The first site that I visit after I log in to the PC at work is Wikipedia. On most of the weekends, however, I somehow don't visit Wikipedia, unless I'm hunting for information to help me in quizzes. So, on Mondays, I usually go through the archives for the featured articles of the weekend. Of late, I've started paying more attention to the
Picture of the day as well. Earlier, I hardly ever scrolled till the bottom of the main page of wiki, and hence, for quite some time, I never even noticed that there used to be a Picture of the day! In fact, in the first few weeks that I began browsing through Wikipedia (about two years ago? don't remember), all I did was to navigate to
http://wikipedia.org, key in the subject of my choice in the search bar, and hit the 'enter' key. Only later did I begin to actually visit the main page and take a look at the featured articles. And now it's the
Picture of the day that has my full attention :) Well, so, here I was, going through the Picture of the Day for the 3rd of September, 2006, and the accompanying text had 'Rano Raraku' in it. This really had me intrigued. It was very familiar, although it's been ages since I read about the figures of Easter Island. Where on earth had I read of this before, for me to remember it so lucidly?
Then I remembered. It HAD to be from one of the Hardy Boys' books! :D Searched on Google for 'Rano Raraku hardy boys', and the first result had this:
The Stone Idol by Franklin W. Dixon. (Simon & Schuster, 1981) Hardy Boys mysteries. Amateur detectives Frank and Joe Hardy try to track down a small Easter Island idol stolen from a South American antiquities dealer. And, in fact, I think I even remember quite a bit of the story! The dude who sets the boys to look for the Idol himself is the one who's stolen it, and he calls them in and sets them off in the wrong direction... and in the end, a cut on the cheek of the man whom the boys suspect to be the crook leads the boys to the answer to the mystery! :) (not bad, eh? Perhaps I
can nominated myself for
The Elephantine Memory Award hardy har har! :D
I travelled back in time by more than a decade... (The Pre-Class-10 Age, like my friend Radish would put it :D) the time when I used to read The Hardy Boys, The Three Investigators, and, at times, Nancy Drew too :D A few months ago, while chatting with my friend
Gnu, we began talking of The Hardy Boys, and he told me that he'd read somewhere (perhaps Wikipedia :P) that the authors of The Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series were (or is that was? :P), in fact, the same person! Hmmm. Well, there's some biiiig Ramayana of sorts about the same on Wikipedia... I'm somehow don't wanna read it right now :P
So... from the picture of the (previous) day, to Rano Raraku in Easter Island, to the books I read a more than a decade ago... I seem to have travelled a lot!
Hmmm. Better get started on work. Spent enough time writing this post!
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