Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday brings a rainy morning, with gradual clearing and a high of sixty-four. Sunrise is 6:15 and sunset 7:35, for 13h 19m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 35.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
At 3:30 PM, a city committee meets to consider Bicycle and Pedestrian System Way Finding. Later, at 6:30 PM, Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets.
On this day in 1743, Thomas Jefferson is born:
The third of ten children, Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 OS) at the family home, in a one and a half story farmhouse in Shadwell, not far from Richmond and the Virginia wilderness. According to his autobiography, Jefferson’s earliest memory was being handed to a slave on horseback and carried 50 miles away to their new home which overlooked the Rivanna River, Goochland County, Virginia, now part of Albemarle County. Much of his correspondence to relatives makes mention of this memory. His father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor who died when Jefferson was fourteen, never getting the chance to measure up to him as an adult. Jefferson’s facial appearance resembled that of his father, but his slim physical form resembled that of his mother’s family.[2] He was of English and possible Welsh descent, although this remains unclear.[3] His mother was Jane Randolph, daughter of Isham Randolph, a ship’s captain and sometime planter. Peter and Jane married in 1739.[4] Thomas Jefferson showed little interest in learning about his ancestry; on his father’s side he only knew of the existence of his grandfather.[2][3][5][b]
Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children. That year the Jeffersons relocated to Tuckahoe, where they lived for the next seven years before returning to Shadwell in 1752. Peter Jefferson died in 1757 and the Jefferson estate was divided between Peter’s two sons, Thomas and Randolph.[6] Thomas inherited approximately 5,000 acres (2,000 ha; 7.8 sq mi) of land, including Monticello, and between 20 and 40 slaves. He took control of the property after he came of age at 21. The precise amount of land and number of slaves that Jefferson inherited is estimated.[7]
Puzzability has a new, geography-themed series this week:
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This Week’s Game — April 13-17
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Capital Gains
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We’ve got filers all over the globe this week. For each day, we’ve taken the name of a world capital, added a letter, and scrambled all the letters to get a new word that is a type of person or people. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the capital followed by the longer word. The clue includes the lengths of the answer words in parentheses.
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Example:
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Simpletons from Scandinavia (4,5)
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Answer:
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Oslo fools
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What to Submit:
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Submit the phrase, with the capital first (as “Oslo fools” in the example), for your answer.
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Monday, April 13
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