Webdogbert's 1000th Find: The Slavic Bloodhound Mystery Cache
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Webdogbert's 1000th Find: The Slavic Bloodhound
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This cache is in celebration of webdogbert's 1000th find. It is a puzzle cache based on famous Slavic people and the Russian Orthodox Church. The coordinates obtained will take the seeker to a particularly beautiful cemetery and a particularly evil hide of a nano magnetic cache.
Webdogbert is to soon make his 1000th find. He will do this in just a little over five months. What makes this pace even the more remarkable is he worked long hours on half of those days. The kind of hours that make picking up a cache or two on the way to and from work seem like a nice accomplishment. Being a student of geography I always wish to understand a person's appearance and name so as to place and appreciate them for the unique slice of humanity they are. I knew his appearance did not match his English last name and with further questioning he revealed that only when in the land of the Slavs did the natives address him in their language, assuming that he was one of them. His mother's side were Slavs and he was raised in the Russian Orthodox Church. The Slavic Bloodhound. Those of you that have cached with him...and there are so many...the Dolly Parton of caching( he will sing with anyone)...his lovely family, bilgepump, WCC, gameking, tombecca, cbreeze, snakes 07, crabs 09, topher, sparkasaurus, estilo cachorino, City SlickerOH, J.T., and I am sure many more...all know that he is an intense and skillful cacher. My favorite tale of his exploits comes from a day of caching in Richmond, Indiana. I chose the legendary Scurvy Dog multicache of Eye of the Pirate for us to tackle. It had only been found once since 2009 and not since March 2010 when we attempted to defeat the clever multi. He single-handedly found the first two stages, even though GZ was daunting and his GPS was of dubious value. As we walked down the path to the final stage he paused..pointed up to a spot on the hillside that he had zoomed in on and called his shot like Ruth in the World Series. It was exactly there and the incident was exactly webdogbert. I have created what I hope will be an appropriate challenge for this future legend of geocaching. The puzzle for his Slavic roots, the beautiful cache site for his appreciation of the great natural joys geocaching provides, and the evil hide of a nano so he may flex his considerable talents. Let webdogbert know you are pleased with his body of work and if you wish, write your favorite story of caching with him on this cache page.
Answer the following questions about famous Slavs and the Russian Orthodox Church to determine the coordinates you need.
The coordinates to the cache are N39 19.A0B/ W084 5C.DEF
1) This famous Serbian Slav had such fantastical ideas as electrifying the world without wires by using the water table as a conduit; inventing a death-ray capable of destroying massive modern armies from over a hundred miles away, and giving it to every country in the world to end war forever; and once short circuited the Grand Coulee dam with one of his experiments. If I was to play word association with his name I would reply “coil”. Name this Slav.
C=The last letter of his name is this letter of the alphabet.
2) This now deceased Polish Slavic Jew is my personal favorite. Ultimately in command of the ZOB fighters in the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis in 1943, and a combatant again in Warsaw in the 1944 Polish uprising against the Nazis(which their Slavic Russian brothers callously watched fail); he was an ardent anti-Zionist who once wrote a letter of support to the Palestinian people and also entered the besieged city of Sarajevo as a form of protest against the Bosnian War. He shared the swearing of the Hippocratic Oath with webdogbert, working as a renowned cardiologist for decades. He was Marek______.
D= the number of letters in his last name.
3) This Croatian Slav, during his 45 year reign, became the only man in history to successfully create an inorganic national identity in an artificially unified multicultural country. Twice narrowly escaping capture and certain death at the hands of the Nazis during WWII, he went on to found and lead the Non-Aligned Nations and was perhaps the only Slavic leader to stand up to Stalin and survive. He was______.
F= the last letter of his last name appears exactly as this number.
4) This unknown Slav was shot through the throat by a Tatar archer during the siege of this city in 1241, while playing the melody and instrument used here to alert the citizens to the opening and closing of the city’s gates and the arrival of danger. To this day the song is still played and always ends abruptly to commemorate this heroic Slavs untimely death. He was the Trumpeter of _________.
A=the number of letters in the name of the city.
5) It is a little known fact that webdogbert was brought up in the Russian Orthodox Church. This church and the Serbian Orthodox Church provided unity and identity for hundreds of thousands of Slavs during the troubled Middle Ages and beyond. This Saint and Apostle erected a cross in the 1st century AD on the site of what he predicted would become a great Christian city. This city would indeed arise and was the first capital of the Russian Orthodox Church before its relocation in Moscow. What is this city?_____.
E= the number of letters in this city’s name times two.
The Saint and Apostle who erected a cross and predicted the rise of this great city______?
B= the number of letters in the Apostle’s name plus one.
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