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robbyp33

Someone's been busy ay' reniannen! Good work!

Definitely looks like it all fits in with the riddle so far!

On the brink of the solution!...

reniannen

lol told you, I must have been reeally tired last night :rotfl:

She won the Nobel in 1979, the year before one of the joint recipients was called Menachem Begin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin

He was born in Brest, Belarus ...

ran out of time to look at it again this morning, bet it's obvious Will be back this evening, bet you'll have solved it by then. Good luck

robbyp33

Currently struggling to find legacies celebrated annually in Brest or Belarus..

Ended up on topics such as Chernobyl and I'm pretty sure that's not a celebrative event :rotfl:

Marg2k8

Wow - I have been at work today and come back to find you lot have been really busy. Well done again to Reniannen especially.

:T:T:T

I have not been able to spend time on this, so don't have much to add, except that whilst you Reniannen say that you expect it to end in Britain, as we get to a pub at the end, I was thinking that whatever is at the end of the 365 steps is reminiscent of a pub. I was thinking that perhaps it could be a statue of for example "The Red Lion", or another common pub name. I have been looking for examples of 365 steps, to see if any have an interesting statue or something at the end. I have to pop out now, but hope to get back online either later tonight or tomorrow.

SheepAreEvil

Does this help
(The 365 step are in the wye valley and lead to the eagles nest which would be the name of the pub EAGLES NEST PUB but there are a few and the previous clues will no doubt tell us where.)

reniannen

I think I was wrong about Brest. Menachem's 'past' I now think refers to his predecessor as Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin's assassination is commemorated annually in Jersualem where he was born. He might be a living contradiciton as he was non-religious

with Dennis Ross remarking that Ross had never met a more secular Jew in Israel

?

If I'm right I still can't link it with the 365 stairs and 'pub' though

robbyp33

"
BORN HERE, LEGACY FETED YEARLY IN THIS
GLORIOUS HUB
UP 365 STEPS"

Now I'm thinking 'El Castillo'.
It's a Mayan pyramid with 365 steps, each step representing a day of the year, with the last step on the very top of the pyramid in the centre (or the 'hub'?) Hub means centre, right?

"Each of the pyramid's four sides has 91 steps which, when added together and including the temple platform on top as the final 'step', produces a total of 365 steps (which is equal to the number of days of the Haab' year)"

Haab could be somehow relating to 'hub' also maybe? Other pronunciation of it? Not sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Castillo,_Chichen_Itza

reniannen

a probably not very comprehensive list of places with 365 steps -

steps in the Wye Valley which lead to the Eagle's Nest (thanks SheepAreEvil)
The Mayan Pyramid El Castillo (thanks robby)
The steps up to the Capitol dome
steps up to Tiruttani hill temple in India
Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple) in Kathmandu, Nepal
Whaligoe Steps, Caithness
The tower of St Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire (the Boston stump)
Stockholm City Hall, Sweden
The Staircase of Happiness (Escadaria da Felicidade) to the Christ the Redeemer statue on Alto do Cruzeiro, Gravata, Brazil
El Calvario Chapel, Pollenca, Mallorca (named after Calvary hill just outside Jerusalem)
Phare de Gatteville, also known as Pointe de Barfleur Light, Barfleur, Normandy, France

SheepAreEvil

I had an idea. Do you think the answer is not an actual pub (because why would they put that in the clue) but a name that could be a pubs name? Does that make sense?


If it does then reniannen is right the answer is ()

I can't get BEGIN THE YEAR BEFORE to fit

but it fits with
AND KNOW THIS
MAN'S PAST A LIVING CONTRADICTION YET A LIFE UNSUR-
PASSED
BORN HERE, LEGACY FETED YEARLY IN THIS
GLORIOUS HUB
UP 365 STEPS - FOR THE NAME OF A PUB!

Marg2k8

Bringing forward the riddle for ease of reference.

WHERE SANTA CLAUS RESIDES TODAY,
FURTHER DOWN AT HEEL'S EDGE, THE END OF
A WAY,

THIS SISTER WAS BRIEFLY THE CENTRE OF
LIFE
UNTIL A TRAIN CRASH WAS FAVOURED WITH-
OUT ANY STRIFE

A FAMOUS NORMAN HERE RULED AND WAS
LOVED BY EVERY OTHER
WHILE A CATHEDRAL CLOSE BY CELEBRATES
A LOCAL MOTHER

A THEME RESORT RUN DOWN IN HER WORK-
ING TOWN
FOR THIS WORK SHE TOOK THE LAURELS AND
THE CROWN

BEGIN THE YEAR BEFORE AND KNOW THIS
MAN'S PAST
A LIVING CONTRADICTION YET A LIFE UNSUR-
PASSED

BORN HERE, LEGACY FETED YEARLY IN THIS
GLORIOUS HUB
UP 365 STEPS - FOR THE NAME OF A PUB!

WHERE, AND WHAT AM I?

SheepAreEvil wrote: »

I had an idea. Do you think the answer is not an actual pub (because why would they put that in the clue) but a name that could be a pubs name? Does that make sense?


If it does then reniannen is right the answer is ()

I can't get BEGIN THE YEAR BEFORE to fit

but it fits with
AND KNOW THIS
MAN'S PAST A LIVING CONTRADICTION YET A LIFE UNSUR-
PASSED
BORN HERE, LEGACY FETED YEARLY IN THIS
GLORIOUS HUB
UP 365 STEPS - FOR THE NAME OF A PUB!

Sorry, but you've lost me. Probably just me being thick :rotfl:

I was about to reply to your post before you edited it. I didn't follow your train of thought then, but now that you have edited it, you seem to have edited out what you think the answer is.

I do agree however that the answer is not an actual pub, but something that could be the name of a pub. Hence my suggestion earlier that we could be looking for a statue of a Red Lion or something.

You say that you can't get "BEGIN THE YEAR BEFORE" to fit, but I think that Reniannen hit the nail on the head with this bit. Begin refers to Menachem Begin.