Question for March 29 - PS

What is happening in this video, and why?

(don't go to the actual youtube URL, the comments there would reveal the answer)

Question for Mar 26

Add one more to complete the list shown in the visual. The order of the list is of no relevance.

Question for 25th Mar, 2010

This is a "figuring out" of a different kind. Simply identify the artist and the song here:
Song

A Middle Kingdom First- March 24 2010

In 1979, as the ravages of the cultural revolution were fading, Zhang Humei became the first officially recognised X of its kind in modern China. Celebrating that moment, a newspaper recently called her "X number one". From those baby steps, X has flourished in China and the country is today becoming a haven even for Xs from around the world. Identify X

Question for March 23, 2010

X is the earliest surviving piece of its kind (circa 1790 BC). One nearly complete example of X is inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall diorite stele in the Akkadian language. The stele was discovered in 1901 by Gustav Jéquier in what is now Khūzestān, Iran and is currently on display at the Louvre. X is eponymous of the king who enacted it. The king claimed that he was chosen by the Gods to bring about the rule of righteousness in his land. X is thought of as a precursor to one of the fundamental tenets in the modern world, though X is less encompassing than what we have today. The king is depicted in several U.S. government buildings. He is shown along with others in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in the United States Capitol, and also on the south wall of the U.S. Supreme Court building as receiving X from the Sun God.

Identify X.

Question for Mar. 22nd -- Dev

Posting early due to travel plans...

X became a single city occupying both banks of the river Y with a unification in the year 1873. The name X is a concatenation of the names of the two cities on either side of Y.

Regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, its extensive World Heritage Site includes the banks of the Y, Heroes' Square and the Millennium Underground Railway, the second oldest in the world. Other highlights include a total of 80 geothermal springs, the world's largest thermal water cave system, second largest synagogue, and third largest Parliament building.

Identify X and Y.

Question for March 19th, 2010

It all started with a simple story about a hod carrier living in Walkin' Street.

But by mixing references from tomes like New Science(La Scienza Nuova) and the Egyptian Book of the Dead it went on to become this...(the first and last lines of X)

"A way a lone a last a loved along the" ......"riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

The title of X can be literally interpreted as "End again".

What is X ?

New:: clue1: X is a book.
clue2: The title of X and very loosely, its idea is derived from a folksy ballad.
clue3: Hope you had a happy St. Patrick's day ?