Good morning.

We’ll have a breezy day, with a slight chance of snow showers, and a high of thirty-three, for the city’s midweek.

The Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM.

Mostly, it’s people who catch fish. Mostly:

A person could catch fish this way, if he were bigger than the fish.

On this day in 1991, Operation Desert Storm began:

The United States and allied forces Wednesday night opened the long threatened war to drive President Saddam Hussein’s army from Kuwait, striking Baghdad and other targets in Iraq and Kuwait with waves of bombers and cruise missiles launched from naval vessels.

“The liberation of Kuwait has begun,” President Bush said in a three-sentence statement confirming the start of the attack that was read by his spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, shortly after the raids began.

Later, in a televised address to the nation from the Oval Office a somber Mr. Bush said that after months of continuous diplomatic overtures had failed to produce movement by Iraq, the United States and its allies “have no choice but to force Saddam from Kuwait by force. We will not fail.”

Google-a-Day poses a pop-culture question: “Rihanna got a tattoo across her fingers while wearing a piece of clothing with the face of what rock star?”

Good morning.

Sometimes one is both motivated and diligent in one’s efforts –

I’ve a few regular features at my sites, and am pleased to add another: cartoons from Mark Anderson, whose creations have been published in major magazines, for corporate communications, and as greeting cards. One of his cartoons will appear on its own at least weekly at my websites, and others will appear within posts.

Whitewater’s Tuesday will be mostly sunny, with a high of twenty-nine. We’ll have 9h 23m of sunlight, 10h 26m of daylight, with a waxing crescent moon.

Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1967, the Packers played and won their first Super Bowl:

LOS ANGLES, Jan. 15 — Bryan Bartlett (Bart) Starr, the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, led his team to a 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs today in the first professional football game between the champions of the National and American Leagues.

Doubt about the outcome disappeared in the third quarter when Starr’s pretty passes made mere Indians out of the American League Chiefs and Green Bay scored twice.

Those 14 points stretched Green Bay’s lead to 28-10 and during the final quarter many of the spectators in the crowd of 63,036 left Memorial Coliseum which had been only two-thirds filled.

The outcome served to settle the curiosity of the customers, who paid from $6 to $12 for tickets, and a television audience estimated at 60 million….

Google-a-Day asks readers to field a baseball question: “What was the jersey number of the center-fielder who led the Phillies to their fifth National League pennant in 1993?”

Good morning.

Our week starts with sunny skies and a high of twenty. There will be 9h 22m of sunlight, and 10h 24m of daylight, for Whitewater today. Tomorrow will be one minute longer.

How big do sharks get? Really big:

The city’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM, and her Library Board at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1784, a war formally ends:

….Continental Congress ratifies the Second Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence.

In the document, which was known as the Second Treaty of Paris because the Treaty of Paris was also the name of the agreement that had ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, Britain officially agreed to recognize the independence of its 13 former colonies as the new United States of America.

In addition, the treaty settled the boundaries between the United States and what remained of British North America. U.S. fishermen won the right to fish in the Grand Banks, off the Newfoundland coast, and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Both sides agreed to ensure payment to creditors in the other nation of debts incurred during the war and to release all prisoners of war. The United States promised to return land confiscated during the war to its British owners, to stop any further confiscation of British property and to honor the property left by the British army on U.S. shores, including Negroes or slaves. Both countries assumed perpetual rights to access the Mississippi River.

Despite the agreement, many of these issues remained points of contention between the two nations in the post-war years. The British did not abandon their western forts as promised and attempts by British merchants to collect outstanding debts from Americans were unsuccessful as American merchants were unable to collect from their customers, many of whom were struggling farmers.

Google-a-Day poses a question about art: “What American museum paid $6.9 million to exhibit artwork on loan from the Louvre from 2006-2009?”