Park Here!(Lights Out At 10) Mystery Cache
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Park Here!(Lights Out At 10)
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Great area with lots of things to do all year round. Lights out at ten o' clock.
This cache is placed in a community park that has always been a great meeting place in this small town whether it be a short walk, sledding, basketball, tennis or whatever else you're interested in.
The coordinates are for parking, to find the cache itself you must do a little research about the worlds top ten inner city parks.
Answer the follwing questions at the bottom of the page to find locate the cache.
Each park listed is very unique and definately deserve a visit if possible.
The series of ten questions will be at the end of the descriptions of all the parks.
Here's your key to the questions.
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Hyde Park, London
Henry VIII acquired Hyde Park from the monks of Westminster Abbey in 1536; he and his court were often to be seen on thundering steeds in the hunt for deer. It remained a private hunting ground until James I came to the throne and permitted limited access. The King appointed a ranger, or keeper, to take charge of the park. It was Charles I, who changed the nature of the park completely.In 1665, the year of the Great Plague, many citizens of London fled the City to camp on Hyde Park, in the hope of escaping the disease. Towards the end of the 17th century William III moved his court to Kensington Palace. He found that his walk to St James's was very dangerous,so he had 300 oil lamps installed, creating the first artificially lit highway in the country. This route later became known as Rotten Row, which is a corruption of the French 'Route de Roi' or King's Road.Queen Caroline, wife of George II, had extensive renovations carried out and in the 1730s had The Serpentine,a lake of some 11.34 hectares, created. Hyde Park became a venue for national celebrations.
Lincoln Park , Chicago Illinois
Lincoln Park began as a small public cemetery on the northernmost boundary of Chicago where victims of cholera and small pox were buried in shallow lakeside graves. Aware of the public health threat, citizens began demanding the cemetery's conversion to parkland in the 1850s. In 1860, the city reserved a 60-acre unused section as Lake Park. Shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln(1809-65), 16th President of the United States, the park was renamed in his honor.An early donation of mute swans marked the beginnings of the Lincoln Park Zoo.Citizens argued for the removal of the remaining burial ground. Under the direction of the Lincoln Park Commission, bodies were exhumed and relocated to other cemeteries, and the park was expanded south to North Avenue and north to Diversey Parkway. Severe winter storms in 1885 resulted in the construction of a breakwater system which included the first of many landfill projects extending Lincoln Park's boundaries.
Stanley Park, Vancouver br />
In 1886, Vancouver's first City Council made a momentous decision by petitioning the Federal Government to lease 1,000 acres of a largely logged peninsula for park and recreation purposes. The system now includes more than 200 parks (over 1300 hectares) but its heart remains in the cool, lush, evergreen oasis of Stanley Park, named for Lord Stanley.
Golden Gate Park San Fransisco
In the 1860s, San Franciscans began to feel the need for a spacious public park similar to Central Park that was taking shape in New York. Golden Gate Park was carved out of unpromising sand and shore dunes that were known as the "outside lands" in an unincorporated area west of then-San Francisco's borders. Although the park was conceived under the guise of recreation, the underlying justification was to attract housing development and provide for the westward expansion of the city.
Park Guell, Barcelona
The park was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, the idea of Count Eusebi Güell, whom the park was named after. It was inspired by the English garden city movement; hence the original English name Park (in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for "Park" is "Parc", and the name of the place is "Parc Güell" in its original language). The site was a rocky hill with little vegetation and few trees, called Muntanya Pelada (Bare Mountain). It already included a large country house called Larrard House or Muntaner de Dalt House, and was next to a neighborhood of upper class houses called La Salut (The Health). The intention was to exploit the fresh air (well away from smoky factories) and beautiful views from the site, with sixty triangular lots being provided for luxury houses. Count Eusebi Güell added to the prestige of the development by moving in 1906 to live in Larrard House. Ultimately, only two houses were built, neither designed by Gaudí. One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906. This house, where Gaudí lived from 1906 to 1926, was built by Francesc Berenguer in 1904. It contains original works by Gaudí and several of his collaborators. It is now the Gaudi House Museum (Casa Museu Gaudí)
Monsanto Forest Park, Lisbon
Since 1963 Monsanto Forest Park, Lisbon (Parque Florestal de Monsanto) is the largest green space in Lisbon, such that it can be easily deemed the green lung of the city and of the adjoining localities. The spectacular side of the park does not reside exclusively in its being an ideal opportunity for nature lovers, since the park has been laid out with a solid leisure and sports infrastructure which gives visitors the opportunity to delight in practicing all sorts of outdoor activities, hiking included. Plenty of events (concerts, exhibitions, theater representations, and fairs) are organized here. On top of all that, the Monsanto Forest Park is an excellent lookout, occasioning visitors to contemplate the panoramic view of Lisbon, of the Tagus (Tejo) River, of the Atlantic Ocean and of the neighboring localities.At present, the park is a mix of ecosystems generated as a result of the introduction of new foreign species interacting with the specific climatic and geological features of the hills.
Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paolo
Ibirapuera park was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer together with landscapist Roberto Burle Marx. Walking around the park offers several attractions, like Museum of Modern Art (MAM), Biennial Pavilion, ‘Oca’, Japanese Pavilion, Planetarium and Vivarium. Additionally, there are several areas for fitness, bicycle path, 13 courts and playgrounds.Biennial Pavilion (Pavilhão da Bienal) is a venue for some of the most important events in São Paulo. The first event in the year to be held is São Paulo Fashion Week, gathering the hottest names in Brazilian fashion and also bring a number of top models to São Paulo. This event is held twice a year (in January (winter collection) and July (summer collection) and has been added to official and world fashion calendar. Two other important events are held here: In even years, Biennial of arts, and in odd years, Biennial of Architecture. Trade shows and congresses are also organized here, like Adventure Sports Fair, the largest sports and tourism fair in Latin America.
Central Park New York
Central Park was the first landscaped public park in the United States. Advocates of creating the park--primarily wealthy merchants and landowners--admired the public grounds of London and Paris and urged that New York needed a comparable facility to establish its international reputation. A public park, they argued, would offer their own families an attractive setting for carriage rides and provide working-class New Yorkers with a healthy alternative to the saloon. After three years of debate over the park site and cost, in 1853 the state legislature authorized the City of New York to use the power of eminent domain to acquire more than 700 acres of land in the center of Manhattan. An irregular terrain of swamps and bluffs, punctuated by rocky outcroppings, made the land between Fifth and Eighth avenues and 59th and 106th streets undesirable for private development. Creating the park, however, required displacing roughly 1,600 poor residents, including Irish pig farmers and German gardeners, who lived in shanties on the site. At Eighth Avenue and 82nd Street, Seneca Village had been one of the city's most stable African-American settlements, with three churches and a school. The extension of the boundaries to 110th Streetin 1863 brought the park to its current 843 acres.
Flagstaff Gardens Melbourne
Flagstaff Gardens are Melbourne's oldest gardens. They take their name from a flagstaff erected in 1840 at the settlement's highest point, in order to communicate between the harbour and town. This became known as "Flagstaff Hill". Before this, the area was used as a cemetary and was known as Burial Hill. (There is a memorial in the gardens that marks the graves of the first European settlers.) The hill was at such a high point that people going to Flagstaff Hill enjoyed panoramic views of the bay. However, as city buildings rose up around the gardens, the views were blocked out. Today, standing in the gardens, it is hard to imagine that this was such a high point and that it was once possible to see the bay.
Park Tokyo
Ueno Park is a large public park next to Ueno Station in central Tokyo. The park grounds were originally part of a Temple, which used to be one of the city's largest and wealthiest temples and a family temple of the ruling Tokugawa clan during the Edo Period.The Temple stood in the northeast of the capital to protect the city from evil, much like Enryakuji Temple in Kyoto. During the Boshin Civil War, which followed the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Kaneiji suffered nearly complete destruction in a battle between the victorious forces of the new Meiji government and loyalists of the overthrown shogunate. After the battle, the temple grounds were converted into one of Japan's first Western style parks and opened to the public in 1873. A statue of Saigo Takamori, one of the generals in the Battle of Ueno, stands near the park's southern entrance.
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A = The sum of all digits in the year Hyde Park in London opened to the general public.(-) minus 12.
B = The day in April Lincoln was assassinated (-) minus 11.
C = The day of the month and year the Stanley Park in Vancouver Officially opened as the city's first "greenspace". Add all digits (day of the month + year) minus (-)28.
D = .19666% of the amount of acres in the Golden Gate Park in San Fransisco rounded to nearest number.
E = The year Guell Park in Barcelona was declared a National Artistic Monument. Add all digits in year and devide (/) by 5 minus (-) 1.
F = The first digit in the amount of kilometers squared in Monsanto Forest Park in Lisbon.
G = The sum of the last two digits in the year Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paolo opened to the public.
H = The sum of the first and last digit in the year Central Park became a National Landmark.
I = The second digit in the year Queen victoria declared Victoria a seperate colony and lit a fire on Flagstaff Hill to signal.
J = Number of letters in the iconic temples name which first stood before the Ueno Park stood in Tokyo. Minus (-) 6.
Good luck! The puzzle should be relatively easy.
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Naabhapr be trg qbja. Juvpu Bar?