Good morning.
Whitewater’s Wednesday will be cooler than recent days, with a high of sixty-five, and partly sunny skies.
The Wisconsin Historical Society remembers that on this day in 1935, a
Janesville Man Die[d] in Indy 500
Clay Weatherly was killed when his race car careened over a wall during the Indianapolis 500. Weatherly moved to Janesville from Rhinelander and played fullback for Janesville High football team in 1927. Edwin Bradburn of Los Angeles, Weatherly’s mechanic who also rode in the auto, suffered a broken back in the accident. Active in local auto racing for three years, this was his first and only appearance at the Indy 500. [Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel].
Google’s Doodle for today celebrates the delicate art of Peter Carl Fabergé, whose intricately-crafted eggs are so famous they are catalogued individually.
There’s a way in which the eggs seem overly-ornate and frivolous, but they were a better activity than a thousand other, destructive things a person might have done.
Meanwhile, Google’s daily puzzle is for gemologists: “How many grams of difference are there between the two largest known star sapphires?” The puzzle even demands an answer in metric measurement, adding (perhaps) an additional step to one’s search for an answer.