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    Yes, it's that time again!

    This year, we're doing a Holiday Advent Treasure Hunt!

    The rules are simple. You and up to three other SVers team up and hunt down an answer to each clue. The questions, trust me, are pretty straightforward and shouldn't take you too long: we want this to be fun, not hugely strenuous!

    This is the 12 days of Christmas, so we'll unveil one each day leading up to Christmas Eve (we'll give you Christmas day off, ya slackers). You'll have until January 1, 2017 to post your answers.

    Every individual who completes the treasure hunt (whether in a team or otherwise) will receive a ribbon, and on top of that, we'll donate $2.50 to Doctor's Without Borders (up to an aggregate total of $1,000).

    Have some fun, win some prizes, get to know your fellow SVers better...what could be better during the holiday season?

    If you would like to 'register' a team, please go to this thread and make a post in the format of the example. Your team can be just you, or it can be up to four SVers. There is no advantage to playing individually, though, and you'll be at a disadvantage of not being able to spread out the effort.

    And for those of you just joining us, the full list of all twelve items you have to find:

    1. A Friend.     Introduce someone (or many someones) to SV! New SVers don't count against your team cap.

    2. A Video Game Plushie. Have someone on your team take a picture of a video game plushie that they either own, or have encountered in the real world.

    3. An exciting pen. Everyone knows LordSquishy loves pens, right? Show me a picture of the most exciting pen owned by a member of your team. Bonus points if it can do something really cool, like LordSquishy's pen that has a bubble level and a screwdriver hidden in it.

    4. Another fun place to be. So we know you come here, and you probably visit SB or QQ, but I bet you probably visit another forum too, you forum-polyamorous people. Link me to it!

    5. A thread that died too soon. We've all run across that one great OP which got no good replies. Find me a thread from SV's past (>30 days) that got too little love (>5 replies) and deserved more.

    6. A Landmark. What's exciting about your city? Have someone on your team take a photo of something cool in the city or town where they live.

    7. Your battlestation. Do you browse SV on a phone? A computer? Via a Terminator's belly button? Show us the battlestation of someone on your team!

    8. A pet. Does someone on your team have a pet? Who? What? Where? Why? Show 'em off for us!

    9. A memorial. We've all had someone in our lives who inspired us, someone who died too soon. Tell me a little bit (<500 words) about one of those people and why they were important to you.

    10. Interesting as fuck.     I don't know what it is yet, but anything. Manage to beat @Exposure in Titanfall? Screenshot! Fall off your skateboard and have your cat finish your trick? I'd love to see it. Show me and tell me something interesting that happened to one of the people on your team recently.

    11. A Good Work. Let's face it, most of the news on SV is bad. Show me something good. Find me a current news article from your town, city, country, state, whatever, that put a smile on your face and share it with everyone!

    12. A new idea. Have your new, baby SVer friend (from 1) tell us what they'd like to see on SV in the new year!
     
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    10. Interesting as fuck. I don't know what it is yet, but anything. Manage to beat @Exposure in Titanfall? Screenshot! Fall off your skateboard and have your cat finish your trick? I'd love to see it. Show me and tell me something interesting that happened to one of the people on your team recently.
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    Is a tooth I had removed a few months ago.
    You see that part with the cavity?
    Yeah, that's the entire tooth above the gym.
    The rest was the freakin' root. Dentist really had to wiggle it around just to get it out.
     







    Šibenik–Knin county tourist board said:
    St. Francis Church was raised in the second half of the 14th​ century at the furthest southeast part of the historic city core. The church represents spacious single-vessel Gothic-style architecture without architectural decorative elements. In the 15th​ century at the northern side, the Holy Cross Chapel was added on and the presbytery with the shrine was rearranged.

    In the front of the church is the main entrance with a Gothic-style stone frame, and visible in the lunette are the remains of frescos from the 14th​ century. Located in the Holy Cross Chapel is an organ that was built in 1762 by Petar Nakić, a renowned maker of these instruments. Located within the architectural complex of Šibenik's Conventual-Franciscans, on the south side of the church, is a monastery dated back to the 14th​ century.

    Since cultural–historic works of art were collected in this monastery for many centuries, today, it represents a place where a great deal of monumental city heritage is kept. The monastery library is accentuated with a collection of 140 incunabula as well as a collection of handwritten codices. Also found here is the "Šibenik Prayer"—one of the oldest Croatian language and literary tributes written in Latin script around 1375.
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    This is somewhat wrong because the library now has 161 incunabula alongside 78 parchments of a large format, 93 parchments of a small format, and 148 codices.



    The Cathedral of St. James is the see of the Šibenik diocese. It's also the most important architectural monument of the Renaissance in the entire country. Since 2000, the Cathedral has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
    UNESCO World Heritage Center said:
    The Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik (1431–1535), on the Dalmatian coast, bears witness to the considerable exchanges in the field of monumental arts between Northern Italy, Dalmatia, and Tuscany in the 15th​ and 16th​ centuries. The three architects who succeeded one another in the construction of the Cathedral—Francesco di Giacomo, Georgius Mathei Dalmaticus, and Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino—developed a structure built entirely from stone and using unique construction techniques for the vaulting and the dome of the Cathedral. The form and the decorative elements of the Cathedral, such as a remarkable frieze decorated with 71 sculptured faces of men, women, and children, also illustrate the successful fusion of Gothic and Renaissance art.
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    There's also this gallery if you want to see some more details of it.

    I tend to ramble about these things, what with having to draw the Cathedral in Art, listening to lectures about it ~4 times in History, and my Croatian teacher loving such cultural monuments. :V
     
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    When I asked @bleedcolor what she wanted to see on SV over the next year, she just said 'I dunno... Tits.'

    ....that counts, right?
    For 'Interesting', here's Imp 2.0, my younger daughter, discovering trampolines at her grandparents house for the first time. Oh, and seeing California for the first time too.
     
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    Pretty crafty mods. My friend told me I could donate to charity without having to do anything. Still, it's not like this is much effort.

    I would like to see more charitable things like this, I guess. It's just good. Also it seems like a fun little thing.
     
    Sorry for the double post, but afaik tags don't work in edits.

    He's not online of fb chat so I guess something caught his attention irl. Knowing him, it's food.

    Speaking about food: We'll be getting a new chocolate factory nearby.

    Leaving war-torn Syria, luxury chocolatier finds new home in Hungary | Daily Mail Online

    @Where'sMySword @NinjaMAster @Oh I am slain!

    Any of you have a memorial or something that's interesting as fuck? I could figure out something for the latter but I'd prefer if someone else did the former.
     
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    @SoothingCoffee @Look to the Left, can you do the plushie challenge? I'm about to go proofread and then probably study and it's getting really cold nowadays (meaning I'm not inclined to go outside and wait for the bus in the cold). Pretty please with a meme on top?
     
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