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Cmdr_Bond

I'm just shooting blind right now - but WAS FETED BY A BEAU AND INSCRIBED BY A POPE had me confused.

I thought BEAU meant a beauty, or a beautiful woman. We may be intended to think that, but the correct meaning is:

beau [boh] noun, plural beaus,
beaux [bohz], verb

–noun
1. a frequent and attentive male companion.
2. a male escort for a girl or woman.
3. a dandy; fop.

–verb (used with object)
4. to escort (a girl or woman), as to a social gathering.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < F < L bellus beautiful

—Related forms
beauish, adjective
un·beaued, adjective

—Can be confused: beau, bow.

—Synonyms
3. peacock, swell, blade, dude, coxcomb.

Also, with FETED, I was getting confused with fated.

fete [feyt, fet] noun, plural fetes,
verb, fet·ed, fet·ing.

–noun
1. a day of celebration; holiday: The Fourth of July is a great American fete.
2. a festive celebration or entertainment: The ball was the greatest fete of the season.
3. a religious feast or festival: a fete lasting several days in honor of a saint.

–verb (used with object)
4. to entertain at or honor with a fete: to fete a visiting celebrity.

Also, fête [feyt, fet; Fr. fet]


Origin:
1745–55; < F fête, earlier feste feast

—Related forms
un·fet·ed, adjective

—Can be confused: fate, fete

A POPE may refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope_(disambiguation)

Marg2k8

IN A CITY OF SPAS WE FIND IN ANY CLONE
A PARTNER, ONCE CAPITAL, NOW PRONE

TO LAMENT ITS STATUS LOST TO SOUTHERN RIVAL
WHOSE STELE ENSURES ITS FATHERS SURVIVAL

NEXT YEAR VICTORY AND LIBERTY WAS RAISED TO PLEASE
OR A SAD DEPARTURE ACROSS WILD SEA AT 38 DEGREES

OLDEST OF FRIENDS, FAR AWAY TO THE NORTH
A POW ONCE SALLIED FORTH

WAS FETED BY A BEAU AND INSCRIBED BY A POPE
MODEST IN SCALE AND COLOURED TAUPE!

WHAT AND WHERE AM I?

I have copied and pasted the text that Cmdr_Bond typed out, for ease of reference.

I have also been looking at
WAS FETED BY A BEAU AND INSCRIBED BY A POPE
MODEST IN SCALE AND COLOURED TAUPE!

I think that the word a before Beau and before Pope are just fillers. Therefore we could be looking at anyone with the surname Pope for example, not just people with the surname Pope whose first name begins with A.

I did wonder if the Beau might also be part of a place name, e.g. Beaulieu. I have been searching for artists or sculptors called Pope, but I have not found any that I feel fit what we are looking for. I was thinking that feted meant either honoured or celebrated, but I was also wondering if there could be an anagram in this line somewhere.

As for "Modest in Scale and Coloured Taupe", my first thought was that it was a miniature. Perhaps a miniature stone sculpture, because that would be signed by the sculptor. Alternatively, I have been looking at model villages, with stone coloured houses, rather than red brick houses, or coloured ones such as you find at Legoland, but a model village would be less likely to be inscribed by anyone.

Cmdr_Bond

Its a possibility.

I must admit that I have been trying to find an anagram in it all.

Going back to the previous line A POW ONCE SALLIED FORTH, looking up sallied forth, not only does it mean to depart or come out, but it often means to do it with gusto - possibly attack.

Doing some searching, there are several incidents of POW's revolting (mostly in Korea).

However, I also came across this http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/cowra/doc.asp

This google books result gives some info on the revol(s) in Korea, as does this long article http://www.historynet.com/war-behind-the-wire-koje-do-prison-camp.htm

Cmdr_Bond

Re other people named pope, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_(disambiguation)#People_named_.22Pope.22

SheepAreEvil

I've been reading it as SAILED FORTH instead of SALLIED FORTH thats why I thought it was the HMS Prince of Wales (PoW) taking taking Churchhill to the newfoundland conference.
I think I need to learn to read!!! argh no wonder I've been getting nowhere.

reniannen

I haven't been thinking of PoW as a person, but possibly as a celebrated object that was captured during a war, as plenty of artworks etc were and possibly created by, signed by or in some other way related to a Pope, though I haven't found anything likely yet! Will keep looking at other Pope's. Also wondered in beau could refer to Beaux-Arts

I can't make any of this fit the clue properly but I was looking at Alexander Pope (A. Pope) and his dog Bounce. One of Bounce's puppies was sent as a gift to the Prince of Wales, with a collar engraved with the famous lines "I am His Highness’ Dog at Kew; Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are you. There's also a famous portrait of Pope and Bounce, and Bounce's collar is inscribed A. Pope http://www.artchive.com/web_gallery/J/Jonathan-Richardson/Alexander-Pope-and-his-dog,-Bounce,-c.1718.html

what's annoying me about this one most is that we seem to have so much information to work with compared to cashhunt and yet all my googling's getting me nowhere, it's so frustrating.

Cmdr_Bond

SheepAreEvil wrote: »

I've been reading it as SAILED FORTH instead of SALLIED FORTH thats why I thought it was the HMS Prince of Wales (PoW) taking taking Churchhill to the newfoundland conference.
I think I need to learn to read!!! argh no wonder I've been getting nowhere.

Damn you - you made me go back and check to make sure I hadn't mis-typed it :rotfl:

Cmdr_Bond

reniannen wrote: »

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what's annoying me about this one most is that we seem to have so much information to work with compared to cashhunt and yet all my googling's getting me nowhere, it's so frustrating.

Agreed - possibly TOO much information. But none of what we have discovered fits any of the clues - partly because of the grammar. But as I mentioned earlier, it can't be a language issue as they are using British English.

Cmdr_Bond

going back to the first line, if we look at IN ANY CLONE, and think of it like a cryptic crossword, if we look inside ANY CLONE we find NYC - New York City.

So I think that we are on the right track as far as Budapest - New York - Washington - Statue of Liberty - ???

SheepAreEvil

Sorry didn't mean to make you worry about your spelling.

Try this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau
and this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_(disambiguation)#People_named_.22Pope.22 (from Cmdr_Bond)
and see if you end in the same place as me.

I think it fits with these lines

A POW ONCE SALLIED FORTH
WAS FETED BY A BEAU AND INSCRIBED BY A POPE
MODEST IN SCALE AND COLOURED TAUPE!
WHAT AND WHERE AM I?

(Alexander Pope and Beau Nash, records the visit of Federick Prince of Wales
= Queen Square Obelisk, Bath)
I have put it in as an answer but have no idea how it all connects as I was following the clues and was in St Petersburg?!