Good morning.
Saturday brings a chance of rain with a high of sixty-four.
So you’re paddling along in a kayak, and a possum swims by – what to do?
Here’s Eric Markt’s answer:
On this day in 1909, “explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.”
On 4.6.1831, an exodus:
1831 – Sauk Indians Leave Illinois & Wisconsin
On this date, in the spring of 1831, the Sauk Indians led by Chief Keokuk left their ancestral home near the mouth of the Rock River and moved across the Mississippi River to Iowa to fulfill the terms of a treaty signed in 1804. Many of the tribe, however, believed the treaty to be invalid and the following spring, when the U.S. government failed to provide them with promised supplies, this dissatisfied faction led by Black Hawk returned to their homeland on the Rock River, precipitating the Black Hawk War. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers, edited by Sarah Davis McBride]
Google-a-Day asks a history question: “What kind of wood is the 200-pound yoke that holds the 2080 pound bell that is on display at 520 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia?”