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Black Eagle GeoArt BE44 - Four's Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/19/2018
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Gauteng West Rand Black Eagle GeoArt Series

Welcome to the West Rand, Gauteng!

The West Rand geocaching community is very proud to present BLACK EAGLE GEOART, the only GeoArt series to date in South Africa depicting the rare Black Eagle!

Apart from its rich cultural history, the West Rand in Gauteng, South Africa is also home to an extremely active geocaching community. The West Rand geocachers are a social bunch and meet at least once every month to share stories, swap experiences and trackables and enjoy each other's company.

We hope you will enjoy exploring the beauty of the West Rand, Gauteng!

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4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5.

Greek numeral‎: ‎Δ´

Roman numeral‎: ‎IV

Greek‎: ‎δ (or Δ)

Roman numeral (unicode)‎: ‎Ⅳ, ⅳ

 

Numerology 4: Number 4's Life Path, Compatibility, Destiny Meanings. With four sides of the same size, a square has no weak points. It is organized, solid and enduring. In the spiritual significance of numbers, this is the foundation for the numerology meanings of the built-to-last Number 4.

The science of studying the numbers mentioned in Bible is known as Biblical Numerology. In the Bible, there are four gospels - Matthew, Luke, John and Mark.

 

Is the number 4 lucky?

Answer: Number 4 is considered inauspicious in traditional Chinese feng shui because it sounds like "death" in Cantonese. It is not only in feng shui that the number 4 is considered unlucky, but overall in Chinese culture.

 

Famous Fours, in the movies, on the TV and in music:

The Fantastic Four 

The Three Men and a Baby

The Ladies of Sex and the City

The A-Team

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Four Musketeers

The Kids of South Park

The Hobbits of The Lord of the Rings

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

The Presidents of Mount Rushmore

The Ghostbusters

The Incredibles

The Marx Brothers

Directions: North, South, East, West

Cards: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades

Positions: Up, Down, Right, left OR Forward, Backwards, Right, Left.

Basic arithmetic operations: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.

Top Tennis tournaments (Grand Slam): Wimbledon, US Open, French Open, Australian Open

The United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

The four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

The four limbs in the human body: right leg, left leg, right hand and the left hand

The basic elements: Earth, Fire, Water and Air

The four basic senses: Touch, smell, sound, sight

 

Four Irish Nobel Laureates in literature - William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925), Samuel Beckett (1969) and Séamus Heaney (1995)

Hogwarts is divided into four houses, each bearing the last name of its founder: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff.

Number Four, Privet Drive

Shakespeare: The Four Great Tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

A fourth is a musical interval encompassing four staff positions in the music notation of Western culture, and a perfect fourth is the fourth spanning five semitones (half steps, or half tones).

The four leagues Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL). Other prominent leagues include Major League Soccer (MLS) and Canadian Football League (CFL).

Four biggest cities in the world: Tokyo, Mumbai, Delhi, Dhaka and in the US: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and in RSA (by population): Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Germiston (Ekurhuleni)

Four richest people: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Bernard Arnault

Four highest earning movies according to Wikipedia: Avatar, Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Infinity Wars

 

The cache is not at the listed coordinates. In order to obtain the final coordinates, you will have to solve, or decipher the following puzzle:

Rotate Xairxc wmb divs tsmrx divs divs rmrixc wmb. Xairxc wizir xlmvxc wizir tsmrx rmri lyrhvih erh jsvxc wmb. by the number found at the WP.

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vg'f oruvaq. Vg qbrfa'g orybat.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)