The coordinates above do
not describe the stash-site – would certainly have been nice if
they did….!
Though I’m a mere novice
compared to the veterans in this game, it is my experience that
most of the mental challenges on this site favor the male way of
thinking. All the math’s and the coding requires extensive left
hemisphere activity, and that – let’s be honest – does not always
cohere with the genetics of the female brain. To remedy this lack
of feminine presence in geocaching society (and to provoke a
little), I decided to create this cache as a tribute to great women
in history and present time.
Having solved the questions,
the solution is easily found. Calculations are, as a matter of
principle, kept at a minimum.
In the following you will
meet women from different areas who have distinguished themselves
in one way or another. We are talking about performing arts,
science, politics, literature, sports, etc. They are all
internationally known.
Can’t say that I’m a woman
of few words, so here goes…..
A:
She was born in Italy and suffered most of her life from a
condition that today is known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, but
this did not prevent her from following her true calling. Her
pioneering work at the frontier lead to a drastic drop in death
rates among soldiers, and was later an inspiration to all in her
profession throughout the world. She died in 1910 but lived to
experience being the first woman to be awarded a very distinguished
Order.
Number of letters in
this woman’s last name = A
B:
She died
in 1962 in Denmark after having left her soul on another continent
some 30 years earlier. In her relative long life she wrote an
abundance of essays, of which many have been translated from Danish
into a number of foreign languages.
She had many names and some of them she used as pseudonyms in the
early days of her authorship. One of them was Pierre.
The story and the love of her life is well known to the world,
mainly due to an epic movie starring some of the best actors of all
times.
Year of birth = B
C:
She had
part of her education i England and Switzerland and was in 1942-43
imprisoned for “anti-british activities”. She grew up in an
intensely political atmosphere and acquired a formidable
international reputation as a "statesman".
Her ways of leading her country had in the eyes of the world, and
of her subjects, a strong tendency towards authoritarianism, and
she ended her days by being shot by one of her own
employees.
Date (of the month) of death
= C
D:
She was
born in Frankfurt am Main and she won the prize as best woman in
her field in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
When she and her team played in the World Series for the first
time, they were offered a tea serving set as payment for their
appearance! Compare that to the millions their male parallels get
paid for their efforts!
Recently she received a spectacular offer:
She could have been the first woman to play in a
professional men's league, but she declined the
offer.
Height in cm = D
E:
Her
discography is impressive. She made her first recordings at the age
of 18 and new editions of songs she recorded in the past are still
being released today, even though she died I 1959.
She began her turbulent life in Baltimore as a daughter of a
teenaged mother. Her father, a not much older jazz guitarist,
didn’t stay around long enough for her to get to know him.
After being raped at the age of ten she was sentenced to Catholic
reform school until reaching adulthood, but was helped out of there
by a family friend.
Her singing career started at a speakeasy in New York, and later
she got to sing with all the nobilities in the jazz
world.
Number of movie appearances
= E
F:
She was
born in exile and predestined to be the queen of a proud but
suppressed people. Nine month old she was crowned, and a political
marriage was planned between her and the son of her country’s
suppressor. Her mother and the royal court decided against it
though, and she married – at the age of 16 – a young crown prince
from a friendly neighboring country, whom she fortunately loved
deeply.
Their happiness was short as he died a few years later, and she
came to spent most of her remaining life imprisoned. Finally the
only thing between her and the executioner was the strength of a
code language. Unfortunately the famous code was deciphered and the
poor woman was beheaded.
Number of marriages =
F
G:
She was
the daughter of poor parents – gypsy blood ran in her veins. She
was a strong, unorthodox and self-willed woman who went her own
ways in all matters of life. Her performance on the white screen
was epoch-making and her intuitive sense of expressing the passions
of love and tragedy in a way that left her audience breath- and
speechless, was unique.
She managed, which was uncommon for the era, throughout her life to
guard the privacy of her personal life. As an example of this she
never disclosed the name of the father of her daughter Jesta.
She died at the age of 90, just a few years after her third
marriage with a man she called “the only great and first love of
her life”
Total number of letters in
her original name = G
H:
All of her
sisters killed their husbands on their wedding night; their father,
the king, had told them to do so. But this one didn’t and
eventually she and her husband came to rule the kingdom after her
father’s death. Her sisters, who ended up in Hades, were compelled
everlastingly to pour water into a vessel full of holes.
A well known saying, describing womens never ending tasks, origins
from this myth. Se spoiler picture of one of these unfortunate
sisters below.
Number of sisters this woman
had = H
The cache is a
cylindrical plastic box and is hidden here:
N56° A-4.B/5+481
E010°
C-19.D+E+F+G+H+55