Good morning, Whitewater.
Our months ends with a rainy day, and a high of thirty-nine, in town. Sunrise is 7:05, and sunset 4:22, for 9h 16m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 76.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Friends of the Effigy Mounds Preserve meet tonight at 6:30 PM.
It’s Mark Twain’s birthday:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called “The Great American Novel“….
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was the son of Jane (née Lampton; 1803–1890), a native of Kentucky, and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847), a Virginian. His parents met when his father moved to Missouri and were married in 1823.[7][8] Twain was the sixth of seven children, but only three of his siblings survived childhood:Orion (1825–1897); Henry (1838–1858); and Pamela (1827–1904). His sister Margaret (1833–1839) died when he was three, and his brother Benjamin (1832–1842) died three years later. Another brother, Pleasant (1828–1829), died at six months.[9] Twain was born two weeks after the closest approach to Earth of Halley’s Comet. His ancestors were of Scots-Irish, English, and Cornish extraction.[10][11][12][13]
When he was four, Twain’s family moved to Hannibal, Missouri,[14] a port town on the Mississippi River that inspired the fictional town of St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.[15] Slavery, then legal in Missouri, was a theme Twain would explore in these writings.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in
Puzzability begins a new series this week, The Possessive Filmfest. Here’s the 11.30.15 game:
|
This Week’s Game — November 30-December 4
|
|||||
|
The Possessive Filmfest
|
|||||
|
This week features some very personal movies. For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the title of a movie that starts with a possessive first name.
|
|||||
|
Example:
|
|||||
|
Container for groceries / improved / out of danger / when dessert is served in a meal
|
|||||
|
Answer:
|
|||||
|
Babette’s Feast (bag / better / safe / last)
|
|||||
|
What to Submit:
|
|||||
|
Submit the movie’s title and the smaller words (as “Babette’s Feast (bag / better / safe / last)” in the example) for your answer.
|
|||||
 |
|||||
|
Monday, November 30
|
|||||
|
