GC2XT7P Know Your Mafia: COSA NOSTRA (Traditional Cache) in Mississippi, United States created by The Starkville Mafia

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isht kinta: Since the cache owner has not responded to my reviewer log requesting the geocache be maintained, the geocache has been archived. Per the geocaching guidelines, geocaches archived for lack of maintenance response cannot be unarchived.

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A cache by The Starkville Mafia Message this owner

Hidden : 5/1/2011

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COSA NOSTRA
To many, this is the proper name of the Mafia in the United States. In fact, it was an effort by some mob bosses to refer to their shared secret society WITHOUT naming it. The phrase translates to, "our thing." In an effort to make cosa nostra sound more like a proper name, federal agents seem to have been responsible for the addition of the "La." This phrase, literally translated "the our thing," has been interpreted as "this thing of ours." Striving for credibility after denying the existence of a nationwide Mafia for decades, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI "discovered" La Cosa Nostra around 1960 and began referring to it with the meaningless abbreviation "LCN."

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

Know Your Mafia: COSA NOSTRA Traditional Cache

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