SD: Dogs of War Mystery Cache
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This cache is part of the MAMD (MeAndMyDogs) Snoop Dog challenge series and the final is NOT located within the usual 2-miles or so from the posted coordinates. The final is located in Auburn NH and about 1/2 mile (one way) from the parking coordinates and involves about a 1/4 mile bushwhack. The location was chosen for its numbers and not its sex appeal. It is also less than a mile from Tukanplay's "German Shepard Dog" cache (visit link) The cache was initially offered as a Premium Members Only cache but was made available to everyone on 12/10/11.
Dogs were first domesticated from gray wolves about 15,000 years ago. Their value to early human settlements led to them quickly becoming ubiquitous across world cultures. Dogs perform many roles for people, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and military, companionship, and, more recently, aiding handicapped individuals. This impact on human society has given them the nickname "Man's Best Friend" in the Western world with an estimated 400 million dogs worldwide in 2001.
As faithful as they are when they are on your side, a time came when dogs were trained to go to war. Records of Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Sarmatians, Alans, Slavs, Britons, and the Romans using dogs as killing machines go back thousands of years. Some of the largest, most feared among these were the Mastiffs which could weigh in at 150 pounds. When Sir Peers Legh was wounded in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, his mastiff courageously stood guard over him for many hours. The dog was later returned to Legh's home and became the foundation stock of the Lyme Hall Mastiffs.
Shakespeare alluded to canine warriors in his play “Julius Caesar”, where Act 3, Scene 1, Line 273 reads in part “Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war”. In this context the term “havoc” means to pillage. Further literature references can be found in Frederick Forsyth’s 1974 novel “The Dogs of War” and the same title was used in a Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode #172, which initially aired May 26, 1999.
Pink Floyd released a song, “Dogs of War” in 1987 and I have personally played the 1988 album “Delicate Sound of Thunder” version (which is found on Disc 1, track 6) probably over a hundred times over the years. Follow these links to two Youtube videos I found of this song: (visit link) and (visit link)
To find the cache, solve:
N4A° B.C W0D° EF.GH
Where ABC = the Act, Scene and Line cited in the Shakespeare verse, where DE equals the episode number of the Star Trek Deep Space Nine show cited (except that you have to rearrange the three digits), where FG is the disc and track number of the Pink Floyd song indicated and where H is the last two digits in the year that Pink Floyd originally released the song.
As a sort of built-in geochecker, if you add all the digits in your north coords, they should total 20 and the sum of all the west cords equals 32.
Congratulations to: HANSONFAMILY for FTF ! ! ! ! ! !
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ybbxvat npebff gur "cbaq" V pna frr n ynetr obhyqre. Ybbx sbe n ynetr oehfu cvyr arkg gb n gjb sbbg jvqr cvar gerr. "Sng 50" nzzb pna. Orjner bs qbt!