Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 57. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset is 5:42 for 10 hours 9 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 82.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1782, the House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America:
On February 27, 1782, a Whig motion to end the offensive war in America was carried by 19 votes. [Prime Minister Lord Frederick] North resigned, obliging the king to invite Lord Rockingham to form a government; a consistent supporter of the Patriot cause, he made a commitment to US independence a condition of doing so. George III reluctantly accepted and the new government took office on March 27, 1782; however, Rockingham died unexpectedly on July 1, and was replaced by Lord Shelburne who acknowledged American independence.
Whatever the delights of Instagram, it’s also a site of quack cures and bogus health advice. An example is to be found below, where Dr. Idrees Mughal debunks the significance of the claim that “fruit is not natural” and so one should, by that shallow reasoning, avoid fruit in one’s diet:
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It only makes sense until one realizes that it doesn’t.
Sinkhole swallows two cars in Nebraska: