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The men are Blaise Pascal (the Pascal calculator is the machine in the second image), Robert Oppenheimer, The Wright Brothers, Albert Einstein, and then we have the Rubik’s cube invented by Erno Rubik. Line up the first letter’s of their surnames and you have P-O-W-E-R. This point to the theme of he card which is generation of power

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It is a SOLAR PANEL. Now you have to figure out what happened with regards to the solar panel in 1904

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We’ re talking about TESLA. He had a squabble with Edison where he was oppressed. Now to think about how the answers connect. POWER, Solar panels, 1904, ridicule or oppression

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The inventors here are Thomas Edison, George Cove and Allesandro Volta. I believe you can easily figure out what they invented. Now figure out what stands out

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We come up with: White Pawn  - T, Black Pawn - O, White Knight  - K, White Bishop - H, White Queen - I, White Rook - M, Black Rook - N, Black Bishop - E, Black Knight - G, Black Queen - A, White King  - Q, Black King  - Z

AEGHIJKLMNOQTZ

If it doesn’t make sense yet, maybe we are going to use this some where else

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Finally, if you match letter pairs to the corresponding letters in the chess cipher, you come up with “TOOK HIM IN THE NIGHT”. This makes reference to someone who was abducted. If you did your research well, you would know that one of the inventors on this card was abducted to oppress him and discourage hime from creating the first solar power system. This happened in 1902. His name is George Cove and that is the crime of this card.

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DRACO, HYDRA, ORION, HERCULES

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Nine. The  hydra had 9 heads. 9 is the “key to what Caesar said”. Now we just have to figure out what Caesar has to do with any of this.

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He was brutally murdered that year. That is the crime of this card. But there is more

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… Follow me. The direction to scroll is the direction the blade is pointing. So the letters move backwards. Furthermore, we have already been given the key from the previous card - 9. Move the letters backwards 9 times  and you get: “BRUTUS IS GUILTY”

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‘ET TU BRUTE’, MEANING ‘Even you, Brutus’. These were final words by Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s book after he was fatally ambushed and literally stabbed in the back by his close friend, Brutus. The crime of this card is more than just a murder. It is a brutal betrayal.

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Mozart had a strange fear of trumpets, Elvis feared the dark and Arnold was a germophobe. Now you know the theme of the card - Fears

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All the words from that cipher are palindromes. That means the question mark is making reference to AIPOHOBIA, the fear of palindromes

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The MINIM. When you transcribe the minims on this page, you get 3 letters: C, B, A. Now use that to figure out the rest of the card

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BACH. When you fit the letters into the dashes after rearranging, you get BACH the famous classical composer

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That man is Prince Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar. Bach was employed under Ernst as a composer and organist but he wanted to quit. Ernst considered this a breach of contract while Bach considered it his right. The Prince ordered that Bach be imprisoned and he was eventually locked up for a month month. Maybe the answer to this puzzle is actually a question. Was there an injustice against Bach? Was he incarcerated wrongly under the order of a tyrant or was the he about to commit the crime of deserting the prince when they alreay had an agreement. The answer is left to you to decide

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The 1800's (1800 — 1899) was the peak of British raids and conquests in many countries of the world.

The items are artefacts from different nations looted and collected by the British within these times.

They are now on display at the British museum.

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In the background is a watermark of the Indian goddess of war.

The centre piece gem, the Koh - I - Noor Diamond is a gem of Indian origin, that is now a part of the crown jewels.

The last line of text is an excerpt from a report by Commander Hugh Rose of the Central India Campaign on the revolt in Jhansi

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In the background of this side of the card is a fortress, the Jhansi fortress in India.

The flames point to the fact that the leader is said to have been cremated, as she would not surrender to her enemies. Also the city was burned down by the British.

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The legendary Rhani of Jhansi, is best depicted as a warrior with a baby strapped to her, as that was how she fought

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She was a queen, Queen of Jhansi.

At her coronation, she was given the name of a goddess.

Her name was Lakshmibai.

Vigenère is the cipher type with which the coded text is encoded.

I shall not surrender my Jhansi

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The tower is the Stockholm clock tower.

By implication, Stockholm is the premise of this adventure.

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The combination lock has numbers 1, 9, 7, 3 and time about 10 o'clock.

This points to a year and time of a major event in Stockholm - 1973, 10:03am

The vault also shows that the event surrounded a bank, as the kind of vault is a bank vault.

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The handcuffs are a sign of crime and imprisonment.

This was for robbery at the Normalmstorg Bank, Stockholm in 1973.

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The four marks indicate the four people taken as hostages in the course of the robbery.

They eventually formed a bond with their captor, boycotting attempts to rescue them.

This is also referenced in the first riddle on the front page of the card.

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Reading the encoded numbers from the grid — Set him free I will do the same.

The final riddle — Stockholm Syndrome.