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[Puzzle ended] Great names of history [+solution]

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GrayFiend

A day before yesterday I won two good games, and yesterday — another one (5 good games during the week ^_^). Thus I feel a necessity to recharge my luck and for this reason I prepared some puzzles for you. It's my first puzzle here and English isn't my native language, so be lenient with it. I hope it will be good enough. =)

Let's go!

Standard rules: no cheating, no hinting, no sharing, no leaking. Have a fun and don’t ruin it for anybody else.

You have 4 days to solve it (till 18 Feb, 10 p.m. GMT).

P.S. $25 contributor value is necessary for this giveaway.

Reveal the pattern
General HINTS for Q1-Q5
Additional HINTS for Q2, Q4 and Q5
Location TIPS for Q1-Q5
SOLUTION

1 decade ago*

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GrayFiend

SOLUTION

Time is over. Congratulations to winner and my respect to all participants.

Q1: Tesla Gun is futuristic weapon which Tesla never made.
H1: A suggestion exist that the Tunguska event may be the result of Tesla's experiment with the Wardenclyffe Tower.
A1: Nikola Tesla

Q2: Shah Diamond — look at the last paragraph of 'History of the Diamond'.
H2: He is recognized as homo unius libri, a writer of one book, whose fame rests on the verse comedy Woe from Wit (or The Woes of Wit).
A2: Aleksander Griboyedov

Q3: Preaching or Delivering a sermon
H3: Reading Lessons for the Donkey or How a Donkey Reads
A3: Nasreddin

Q4: He became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder of the branch House of Orange-Nassau. His flag was a flag of Republic since 1572. In 1599 it was officially confirmed as the state flag. But in 1648, due to the revolutionary upheavals, the orange monarchical band was replaced by a red one. This flag is preserved as a state even after the proclamation of the Dutch monarchy in 1815. However orange band still present on the national flag of Ireland.
H4: Dutch: Willem de Zwijger
A4: William the Silent

Q5: British admiral Benjamin Hallowell played a considerable part in the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and it was he who, after the action, presented wounded Nelson with a coffin made from the mainmast of the French flagship L'Orient, destroyed in the battle, in which in fact Nelson was buried in 1806.
H5: Nelson ordered that this strange present be kept upright in his cabin as a reminder that death was ever before his eyes. But his guests and his staff were so disturbed by its presence that he yielded to the appeal of a favourite servant and had it carried below - until it should be needed.
A5: Horatio Nelson

1 decade ago
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AuthenticZac

So that was #5... I was looking in the completely wrong direction. Took the clues to mean pirates/vikings who were buried at sea with a boat they had stolen :P
Congrats to those who solved it though.

1 decade ago
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talon2claw

I never got #3, but that's mostly because I was stuck on #2. I went in the absolute wrong direction to begin with. Then I came close, but I never made the right connection. You did a great job giving hints that didn't end up making the puzzle completely obvious.

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