Good morning, Whitewater.
There will be a bit more snow today, less than a inch, with cloudy skies and a high of twenty-five. Sunrise is 6:28 and sunset 5:45, for 11h 17m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 54.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1815, Napoleon – French dictator and imperialist – returns to Europe from exile to begin the Hundred Days:
While the Allies were distracted, Napoleon solved his problem in characteristic fashion. On 26 February 1815, when the British and French guard ships were absent, he slipped away from Portoferraio on board the brig Inconstant with some 1,000 men and landed at Golfe-Juan between Cannes and Antibes on 1 March 1815. Except in royalist Provence, he was warmly received.[7][13] He avoided much of Provence by taking a route through the Alps, marked today as the Route Napoléon.[14]
Firing no shot in his defence, his troop numbers swelled until they became an army.
As it turns out, the man responsible for the deaths of literally millions from fighting across all Europe didn’t look, to many, the same as he did during his former rule:
The evidence as to Napoleon’s health is somewhat conflicting. Carnot, Pasquier, Lavalette, Thiébault, and others thought him prematurely aged and enfeebled.[7] At Elba, as Sir Neil Campbell noted, he became inactive and proportionately corpulent.[citation needed] There, too, as sometimes in 1815, he began to suffer intermittently from retention of urine, but to no serious extent.[7] For much of his public life, Napoleon was troubled by hemorrhoids, which made sitting on a horse for long periods of time difficult and painful. This condition had disastrous results at Waterloo; during the battle, his inability to sit on his horse for other than very short periods of time interfered with his ability to survey his troops in combat, and thus exercise command.[16] Others saw no marked change in him; while Mollien, who knew the emperor well, attributed the lassitude which now and then came over him to a feeling of perplexity caused by his changed circumstances.[7]
On this day in 1985, the Bucks go for eighteen million:
1985 – Kohl purchases Bucks
On this day in 1985 Milwaukee businessman and future United States Senator Herb Kohl purchased the Milwaukee Bucks for 18 million dollars. By 1999 the team was worth an estimated 100 million dollars. [Source: Harvard Business School Bulletin, December 1999
Here’s the Tuesday puzzle from JigZone: