A Most Ingenious Paradox!
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We wanted to place a cache on that paradoxical day: The 29th of February! The day you can only log a find on every 4 years!
Cache is a regular-sized lock-and-lock. It contains a log book & pencil, zip-ties, musical paper clips, unused waterproof match container, jokes, silver bison tube, mini tape dispensor, smal metal puzzle, mini frame, 2 active geocoins, and an unused silver nano for the FTF!
***Congratulations to TANDEMSTOKER for braving the post-blizzard snow dump and getting the FTF!!***
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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE; or, THE SLAVE OF DUTY is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic finds out, however, that he was born on 29 February, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year. His apprenticeship indentures state that he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday, and so he must serve for another 63 years. Bound by his own sense of duty, Frederic's only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully.
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.
Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds for these operas where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion—fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong.Sullivan, six years Gilbert's junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies that could convey both humour and pathos.
Their operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world.
Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century.The operas have also influenced political discourse, literature, film and television and have been widely parodied and pastiched by humorists. Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration. He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works (which came to be known as the Savoy Operas) and founded the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and promoted Gilbert and Sullivan's works for over a century.
Solve for the letters to find the coordinates:
N 44 CA.DDF
W 069 DB.GEG
A = Last number of the year Gilbert died.
B = Last number of the year Sullivan was born.
C = Third number of the year Gilbert was born.
D = Third number of the year Sullivan was born.
E = Last number of the year Gilbert was born.
F = Third number of the year of "Pirates of Penzance" official premiere in New York.
G = Fourth number of the year of "Pirates of Penzance" official premiere in New York.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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