GC65G23 BWTG - November 2015 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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Hidden : Thursday, November 19, 2015

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BWTG - November 2015

Thursday, November 19, 2015 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened. Trains are cool.
1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He wrote it while riding in a train.
1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
2004 – The Malice at the Palace: The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest suspended 86 games (rest of season), Stephen Jackson suspended 30 games. With less than a minute left in the game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, a fight broke out on the court between several players. After the fight was broken up, a fan threw a drink from the stands at Pacers player Ron Artest while he was lying on the scorer's table. Artest then entered the crowd and sparked a brawl between players and fans that stretched onto the court. After the game, the NBA suspended nine players for a total of 146 games, which led to $11 million in salary being lost by the players. Five players were also charged with assault, and eventually sentenced to a year of probation and community service. Five fans also faced criminal charges and were banned from attending Pistons home games for life. The fight also led the NBA to increase security between players and fans, and to limit the sale of alcohol in games.

Birthdays

1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770) In 1750 he made some advances on electrospray. He noted water flowing from a vessel would aerosolize if the vessel was electrified and placed near electrical ground. He also noted that similarly “a person, electrified by connection to a high-voltage generator, would not bleed normally if he were to cut himself; blood would spray from the wound.”
1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765) Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus and the Law of Mass Conservation in chemical reactions. Lomonosov got close to the theory of continental drift, theoretically predicted the existence of Antarctica as he argued that icebergs of the South Ocean could be formed only on a dry land covered with ice.
1831 – James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) He was the first to isolate an enzyme in crystallized form, and showed that an enzyme is a protein
1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003) He was a German American materials scientist and physicist. Von Hippel was a pioneer in the study of dielectrics, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials, and semiconductors and was a codeveloper of radar during World War II after leaving Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazis.He moved to the US in 1936 and became an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (The California Ramblers) (d. 1956)
1917 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984 from assasination)
1921 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (d. 1993)
1933 – Larry King, American journalist and talk show host
1935 – Jack Welch, American engineer, businessman, and author
1936 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host
1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System
1941 – Dan Haggerty, American actor and producer, best known as Grizzly Adams.
1942 – Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.
1961 – Meg Ryan, American actress and producer
1962 – Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer
1963 – Terry Farrell, American actress
1966 – Gail Devers, American sprinter and hurdler
1977 – Kerri Strug, American gymnast and runner
1988 – Patrick Kane, (This one is for Tsmola, ask him who he is!)

Deaths

1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner
1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763) He was the inventor of the alcoholometer, a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a liquid.
1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1797)
2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955) Quiet Riot was the first metal band to achieve number one status on their (U.S. release) debut album. Their singles included "Cum on Feel the Noize" (originally written and recorded by English band Slade in 1973), and "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)".

Today is ” World Toilet Day ”!

Now one might want to sit for a while and ponder why there is a World Toilet Day, and why one would even consider dedicating a day to the ubiquitous throne. It was estimated in 2015 that 2.4 billion (about 1 out of 3 people) lack access to improved sanitation facilities, and just under 1 billion continue to defecate openly. Some might argue that sanitation is a human right, just like the human right to water. Lack of access to sanitation, has direct impacts on health, dignity, and safety. The spread of many diseases (e.g. soil-transmitted helminthiasis, diarrhea, schistosomiasis) and chronic malnutrition in children - which can be connected to a condition called Environmental enteropathy - is directly related to exposure to human feces. In 2013 it was estimated that over 1000 deaths per day for children under the age of five was attributed to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related diarrhea. Plus having to defecate in the open also infringes on human safety and dignity. This holds particularly true for women and girls in developing countries, who lose privacy and face shame having to defecate in public, or – after painfully holding their bladder and bowels all day – risk attack by waiting until night falls to relive themselves. Women in developing countries are increasingly expressing feelings of fear of assault or rape when having to leave the house to use the toilet. Reports of attacks or harassment near or in toilet facilities, as well as near or in areas where women defecate openly, are not uncommon. The consequences of such violence against women are both physical and psychological for the victim, and extend to families and communities that persist to live with gender based inequalities and lost economical potential of victims.
So World Toilet Day (WTD) is a campaign to motivate and mobilize millions around the world on issues of sanitation. Originally established by the World Toilet Organization in 2001, this day was created to draw attention to global sanitation issues and is marked each year on November 19. Since 2001, World Toilet Day has grown in scope and recognition by global partners. In 2013, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution recognizing WTD as an official UN international day (UN Resolution A/67/L.75).
Although this might not exactly be considered a holiday, I for one will celebrate my access to sanitation facilities. It will probably be sometime after breakfast so you might want to avoid the men’s restroom for a while. Maybe I’ll celebrate at work instead…

Mmmm, time for breakfast!

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, November 19, 2015 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.

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 if there is another event in GR. A twofer with a lot o'fun inbetween!