[b]RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT[/b]: This set of riddles have been solved. Try the more recent set (https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/143418785/0/0). [b]RULES[/b]: Say the # followed by the answer. As soon as you get the correct answer, your name will be announced, and no, you're not allowed to use Google. [b]CANCELLATIONS[/b]: (1) If you suddenly shoot a statement without a number, your statement will be ignored. (2) If you suddenly state the answer for more than one riddle, the latter part of your statement will be ignored. (3) If you answer another riddle in a subthread of replies, your statement will be ignored. [b]NOTE[/b]: These are literally riddles, not jokes or statements full of puns. [b]THEME[/b]: Places and Events. #1. Where could it be? The sand is very immense, and the heat is extremely intense. Here, in this dilapidated land, nothing can grow, but it itself grows. Nothing can stop it's persistent onslaught. A slow death to a large land, but the land itself is ever larger still.[spoiler]The answer is The Sahara Desert. Discovered answer by [i]googankill[/i]. [/spoiler]#2. How? Why? When? Did these objects of great mass form from unintelligible hands? Why would such a shape come into being, or why would it's neighbor have a broken face? That cat and/or man?[spoiler]Answer is [i]The Great Pyramids of Giza[/i]. Discovered answer by [i]ShadowFlame742[/i].[/spoiler]#3. She stands with some sense of pride, as if it was deserving it. She cuddles the gifts she receives without teaching those gifts to maintain their humility. She stands in order to remind, to help, and to remember. ...at least, that's what the French implied.[spoiler]The answer is Statue of Liberty. The answer was discovered by [i]DeAdKiTtEnPiE[/i].[/spoiler]#4. No one thought it would have a sequel, but it did, and when it started, it spread like wild fire over the European plains. The first country it invaded was it's own, the second was it's neighbor, and the third was it's "friend." It disarmed it's people, and then it's people's neighbors. 'Til d'day it introduced liberation from far neighbors.[spoiler]The answer is [i]WWI[/i]. The answer was discovered by [i]DeAdKiTtEnPiE[/i].[/spoiler]#5. Suddenly, an angel forced one foot into the earth and one foot into the sea, rolling the sky as if it was a scroll. The earth burned, but the sky darkened. The creatures went blind, and then they died. No blood was spilled; it was only and purposefully poured.[spoiler]The answer is Hiroshima. The answer was discovered by [i]CrunchyWolf[/i].[/spoiler][b]WINNERS[/b]: #1. [i]googankill[/i] #2. [i]ShadowFlame742[/i] #3. [i]DeAdKiTtEnPiE[/i] #4. [i]DeAdKiTtEnPiE[/i] #5. [i]CrunchyWolf[/i]