Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday in town will be cloudy with a high of thirty-four. Sunrise is 7:16 and sunset 4:57, for 9h 41m 20s of daytime. We’ve a full moon again today.
In Friday’s FW poll, readers could pick the teams they thought would prevail (or the teams they wanted to prevail) in today’s NFL games. Respondents chose New England and Carolina, respectively.
Here’s schedule of posts for the week ahead, with other posts possible (if there are changes to these scheduled posts I’ll explain why):
- Today: DB, a post on standards, evening post
- Monday: DB, weekly Music post, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN post, evening post
- Tuesday: DB, weekly Education post, evening post
- Wednesday: DB, weekly Film post, evening post
- Thursday: DB, weekly Food or Restaurant post, evening post
- Friday: DB, weekly Poll, weekly Catblogging
- Saturday: DB, weekly Animation post, evening post
How long did it take to get somewhere, a century ago? Here’s how long, for how far:
On this day in 1972, Shoichi Yokoi learns that the war is over:
After 28 years of hiding in the jungles of Guam, local farmers discover Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant who was unaware that World War II had ended.
Guam, a 200-square-mile island in the western Pacific, became a U.S. possession in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. In 1941, the Japanese attacked and captured it, and in 1944, after three years of Japanese occupation, U.S. forces retook Guam. It was at this time that Yokoi, left behind by the retreating Japanese forces, went into hiding rather than surrender to the Americans. In the jungles of Guam, he carved survival tools and for the next three decades waited for the return of the Japanese and his next orders. After he was discovered in 1972, he was finally discharged and sent home to Japan, where he was hailed as a national hero. He subsequently married and returned to Guam for his honeymoon. His handcrafted survival tools and threadbare uniform are on display in the Guam Museum in Agana.
On this day in 1864, the 23rd Wisconsin moves through Texas:
1864 – (Civil War) Reconnaissance of the Matagorda Peninsula continues
The 23rd Wisconsin Infantry continued its reconnaissance mission on the Matagorda Peninsula, Texas.