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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 - July 2018
Thursday, July 19, 2018 from 6:30am - 7:30am.
What's Special on today?
Events
1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
1817 – Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.
1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed four firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings.
1848 – Women's rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York. American women finally won the right to vote on 26 August 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation. Even underground trains are cool.
1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1977 – The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET). Geocaching became inevitable at that point.
1981 – In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development. 35 years later and they are still at it, but now it’s acceptable to some.
1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
Birthdays
1814 – Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company (d. 1862)
1834 – Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1917)
1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1860 – Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her parents in 1892 (d. 1927)
1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972) He brought such animated characters as Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations including the Rotoscope,
1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (d. 1969)
1921 – Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, American Christian radio broadcaster (d. 2013) Although he had predicted the end of the world before based on Biblical passages, it was his ‘reinterpreted’ prediction for the end of the world in 2011, May 21st and then again October 21st (after May was wrong), that gained him his most notoriety. For some people sadly he was wrong. He did not predict his own demise as his own world ended two years later after his stroke in June of 2011.
1962 – Anthony Edwards, American actor and director
1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
Deaths
1814 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (b. 1774)
1982 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930) He was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics
2014 – James Garner, American actor (b. 1928)
2016 – Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1934)
Today is ” National Daiquiri Day ”!
Every July 19th the world is invited to kick off their shoes and in the middle of summer have a nice cool refreshing drink - The Daiquiri.
Tasting of sunshine and beaches, it might be hard to believe the daiquiri was likely invented by men blasting away in the mines of a small community off the coast of Cuba. Jennings Cox, an American engineer, supervised a mining operation located in a village named Daiquiri in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. Every day after work Cox and his employees would gather at the Venus bar. Then one day Cox mixed up Bacardi, lime, sugar in a tall glass of ice. Naming the new beverage after the Daiquiri mines, the drink soon became a staple in Havana. Eventually, shaved ice was used and sometimes lemons or both lemons and limes.
In 1909, Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox’s drink and subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. The popularity of the Daiquiri then increased over the next few decades.
This drink is sometimes served frozen, combined and poured from a blender eliminating the need for manual pulverization. Drinks such as the frozen Daiquiri are often commercially made in machines which produce a texture similar to a smoothie and come in a wide variety of flavors. Another way to create a frozen Daiquiri is by using frozen limeade, which provides the required texture, sweetness and sourness all at one time. And of course they don’t have to alcohol in them either as the Strawberry Daiquiri has been a mainstay for the underage crowd for years.
So fire up that blender and find a few different recipes as there is no better way to beat the heat after a hard day of cachin’ than a nice big tall Daiquiri! I’m in!
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, July 19, 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, just 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 an 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
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