Good morning.
We’ll have a cold day in Whitewater, with a high of six below zero, and wind chill values of twenty-five to thirty below.
The Whitewater Schools are closed today and tomorrow.
On this day in 1888, the National Geographic Society is born:
…The 33 men who originally met and formed the National Geographic Society were a diverse group of geographers, explorers, teachers, lawyers, cartographers, military officers and financiers. All shared an interest in scientific and geographical knowledge, as well as an opinion that in a time of discovery, invention, change and mass communication, Americans were becoming more curious about the world around them. With this in mind, the men drafted a constitution and elected as the Society’s president a lawyer and philanthropist named Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Neither a scientist nor a geographer, Hubbard represented the Society’s desire to reach out to the layman.
Nine months after its inception, the Society published its first issue of National Geographic magazine. Readership did not grow, however, until Gilbert H. Grosvenor took over as editor in 1899. In only a few years, Grosvenor boosted circulation from 1,000 to 2 million by discarding the magazine’s format of short, overly technical articles for articles of general interest accompanied by photographs. National Geographic quickly became known for its stunning and pioneering photography, being the first to print natural-color photos of sky, sea and the North and South Poles….
Puzzability has a new, football-themed series this week, incorporating the Super-Bowl-contending team names into the daily game answers:
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This Week’s Game — January 27-31
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Team Scrimmage
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Looks like there’s a gain on the play all week. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, added the letters in the name of one of the two teams competing in this year’s Super Bowl (BRONCOS or SEAHAWKS), and rearranged all the letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
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Example:
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Ran like crazy; gets clean after playing football
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Answer:
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Tore; takes a shower (Seahawks)
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the shorter one first (as “Tore; takes a shower” in the example), for your answer.
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Monday, January 27
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