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Daily Bread for 2.29.12

Good morning.

Whitewater’s forecast calls for rain, with perhaps a bit of snow, and a high temperature of forty-five.

On this leap day, Google commemorates the birthday of Giaochino Rossini, born on 2.29.1792.  They mark the occasion with a doodle in his honor –

A Wikipedia entry on Rossini describes his accomplishments. Among them, of course, The Barber of Seville.

Generations later, Warner Brothers produced a parody that’s probably as famous to Americans as the Rossini’s original –

In Google’s daily puzzle, a numeral asks a question: “The ancient Romans didn’t know me, but the Mayans did. What numeral am I?”

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