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Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 6:09, and sunset is 7:45, for 13h 36m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 95 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Parks & Recreation Board meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1911, The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
Always striking:
How Atoms Are Defying Gravity in NASA’s Cold Atom Lab:
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Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:27 and sunset 8:15 for 14h 47m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 77.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s professional journalism site, WhitewaterWise, has been admitted to the Milwaukee Press Club. It’s a well-deserved addition to the oldest continuously operating press club in North America. Bloggers are not journalists (we’re modern-day pamphleteers), but one needn’t be (or wish to be) a watchmaker to appreciate having a watch. Whitewater benefits from professional journalism. (See from 2023 Professional Journalism Returns to Whitewater.)
Whitewater WindUp meets this morning at 9 AM to select the winner of their first startup competition. Best of luck to all the finalists.
On this day in 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
On this day in 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, when after nearly three weeks spent encircling Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union forces had bottled up their enemy inside the city and prepared to attack it. Seventeen different Wisconsin regiments were involved in the assault that began the next day (8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th, and 33rd Wisconsin Infantry regiments and the 1st, 6th and 12th Wisconsin Light Artillery batteries as well as the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry).
The building designed to limit catastrophe:
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Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 37. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset 4:30 for 9h 04m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 87.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1916, Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov.
A robot is carving a cathedral. Here’s how:
The Brothers Who Invented a Formula 1… for Marbles:
. India Block writes Pink holiday home by KC Design Studio features dedicated cat room: Cats’ Pink House is a holiday home in Taiwan that includes cat ladders, a rotating carousel-shaped climbing frame and a fluffy pink swing for the owner’s feline companions. KC Design Studio made everything pink, even the basketball hoop and court…
Ekta Joshi writes This Japanese firm has created a functional four story luxury building for cats: If you’re a cat parent and don’t mind pampering your furball silly, here’s what you need to lay your eyes on! The ultimate play toy cum lounge for your kitty – we’re talking about the mega-luxe “cat tower mansion”…
Near the middle of college-town Whitewater, there’s a large Second Empire bed & breakfast that the owners are looking to sell. Whitewater’s Planning Commission, on 1.8.18 in the video clip above, had numerous questions for the prospective buyers. The request afterward met with rejection as a change in zoning & conditional use at Whitewater’s Planning…
The first season of The Apprentice re-introduced Donald Trump to the world as an incredibly successful and intelligent businessman—it was a hit show in 2004 and boosted the Trump brand. The show was a major opportunity for producers to create his persona and sell his image to America. How did they pull this off? And…
