12/12/12 Southport Meet & Greet Event Cache

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pannie&medusae: Now that I'm back home in South Africa, it's time to put this great event to bed. Many thanks to the cachers who attended and I hope to see you all again sometime. You all have a standing invitation to come and visit us in South Africa... I think our next MEGA Event will be even more awesome than the first and should provide you with a good excuse to go on a geocaching safari!

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Hidden : Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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Hi Gold Coast geocachers! 

My name is Medusae and I'm the Australian (some might say better) half of a geocaching team called pannie&medusae.  I'm visiting from South Africa and thought it would be really nice to meet some of the local cachers on this special date.


Please come and join us for a coffee or something to eat at this lovely local bistro. (Refreshments will be on your own account.)

Place: Mano's Bistro

Address: 37 Musgrave Ave (Cnr Turpin Rd), Chirn Park, Southport

Date: 12 December 2012

Time: 6 - 8 pm


I would love to meet you and everyone is welcome.  Let's spend a couple of hours swapping geocaching stories and experiences.  I also have quite a few TB's and GC's that I brought with me from South Africa should you wish to discover, or grab, some African trackables.  And let's not forget that special souvenir too.

I am really looking forward to meeting the locals.  Hope to see you there!

In the meantime, here are some interesting facts regarding the number 12:

  • In English, twelve is the largest number that has just one syllable.
  • Etymology suggests that "twelve" arises from the Germanic compound twalif "two-leftover", so a literal translation would yield "two remaining, after having ten taken".
  • The 12th moon of Jupiter is Lysithea.
  • A group of twelve things is called a duodecad. The ordinal adjective is duodenary, twelfth. The adjective referring to a group consisting of twelve things is duodecuple.
  • Twelve is the atomic number of magnesium in the periodic table
  • The number twelve is often used as a sales unit in trade, and is often referred to as a dozen. Twelve dozen are known as a gross.
  • The number twelve plays a significant role in the television franchise Battlestar Galactica. The characters come from the Twelve Colonies of Kobol and worship the twelve lords of Kobol. In the re-imagined series, there are also twelve models of the humanoid version of Cylons.
  • A twelve-sided polygon is a dodecagon. A twelve-faced polyhedron is a dodecahedron.
  • The human body has twelve cranial nerves.
  • The novel, Twelve, by Nick McDonell was published in 2002. The film with the same title, based on the novel, was released in 2007.
  • There are 12 hours in face of analogue clock.
  • Under British law, when you reach the age of 12 you can buy a pet.
  • Twelfth Night is a comedy by William Shakespeare
  • Force 12 on the Beaufort wind force scale corresponds to the maximum wind speed of a hurricane.
  • Most calendar systems have twelve months in a year.
  • The inside centre of a Rugby team, wears the number 12 shirt.
  • The number of function keys on most PC keyboards (F1 through F12)
  • In ten-pin bowling, 12 is the number of strikes needed for a perfect game.
  • Twelve is the number of pitch classes in an octave, not counting the duplicated (octave) pitch. Also, the total number of major keys, (not counting enharmonic equivalents) and the total number of minor keys (also not counting equivalents). This applies only to twelve tone equal temperament, the most common tuning used today in western influenced music.
  • 12 Play is an R. Kelly album.
  • There are twelve basic hues in the colour wheel; 3 primary colours (red, yellow, blue), 3 secondary colours (orange, green & purple) and 6 tertiary colours (names for these vary, but are intermediates between the primaries and secondaries).
  • Twelve is a character in the Street Fighter video game series.
  • 12 stars are featured on the Flag of Europe
  • There are 12 constellations in the ecliptic (or signs of the zodiac).
  • In the former British currency system, there were twelve pence in a shilling.
  • There are normally twelve pairs of ribs in the human body.
  • Twelve people have walked on Earth's moon.
  • According to UFO conspiracy theory, Majestic 12 is a secret committee, allegedly set up by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to investigate the Roswell UFO incident and cover up future extra-terrestrial contact.
  • King Arthur's round table had 12 knights plus King Arthur himself.
  • 12 inches in a foot.
  • 12 face cards in a card deck.
  • 12 dialling keys on a telephone including star and hash
  • There are 12 ways of arranging eight queens on a chessboard so that no queen can capture any other queen (not counting rotations and reflections as being different).
  • The Beatles released a total of 12 studio albums.
  • The twelfth letter in the Greek alphabet is Mu
  • Bruce Willis starred in this 1995 science fiction film, The Twelve Monkeys, about a criminal who travelled back in time to the 1990s to earn a pardon for himself by finding a virus that had contaminated the world, forcing the population to live underground.

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