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Good luck.

I need more skylines, so if you have any pictures… send ‘em in!

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Skyline 32!

March 29th, 2007 by mike d.

We’re going to take a little break from the Prankage for some geographical excitement.

Last week Jocelyn and Schenk recognized the Nantucket Skyline, and Liz and Schenk grabbed the Florida Key’s satellite. Great Job!

This week, we continue.

Good luck!

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Skyline 31!

March 22nd, 2007 by mike d.

Welcome back to the Guess that Skyline contest!

Last week Caitlin correctly identified the skyline as The Eden Project in England. Shaun L. and William, along with a few others, figured out that the satellite image was of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican (on Earth). Great job!

I think this week’s contest is a good one. Check it out:

Good luck!

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Skyline 30!

March 15th, 2007 by mike d.

Adam hit the nail on the head with Venice. The Satellite image was of a huge satellite dish in Nevada. There was some significance behind that choice, but I forget exactly what it was. Oops.

Anyway, on with game #30.

good luck!

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SKYLINES!

March 14th, 2007 by mike d.

I need more skyline photos! If you have any in your archives, send ‘em over!

MikeDiDonato AT gmail D0T com

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Skyline 29!

March 5th, 2007 by mike d.

Well, here we are. Another Monday, another skyline and satellite.

Congratulations to Adam and Paulette for recognizing the Florence skyline, likewise to Liz for recognizing the faux Hawaiian island just northeast of the famous island group.

All this brings us to this week’s contest. The satellite could be tough.

Good Luck!

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Skyline 28!

February 26th, 2007 by mike d.

A whole handful of people successfully identified the satellite image as Fort Bourtange in the Netherlands. I guess I forgot that people may have already found it from the copenhagen contest. No matter! Great job to those that remembered where to find it!!

Sadly no one identified the skyline. So the anonymous curious internet person will have to find another way to find the skyline. Ahh well. Sorry Internet Friend!!

This week we have two good looking images.

First, the skyline.

SKYLINE

second, the satellite.

SATELLITE

Your job is to identify either or both. Good luck!

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SKYLINE 27!

February 5th, 2007 by mike d.

A number of people recognized the satellite image of the Taj Mahal. Kurt grabbed it first though. Good job Kurt!

The skyline was Brighton, England. It was taken by Roland and I thought it would be unlikely if anyone had caught it. Except maybe Ben… I wasn’t sure if he had been to Brighton. Good job to the scientific searchers!

Let’s get right into the next challenge.

The skyline this week appears to be the cover of this band’s CD. I got an e-mail from another Mike D. asking if I believed my readers would be able to identify it. It’s going to be tough because it looks kind of arbitrary. But on the right hand side there appears to be some sort of distinct building. Discuss!
Skyline!

Good luck!

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Skyline 26!

January 29th, 2007 by mike d.

Congrats to Irene who was first to successfully identify the skyline as Zermatt, Switzerland. And also Congrats to Aaron whose Tony Hawk Pro-skater 4 culture led him to identify Trafalgar Square as the satellite image.

This next series might be tough, especially the skyline. We shall see.

Good luck!

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Skyline 25!

January 22nd, 2007 by mike d.

There were a handful of people who successfully identified Disney as the satellite image. Jesse was the only one to submit a guess for the skyline. And he was correct. The answer was indeed Riomaggiore which is a small city in Italy one of the five cities of Cinque Terre. Special thanks to UUIG for providing that skyline.

Let’s proceed to this week’s challenge.

Your goal is to identify both.

Good luck!

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SKYLINE 24!

January 15th, 2007 by mike d.

Wow, tons of people got last week’s puzzle. I’m amazed.

Special awards go to Diane and JonAbad who were the first to identify the skyline of Rio De Janeiro (and did so within minutes of one another) and UUIG for not only correctly identifying the Great Wall, but also the location along it as Badaling… the prime tourist location along the wall and, coincidently, where I myself traversed its winding path.

So, here we are. Another Monday, another Skyline contest.

This week we have a skyline from one of my favorite locations. I am certain some of you will quickly identify it.
Skyline!

As for the satellite? I must admit it isn’t as immediately recognizable as I thought it would be.
Satellite!

Good luck!

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Skyline 23!

January 8th, 2007 by mike d.

Great job goes to Becky for successfully identifying the skyline image as Kansas City, MO. I had no idea my readers were so well travelled.

Also, great job goes to Tyler and Patrick who correctly figured out the satellite as the location of the tragic Chernobyl disaster.

So let’s jump right into this week’s challenge.

Skyline
What a gorgeous photograph. I hope that someone picks up on this one, it’s tricky because it’s unlikely that many (if any) of my regular readers have been here. Thankfully it’s a relatively unique geography.

