Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of sixty-one. Sunrise is 5:33 and sunset 8:09, for 14h 35m 40s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 27.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Inge Lehmann … (May 13, 1888 – February 21, 1993) was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who discovered the Earth’s inner core.[2][3] In 1936, she postulated from existing seismic data the existence of an inner core with physical properties distinct from the outer core’s and that Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere. Seismologists, who had not been able to propose a workable hypothesis for the observation that the P-wave created by earthquakes slowed down when it reached certain areas of the inner Earth, quickly accepted her conclusion.
On this day in 1918, Wisconsin watches a highly-publicized murder trial:
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 Puzzability‘s Wednesday game:
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This Week’s Game — May 11-15
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Prom Going
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We’re having a senior moment this week. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, removed the four letters in PROM, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.
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Example:
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Julie Kavner’s cartoon alter ego; quality of the taste of venison
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Answer:
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Marge Simpson; gaminess
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Marge Simpson; gaminess” in the example), for your answer.
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Wednesday, May 13
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