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Writer's Blok Mystery Cache

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Cache Liberation Front: Bah, one of our oldest caches. Looks like it's a goner. Sorry for the last two goose chases.

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Hidden : 1/11/2005
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

You're looking for a round Altoids tin.

The cache is NOT listed at the coords listed. To get the exact coordinates, solve the puzzle below.

From wikipedia.org:

"Alexander Blok was a famous Russian poet.

He was one of the most important of the Symbolists, and his first book Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame (Songs to the Beautiful Lady, 1904) created a sensation with its idealized views of feminine beauty and spirit.

His most well known poem is The Twelve a poem which weaves elements of the Christ story and the Russian revolution. It is frequently grouped with the Scythians.

Blok supported the revolutionary movement in Russia and participated in the 1905 Revolution. He expressed his support for the October Revolution with his poem "The Red Guards," sometimes considered his finest work.

According to one biographer, he died in the famine during the Russian Civil War."

Here is one of my favorite poems by Blok, transliterated into English:

Noch', ulitsa, fonar', apteka,
Bessmyslennyi i tusklyi svet.
Zhivi esche khot' chetvert' veka -
Vse budet tak. Iskhoda net.

Umresh - nachnesh opiat snachala
I povtoritsia vse, kak vstar':
Noch', ledianaia riab' kanala,
Apteka, ulitsa, fonar'.

To find the coordinates of this cache, go to:

N33 58.AAA
W117 20.BBB

where AAA=(The year the above poem was written) - 1209
and BBB=(The year Blok died) - 1585

Enjoy. The FTF gets a Soviet printed 1991 Russian Ruble.

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No acronym-only logs allowed. Logs that contain only acronyms or which don't even contain one full sentence will be deleted. Anything less is insulting. Feel free to relog with something, anything, more substantial.



Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Oybx jnf uvtu ba gur yvfg bs snefvtugrq Ehffvna cbrgf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)