Good morning.
Midweek in Whitewater will be a day of gradual clearing, with the temperature falling to around three by late afternoon (by which wind chill values will be between five an fifteen below).
NASA’s Juno spacecraft used the moon’s gravity to gain a slingshot boost on the way to Jupiter (with an expected arrival at that distant planet on 7.4.2016). As the craft passed the Earth and moon, it recorded video of the moon’s orbit around Earth – apparently the most complete video recording yet made of Earth’s satellite orbiting our planet:
When NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 8,800 mph (about 7.3 kilometer per second), which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. One of Juno’s sensors, a special kind of camera optimized to track faint stars, also had a unique view of the Earth-moon system. The result was an intriguing, low-resolution glimpse of what our world would look like to a visitor from afar.
On this day in 1901, an incorporation makes Whitewater’s spooky reputation formal:
1901 – Morris Pratt Institute Incorporated
On this date spiritual leader Morris Pratt gained incorporation for his school of spiritualism located in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Many people of this time embraced spiritualism to try to reach friends and family who had died in the Civil War. As a result, Whitewater became known as the “mecca of modern spiritualism.” Pratt built his institute in 1888, which was initially used as a meeting place for public seances.Pratt decided to turn his institution into an educational school for spiritualists, focusing on science, literature, morality, and communication, as well as spiritualistic instruction. The institute was closed for a few years during the Depression, and then in 1977 relocated to Waukesha [now in Milwaukee] , where it remains one of the few institutes in the world that is dedicated to the study of spiritualism. [Source: Wisconsin Saints and Sinners by Fred L. Holmes]
Puzzability‘s Bitter End series continues:
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This Week’s Game — December 9-13
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The Bitter End
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like winter out there. For each day this week, we started with a word and added the sound “brrr” to the end to get a new word. The two-word answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the shorter word followed by the “brrr” word.
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Example:
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Saloon employee who cuts men’s hair
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Answer:
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Bar barber
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What to Submit:
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Submit the two-word phrase, with the “brrr” word second (as “Bar barber” in the example), for your answer.
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Wednesday, December 11
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