BWTG - June 2019 Event Cache
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20 June 2019, 06:30 - 07:30
BWTG - June 2019
Thursday, June 20, 2019 from 6:30am - 7:30am.
What's Special on today?
Events
1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1943 – The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
1944 – The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
1963 – Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow.
1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. Ah the good ol' days when the knowledge of a crime was the standard.
1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
Birthdays
1861 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. He also discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901.
1907 – Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998) He wrote over 6,000 songs but may best be known for his song "The Battle of New Orleans".
1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (d. 1959)
1925 – Audie Murphy, American lieutenant and actor Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1971)
1928 – Martin Landau, American actor and producer (d. 2017)
1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer, member of the Beach Boys.
1946 – Bob Vila, American television host best known for the PBS series”This Old House”
1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
1952 – John Goodman, American actor
1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
1983 – Darren Sproles, American football player
Deaths
1947 – Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906) There was a virtual cache in Las Vegas dedicated to him, but sadly it has been archived. Kinda like him.
2005 – Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate and co-inventor of the Integrated Circuit while working for Texas Instuments. (b. 1923)
Today is ” Dump the Pump Day ”!
Always celebrated on the third Thursday of June, ‘Dump the Pump Day’ is a reminder for us to seek out ways to eliminate our reliance on fossil fuels.
As petroleum fuels start to deplete the price of gas inevitably goes up with it, it’s a simple case of supply and demand. Dump The Pump Day was aimed at encouraging people to start reducing the amount of gas they spend by finding alternate ways to handle gas consumption. It all starts with just simply not using their car for a day, but it can expand even further beyond that. There are other options showing up on the horizon, with hybrid cars taking some of the gas cost out of driving, and electric cars eliminating it completely.
There are other options out there, everything from taking the public transportation to using vehicles that don’t require gasoline. Biking is unquestionably better for you, and many forms of public transport these days use propane or even electric. Dump The Pump Day encourages you to give yourself and the world a break from the pump and start changing the world.
Of course as geocachers we seem to be at odds sometimes with that whole notion of ‘driving less’. As we chase ever further for that next find, in that next county or state or country. We are usually only one FTF run or power trail away from another tankful of that ol’ go-go juice. But there are still many options to reduce the use. Such as seeking out a nice hike. Some of my greatest caching adventures have been on foot. Or maybe a bike trail like the Kal-Haven, Van Buren, and White Pine which are great examples, not to mention there are quite a few other trails only a couple hour drive away. Or even more adventurous could be a kayak run, even though some of the nearest ‘water trails’ are not really focused on enjoying the float (we all know which ones…). And even city caching presents its own unique geocaching experience, and a bike is a wonderful way to get around. Take the train to Chicago, and stretch the legs for an awesome variety of caches. You can’t use a car to do GC1A2T0 Vampire Empire or GC47A4 So many Storeys, So Little Time!
So even though I’ll tell everyone to get out caching today, I don’t mean to sound a bit hypocritical. Join a group and divide the cost, reduce the use, and gain a few smileys along the way as you know that you helped at least a little bit while still enjoying one of the silliest hobbys around. Let’s go cachin’!
Quote of the day – “ To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. “ - Aldo Leopold
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, June 20, 2019 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, with easy access from US-131 and 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!
Additional Hints
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