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Marg2k8

One of the places on Reniannen's list is Stockholm City Hall. I don't know if it is relevant, but according to Wiki, this is the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet and we have been looking at Nobel prize winners. If it is this 365 steps however, I don't get how it ties in with the name of a pub.

Marg2k8

Other places with 365 steps that I have found:-

Sorry, I don't know how to edit the hyperlinks

The Monument, Fish Street Hill, London.

http://www.victorianlondon.org/buildings/monument.htm

(Although, from other sites, the number of steps is different)

Gliwice Radio Tower

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliwice_Radio_Tower

(but I don't really think this is it!)

reniannen

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 I'm not quite following you either?

If it helps this is my exact working for this bit, line by line

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

Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace prize in 1979 for her work with the poor in Calcutta

BEGIN THE YEAR BEFORE

The year before, in 1978, the Nobel Peace prize was won by Menachem Begin

AND KNOW THIS
MAN'S PAST
A LIVING CONTRADICTION YET A LIFE UNSUR-
PASSED

BORN HERE, LEGACY FETED YEARLY IN THIS GLORIOUS HUB

I'm struggling at this point. Because I couldn't find an annual celebration of Begin in his home town of Brest, or any reason why he would be called 'a living contradiction' I though that 'his past' may refer to his predecessor as Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. I feel Rabin fits with the next lines as he was known as a 'secular Jew' a contradiction in terms, and he is commemorated annually on the date of his assassination in his home town of Jerusalem. I'm not quite sure if Jerusalem fits with 'Glorious Hub' though, but I suppose it is a centre and hence hub for 3 religions.


UP 365 STEPS - FOR THE NAME OF A PUB!

I agree I was thinking too literally before. I don't think we can take anything definite from 'pub'.

Marg2k8

For celebrations in a place of birth, we could be looking further afield than a town, so if your idea is right, we could be looking at what was Palestine, rather than just Jerusalem.

Perhaps another idea for a statue that could be at the top of the steps is "The Kings Head" or "The Queens Head". I suppose we are more likely to find a royal statue than a "Red Lion".

reniannen

Marg2k8 wrote: »

For celebrations in a place of birth, we could be looking further afield than a town, so if your idea is right, we could be looking at what was Palestine, rather than just Jerusalem.

Perhaps another idea for a statue that could be at the top of the steps is "The Kings Head" or "The Queens Head". I suppose we are more likely to find a royal statue than a "Red Lion".

I just feel a hub is more likely to be a smaller place than a country but I could be wrong. I did try searching for steps in Israel too but haven't came up with anything yet. And I couldn't find an annual celebration of Begin in Belarus either

Marg2k8

Perhaps we are overlooking the obvious. Perhaps we are looking for someone else born in the area, whose life is celebrated annually around this time of year? Jesus?

robbyp33

Hmmmm, Temple Mount is in Jerusalem.
Jews helped build it in 365AD..

http://templemountlocation.com/underAlAksa.html


Link to info on Temple Mount: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount

Again, I could be way off target here, but just throwing out my research and ideas in the hope it makes sense to someone :rotfl:

reniannen

Marg2k8 wrote: »

Perhaps we are overlooking the obvious. Perhaps we are looking for someone else born in the area, whose life is celebrated annually around this time of year? Jesus?

[STRIKE]wouldn't it be an affront to Christians to suggest they only celebrate him annually and only in Jerusalem / Israel?!
[/STRIKE]doh I completely forgot we're on a seasonal theme, sorry. I think you might be onto something Not sure how Jesus fits with Begin or Radin, but I'm more confident we're on the right track with Jerusalem now

Marg2k8

My efforts at googling Jesus + "365 steps" have brought to my attention another place with 365 steps. Here is a link, but I don't think that this is the answer that we are looking for either.

http://www.planetware.com/caruaru/morro-do-bom-jesus-bra-pe-cmdj.htm

this one is in Brazil. It's called Morro do Bom Jesus, Caruaru.

Perhaps I should have said whose "Birth" is celebrated annually, not whose "life".

SheepAreEvil

Sorry I did somehow edit my answer out.

I think that the answer is Stockholm City Hall.

From Mother Teresa (reniannen post #11) I also looked at Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin and also looked at where they were born and thought the pyramids if you think born egypt and not the village Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat was born in but I couldn't get it to fit.

Then I thought why not just Alfred Nobel thats why I can't get BEGIN THE YEAR BEFORE to fit because Order of merit was 83 and Nobel 79 but if you KNOW THIS MAN'S PAST the reason that the Nobel Prize came about is because he invented dynamite and felt bad about it so left money in his will for the Peace Prize etc i.e A LIVING CONTRADICTION YET A LIFE UNSURPASSED and he was BORN HERE Stockholm. The yearly Prizes are awarded in Stockholm at the Stockholm Concert Hall but are followed by a banquet at Stolkholm City Hall LEGACY FETED YEARLY IN THIS GLORIOUS HUB. The tower on the city hall has 365 steps UP 365 STEPS - FOR THE NAME OF A PUB! which is topped by Three Crowns which could be the name of a pub.

So the answer is (or could be) Stockholm City Hall, The Three Crowns