Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday in town will be cloudy with a high of seventy-one. Sunrise today is 5:43 and sunset 7:59, for 14h 15m 10s of daytime. It’s a full moon today.
Google’s website commemorates the 360th birthday of Bartolomeo Cristofori, born this day on 1655 in Venice, and widely credited with inventing the piano:
The search engine Google is showing this interactive animated Doodle on May 4th, 2015 for celebrating 360th Birthday of Bartolomeo Cristofori.
Cristofori was an Italian musical instrument maker credited with inventing the piano. One of his biggest innovations was creating a hammer mechanism that struck the strings on a keyboard to create sound. The use of a hammer made it possible to produce softer or louder sounds depending upon how light or hard a player pressed on the keys.
Cristofori was born on May 4, 1655 in Padua in the Republic of Venice
The total number of pianos built by Cristofori is unknown. Only three survive today, all dating from the 1720s.
The piano as built by Cristofori in the 1720s boasted almost all of the features of the modern instrument. It differed in being of very light construction, lacking a metal frame; this meant that it could not produce an especially loud tone. This continued to be the rule for pianos until around 1820, when iron bracing was first introduced.
Read more about Piano at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano
Read more about Bartolomeo Cristofori at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom…
Read https://www.google.com/doodles/bartol… to know more about “who invented the Piano” Google Doodle.
On this day in 1873, Wisconsin Gov. John James Blaine is born:
On this date John James Blaine was born in the town of Wingville in Grant County. A politician, governor, and U.S. Senator, Blaine attended public schools in Montfort, and received a law degree from Northern Indiana University. He was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1897 and practiced briefly in Montfort before settling in Boscobel.
A Progressive Republican, he served as Boscobel’s mayor for four terms and was elected to the State Senate in 1909. It was there that he gained prominence by leading investigations into the campaign expenditures of Wisconsin Senator Isaac Stephenson, attempting to block Stephenson’s re-election. A zealous advocate of progressivism and the ideals embraced by Robert M. La Follette Sr., Blaine was one of the organizers and vice-president of the Wilson National Progressive Republican League. After running unsuccessfully for governor in 1914, Blaine was elected state attorney in 1918.
In 1921, he became governor and held this office for three consecutive terms. During his tenure Blaine promoted progressive labor legislation, fostered a campaign to eradicate bovine tuberculosis, and signed the nation’s first law giving equal rights to women. In 1926, he won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate where he served from 1927 to 1933, becoming one of the leaders in the effort to repeal prohibition. He died on April 16, 1934. [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, SHSW 1960, pg. 39]
Puzzability has a new weekly series beginning today, entitled, Maternity Test:
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This Week’s Game — May 4-8
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Maternity Test
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There’s a bit of a generation gap this Mother’s Day week. Each day’s clue is a series of words, each with one letter replaced by a dash. Fill in the missing letters to make a word—one way to get the first (or only) name of a famous mother, real or fictional, and another way to get the name of a child of hers.
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SIDE-AR / BL-CKHEAD / A-OUND / O-LONG / -EARNING
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Carol & Bobby (Brady)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the two first names, with the mother first (as “Carol & Bobby” in the example), for your answer.
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Monday, May 4
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