Good morning, Whitewater.
Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of thirty. Sunrise is 6:45 AM and sunset 4:33 AM with 9h 47m 47s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with just over sixty-percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Police and Fire Commission is scheduled to meet tonight at 6:30 PM.
The European Space Agency’s successful landing of a probe onto a comet was a space-facing first:
Here’s the first image mosaic from #Philae on the surface of comet 67P rotated 90º CW & CCW #CometLanding #esa pic.twitter.com/NoAKwWdMiR
— Observing Space (@ObservingSpace) November 13, 2014
On this day in 1861, Gen. McClellan snubs president Lincoln:
After being named to the top army post, McClellan began openly associating with Democratic leaders in Congress and showing his disregard for the Republican administration. To his wife, McClellan wrote that Lincoln was “nothing more than a well-meaning baboon,” and Secretary of State William Seward was an “incompetent little puppy.”
Lincoln made frequent evening visits to McClellan’s house to discuss strategy. On November 13, Lincoln, Seward, and presidential secretary John Hay stopped by to see the general. McClellan was out, so the trio waited for his return. After an hour, McClellan came in and was told by a porter that the guests were waiting. McClellan headed for his room without a word, and only after Lincoln waited another half-hour was the group informed of McClellan’s retirement to bed. Hay felt that the president should have been greatly offended, but Lincoln replied that it was “better at this time not to be making points of etiquette and personal dignity.” Lincoln made no more visits to the general’s home. In March 1862, the president removed McClellan as general in chief of the army.
Lincoln later soundly defeated McClellan in the presidential election of 1864.
Google-a-Day asks a question about geography:
What structure on the South African coast has a range of 63 km and releases flashes every 30 seconds?