Good morning.
We’ll have snow today in Whitewater, amounting to between one and three inches by evening.
Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board is scheduled to meet at 5:30 PM today.
On this day in 1784, the Second Continental Congress makes it official:
….the 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….
Here’s Puzzability‘s Tuesday game:
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This Week’s Game — January 13-17
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String Theory
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Are you a master of science? For each day this week, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get a science-related phrase that starts with a possessive name.
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Example:
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Sentry’s “stop!” / impose, as a tax / barge-like boat / turn from solid to liquid
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Answer:
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Halley’s comet (halt / levy / scow / melt)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the phrase and the smaller words (as “Halley’s comet (halt / levy / scow / melt)” in the example) for your answer.
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Tuesday, January 14
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