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Metazooa fundraiser for WWF
A fun fact inspired by Globle: Capitals
Answers to last week's games
Reader survey
Team Metazooa is ready to save some species!
On May 3, our team of dedicated Metazooa players and hardcore (not really) athletes will climb all 1,776 steps of Toronto's landmark CN Tower to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund, and we need your help making it to our goal. We're aiming for $5,000 for wildlife conservation, and every donation helps get there.
With just one week to go before the climb, we're not at our fundraising goal yet, but we're not giving up. When species are endangered, the stakes are too high to throw in the towel. The clock is ticking, and we need a final push to cross the finish line.
Please support us by donating to the WWF with the link below so we can make a real impact. 100% of contributions go directly to WWF. Even a small donation makes a difference, and sharing the link helps just as much.
Metazooa features 328 species. Every one of them deserves a future. If this game has ignited a passion for nature in you, here's a chance to do something that makes a difference.
An Egyptian temple lives in the heart of Madrid
Photo by Miguel Saenz de Santa María on Unsplash
Stroll through the Parque del Oeste in Madrid (Capitals answer for Apr 25) at sunset and you might think the Spanish heat has gotten to you. Rising from a reflecting pool, framed by palm trees and pink Castilian sky, stands a genuine ancient Egyptian temple. Not a replica. Not a folly built by some eccentric nineteenth-century aristocrat. The Templo de Debod is over 2,200 years old, originally dedicated to the goddess Isis, and it once stood on the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt.
Its journey to Spain is one of the great rescue stories of twentieth-century archaeology. In the 1960s, Egypt began constructing the Aswan High Dam, a project that promised electricity and flood control but threatened to drown dozens of ancient monuments beneath the rising waters of Lake Nasser. UNESCO launched an unprecedented international campaign to save them, and Spain answered the call, sending engineers and funds to help relocate the colossal statues at Abu Simbel.
In 1968, Egypt expressed its gratitude in spectacular fashion. President Nasser gifted the entire Temple of Debod to Spain. The structure was carefully dismantled, packed into crates, and shipped across the Mediterranean. Spanish architects spent four years reassembling it, stone by stone, in the Madrid park where it stands today.
The temple opened to the public in 1972 and remains free to visit. On clear evenings, locals gather at the surrounding pool to watch the sun set behind sandstone walls that once witnessed pharaohs, a quiet, improbable monument to international goodwill.
Learn more: Turismo Madrid
Trivia
Answers to last week's games
Monday, April 20 to Sunday, April 26.
Globle
Apr 20 Marshall Is.
Apr 21 Fiji
Apr 22 Lebanon
Apr 23 Suriname
Apr 24 Bulgaria
Apr 25 Solomon Is.
Apr 26 Sweden
Apr 27 Play now!
Globle: Capitals
Apr 20 Yaren
Apr 21 Roseau
Apr 22 Addis Ababa
Apr 23 Bangui
Apr 24 Rabat
Apr 25 Madrid
Apr 26 Georgetown
Apr 27 Play now!
Chronogram
#1115 Genghis Khan
#1116 Benjamin Franklin
#1117 Paul Cézanne
#1118 Alexander Hamilton
#1119 Werner Heisenberg
#1120 Édith Piaf
#1121 Edward VII
#1122 Play now!
Fictogram
#883 Tarzan
#884 Buffy Summers
#885 Vito Corleone
#886 Andrew Beckett
#887 Arwen
#888 Indiana Jones
#889 Sebastian Flyte
#890 Play now!
Metazooa
#994 chameleon
#995 perch
#996 puma
#997 river otter
#998 tapeworm
#999 lemur
#1000 yak
#1001 Play now!
Metaflora
#933 radish
#934 wheat
#935 breadfruit
#936 butternut squash
#937 tobacco
#938 black elderberry
#939 blackberry
#940 Play now!
Linxicon
The following are the shortest paths from last week:
#798 scale → unit → apartment → homeless
#799 review → edit → modify → reduce
#800 tip → touch → possess
#801 distinction → differ → like → etc
#802 discover → learned → strengthen
#803 concentration → memory → flashback → restore
#804 gas → breath → gasp → nonetheless
#805 Play now!
Elemingle
#454 Arsenic
#455 Chlorine
#456 Boron
#457 Cobalt
#458 Sodium
#459 Carbon
#460 Cerium
#461 Play now!
Stocktangle
#137 AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (AMC)
#138 ServiceNow Inc (NOW)
#139 UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH)
#140 GE Vernova LLC (GEV)
#141 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN)
#142 Intel Corporation (INTC)
#143 Intel Corporation (INTC)
#144 Play now!
That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading!
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