Good morning, Whitewater.
We may have our last snowfall of the season today. We will likely get about an inch of snow, mixed with sleet and freezing rain. The high for today will be thirty-five. Sunrise is 6:25 and sunset 5:47, for 11h 21m 17s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 95.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1931, Pres. Hoover signs a bill about a particular song:
President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional act making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the official national anthem of the United States.
On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner” after witnessing the massive overnight British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. Key, an American lawyer, watched the siege while under detainment on a British ship and penned the famous words after observing with awe that Fort McHenry’s flag survived the 1,800-bomb assault.
After circulating as a handbill, the patriotic lyrics were published in a Baltimore newspaper on September 20, 1814. Key’s words were later set to the tune of “To Anacreon in Heaven,” a popular English song. Throughout the 19th century, “The Star-Spangled Banner” was regarded as the national anthem by most branches of the U.S. armed forces and other groups, but it was not until 1916, and the signing of an executive order by President Woodrow Wilson, that it was formally designated as such. In March 1931, Congress passed an act confirming Wilson’s presidential order, and on March 3 President Hoover signed it into law.
Here’s the Tuesday, vegetable-themed game from Puzzability:
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This Week’s Game — March 2-6
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Vegging In
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We’re dishing up a healthy serving every day this week. For each day, we’ve taken the name of a vegetable, added a letter, and scrambled all the letters to get a new word. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the vegetable followed by the new word.
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Example:
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Deep-dish meal with a vegetable base
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Answer:
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Escarole casserole
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What to Submit:
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Submit the phrase, with the vegetable first (as “Escarole casserole” in the example), for your answer.
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Tuesday, March 3
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