BYOBL: After The Ides of March Event Cache

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Hidden : Friday, March 16, 2012
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Micro Event
!!!We Made It Through the Ides!!!
Bring Your Own Bagged Lunch

This event is dedicated to all those Daring Cachers in the area. Stand up and be heard!!! You all know who you are...why do tomorrow after planning what can be done today with what materials we find in our vehicles!!!

All cachers are welcome whether you are a lunch-hour cacher, pre-work cacher, after-work cacher, weekday cacher, weekend cacher, night cacher...the list goes on...in summary, basically everyone is welcome to join!!!

Date: Friday, March 16th, 2012
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Kutzky Park
Picnic Shelter (Coords listed above)

So, how will this event work you ask...
Well, this is a Micro-Event, thus is will only last 15 minutes on Friday, March 16th.
To be specific it will last from...

12:15pm-12:30pm

I know this is not everyone's Lunch-Hour (in fact it isn't even my lunch-hour but I hope it is a time that will work for most cachers). Everyone must sign the log-book in order to able to "Attend" this event. Everyone will only be able to sign the log-book between the times given above!!!

Hope to See You There!!!


The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15." Surely such a fanciful expression must signify something more than merely another day of the year? Not so. Even in Shakespeare's time, sixteen centuries later, audiences attending his play Julius Caesar wouldn't have blinked twice upon hearing the date called the Ides.

The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:

  • Kalends: 1st day of the month
  • Nones: the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months
  • Ides: the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months
The remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides. For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days).

Days in March:
March 1: Kalends; March 2: VI Nones; March 3: V Nones; March 4: IV Nones; March 5: III Nones; March 6: Pridie Nones (Latin for "on the day before"); March 7: Nones; March 15: Ides

Used in the first Roman calendar as well as in the Julian calendar (established by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C.E.) the confusing system of Kalends, Nones, and Ides continued to be used to varying degrees throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance.

So, the Ides of March is just one of a dozen Ides that occur every month of the year. Kalends, the word from which calendar is derived, is another exotic-sounding term with a mundane meaning. Kalendrium means account book in Latin: Kalend, the first of the month, was in Roman times as it is now, the date on which bills are due.

Data Source: Info Please-The Ides of March (google search on "ides of march")

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