Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday will be unseasonably mild and rainy, with a high of sixty-one. Sunrise is 7:17 and sunset 4:21, for 9h 03m 49s of daytime. The moon’s a waning crescent with 5.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW poll asked whether readers preferred a real or artificial tree. Among respondents, there was a 2-1 preference for real trees.
It’s a busy week ahead, with weekly topical posts (on music, When Green Turns Brown, film, a cartoon, food, the Friday poll, and Friday catblogging), with posts throughout the week on UW-Whitewater’s administration.
If you’ve batteries, magnets, and tin foil, then you’ve the ingredients for a simple motor:
On this day in 1981, Poland’s communist leadership imposed martial law:
Martial law in Poland (Polish: Stan wojenny w Polsce) refers to the period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983, when the authoritarian communist government of the People’s Republic of Poland drastically restricted normal life by introducing martial law in an attempt to crush political opposition. Thousands of opposition activists were jailed without charge and as many as 100 killed.[1] Although martial law was lifted in 1983, many of the political prisoners were not released until a general amnesty in 1986.
On this day in 1864, light artillery arrives for battle in defense of the Union:
1864 – (Civil War) 3rd Wisconsin Light Artillery Reaches Savannah, Georgia
The 3rd Wisconsin Light Artillery arrived at the front lines for the Battle of Savannah, Georgia.