Question 667: An insult conveyed in the form of a compliment

Connect these 5 comical pictures to one 'magnetic' concept

Question 666: Unleash who from where?

• The following are the descriptions of __X__. However, its more popular connotations are not given. ID X & the more popular connotations
  
  
  §  __X__ is the magic sum, or sum of the magic constants of a six by six magic square, any row or column of which adds up to 111.
  §  The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is __X__ 
  §  __X__  was a winning lottery number in the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, in which equipment was tampered to favor certain numbers as each of the three individual random digits.
  §  __X__  was the original name of the Macintosh SevenDust computer virus that was discovered in 1998.
  §  In the Bible,__X__ is the number of talents of gold Solomon collected each year 
  §  In the Bible, __X__  is the number of Adonikam's descendants who return to Jerusalem and Judah from the Babylonian exile
  §  The number __X__ is a frequent visual element of Aryan Brotherhood tattoos.
  §  In Kabbalistic Judaism __X__ represents the creation and perfection of the world.
  
  

Question 665: It's LeGen...wait for it...

Sometime in 1680, this odd looking gentleman:

proposed to aid and assist the merchants of France in developing and promoting their economy and asked __X__ how this could be achieved. __X__ responded by saying __Y__.  __Y__ went on to become a very often used term in economics especially with reference to free trade and doing whatever the hell you want.

Identify X and tell me what Y is.
Don't bother about the gentleman in the picture.

Not a Question!

This isn't a question. Just something you ought to see!

This is a picture taken directly above these camels in the desert at sunset.  It is considered one of the best pictures of the year.  Look closely, the camels are the little white lines in the picture.  The black you see are just the shadows!!

Question 664: Who's scared of her?

The Dreadnought Hoax, perpetrated by Horace De Vere Cole involved Cole and five friends—writer __X__,  brother Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton and artist Duncan Grant—who disguised themselves with skin darkeners and turbans. The disguise's main limitation was that the "royals" could not eat anything or their make-up would be ruined. Adrian Stephen took the role of "interpreter".

In Weymouth, the navy welcomed the princes with an honour guard. An Abyssinian flag was not found, so the navy proceeded to use that of Zanzibar and to play Zanzibar's national anthem.

Thus began one of the most famous hoaxes in history, which exposed the incompetence of the British Navy.
The "royals" inspected the fleet. To show their appreciation, they communicated in a gibberish of words drawn from Latin and Greek; they asked for prayer mats and attempted to bestow fake military honours on some of the officers. This was origin of the phrase __Y__

So:

1) ID the missing person
2) WHat phrase, which gained notoriety in the past 2 years, finds its origins here.

ID the person on the extreme left.

Question 663 : Farms of Steel

Pre Script: Scores will be updated!

What's being talked about?

It has been estimated that, for every square metre of territory on the front from the coast to the Swiss border, a tonne of --------------- fell. One shell in every 4 (some sources say one in every 3 did not ------ 

Given the swamp-like conditions of trench warfate in the period, the weapons - in the form of ___________________________- buried themselves on impact or were otherwise quickly swallowed in the mud. As time passes, construction work, field ploughing and natural processes bring the rusting s____ to the surface. Most of the __X__ is found during the spring planting and autumn ploughing.

In Belgium, X discovered by farmers is carefully placed around field edges, or in gaps in telegraph poles, where it is regularly collected by the Belgian army for disposal by controlled explosion at a specialist centre near Houthulst.

Gas canisters and grenades need greater care as the gas remains poisonous and volatile long after many explosives have perished. The town of Vimi and the villages of Farbuf, Willerval, Acheville and Arleux-en-Gohelle were evacuated in April 2001 when mustard started to leak from X that had been gathered by the French Département du Déminage for disposal

Belgium has a disposal facility that can deal with most kinds of ---- at Poelkapelle, built after ocean dumping of stopped in 1980. Once extracted by the army, the gas chemicals are burned and destroyed at high temperatures at specialized facilities -----

Oops

There was an error in Question 660.

It was 2^128 and not 2^28. An editing error. My fault entirely. I apologise.

Give it another shot.

Thanks.

Question 662: Armageddon out of here

The phrase __X__ has been in constant use since the advent of geography. However, the application of this moniker to the Elk RIver in Virginia came about in W.E.R. Byrne's book, "Tales of the Elk":




"The Elk river, seventy miles above its mouth at Charleston, in that wildly picturesque portion of central West Virginia, makes an abrupt bend in its course, where the waters, now with impetuous rush, now in placid pool, are baffled and turned to the right in a graceful semi-circular sweep of almost a mile, by beetling cliffs rising sheer from the river level, to an elevation of several hundred feet. These cliffs and their huge rocks, which, in the ages, have fallen away and found lodgment in and along the side of the stream, to the pioneer raftsman, as his craft swept into the curve from upriver, gave the distinct impression of having reached an insuperable barrier to his further progress - a cul-de-sac, or the jumping-off place; hence from the earliest history of the country, that locality has been called, and still bears the name -____X___".


So ID X

Question 661: Ding dong the bells are going chime...or was it something to do with death?

Handsome! :D

Identify. Connect. Explain.

Question 660: 1,2,3,4,5...

Guest question courtesy Kishore Narendran.

Associate 2^128 (340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456)
and the date 8th June, 2011 with the pictures below. Connect.