Daily Bread for 2.13.14

Good morning.

Whitewater will have a forty-percent chance of snow today, with a high of thirty-two.

The Fire and Rescue Task Force will meet tonight at 6:00 PM.

On this day in 1633, Galileo arrives in Rome:

On this day in 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. Put under house arrest indefinitely by Pope Urban VIII, Galileo spent the rest of his days at his villa in Arcetri, near Florence, before dying on January 8, 1642.

In Wisconsin on 2.13.1948, private growers receive state recognition:

1948 – Potato Growers of Wisconsin Recognized
On this date the Articles of Incorporation for Potato Growers of Wisconsin were recognized by the Secretary of State. The first regular meeting of this organization was held in Stevens Point on March 20, 1948. [Source: The Badger Common’Tater, July, 1998.]

Here’s Puzzability‘s Thursday game:

This Week’s Game — February 10-14

Candy and Flowers

We’ve gotten you two gifts every day this Valentine’s week. For each day, we started with the name of a chocolate brand plus the name of a flower. Each day’s clue shows the brand name and the flower name melded together in a string of letters, with each in order but intermingled with the other.

Example:

LDOILVEY

Answer:

Dove/lily

What to Submit:

Submit the brand and the flower, in that order (as “Dove/lily” in the example), for your answer.

Thursday, February 13

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