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TAR14 EP4: 'It Was Like a Caravan of Idiots'(Siberia)
booboobooboo:
It is properly spelled 'Chekhov', not 'Checkov'
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on March 02, 2009, 02:24:08 PM ---
--- Quote from: hakushu8 on March 02, 2009, 01:38:25 PM ---More info, warranting a new post. Sorry for that.
According to this site: http://www.suvenirograd.ru/sights.php?id=650&lang=2
--- Quote ---Church of St. Innocent of Irkutsk in Ovsyanka, which consists of a wooden chapel belfry and a total area of 59.7 square kilometers. m, was built in 1994 on the initiative and with the participation of writer Victor Petrovich Astafijeva.
The author - architect Areg Demirhanov. Other projects of Demirhanov - a librari and church, created at the request Astafijeva in the Ovsyanka.
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I searched for the boldened name, and I went to this site:
http://russianliterature.org/people/a/astafiev.htm
--- Quote ---Writer. Born on May 1, 1924 in the village of Ovsyanka, in the Krasnoyarsk region. In 1942 graduated from the Rail School and worked that year for four months on building a railroad. In 1942 joined the military and went to fight in World War II. Studied at a soldier's school in Novosibirsk in 1942, and in 1943 fought until the end of the war as a soldier. Was given several medals for his bravery at the war.
After the war worked at a railway station, until in the 1950s started writing stories for the Chusovsky Worker. In 1958 became a member of the Soviet Union of Writers, and in 1962 became a professional writer.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s published books of stories and novels. From 1979 to 1981 four volumes of his collected works was published by the Molodaya Gvardia publishing house.
In 1991 was the Secretary of the Soviet Union of Writers. Died in 2001.
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Note the boldened title. It is probable that for the Roadblock, team members had to write the word "Chusovsky Worker" because honestly, Anton Chekhov has no direct link to Krasnoyarsk. What I believe would happen for this leg is:
Teams arrive on Krasnoyarsk
RB with speed reading - must form the words Chusovsky Worker
Go to place associated with writer of Chusovsky Worker - Orthodox Church in Ovsyanka
Detour
U-turn afterwards?
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I'm going to stick with CHECKOV because it fits the evidence. There is no E in Chusovsky and not enough letter boards to spell out "Chusovsky Worker"
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NoluckBoston:
I don' think this helps or solves anything.
When I look at this picture I wonder if part of the task is to slip the panels into a slot at the top of the podium. I looks like there is a slot at the top.
Spelling out, as we assume...
C
H
E
K
H
O
V
Just thinking out loud.
georgiapeach:
I like that!
bag:
--- Quote from: NoluckBoston on March 02, 2009, 08:05:50 PM ---I don' think this helps or solves anything.
When I look at this picture I wonder if part of the task is to slip the panels into a slot at the top of the podium. I looks like there is a slot at the top.
Spelling out, as we assume...
C
H
E
K
H
O
V
Just thinking out loud.
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I think it's interesting too. It makes me wonder (and it's highly unlikely) if anyone does it backwards. :P
Belle Book:
--- Quote from: walkingpneumonia on March 02, 2009, 05:35:10 PM ---I know this post:
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,17788.1075.html
quotes the most times unreliable wikipedia.
But it does seem like the title could be attributed to M&M now...
"Doing the double" could mean having to do both "i.e. double" detour tasks?
--- Quote ---From wikipedia -
Quote
Leg 5 quote's - "They Did The Double On Us!"
Totally sounds like a Mark and Michael quote to me.
From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/double
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4. To replace an actor in the actor's absence or in a certain scene.
Sounds like a stuntman term, since a stuntman.. is sometimes a double.. to help the actors/actresses perform dangerous stunts that they cannot do.. and Mark and Michael are highly to be the team using the term?
And they.. i'm speculating that they are refering to a team who look really alike each other?? Cara and Jaime??
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Yeah, maybe Mark & Michael got the U-Turn. Seems like either Christie & Jodi or LaKisha & Jen did it to them, more likely Christie & Jodi.
Belle Book
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