Satellite

Good luck!

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Skyline 22

January 2nd, 2007 by mike d.

Congratulations to Kurt for correctly identifying the skyline as Hartford, CT.

Congratulations to Kurt, Ben, and Mike for successfully identifying the southernmost tip of Simon’s Town by Cape Hope in Africa. It was extremely tough, but those guys pulled it off. One might wonder ‘why would mike choose that random location?’ well, the answer is idiocy. For whatever reason, I had thought that Cape Town was the southern most location in Africa. So I google mapped myself to Cape town, and saw the tip of Simons Town. I setup the whole contest before realizing that… no… this was not the southern most tip of Africa. Instead it was a random peninsula NEAR the southernmost tip of Africa.

all is well however, because Kurt, Ben and Mike found it. Well done dudes.

This week’s skyline will likely be a tad bit harder then Hartford. The satellite image is one that may appear to be tough, but it is a very significant location.

Best of luck!

Satellite Hint #1:
Something very bad happened at this location.

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Skyline 21!

December 27th, 2006 by mike d.

Wow, two skyline features in a row. Crazy!

I congratulate Patrick and Tyler* for making the connection between my clue (it mentioned light and wonder) and the satellite image’s unique northward facing beach to correctly identify the location as Pharos, an island off of Alexandria, Egypt. This was the location of the Lighthouse of Alexandria (one of the seven wonders of the world).

No one got the skyline. It was Rochester, NY.

So this brings us to this week’s puzzle.

Skyline

Satellite

Good luck!

*no proof was provided from Tyler, but his comment made it seem like he knew the answer

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Skyline 20

December 19th, 2006 by mike d.

Jon Abad and Roland took the glory this week with their successful identification of Blood Gulch and the WoW Thunder Bluff. Great job dudes!

This week we’re back to ‘real’ skylines and satellite images. So check it out:

Skyline 20!

Satellite 20!

And, if you can shed some light on the significance of the satellite image you’ll be a mikedidonato .com wonder.

Good luck!

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Skyline 19

December 6th, 2006 by mike d.

Congrats to Patrick, Mykal, Liz, and UUIG for figuring out last week’s Satellite image as Prague. And good job to Liz & Will for snagging the Dallas skyline title just before the deadline.

This week’s challenge is a little different. You’ll be able to figure out why. Let’s see how good Patrick’s satellite recognition skills REALLY are. bwa ha ha

Satellite.

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Skyline 18

December 1st, 2006 by mike d.

Congrats to Jocelyn and the Design studio for successfully identifying last week’s skyline as Kathmandu, Nepal. Also, great job goes to Patrick for identifying the satellite image which was also Kathmandu, Nepal.

I am running out of Skylines!! If you happen to have any hanging around on your hard drive or if you live in a location that has a skyline and are willing to take a photo, I’d love it if you’d send me some images.

But for now, you know what you need to do.

Identify the skyline and the satellite image.

Good luck!

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Skyline 17

November 21st, 2006 by mike d.

Great job to all the folks who correctly identified Washington, D.C. and Stonehenge as the skyline and satellite images from last week.

So here’s this week’s challenge. It might be easy… might be tough.

Good luck!

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Skyline 16!

November 14th, 2006 by mike d.

After all sorts of complaints by readers, I decided it would probably be wise to update my features section.

So here’s the newest skyline problem.

First off, congrats to Patrick for identifying Easter Island in the satellite image, and EXTRA congrats to Blue Sarah for her successful identification of the skyline in an e-mail to me. Yes, this skyline is none other than Shanghai, China.

Here’s this week’s challenge!

Satellite Image!

Your job is to identify both locations.

Good luck!

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SKYLINE 15!

October 16th, 2006 by mike d.

Congrats to Jes Saint and Patrick for successfully identifying the statehouse in Vermont and Easter Island as the skyline and satellite photos from the last contest.

This week we have a fun one! it’s a night shot!

I’m changing the to-do list.

1. identify the skyline
2. identify the satellite image

Good luck!

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SKYLINE 14!

October 2nd, 2006 by mike d.

Congrats to Patrick and Sander for identifying the satellite and skyline images as Interlaken Switzerland and Dallas.

Well done guys!

This week, it’s the same deal. Check it out:

Satellite photo!

1) identify the skyline
2) is it the same location as the satellite image
3) if not, identify the satellite image

WARNING: ANSWER MAY BE IN THE COMMENTS!

good luck

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Skyline 13

September 18th, 2006 by mike d.

First off, congrats to Becky and Patrick for successfully identifying last week’s skyline as Brussels, Belgium and the satellite image as Anchoridge Alaska.

Here’s this week’s puzzle!

SKYLINE! (I think this might be one of the first night skylines we’ve used here on mikedidonato.com)