BWTG - August 2018 Event Cache
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Thursday, August 16, 2018
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PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS MOVED! COME CHECK OUT THE NEW LOCATION at La Rue’s Family Restaurant. THEY ARE CASH ONLY, but have an ATM in the lobby.
BWTG - August 2018
Thursday, August 16, 2018 from 6:30am - 7:30am.
What's Special on today?
Events
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army. General Hull was court-martialed for surrendering the fort without a fight, and sentenced to be shot, but he was pardoned by President James Madison. The fort remained in British hands for over a year, until the Battle of Lake Erie which the British lost and then retreated to Canada abandoning the Fort. The US renamed it Fort Shelby and occupied it for another 13 years but it fell into disrepair so Congress gave it to the City of Detroit in 1826 who then demolished it in 1827.
1841 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
1962 – Pete Best is discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by Ringo Starr.
1987 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
Birthdays
1744 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor (d. 1804) With his surveying skills, he worked on maps of Northern Italy and Germany, but his most important mapping work was geodetic: the determination of the southern part of the meridian arc of the Earth's surface between Dunkirk and Barcelona beginning in 1791. This measurement would become the basis of the metric system's unit of length, the meter.
1845 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921) Known for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. Lippmann's process foreshadowed laser holography, which is also based on recording standing waves in a photographic medium
1888 – T. E. Lawrence, British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (d. 1935) The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia—a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.
1930 – Frank Gifford, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2015)
1933 – Julie Newmar, American actress and original Catwoman!
1954 – James Cameron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
1962 – Steve Carell, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter and regional manager of Dunder Mifflin, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Deaths
1888 – John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1899 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811) He discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods and with his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use and thereby forever being recognized by high school science students in perpetuity.
1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
1956 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882) or did he… ?
1977 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
Today is ” National Bratwurst Day & National Rum Day”!
Although brats are more commonly associated with beer, they are still awesome to eat and what better way to cool off in the summer while grilling a few brats than a nice daiquiri that you learned to make from last months special day.
National Bratwurst Day is dedicated to bratwursts—sometimes simply known as brats—which are sausages made from pork, veal, or beef, that contain sweet spices and seasonings such as nutmeg. They originated in Nuremberg, Germany, in the 14th century, and their name is derived from the German words "braten", meaning "to fry" or "to roast", and "wurst", meaning "sausage". There are over forty varieties of brats made in Germany, and they are many times served on a roll with mustard. They are also quite often accompanied by sauerkraut and potato salad. They were introduced to the United States in the mid-19th century by German immigrants, and have become especially popular in Wisconsin. Of course those of us in Michigan have Frankenmuth to get our fill of Germans and brats.
National Rum Day is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the distilled alcoholic beverage that is made from sugarcane by-products. It’s a spirit that steeped in romanticism, thanks to its association with pirates in the Caribbean. While it is considered to be the third most popular alcoholic beverage, after whiskey and vodka, on this day it is number one. So if you’re of legal age, and can enjoy this beverage responsibly, then be sure to try out one of the many drinks that can be made with rum. No one is currently sure when rum was invented. In fact, it probably dates back before recorded history. Scholars do believe however, that is was probably developed from an early drink known as brum that was made by the Malay people thousands of years ago. When Marco Polo was in Iran, he noted that he was given a tasty wine of sugar that may have been an ancestor of what is now known as rum.
So to continue with our whole eating is fun theme (this is breakfast, right?) enjoy yourself a brat and a pina colada today!
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, August 16, 2018 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 LaRue’s Family Resturant, a mile and ½ north of I-94 @ Exit 74, 9th Street. They are just east at the corner of Stadium Drive and Parkview Ave. Note: they are a CASH ONLY establishment but have a fee based ATM in the lobby.
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!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
"Vs lbh yvxr Cvan Pbynqnf, naq trggvat pnhtug va gur enva, Vs lbh´er abg vagb lbtn, vs lbh unir unys n oenva, Vs lbh yvxr znxvat ybir ng zvqavtug, va gur qharf bs gur pncr, V´z gur ybir gung lbh´ir ybbxrq sbe, jevgr gb zr, naq unir n oeng"
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