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Three of a kind?
Three photos of things, what are the things and what do they have in common? 
stu215
Are they all in Quayside?
None of them have an elephant in the picture
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Nice try StoneG but it is what the things have in common rather than what the pictures have in common. You should be able to identify all three readily enough using Google images as there are some obvious clues in the pics. I would point on that in number 2 it isn't the circular building but what's about 10 feet in front of it that is the "object".
stu215, no, they're not even all in the same continent.
stu215, no, they're not even all in the same continent.
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Ping for subs. Will check this out later.
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The building is in Charleston
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Well you've got the 3 places - Meeting Street, 99 Steps and Red House, now you've just got the easy task of identifying what they have in common - not something that all that many places have in common with each other of course.
All three have English country dances named after them. Red House is the only one I actually know the steps to.
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Really? I didn't know that so I'll add 50 points for that. It isn't what I was looking for but if it's right then it deserves kudos.
only if he posts a vid of him doing a Red House
None of them is a book by John Buchan
He reached the top. Best of the top 100.
He died in a building with columns out front.
He always played "Red House" as the last song when he played.
Are we talking about Jimi Hendrix.
He died in a building with columns out front.
He always played "Red House" as the last song when he played.
Are we talking about Jimi Hendrix.
8-O
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They all have the same name plus a number... image1, image2 and image3...
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Get on Meeting Street in Charleston SC, take 99 steps downtown and there you will find the Red House.
(at least from the satelite view, there are red roof tops in the photos at the begging and end of the 'street'
(at least from the satelite view, there are red roof tops in the photos at the begging and end of the 'street'
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Just take this one as a hint rather than trying to identify exactly where the picture was taken.
image4.jpg
image4.jpg
Well there are old Dutch tiles at the Red House & Danish bricks on the 99 steps ...
Hmm according to Google - lots of tiles in Downtown St Thomas and Charleston rooftops ...
Hmm according to Google - lots of tiles in Downtown St Thomas and Charleston rooftops ...
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Danish bricks? But it's in the Caribbean, that makes no sense.
No sense at all:
http://stthomasvirginisland.com/articles/99-steps.html
http://stthomasvirginisland.com/articles/99-steps.html
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The answer *is* in that article but there are loads of other facts in it that aren't relevant. You'll have to spell it out to me because I'm thick.
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Maybe I dropped that hint badly. I'll try again.
Danish bricks? But it's in the Caribbean. Why on Earth would they export bricks from Denmark all the way to the Caribbean when they could make bricks locally or use some other material? It seems a waste of money to me.
Danish bricks? But it's in the Caribbean. Why on Earth would they export bricks from Denmark all the way to the Caribbean when they could make bricks locally or use some other material? It seems a waste of money to me.
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Ah! So the common denominator isn't “bricks” but “recycled ballast”? Still, how did the ships sail home...?
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Horray, we have a winner!
They're all built using recycled temporary ships ballast. There are 2 types of ballast, permanent ballast which is normally pig iron and temporary ballast used when the ship isn't carrying cargo. In the old days it was something cheap and heavy (French roads are cobbled with English stones and those pantiles were on a house in Fife in eastern Scotland but made in Europe), nowadays they use seawater.
They're all built using recycled temporary ships ballast. There are 2 types of ballast, permanent ballast which is normally pig iron and temporary ballast used when the ship isn't carrying cargo. In the old days it was something cheap and heavy (French roads are cobbled with English stones and those pantiles were on a house in Fife in eastern Scotland but made in Europe), nowadays they use seawater.
Obscure fun!