Good morning, Whitewater.
I hope readers’ election experiences went well and smoothly (as mine did, with few lines and an easy process). Our weather was good, and I always enjoy (as so many others do) a trip to the Old Armory for voting. Here we are, on the other side of a long and expensive campaign, and for it all each of us is still in one piece.
We’ve a day of mostly cloudy skies but a mild temperature of fifty-seven ahead. Sunrise is 6:35 AM and sunset 4:41 PM today, with 10h 06m 29s.
I’ll have a post later this morning with observations on the local and statewide races.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets today at 5 PM.
Readers may recall that I posted an animated graphic of butterfly species from illustrator Eleanor Lutz a two months ago, and she’s created another on how animals breathe (she illustrates three possibilities). As with her earlier work, it’s both accurate and beautiful:
Ms. Lutz’s work may be found on her website, Tabletop Whale.
On this day in 1912, the men of Wisconsin took a vote on women’s suffrage. They voted it down:
1912 – Women’s Suffrage Referendum
On this date Wisconsin voters (all male) considered a proposal to allow women to vote. When the referendum was over, Wisconsin men voted women’s suffrage down by a margin of 63 to 37 percent. The referendum’s defeat could be traced to multiple causes, but the two most widely cited reasons were schisms within the women’s movement itself and a perceived link between suffragists and temperance that antagonized many German American voters. Although women were granted the vote in 1920 by the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Wisconsin’s own constitution continued to define voters as male until 1934. [Source: Turning Points in Wisconsin History]
Google-a-Day asks a geography question:
What area with nearly 2 million life forms was created to protect the wildlife of the country with the largest economy in Africa?