Solution to the #CoffeeBreakPuzzle_8381: Clues: Img1: 'Original' 'Penguin'. Img2: 'Extinct'. Img3: 'Flight', 'Seat' and 'Iceland'. Story1: (background) By 1844 the Great Auks’ numbers had already come down significantly, due to massive hunting and exploitation by humans. With its increasing rarity, specimens of the great auk and its eggs had become high prized collectibles for personal possessions and Museum displays. Their demise was inevitable. The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed on 3 June 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot. They were the last known surviving auks in the world. Icelanders felt they had to carry this burden of a “collective guilt" for failing to preserve the Great Auks. When Sotheby's announced an auk auction in 1971, Iceland's Natural History Museum decided to bring it "home." The public was asked to contribute, and within three days, writes Elizabeth Kolbert in her book, The Sixth Extinction, "Icelanders contributed the equivalent of ten thousand British pounds to buy the auk back." The specimen was bought for £9000, placing it in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive stuffed bird ever sold. (puzzle story!) The bird is seen as an Icelandic hero, that it was honored with its own seat on the plane! The last known auk had a reserved seat on an Icelandair flight from London to Reykjavik in 1971. It was placed next to the director of the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. -NPR This titbit fascinated me, hence the puzzle. Search Combinations: Original+Penguin+Extinct= 'Great Auk'. Great Auk+Flight+Seat+Iceland = Story1. Story2: In 1955, an ambitious salesman named Abbot Pederson traveled to NYC on a sales trip for the Munsingwear brand. With time to kill before a flight home, he decided to pop into a local bar for a few whiskeys. Taking a wrong turn down a Manhattan street, he found himself outside a taxidermist’s shop. Deciding he needed a drinking buddy for the flight, he bought a penguin and named him Pete. At some point during the flight, and after another cocktail or three, he accidentally knocked the head off Pete the Penguin. A seductive stewardess removed his necktie and wrapped it around the penguin’s neck. She joked that such a dapper bird deserved to be immortalized, maybe even on a shirt. With that idea - an icon was born. The video is a fun watch, So I chose to make a puzzle about 'Original Penguin'(s) and their 'flight travels'. Search Combination: Original+Penguin+Flight. Thanks for trying (patiently).
Puzzle # 8410 Answer: Bangladesh Liberation War 1) Image 1 - Row 1 - Search light - The operation "Search Light" started by Pakistan resulted in the massacre of innocent civilians in Bangladesh 2) Image 2 - Row 1 - Martyred Intellectual Memorial is located at Rayerbazar, Mohammadpur Thana in Dhaka 3) Image 3 - Row 1 - Mukti Bahini's emblem, an independent liberation army formed by Bangladesh fighting against the atrocities of West Pakistan 4) Image 4 - Row 1 - Rayerbazar killing field photographed immediately after the war started, showing bodies of Bengali nationalist intellectuals 5) Image 1 - Row 2 - "Operation Jackpot" is the code name given when Indian army conducted several operations to liberate Bangladesh 6) Image 2 - Row 2 - George Harrison and friends (British, Indian and American friends organizing the first benefit concert in New York city) performed in the US to donate money for the liberation of Bangladesh 7) Image 3 - Row 2 - A Memorial for the fallen soldiers
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