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Daily Bread for 1.14.13

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…

Daily Bread for 1.13.13

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of twenty-two. On this day in 1128, Pope Honorius II ….grants a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God. Led by the Frenchman Hughes de Payens, the Knights Templar organization was…

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Good morning. It’s a breezy day for the Whippet City, with west winds of 15 to 20 mph, and gusts as high as 30 mph. The mercury will hit a high of about forty-five, then fall to around thirty-one by the late afternoon. We’ll have a strong likelihood of snow overnight, of about two inches.…

Daily Bread for 1.11.13

Good morning. Whitewater will see a foggy morning, followed by a cloudy day, with a high of forty-seven today. On this day in 1908, Pres. Roosevelt makes the Grand Canyon a national monument: On this day in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt places the Grand Canyon under public protection, declaring it a national monument. In a…

Daily Bread for 1.10.13

Good morning. Our forecast for Thursday calls for a high of forty-one, with an even chance of rain in the afternoon. What happens when a deer bursts through a window and runs around a classroom? This: On this day in 1946, the United Nations General Assembly first convened. Here’s how James Reston of the New…

Daily Bread for 1.9.13

Good morning. It’s a sunny Wednesday for the Whippet City, with a high of forty-one, and west winds at 10 to 15 mph. We’ll have 9h 14m of sunlight, 10h 18m of daylight, and tomorrow will be one minute longer. Discovery takes more than one form, and comes from more than one place. Consider the…

Daily Bread for 1.8.13

Good morning. A mild Tuesday unfolds before us: mostly sunny, south winds at 5 to 15 mph, and a high of thirty-nine. Over at c|net, there’s a twenty-four photo slideshow of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers’ photos from Mars. The photos are both astonishing and a source of pride, that we’re a people that has…

Daily Bread for 1.7.13

Good morning. We’ll begin our week with sunny and breezy skies, with a high of thirty-five, and southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Our sunrise is at 7:25 AM and our sunset at 4:37 PM. At 5 PM today, there’ll be a meeting of the Parks & Rec Department. I’m not sure what to make…

Daily Bread for 1.6.13

Good morning. Sunday will be a gradually sunnier day, with a high of twenty-nine, and northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. The moon’s now a waning crescent, and tomorrow will be one minute longer. On this day in 1838, Morse demonstrates the telegraph: …Samuel Morse’s telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the…

Daily Bread for 1.5.13

Good morning. Today brings a day of increasing clouds, and a high of thirty-three. We’ll have 9h 10m of sunlight, 10h 14m of daylight, and tomorrow will be one minute shorter. The Golden Gate bridge’s construction began on 1.5.33: On this day in 1933, construction starts on what will become one of America’s most famous…

Daily Bread for 1.4.13

Good morning. It’s a sunny Friday for the Whippet City, with a high of 29.  We’ll have west winds of 10 to 15 mph, 9h 9m of sunlight, 10h 13m of daylight, and tomorrow will be one minute longer. On 1.4.1785, author Jacob Grimm is born: On this day, the older of the two Grimm brothers, Jacob, is…

Daily Bread for 1.3.13

Good morning. Thursday brings a high of twenty-four, with west winds at 5 to 10 mph. On this day in 1924, a notable archaeological milestone: Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, they uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb–a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin…

Daily Bread for 1.2.13

Good morning. Wednesday brings a day of gradual clearing, a high of twenty-one, and a wind chill between zero and ten. There will be 9h 7m of sunlight, 10h 11m of daylight, with a waning gibbous moon. On this day in 1905, the Russian surrender to the Japanese at Port Arthur was the first of…

Daily Bread for 1.1.13

Happy New Year. We’ll start off 2013 with a day of sunny skies and a high of only thirteen degrees. On this day in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. On 1.1.1836, a new territory: 1836 – Wisconsin Territory Formed On this date the Wisconsin Territory was formed by an act of the Michigan Legislature. Brown County…