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I use cachemate for android. Works well. I also have c:geo, geoBeagle, cache Me and GeoTools. I download any apps I want onto my Galaxy Tab. Pm and I will share how.I still should have the apps I downloaded.

Friday October 15, 1582

Antron uses a 500 Nuvi as well and he is very happy with it!

I just tried to use the new "Driving Directions" function on the cache page but it seems like it is not working for us here in South Africa. Maybe we doing something wrong? Just Skyped another South African and he has the same problem. Is this function for USA only??

Carbon hunter is close enough! It was actualy in 1848 that the first modern oil well was drilled, on the Aspheron Peninsula north-east of Baku, by Russian engineer F.N. Semyenov. I have actual work on the Aspheron field a few years ago. Grant, you will find that BAKU is a wonderfull place with its own charm. The people is great!

A few hints. It was not in the USA. 347 A.D. Oil wells are drilled in China up to 800 feet deep using bits attached to bamboo poles. 1264 Mining of seep oil in medieval Persia witnessed by Marco Polo on his travels through Baku. 1500s Seep oil collected in the Carpathian Mountains of Poland is used to light street lamps. 1594 Oil wells are hand dug at Baku, Persia up to 35 meters (115 feet) deep. 1735 Oil sands are mined and the oil extracted at Pechelbronn field in Alsace, France. 1815 Oil is produced in United States as an undesirable by-product from brine wells in Pennsylvania. So it is after all the above!

Tag, you're it! Lacrosse is a game played with a small rubber ball and a long-handled racquet type thing with a shallow net at the end. The players pass the ball between each other and try to hurl it into the opponents' goal. I saw a game of lacrosse when I visited Cambridge earlier this year. Certainly a strange game, and I was very surprised when I found out it was THE national sport of Canada until 1994, when ice hockey was added. Most of the Canadians I asked about it didn't even know that lacrosse was their national sport! Lacrosse is the official summer sport of Canada. As I work in the oill industry lets ask something about oil! What date is regarded as the first time an oil well was drilled in moderne times? Aslo where was this well drilled?

Lacrosse Actualy went to a lacrosse game while working up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada last year. Interesting game.

I will be getting rid of a lot of my coins soon. (as soon as I get back to South Africa mid May) I have a lot of double and some interesting coins. Anybody interested PM me

Antron "Friend" or Antron "count on" or Antron "no worries mate" Anton is always willing to help out and everything for him is like the aussies would say-- "no worries mate"

113) You see this nice event cache published, only to find out you working that weekend or are 5000 miles away! Thsi happens often to me.

If I'm in the country I would like to attend!

The shipment of TB' are in the country and W@lly (Henri) should be able to supply the people with them. Please support him with your orders! On the geocoin front hopefully I'm not talking out of turn but Henri did tell me when he collects all the stock from me that he will be stocking geocoins! I will also be giving him all my collection of goecoins to sell. I think I have about 200 to 250 geocoins I collected over the last few years I want to get rid of. A few rare ones in between. Keep watching him shop I you are interested in buying some or contact him directly in a month or so. I will be handing the coins to him as soon as I get home from overseas.

Thats it! During the 1970s and 1980s, South Africa pursued research into nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Six nuclear weapons were assembled. With the anticipated changeover to a majority-elected government in the 1990s, the South African government dismantled all of its nuclear weapons, the only nation in the world to date which voluntarily gave up nuclear arms it had developed itself. The country has been a signatory of the Biological Weapons Convention since 1975, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1991, and the Chemical Weapons Convention since 1995. In September 1979, a double flash over the Indian Ocean detected by a U.S. satellite was suspected of being a South African nuclear test, in collaboration with Israel (this event is known as the Vela Incident). No official confirmation of it being a nuclear test has been made, and expert agencies have disagreed on their assessments. In 1997, Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad stated that South Africa had conducted a test, but later retracted the statement as being a report of rumours. Pahad apparently had no inside information about the program. A number of other sources[who?] have quoted anonymous Israeli officials verifying that some sort of test took place, but none of this has been officially confirmed by the Israeli, South African, or United States governments. However, in February 1994, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, the convicted Soviet spy and former commander of South Africa's Simon's Town naval base was reported to have said: "Although I was not directly involved in planning or carrying out the operation, I learned unofficially that the flash was produced by an Israeli-South African test code-named Operation Phenix. The explosion was clean and was not supposed to be detected. But they were not as smart as they thought, and the weather changed – so the Americans were able to pick it up South Africa also had a relatively sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missile programme running concurrently with the nuclear programme, and was known to be working on more sophisticated nuclear weapons capable of delivery from such a platform. According to published data one of the missiles, the RSA-4, may have been capable of delivering a 700 kg nuclear warhead from its South African launch site to any point on earth

What country is the only nation in the world to date which voluntarily gave up nuclear arms it had developed itself?

First cache in South Africa was GCZA01 placed by GPSFrodo and found by our friend JORS The cache is now not active anymore but can be viewed here GCZA01

1 meter = 3.1760349 cape foot 2850000000 meter = 9,051,699,496.280862 cape foot

I have a little spread sheet I downloaded a while ago with a conversion from meters to Cape feet and Imperial feet. But I "googled" it back then, so I will not give the answer!

Jors Correct! I have it as 38 min!

The shortest war on record took place in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain. How long was this war?

Also not googled this one! I find the history of planes very interesting. The Boeing 747 sure has the riches history of all commercial planes. The first flight took place on 9 February 1969, with test pilots Jack Waddell and Brien Wygle at the controls and Jess Wallick at the flight engineer's station. The first commercial flight was scheduled for the 21 January 1970 but only took off on the 22 January 1970, due to an engine overheating, making the original aircraft unusable. Finding a substitute delayed the flight by more than six hours to the following day.

DING Cincol is correct!

What town or city had the first international airport in South Africa?

False as it is not breathing! BUT the Fitzroy River turtle (Rheodytes leukops) can pump water in and out of its cloacal bursae such that it can obtain as much as two-thirds of its oxygen supply through this route.The cloacal bursae are surrounded by a thin membrane that allow gas exchange across this membrane, so when a turtle is submerged and it "pumps" water in and out its cloacal bursae, it will allow some oxygen to reach the blood.

Well done Sky Walker & Leia o your first 50! That nogal on one of my caches!