Difference between revisions of "One Country At A Time"

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Discovery

Found from a new painting in Los Angeles. Picture of the Billboard

On the mural, The bullet carried by the blue winged guy, it says "54 40 or fight," a slogan from early 19th century expansionist America, referring to the latitude point now extending into British Columbia, Canada, but at one point was claimed by America. (Another slogan popular in the same era, "Manifest Destiny," is used by the recorded critic who answers 13102951040.

Also at the top right is written: 7769/7771 (possible shards?)

Content

Each page is a page of a graphic novel, the next page can be reached by clicking a certain part of the page, or by hitting tab and then enter.

List of page urls

Street Artist
Campfire
Letter Contains lyrics from My Violent Heart, particularly the lines "On hands and knees we crawl, you cannot stop us all"
Tour In Iraq
Hand Contains lyrics from The Good Soldier, the question "Do you believe in what we're doing?", with the response, "I am trying".
Abducted
Soldiers This is the correct position for the American flag on the uniform, in accordance with AR 670-1. Also The Presence makes an appearance here.
Tadmur
100 Mile
Gomez
First Thing
Breathless
Get Down
Medic
Captain
Another
Goody Goody
Exit Wound
Form Letter The execution of the man who murdered the narrator's sister was by hanging. This means hanging has been brought back as a form of capital punishment, coinciding with the Mailstrom Wreckage: Gallows.
Reckoning

Hidden Numbers

24.11.1 found on the front page by ctrl+a.

Background Text

The hidden text from the "Reckoning" page is an excerpt from the movie Pleasantville, in which a character living in a black-and-white world is put on trial and accused of using forbidden colors.

You are charged with desecration of a public building and the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and "Laws of Common Decency." Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to the North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?

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 Found from a new painting in Los Angeles. [http://imageserver4.textamerica.com/user.images.x/19/IMG_426819/Big/_0411/TZ200411221002532.jpg Picture of the Billboard]
-On the mural, The bullet carried by the blue winged guy, it says 54 40 (or something like that) or fight.
+On the mural, The bullet carried by the blue winged guy, it says "54 40 or fight," a slogan from early 19th century expansionist America, referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54%C2%B040%27_or_fight%21 latitude point] now extending into British Columbia, Canada, but at one point was claimed by America. (Another slogan popular in the same era, "Manifest Destiny," is used by the recorded critic who answers [http://ninwiki.com/13102951040 13102951040].
 Also at the top right is written: 7769/7771 (possible shards?)