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I’ve always thought that the original holidays were the Holy
Days celebrated by the local religion. It didn’t matter the
religion – the local cultures modified their schedules around the
Holy Days to give people a time to celebrate. In the US, we
generally recognize Christmas and Easter as holidays for the
general population. For those Holy Holidays, everyone generally
knows the background of why there is a celebration.
There are also a number of other “holidays” that have grown over
the years. But we don’t generally know the background on some of
these others. As such, I thought I’d share a few here.
Aprils Fool’s Day -- There is no one event that led to this
day. Many cultures have had spring festivals, feasts, and
celebrations which involved pranks around this time in April. One
country has a record of it's own evolution of April Fools Day,
France.
Until the 16th century in France, they observed April as the first
day of the year. The New Year's Day was April 1st.
Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced the new calendar where the
first day of the new year was now January 1st. The French were
having trouble believing that the year started in January and not
April and continued to celebrate as such. Those who knew about the
change ridiculed those who celebrated in April and called them
"April fools".
Sadie Hawkin’s Day -- On November 15, 1937, cartoonist Al
Capp created a holiday in strip form only. Sadie Hawkins was the
ugliest woman in Dogpatch. Her father, Hekzebiah Hawkins feared his
spinster daughter would live with him the rest of his life. He
declared a footrace in which all the homely gals in the county
would run after the available men. If they caught one, the men
would have to marry them.
Although this was just fiction, Al Capp had a popular following who
campaigned this become an annual theme in the strip. This fictious
holiday took on a life of it's own, sort of a reverse Valentine's
Day where the women were empowered to make the first move on the
man.
Hundreds of schools and colleges had a Sadie Hawkins' Day
celebration where the female students were encouraged to ask the
male students to a dance.
Cinco De Mayo -- commemorates the defeat of the French army
by the Mexicans at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. Mexico briefly
gained independence from Spain in 1810. There were many internal
political takeovers and wars in the country including the
Mexican-American War and the Mexican Civil War of 1858. These
events wiped out the economy.
During this time Mexico was greatly in debt to several nations who
were demanding payment. Mexico stopped making any payment and
France decided to use the debt issue to establish its own
leadership in Mexico by appointing Archduke Maximilian of Austria
as ruler of Mexico.
The French army encountered strong resistance at Loreto and
Guadalupe. Lead by General Seguin, a militia of about 4,500
soldiers defeated the French army of 6,500 soldiers.
While the victory was a memorable one for the patriots, it was
short lived. Napoleon had found an excuse to send more troops to
help Maximilian. A year later, the French were eventually able to
depose the Mexican army, take over Mexico City and install
Maximilian as ruler as planned.
Now for the puzzle
To find this cache, you just need to solve the following puzzle. No
hints to start, but when enough days have passed, I might provide a
pointer:
Cache is located at N38 XX.XXX W077 XX.XXX
After solving the puzzle, subtract .100 from decimal portion of N
and .030 from decimal portion of W
000 096 050 221 001 032 228 001 228 098
004 276 100 095 045 066 008 034 010 337
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