Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have a partly cloudy Tuesday in town, giving way to more sun, with a high of twenty. Sunrise is 6:51 AM and sunset 6:28 PM, for 9h 37m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 16.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene by Frank Crozier. Via Wikipedia.
On this day in 1916 during the First World War, the Battle of the Somme ends with little to show for the effort expect casualties:
The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the River Somme in France. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. A Franco-British commitment to an offensive on the Somme had been made during Allied discussions at Chantilly, Oise, in December 1915. The Allies agreed upon a strategy of combined offensives against the Central Powers in 1916, by the French, Russian, British, and Italian armies, with the Somme offensive as the Franco-British contribution. The main part of the offensive was to be made by the French Army, supported on the northern flank by the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
Google-a-Day asks a question about sailing:
What is the common term used by the America’s Cup organization, for an object shaped like an airplane wing, designed to direct the flow of air over its surface?