Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of twelve degrees. Sunrise is 6:27 AM today, and sunset 5:47 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with eight percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Alexander Graham Bell is born on this day in 1847.
On this day in 1823, a self-professed lost prince of France gets married:
1823 – Eleazar Williams Wedding Anniversary
On this date Eleazar Williams, who claimed he was the lost son of the beheaded Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, married Madeline Jourdain, a young Menominee woman. Williams was a direct descendent of a Mohawk chief on his father’s side. He grew up with the St. Regis Indians and helped lead the effort to bring the Oneida Indians to the Fox River Valley in the 1820s. There is some evidence that he hoped to set himself up as the head of a large nation of Christian Indians in the west, and he did work as a Protestant missionary much of his life. Williams spent his last years searching for evidence that he was the “Lost Prince” fathered by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He managed to persuade enough well-to-do Europeans that the story was true to provide his family with a modicum of support. Williams died on August 28, 1858, his last words concerning an elegant dress which hung on his wall as once being worn by his mother, Marie Antoinette. [Source: Badger Saints and Sinners, by Fred L. Holmes, 1939; pg 51-63]
Puzzability begins a new series this week, with titles of popular operas. Here’s Monday’s game:
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This Week’s Game — March 3-7
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Opera Boxes
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What opera, doc? For each day this week, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the title of an opera. Each has 10 or more letters and any number of words. To find the title, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.
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Example:
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Il Trovatore
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What to Submit:
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Submit the opera’s title (as “Il Trovatore” in the example) for your answer.
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Monday, March 3
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