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Superimposing this grid onto the letters in front of the map on [[Page 6]] puts the mines above the letters "GYAGOPHER" which anagrams to GEOGRAPHY. | Superimposing this grid onto the letters in front of the map on [[Page 6]] puts the mines above the letters "GYAGOPHER" which anagrams to GEOGRAPHY. | ||
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| + | [The joint explosion of the mines at Messines in 1917 ranks among the largest non-nuclear explosions of all time. The evening before the attack, General Sir Charles Harington, Chief of Staff of the Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), remarked to the press, "Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography". The solution to this Minesweeper puzzle seems to reference Harington's remark.] | ||
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Superimposing this grid onto the letters in front of the map on Page 6 puts the mines above the letters "GYAGOPHER" which anagrams to GEOGRAPHY.
[The joint explosion of the mines at Messines in 1917 ranks among the largest non-nuclear explosions of all time. The evening before the attack, General Sir Charles Harington, Chief of Staff of the Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), remarked to the press, "Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography". The solution to this Minesweeper puzzle seems to reference Harington's remark.]
