Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 227

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 227. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Valley of the moon brings wine and widgets to the desktop.

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Sonoma

Valley of the moon (one proposed meaning of the name, and the title of Jack London’s 1913 novel) brings wine (it’s the major wine producing county in California) and widgets to the desktop (Desktop widgets are one of its new features).

2: From an early mission to Patagonia, it added a stage manager.

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Ventura

From an early mission (the city was founded as a mission to Saint Bonaventure in 1782) to Patagonia (it houses the headquarters of Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company), it added a stage manager (Stage Manager was one of its major new features).

3: Avalon’s rocky island was the death of Wagner’s wife and 32-bit code.

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Catalina

Avalon’s rocky island (Santa Catalina Island’s only city is Avalon) was the death of Wagner’s wife (Robert Wagner’s wife, Natalie Wood, drowned there in 1981) and 32-bit code (it was the first 64-bit only version of macOS).

The common factor

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They’re each recent major versions of macOS.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.