Good morning.
Tuesday in the Whippet City will bring a high of sixty-one, and a fifty-fifty chance of scattered showers.
The city’s Parks & Recreation Board meets this afternoon at 5:30 PM.
Adam Ellis of BuzzFeed has 15 Charts That Perfectly Illustrate How To Properly Pet Animals (“Learn how to interact with animals and you’ll have more furry friends than you know what to do with.”).
He illustrates (among others) the petting options for dogs and, by contrast, wolverines:
On this day in 1940, Churchill declares his commitment:
…as Winston Churchill takes the helm as Great Britain’s new prime minister, he assures Parliament that his new policy will consist of nothing less than “to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.”
Emphasizing that Britain’s aim was simply “victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory however long and hard the road may be.” That very evening, Churchill was informed that Britain would need 60 fighter squadrons to defend British soil against German attack. It had 39.
Within a couple of weeks, the conservative, anti-Socialist Churchill, in an effort to make his rally cry of victory a reality, proceeded to place all “persons, their services, and their property at the disposal of the Crown,” thereby granting the government the most all-encompassing emergency powers in modern British history….
Churchill’s powers, like Lincoln’s, were exigencies of war. For those they fought, power and control were the oppressive foundation of daily life.
On this day in 1918, a sensational Wisconsin trial begins:
1918 – Lusk Murder Trial Begins in Waukesha
On this day Grace Lusk, a Waukesha high school teacher, began her trial for the murder of Mary Roberts. Prosecutors alleged a tragic love triangle had resulted in the murder after Lusk’s pleas for Roberts to give up her husband were rebuffed. The trial, a national sensation in the early days of mass media, resulted in a guilty verdict on May 29, 1918. Lusk was sentenced to 19 years in prison but served only five before being pardoned by the Governor. After her release she jealously guarded her privacy; the identity of her husband, known only as “Mr. Brown,” was never determined. [Source: Capital Times 5/13/1918, p.1]
Here’s the Tuesday game in Puzzability‘s Just Drop It series:
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This Week’s Game — May 12-16
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Just Drop It!
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Sometimes, it goes without saying. For each day this week, we started with a word that contains the two-letter chunk IT and deleted it to get a new word. The two-word answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the longer IT word followed by the shorter word.
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Example:
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Einstein from England
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Answer:
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Britain brain
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What to Submit:
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Submit the two-word phrase, with the IT word first (as “Britain brain” in the example), for your answer.
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Tuesday, May 13
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