Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have a sunny day with a high of sixty-two in the Whippet City today. Sunrise is 7:10 and sunset 6:58, for 11h 47m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous, with 63.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1933, FDR gives his first fireside chat:
…eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address or “fireside chat,” broadcast directly from the White House.
Roosevelt began that first address simply: “I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.” He went on to explain his recent decision to close the nation’s banks in order to stop a surge in mass withdrawals by panicked investors worried about possible bank failures. The banks would be reopening the next day, Roosevelt said, and he thanked the public for their “fortitude and good temper” during the “banking holiday.”
Here is the first part of that chat:
Puzzability‘s Thursday game is part of the week’s Miss Taken series:
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This Week’s Game — March 9-13
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Miss Taken
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Who are all the missing misses? For each day this week, we started with a name or word that can follow “Miss,” like “Congeniality” or “Hannigan.” Then we hid it in a sentence, with spaces added as necessary. The answer spans at least two words in the sentence and starts and ends in the middle of words. The day’s clue gives the sentence with a girl in place of the answer.
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I think the creator of this strawberry rhubarb pie reci
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Answer:
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Peach (recipe achieved)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the name or word (as “Peach” in the example) for your answer.
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Thursday, March 12
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