Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have about an inch of additional snowfall during the day today, with cloudy skies giving way to sunny ones, and a high of thirty-three falling into the single digits by the late afternoon. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:34 PM, for 9h 09m 20s of daytime.
In Friday’s FW poll, asking whether UFO sightings in the ’50s and ’60s were more likely the result of CIA experiments or extraterrestrial beings, a majority of respondents picked extraterrestrial beings.
So someone challenges Gaston to a push-up contest at Disney World. No doubt, Gaston‘s a swine in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but the man playing him here acquits himself (in the spirit of the character) very well:
On this day in 1785, Jacob Grimm is born:
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863) was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law (linguistics), the author (with his brother Wilhelm) of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
On this day in 1923, Milton College bans dancing:
1923 – Student Dancing Banned
On this date Milton College president A.E. Whitford bannned dancing by students in off-campus, semi-public places such as confectionery stores. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
The college closed in 1982.