Good morning, Whitewater.
It’s a sunny end to the week, with a high of thirty for Friday. Sunrise is 6:44 and sunset 7:15, for 12h 31m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 51.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1912, Americans celebrate a gift of Japanese cherry trees along the Potomac:
The Washington Monument, as seen from West Potomac Park across the Tidal Basin. Via Wikipedia.
In a ceremony on March 27, 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two of these trees on the north bank of the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park. At the end of the ceremony, the First Lady presented Viscountess Chinda with a bouquet of ‘American Beauty’ roses. These two trees still stand at the terminus of 17th Street Southwest, marked by a large plaque.[3] By 1915, the United States government had responded with a gift of flowering dogwood trees to the people of Japan.[5]
From 1913 to 1920, trees of the Somei-Yoshino variety, which comprised 1800 of the gift, were planted around the Tidal Basin. Trees of the other 11 cultivars, and the remaining Yoshinos, were planted in East Potomac Park. In 1927, a group of American school children re-enacted the initial planting. In 1934, the District of Columbia Commissioners sponsored a three-day celebration of the flowering cherry trees.
Puzzability‘s Mixed Company series ends with Friday’s game:
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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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Friday, March 27
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