Stephenson and Walker, ''Halley's Comet'', 17.)" [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_U3rRP-P684C&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&dq=nineveh+comets&source=bl&ots=APS_ZNdJEQ&sig=tOkrSFKyXKnh3TuAs707j1_2X_Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf96CF2Y_YAhUiIsAKHVvYAgMQ6AEIPDAH#v=onepage&q=nineveh%20comets&f=false]
 |Hex4e: ?? Cartoon representation of Argentina flag. Lionel Messi is an Argentinean footballer.

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 |Hex8c: An [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot ondes Martenot]. "The ondes Martenot has been used by many composers, most notably Olivier Messiaen."
 |Hex8d: CAT [https://www.cat.com/en_GB/products/new/equipment/track-loaders.html track loader]. Their logo is recognizable even with the word "CAT" removed
-|Hex8e: Represents the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceni Iceni] tribe, at least in the video game ''Total War: Rome 2''. The figure may therefore represent Boudicca.
+|Hex8e: Represents the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceni Iceni] tribe, at least in the video game ''Total War: Rome 2''. The figure may therefore represent Boudicca. The constellation Auriga 'the Charioteer' contains three bright star clusters with Messier numbers [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A37952724]
 |Hex8f: Fossil of turtle from Messel Pit (in fact one of [http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiolett/8/5/846/F1.large.jpg a pair] of turtles that died while having sex)
 |Hex8g: Another ondes Martenot in the background. Haven't found the specific photo, but the woman is Jeanne Loriod, the sister of the second wife of Olivier Messiaen (Yvonne Loriod), she was regarded as the world leading expert on the ondes Martenot (prior to her death in 2001).

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 |Hex9a: Pound note from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbell%27s_Bank Dumbell's Bank] (then Dumbell's banking company) on the Isle of Man. The Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light-years. This object was the first planetary nebula to be discovered; by Charles Messier in 1764.
 |Hex9b: ??
-|Hex9c: Art deco station front of [http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-art-deco-front-to-peckham-rye-station-rye-lane-south-east-london-uk-114026792.html Peckham Rye Station], from Rye Lane. Borough of Southwark
+|Hex9c: Art deco station front of [http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-art-deco-front-to-peckham-rye-station-rye-lane-south-east-london-uk-114026792.html Peckham Rye Station], from Rye Lane. Borough of Southwark. At the age of eight in Peckham Rye, London, William Blake claimed to have seen "a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars."[http://www.hotel-assist.com/literary-london/blake-on-peckham-rye.html]
 |Hex9d: Memorial at the Island of Ireland Peace Park, Messines, commemorating losses at the WW1 Battle of Messines Ridge in June 1917
 |Hex9e: ? The poster in the background shows a footballer with raised arms, from behind, with the shirt number 10. The name on the shirt is obscured, but may be 'Messi'.

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 |Hex11a: Lionel Messi scores hat trick vs. Espanyol
-|Hex11b: Azophi is a lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. Named after the 10thC AD Abbasid astronomer 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Persian: عبدالرحمن صوفی‎)
+|Hex11b: Azophi is a lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. Named after the 10thC AD Abbasid astronomer 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Persian: عبدالرحمن صوفی‎). He published his famous "Book of Fixed Stars" in 964; the title suggests some parallels with Messier's own catalogue.
 |Hex11c: Untidy (Japanese: 豪怪 Gōkai), character from the Yo-kai Watch series of video games (and a synonym for messy!)
 |Hex11d: The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinius Ida] fossil, found in the Messel Pit