Question 512.a: 1st of the month, so White Rabbits to all

__X__'s vision about __Y__ (refer to the pics) was as such:


Should guilty seek asylum here,
Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator's glory.


A more poetic story relates that once a year, during the rainy season, a single drop of water falls on the inner part of the structure, as inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's description of the structure as 
"one tear-drop...upon the cheek of time".

Now for the Tin eyers Delight.

Connect these pictures to a single entity (__Y__).

Floor Plan

Layout

During a period __Z__

Question:

1) ID X & Y (+5)
2) Why was the scaffolding put up in the last pic, or name the period. (+5)

Theme Round 6: Wonder how the Times will change

Will be beginning shortly, we're just finalising some finer details a of now
Plus kind of had tests
So bear with me

New theme round: Wonder how the Times will change

We'll be starting a new theme round from February 1st.
It'll be the standard theme round, so refer to the Red Herring Prospectus for any questions regarding the theme.
One standard red herring wil be put up.
Points according to the RHP.
Its an exhaustive list, but thats obvious from the name.
Regards,
Pai

Question 511: A dead Ringer

The following picture is a morphed one, consisting of two personalities originally. It was produced and promulgated on the day of the release of the game Halo 3, morphing the personality __X__, whose head and armaments were used with that of __Y___, whose body was used.
__Y__ can be found at the proverbial bete noire of MIT.
The reason for this atrocious amalgamation given by MIT was that they both share the same name ___Z___.

1) ID XYZ
2) ID what the shared name is between X & Y

Question 510: Ostrich.

Flag of?
Happy tineye-ing! :)


And, why the title for this question??

Question 509: Brrrrrr

One of the first to discuss the possibility of an ___________ was __X_____. His 1665New Experiments and Observations_________ articulated the dispute known as the ________. The concept was well known among naturalists of the time. Some contended an___________ occurred within earth (as one of the four so-called 'elements'), others within water, others air, and some more recently within nitre. 


Values of this order for the ____________ were not, however, universally accepted about this period. Laplace and Lavoisier, in their 1780 treatise on heat, arrived at values ranging from 1,500 to 3,000 below the _________, and thought that in any case it must be at least 600 below. Dalton, in his Chemical Philosophy gave ten calculations of this value, and finally adopted a far off, completely wrong value. .


What?


X

Question 508: PUNishment

Bet a lot of you have been PUNting when im going to put up another pun question

Enjoy

ID the Visual pun (+5 per)

Question 507: What else is the internet for?

In July 2008, Puneet Agarwal, an NRi from London, revealed himself to be the author of a web comic __X__, to challenge a ban on it. According to Alexa, it's currently among the 100 most popular sites in India, and over 80% of the traffic to the site comes from there. The comic is printed in 10 different Indian languages, not counting English. Pluggd.in, a startup blog from India even did a case study on their growth and strategy.

"Wow, India has now joined the elite club of China, Iran, North Korea and suchlike in the area of Internet censorship."

Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee on the ban of __X___.

The official reason given for banning the comic was that it posed a hazard to Indian National Security. Thus for the sake of protection of our country, they banned this comic. Others rumour that it was due to the fact that the comic portrayed an actor __Y__ in an unsavory manner.

__X__ also spawned off a show which nobody watches, called Jay Hind, featuring __X__ and some guy called Jay.

Question:

1) ID X & Y
2) Brownie points for giving the unsavory manner in which __Y__ was portrayed, or the connection to the title.

Pic from the show nobody watches

Question 506: One's company, Eleven's a crowd.

What's blanked out?


When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark

At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
________________
________________

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
_________________
_________________

Question 505: 4th Hungarian Magik!

WHAT IS THIS??