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Heal The World #45 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/27/2019
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Heal The World GeoArt

This series consists of 78 caches. 50% number searches with basic maths and 50% Jigsaw puzzles.

This series is 18 km or 11 miles long.

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This series is prodominatly out in the rural country side. You may notice there are larger gaps where you will pass residential housing. The suggested parking for this series is down by the Village Sign where there is space for multiple cars, including the space on the green there (N52° 4.812' E000° 16.469' ... CB21 4PH ...) . There will be a short walk from there to reach cache #1. Use the Mid-Waypoint to find the public footpath.

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Your Puzzle: Smog

Smog is a type of intense air pollution. The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a contraction (portmanteau) of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog; its opacity, and odor. The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid-20th century. This kind of visible air pollution is composed of nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, ozone, smoke and other particulates. Man-made smog is derived from coal combustion emissions, vehicular emissions, industrial emissions, forest and agricultural fires and photochemical reactions of these emissions.

Etymology

Coinage of the term "smog" is often attributed to Dr. Henry Antoine Des Voeux in his CDEF paper, "Fog and Smoke" for a meeting of the Public Health Congress. The AB July CDEF edition of the London newspaper Daily Graphic quoted Des Voeux, "He said it required no science to see that there was something produced in great cities which was not found in the country, and that was smoky fog, or what was known as 'smog'." The following day the newspaper stated that "Dr. Des Voeux did a public service in coining a new word for the London fog." However, the term appears fifteen years earlier than Dr. Voeux's paper, in a column in the July 3, 1880, Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel.

The cache can be found at: N52 03.(A+C)FC E000 17.B(D-A)F

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va TrbPurpxre

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)