GC5H306 BWTG - December 2014 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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A cache by Moldslug Message this owner

Hidden : Thursday, December 18, 2014

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Size: Size: other (other)

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BWTG - December 2014

Thursday, December 18, 2014 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over British General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1867 – The Angola Horror train wreck occurred. The last car of the New York Express jumped a switch entering a bridge and derailed, plunging 40 feet down an icy embankment landing at a 45 degree angle. The passengers were thrown together at the end of the car onto an overturned stove, while the stove from the other end fell upon them from above, releasing hot coals. The carriage immediately caught fire, with the fuel from the kerosene lamps fueling the flames. Two escaped but the majority were burned alive. Witnesses spoke of hearing the screams of those trapped inside lasting for five minutes. Aren’t trains cool!
1888 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9–0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long. Unfortunately the two teams played again on Thanksgiving 2014 with a different outcome.

Go Bears.
1944 – World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
1956 – Japan joins the United Nations.
1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1971 – Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
1997 – HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.

Birthdays

1661 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and inventor (d. 1751) His greatest achievement was an automated factory powered entirely by water built in 1699 in Stjärnsund. Automation was very unusual at the time.
1856 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases.
1863 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914)
1878 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
1882 – Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway (d. 1950)
1886 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (d. 1961)
1890 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954)
1916 – Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
1943 – Keith Richards, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (The Rolling Stones)
1946 – Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
1963 – Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
1978 – Katie Holmes, American actress

Deaths

1591 – Marigje Arriens, a Dutch woman accused of witchcraft and burned alive at the stake. (b. 1520)
1737 – Antonio Stradivari, Italian instrument maker (b. 1644)
1892 – Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
1971 – Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
1997 – Chris Farley, American comedian and actor (b. 1964)
2008 – Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (b. 1932). Wife of Gene Rodenberry, the computer voice in almost all of the Star Trek franchise, and nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series plus various other roles. She is also known to train buffs as ‘The SP Lady’ for her voice talent contained inside Harmon Electronics track-side defect detector devices, used in various locations west of the Mississippi River on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
2013 – Larry Lujack, American radio host on Chicago station WLS. (b. 1940)

Today is ” Bake Cookies Day ”!

It’s National Cookie Day! Bake Cookies Day comes at an opportune time. It arrives amidst the major December holidays. It serves as a reminder to bake holiday cookies, if you haven't done so already. People, young and old, celebrate this day by baking their favorite cookies. Make a party of it, and bake cookies in groups with family, friends, kids and grandkids. Don't stop at baking just one kind of cookie, plan to bake a number of cookies. Try a new recipe, or two, or three, or....
Did you know that the English word "cookie" is derived from the Dutch word "koekje," which means little cake? Dutch bakers used to test oven temperatures on small amounts of batter so that they would not waste the entire cake mix if the temperature wasn't right. It was not long before they discovered that these tiny pieces of cooked batter were actually quite tasty!

The event??
Breakfast With The Gang. Breakfast With The Geocachers. Bulging Waistlines Totally Grew. Breakfast With The Goofballs. Beware When Travis Geocaches. Breakfast With Team Geochef. Best Way To Geocache. Breakfast While Talking Geocaching. BWTG="Brian-Wussy; Travis-Greatest".

Call it what you want, but whatever you call it, it IS good food and great company. So let's get together, talk caching, and eat!

When?
Thursday, December 18, 2013 from 6:30am - 7:30am. (Oh yes, AM, in the morning, bright and early, rise and shine sleepy head). You may stay longer if you'd like, that depends on what time you have to show up for work or be somewhere else.

Where?
We will be meeting for a good, hearty breakfast at Cracker Barrel, just South of I-94.

Who?
Everyone is welcome at the event!

What Do I Bring?
Bring a good, hearty appetite and be ready to share some of the best memories you have of geocaching; including, but not limited to, best caches, best events, best hospital story, best encounter with local law enforcement authorities, etc. And of course this is a great place to share & swap Travel Bugs!

Celebrating a Milestone?
We want to know! Post it on the event page and you'll be acknowledged here as an official part of this event's history!

What do I do AFTER the event?
If you don't have to go to work or be somewhere else, we suggest you get out and cache!!! Either alone or with one of the groups that will, undoubtedly, be formed before, during or after the event. A great geocaching day can start here and then head north to Conman/Team Peterson’s potluck event in GR. A twofer with a lot o'fun inbetween!