Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday will be increasingly cloudy with a high of fifty-eight. Sunrise is 6:27 and sunset 7:27, for 13h 00m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 96.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1906, Admiral Peary claims to have reached the North Pole. He probably came very close:
Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. Peary’s claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim by Frederick Cook, who said he got there a year earlier. Both claims were widely debated in newspapers until 1913.
Modern historians generally think Cook did not reach the pole. Based on an evaluation of Peary’s records, Wally Herbert (also a polar explorer) concluded in a 1989 book that Peary did not reach the pole, although he may have been as close as 60 miles (97 km). His conclusions have been widely accepted.[1]
The first undisputed explorers to walk on the North Pole ice were documented in 1969 during a British expedition led by British explorer Wally Herbert (see the list of firsts in the Geographic North Pole).
On this day in 1831, the Sauk leave Wisconsin & Illinois:
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]
Puzzability begins a new weekly series today, entitled Cross Talk:
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This Week’s Game — April 6-10
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Cross Talk
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We expect to have a series of guessed hosts this week at the Daily Post. For each day, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the name of a TV talk show host with 10 or more letters. To find the name, 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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Jimmy Kimmel
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What to Submit:
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Submit the host’s name (as “Jimmy Kimmel” in the example) for your answer.
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