Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving.
We will have a mostly cloudy day with a high of twenty-eight. Sunrise is 7:03 AM and sunset 4:23 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with twenty-two percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On 11.28.1520, Magellan reaches the Pacific:
After sailing through the dangerous straits below South America that now bear his name, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan enters the Pacific Ocean with three ships, becoming the first European explorer to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic.
On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain in an effort to find a western sea route to the rich Spice Islands of Indonesia. In command of five ships and 270 men, Magellan sailed to West Africa and then to Brazil, where he searched the South American coast for a strait that would take him to the Pacific. He searched the Rio de la Plata, a large estuary south of Brazil, for a way through; failing, he continued south along the coast of Patagonia. At the end of March 1520, the expedition set up winter quarters at Port St. Julian. On Easter day at midnight, the Spanish captains mutinied against their Portuguese captain, but Magellan crushed the revolt, executing one of the captains and leaving another ashore when his ship left St. Julian in August.
On October 21, he finally discovered the strait he had been seeking. The Strait of Magellan, as it became known, is located near the tip of South America, separating Tierra del Fuego and the continental mainland. Only three ships entered the passage; one had been wrecked and another deserted. It took 38 days to navigate the treacherous strait, and when ocean was sighted at the other end Magellan wept with joy. His fleet accomplished the westward crossing of the ocean in 99 days, crossing waters so strangely calm that the ocean was named “Pacific,” from the Latin word pacificus, meaning “tranquil.” By the end, the men were out of food and chewed the leather parts of their gear to keep themselves alive. On March 6, 1521, the expedition landed at the island of Guam….
For the Badgers, an undefeated season on 11.28.1901:
1901 – UW Football Undefeated
On this date the University of Wisconsin defeated the University of Chicago, 35-0, to finish its first undefeated football season in school history with a 9-0 record. [Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Here’s Puzzability‘s daily puzzle:
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This Week’s Game — November 25-29
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With Thanks
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It’s all about the stuffing this week. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, added the six letters in the word THANKS, 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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Rosary component; what you might go to hell in
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Bead; handbasket
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the shorter one first (as “Bead; handbasket” in the example), for your answer.
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Thursday, November 28
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