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| |object name = The Pandorica Opens
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| |image = [[File:The pandorica opens-van gogh.jpg|250px]]
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| |type = Painting
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| |origin = [[Vincent van Gogh]]
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| |appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''
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| :''You may be looking for the [[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|Doctor Who television story]] of the same name.''
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| '''The Pandorica Opens''' was one of the final paintings by [[Vincent van Gogh]], painted in [[1890]] and inspired by transmissions he picked up from [[early human history|102 AD]] [[Stonehenge]].
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| ==History==
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| Stonehenge concealed [[the Pandorica]], a prison box designed by [[the Alliance]] to contain [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]]. The stones were secretly transmitters that broadcast a signal everywhere, throughout time saying "the Pandorica is opening". Vincent van Gogh heard the transmissions in his dreams and painted "The Pandorica Opens".
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| The painting remained undiscovered behind a wall in an attic in France until [[1941]], when it came to the attention of [[Edwin Bracewell]]. Bracewell took it to [[Winston Churchill]], and the two recognised it as a message to [[the Doctor]]. Churchill phoned the Doctor to alert him, but was diverted to [[River Song]] in the year [[52nd century|5145]], alerting her of its existence. River escaped from the [[Stormcage Containment Facility]] in which she was being held, and went in search of the painting. She located it in the [[Royal Collection]], where she tried to steal it so that she could deliver it to [[the Doctor]]. She was confronted by [[Liz 10]] but was allowed to leave when she explained the nature of the painting to Liz.
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| River poisoned a blue-skinned alien salesman called [[Dorium]] in order to get hold of a vortex manipulator. She time traveled to [[Planet One]] and wrote "HELLO SWEETIE ΘΣ Φ ΓΥΔϟ", the temporal co-ordinates for Britain, 102 AD. There she gave the Doctor the painting. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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Revision as of 13:24, 30 July 2010
