Quest4Treasure

For the past eight months, I find myself using the same resources over and over again in an attempt to dig up leads.  Of course, most of them are very common (i.e. MapQuest, Terraserver), but I was hoping that there would be a few worthy of collecting and sharing with everyone.

The only one that I consistently use that wouldn't be considered mainstream is the Smithsonian Institute's online database of artwork.  They have a very extensive catalog of public and private art that you can search through variety of criteria.  You can also limit results by sculpture or paintings.

The detail varies, and the results are text only, but I have found it helpful in exploring places like Forest Park, St. Louis and cataloging the various monuments and sculptures there.

http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/


Anybody have any other sites that they find particularily helpful?

Good idea dan.  I usually do the google and google images for research.  

It isnt as good as yours, but I find www.dictionary.com good in trying to rip apart the V's and find hidden meanings, synonyms and antonyms.

yes great idea...i use google and terraserver- thanks for the Smithsonian link!

2 casques have been located in parks and it seems we are well on our way to locating 2 more (in parks) so this may come in handy:

http://members.cox.net/ramero/cityparks.htm

Bartlett's Quotations - try searching for thucydides and xenophon here:

http://www.bartleby.com/100/

or Project Gutenberg which has the text of most novels - try searching for "romance retold" (including quotes and after selecting 'entire books' and 'all' from the pull down menus) here:

[url]http://public.ibiblio.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=abou
t&c=gberg&ct=0[/url]

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ct/?id=100007

good info and pics on buildings, businesses, good selection of random pictures taken in particular cities....

Here's one for Canada, perhaps more amusing than useful:  www.roadsideattractions.ca/type.htm.

If you think there's an anagram in the clue, try this anagram decoder:

http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html

wilhouse

yet another useful site; info on states, flags, emblems, official birds and trees and things:

www.50states.com

heres a nice site I found with a good background on canadian history. might be useful for finding the canadian treasure

http://www.linksnorth.com/canada-history/

Google Maps has a new option called Hybrid, that blends satellite maps with road maps. Quite impressive, and very useful.

http://maps.google.com/

www.wikipedia.org is priceless.

Found another (but short-lived) discussion of The Secret on another forum. Thought you might be interested:

http://performanceprobe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6308

Here's a new one in case everyone hasn't heard about it:

http://print.google.com/

this web site will search any books in the public domain. It only searches books.  I quickly found Pierre by Herman Melville from the Verse 1 line "What we take to be our strongest tower of delight".

wilhouse

AnotherDoth, over at the tweleve board, has created a wiki devoted to organizing information about The Secret:

http://thesecret.pbwiki.com