Good morning, Whitewater.
Friday will grow cloudy, with a daytime high of forty, and snow beginning in the evening. Sunrise is 6:53 and sunset is 4:27, for 9h 33m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 64.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1820, a whale sinks a whaler:
The American whaler Essex, which hailed from Nantucket, Massachusetts, is attacked by an 80-ton sperm whale 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America.
The 238-ton Essex was in pursuit of sperm whales, specifically the precious oil and bone that could be derived from them, when an enraged bull whale rammed the ship twice and capsized the vessel. The 20 crew members escaped in three open boats, but only five of the men survived the harrowing 83-day journey to the coastal waters of South America, where they were picked up by other ships. Most of the crew resorted to cannibalism during the long journey, and at one point men on one of the long boats drew straws to determine which of the men would be shot in order to provide sustenance for the others. Three other men who had been left on a desolate Pacific island were saved later.
The first capture of a sperm whale by an American vessel was in 1711, marking the birth of an important American industry that commanded a fleet of more than 700 ships by the mid 18th century. Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick(1851) was inspired in part by the story of the Essex.
(Of the sinking of the Essex, there is a major motion picture to be released this December, In the Heart of the Sea.)
Here’s Puzzability‘s final game in its Partners in Rhyme series:
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This Week’s Game — November 16-20
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Partners in Rhyme
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Here’s our business plan. For each day, we started with the name of a company or brand, past or present, of the form ___ & ___. The day’s clues lead to two answer words (around the ampersand) that rhyme with the company or brand.
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Example:
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Beach collectible & A, E, I, O, U, or sometimes Y
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Answer:
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Bell & Howell (shell & vowel)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the company or brand and the rhyming words (as “Bell & Howell (shell & vowel)” in the example) for your answer.
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Friday, November 20
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