Good morning.
Thursday brings mostly cloudy skies and a high of thirty-four (with a chance of snow) to Whitewater.
On this day in 1879, Albert Einstein is born:
On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man’s view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.
After a childhood in Germany and Italy, Einstein studied physics and mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland. He became a Swiss citizen and in 1905 was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich while working at the Swiss patent office in Bern. That year, which historians of Einstein’s career call the annus mirabilis–the “miracle year”–he published five theoretical papers that were to have a profound effect on the development of modern physics….
What to do when a whale is entangled? Something like this:
In Wisconsin history, from 1979, a big day for the Bucks:
1979 – Bucks Set Scoring Record
Milwaukee set a team scoring record for a regulation-length game with 158 points against New Orleans. [Source: Bucks.com, Official Site of the Milwaukee Bucks]
Google-a-Day asks a question about literature: “In the poem that includes the lines, ‘This is the dead land, This is cactus land,’ to what work is the first epigraph an allusion?”