Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of eighty. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset 8:35, for 15h 20m 04s of daytime. It’s a near new moon, with only .9% of the moon’s visible disk illuminated.
Today in Whitewater, the Tech Park Board meets at 8 AM.
Unpacking of the head of the Statue of Liberty, which was delivered on June 17, 1885. Via Wikipedia.
On this day in 1885, the dismantled State of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America, arrives in New York Harbor after being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases. The copper and iron statue, which was reassembled and dedicated the following year in a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland, became known around the world as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy.
Over two-hundred years earlier, on this same day, intrepid explorers see something extraordinary:
“Here we are, then, on this so renowned river, all of whose peculiar features I have endeavored to note carefully.” It’s important to recall that Marquette and Joliet did not discover the Mississippi: Indians had been using it for 10,000 years, Spanish conquistador Hernan De Soto had crossed it in 1541, and fur traders Groseilliers and Radisson may have reached it in the 1650s. But Marquette and Joliet left the first detailed reports and proved that the Mississippi flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, which opened the heart of the continent to French traders, missionaries, and soldiers. View a Map of Marquette & Joliet’s route.
Here’s Puzzability‘s midweek game in its Make Room for Dad series:
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This Week’s Game — June 15-19
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Make Room for Dad
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We’re mixing it up with pop this Father’s Day. For each day this week, we started with a word or phrase, added the three letters in DAD, and rearranged all the letters to get a new phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
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Example:
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Overweight; heroically turned the tide from bad to good
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Answer:
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Heavyset; saved the day
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the shorter one first (as “Heavyset; saved the day” in the example), for your answer.
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Wednesday, June 17
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