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+ The Photos
+ The events are in chronological order (this helps resolve some ambiguities, others can be resolved in following steps) +-
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- March 13, 1610: Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius published +
- Jan 17, 1706: Ben Franklin born +
- Dec 17, 1903: Wright Brothers flight +
- April 15, 1912: Titanic sinks +
- Oct 4, 1957: Sputnik +
- Oct 1, 1958: NASA opens (not the "founded" date, so some ambiguity here. In the next step the "founded" date gives an "X" which may help) +
- May 7, 1966: Big Sail dedicated +
- May 18, 1969: Apollo 10 +
- July 20, 1969: Armstrong walks on moon +
- May 22, 1980: Pacman +
- July 14, 1983: Mario Brothers +
- April 20, 1993: Tewhey resigns +
- Jan 26, 1997: Super Bowl 31 +
- March 23, 1998: Oscars Ceremony +
- Jan 15, 2001: Wikipedia starts +
- Aug 30, 2006: XKCD "Grownups" +
- Oct 5, 2011: Steve Jobs dies +
- Sept 14, 2015: Ahmed Mohammed takes clock to school +
Calendar Letters, First Pass
+ + These dates point to squares in the calendar pages. Take those to spell, in + the above order: + +NEEDS A TAD MORE LOCAL+ +
The Local Tie-In
+ +You now may imagine that some local happenings are associated with these events. + +
Since two of the events are MIT-specific your searches may lead you to + encounter the information (or you might guess) that there have been + MIT Hacks associated with each of the events. + +
Of course you then repeat the process of looking up the dates for the events. +
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- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2010/galileo_400th_anniversary/ March 16, 2010 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2008/ben_franklin_kites/ January 17, 2008 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/wright_flyer/ December 17, 2003 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1998/techtanic/ September 12, 1998 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2007/sputnik/ October 4, 2007 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2008/nasa/ October 1, 2008 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1996/smile_sail/ May 21, 1996 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2009/apollo_lander/ May 17, 2009 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1999/moon_landing/ July 20, 1999 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2013/dome_pacman/ January 10, 2013 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2005/mario_bros/ December 14, 2005 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1993/tewhey_tombstone/ May 8, 1993 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1997/cheese/ January 27, 1997 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1998/oscar_greenspeak/ March 24, 1998 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2011/wikipedia/ January 15, 2011 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2007/xkcd_playpen_balls/ May 14, 2007 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2011/apple_logo/ October 6, 2011 +
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2015/ahmed_clock/ September 18, 2015 +
Calendar Letters, Second Pass
+Sort the hack dates into chronological order (as the initial events were given). As you did before, take the letter for the hack date on the matching +calendar page. This gives: + ++ May 8, 1993 = O + May 21, 1996 = L + January 27, 1997 = D + March 24, 1998 = F + September 12, 1998 = E + July 20, 1999 = R + December 17, 2003 = D + December 14, 2005 = I + May 14, 2007 = S + October 4, 2007 = T + January 17, 2008 = E + October 1, 2008 = A + May 17, 2009 = K + March 16, 2010 = H + January 15, 2011 = O + October 6, 2011 = U + January 10, 2013 = S + September 18, 2015 = E ++ +
Given "OLD FERDI STEAKHOUSE", various MIT hacking histories will tell +you that Ferdi, the fiberglass cow in the MIT Museum, was originally +from a Hilltop Steakhouse. + +
So the answer is HILLTOP + + +