Connect all the visuals.Answer: The connect is the tower of Babel. The first visual is a woodcut by Escher depicting the tower. In Biblical mythology, mankind aspired to build a tower so high it reached upto paradise. Angered by this, God gave the men different languages so they couldn't communicate with each other. The second visual shows a ziggurat in Borsippa, Sumer which supposedly gave rise to this legend. The bottom right visual is a schematic of the Babel fish from Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy which is named after the tower of Babel. The other visual is the logo of Altavista's Babelfish translator which is named after the concept in HHGTTG. Raghu (whose comments I published too early and had to delete), Arvind, anon, Avinash, Trevor Burnham, Rajesh, Hirak and Melissa got it. Well done.
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I'm trying this one without using Google.
Babel is the connect.
From left -
Artist's depiction of the Tower of Babel.
Supposed ruins of the Tower of Babel.
That's a babelfish image from babelfish.yahoo.com.
The part of the ear that recognises languages or something, also named after Babel.
Babel...
The tower of Babel, supposed ruins of the Tower of Babel, Symbol of the babel fish software and Internat design of a Babel fish from hitchhiker's..
The connection is the Tower of Babel. The woodcut on the left is M.C. Escher's take on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel_(M._C._Escher)
On the right, I believe that's the icon from Yahoo!'s Babel Fish translation website, and a diagram from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Tower of Babel, Babel fish & Koycho Mitev's model of Babel fish
Babel - Tower, fish, etc.
tower of babel, babel fish translator
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