Good morning.
Thursday in the Whippet City brings a forty-precent chance of rain today (ninety percent tonight), with a daytime high of forty-two.
Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM today, and Common Council at 6:30 PM.
I haven’t had a pet mouse since I was a child, but I wish I’d known then how easy it is to teach a mouse to walk backwards. In Mouse Training Secret: How To Teach A Mouse To Walk Backwards, YouTube user MouseAgility shows how to train your pet mouse to walk in reverse:
MouseAgility, by the way, has over fifty videos of mouse-training tips.
On April 3, 1860, it’s the debut of the Pony Express:
On this day in 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound packet’s arrival in St. Joseph by two days and setting a new standard for speedy mail delivery. Although ultimately short-lived and unprofitable, the Pony Express captivated America’s imagination and helped win federal aid for a more economical overland postal system. It also contributed to the economy of the towns on its route and served the mail-service needs of the American West in the days before the telegraph or an efficient transcontinental railroad.
On this day in 1865, Wisconsinites help take Richmond for the Union:
1865 – (Civil War) Confederate capital seized
When Petersburg, Virginia, fell on the night of April 2, 1865, Confederate leaders hastily abandoned Richmond. The 5th, 6th, 7th, 19th, 36th, 37th and 38th Wisconsin Infantry participated in the occupation of Petersburg and Richmond. The brigade containing the 19th Wisconsin Infantry was the first to enter Richmond on the morning of April 3rd. Their regimental flag became the first to fly over the captured capital of the Confederacy when Colonel Samuel Vaughn planted it on Richmond City Hall.
Here’s Thursday’s game from Breaking Bad’s Puzzability series:
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This Week’s Game — March 31-April 4
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Breaking Bad
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You’ll be gathering a rogues’ gallery this week. For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the name of a well-known movie villain.
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Example:
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Regular / pen point / starts a poker pot
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Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the character name and the smaller words (as “Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)” in the example) for your answer.
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Thursday, April 3
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