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That fits...I heard grade inflation was rampant there.

Thanks. (PS: I could not get the last link to open.)

Next clue would have been:

Donald Knuth's "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures", Douglas Adam's "Sheppey" and Isaac Asimov's milliHelen.

All found here.

I thought it very special that Smoot eventually led the ANSI and then ISO organizations.

The link is to a pdf file of what is allegedly an issue of The Tech ("MIT's Oldest and Largest Newspaper") that is completely devoted to the subject of the headline "MIT Sold." Some say it was a prank.


I like to think that the bridge measurement made his entire career.

"Because it is there" - George Mallory

By the way, 34/67 := 0.5074626;

I have a stumper to post tonight, if nobody else posts one.

Anybody for XXXV?

Replace curly brackets with straight, then edit the numerals...

{font:Times New Roman}{b}{color:#FF0000}What In The World Happened Here? XXXV (35):{/color}{/b}{/font}

Then copy & paste. This way you get the color right & the Roman numerals have pretty serifs.

"Because I am here" - John Harlin

See I definately got the College rival clue but I was thining Left Coast Cal vs Stanford.Good job Harvey.Thanks for breaking it down for me.
I have got to read the info in the clues better. I didn't get Massachusetts from the massive road clue.

Peter, we may get started on quotes! here is my favorite

In some ways, going to the mountains is incomprehensible to many people and inexplicable by those who go. The reasons are difficult to unearth and only with those who are similarly drawn is there no need to try to explain.

Joe Tasker, Savage Arena page 260

Kind of like preaching to the choir Harvey?

exactly, Rod.

here's some religiosity

No sport that I know of has spawned a literature as introspective, as probing, or ultimately as religious as mountaineering.
Robert Leonard Reid, The Great Blue Dream, page 15

sorry, Wagga, maybe I should start a separate quote quiz - someone names a topic, I provide a quote

It looks like this
What In The World Happened Here? XXXVI (36):

What In The World Happened Here? XXXV (35):

I'm putting this one up now, because I just discovered that the event began exactly 100 years ago.

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a Heaven for?" - R. Browning, Andrea del Sarto.

Kind of looks like Alaska.Grasping at straws here.
http://geology.com/novarupta/

almost looks like, um, katapillar tracks

at about the 6:30 o'clock position at the base of the peak

Harvey, scale included at bottom left...

Rod, there is a volcano in view, but it's not relevant to the event.

katapillar was my alluding to Katmai. Not involved?

another idea- Al Gore's hot air causing the ice to melt

I am thinking of a place pretty far from Alaska. I may go to the local dress for less place, get some winter clothes, and head down for a visit. The site I have in mind was discovered 70 years before 1911, which was a big year in the history of pole vaulting.

I might know about sports-type pole vaulting since my older son was State champion (twice). But it is not that.

Pole and 1911 surely must refer to the time the skillful, practical, and knowledgeable Amundsen beat the crap out of the bumbling, undeserving-of-hero-status Scott by getting to the South Pole AND returning. Are we getting, um, warm?

Need to get colder to get warm. The previous winter, to be exact. Looks like a bad trip. A real Terror. I think somebody felt rooked. A lot of trouble for a quarter-dozen. Probably should have left this trip plan on on the Shelf. If Cherry and Birdie and Bill had only known that ontogeny does not actually recapitulate phylogeny, they might not have had to learn the hard way whether phenomenology recapitulates deontology.