Good morning, Whitewater.
Thursday in town will be increasingly cloudy with a high of thirty-nine. Sunrise is 6:46 and sunset 7:14, for 12h 28m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 41.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1953, Jonas Salk makes an announcement:
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. In 1952–an epidemic year for polio–there were 58,000 new cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000 died from the disease. For promising eventually to eradicate the disease, which is known as “infant paralysis” because it mainly affects children, Dr. Salk was celebrated as the great doctor-benefactor of his time….
On this day in 1881, a Wisconsin mascot dies in a fire:
1881 – Old Abe Dies
On this date Old Abe, famous Civil War mascot, died from injuries sustained during a fire at the State Capitol. Old Abe was the mascot for Company C, an Eau Claire infantry unit that was part of the Wisconsin 8th Regiment. During the Capitol fire of 1881, smoke engulfed Old Abe’s cage. One of his feathers survived and is in the Wisconsin Historical Museum. [Source: Wisconsin Lore and Legends, pg. 51]
Here is the Thursday game from Puzzability, in the Mixed Company series:
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This Week’s Game — March 23-27
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Mixed Company
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The economy may be looking up, but these businesses have fallen to pieces. For each day this week, we started with the name of a current Fortune 500 company. We removed all spaces and punctuation, then divided the string into three-letter chunks. Those chunks, in random order, are the day’s clue.
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Example:
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RIC ESS XPR AME ANE
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Answer:
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American Express
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What to Submit:
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Submit the company name (as “American Express” in the example) for your answer.
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Thursday, March 26
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