Good morning, Whitewater.
We have a probability of thunderstorms this Monday, with a daytime high of eighty degrees. Sunrise today is 5:19 AM and sunset 8:28 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with twenty-two percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Kansas City Star reports this as the greatest paper airplane shot in sports history, recorded during an English soccer match:
Yes, very likely, I’d say.
On this day in 1924, America acknowledges citizenship of tribal populations:
President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizen Act, granting automatic American citizenship to Native Americans born in the United States. The law attempted to finalize Indian assimilation into white culture while permitting Indians to retain some of their tribal traditions.
In an effort to improve the federal government’s relationship with Indians, Coolidge tried to appear as a strong supporter of tribal cultural rights. On personal moral grounds, Coolidge sincerely regretted the state of poverty to which many Indian tribes had sunk after decades of legal persecution and forced assimilation. After signing the Indian Citizen Act at the White House, President Coolidge, in stiff white collar and dark suit, posed with four Osage tribal leaders, three of whom had donned traditional ceremonial dress. Earlier in 1923, he met with the Committee of 100 on Indian Affairs, and in 1925, he invited a group of Sioux from the Rosebud Reservation to the White House. Two years later, President Coolidge accepted honorary tribal membership from Sioux Chief Henry Standing Bear.
Puzzability begins a new series, entitled Surround Sound:
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This Week’s Game — June 2-6
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Surround Sound
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Hope you can tune in this week. For each day, we’ll give you three clues, each of which leads to a word. The answers to two of those clues, when placed together in the right order, have the name of a musical instrument spanning the gap between the answers. When the instrument’s name is removed, the remaining letters, in order, spell the answer to the day’s remaining clue. The clues are presented in random order.
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Example:
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Small women’s clothing size; play simply, as a guitar; location
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Answer:
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STRUMPETITE (from petite, strum, site; the instrument is a trumpet)
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What to Submit:
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Submit just the full string of letters, with the instrument in the middle (as “STRUMPETITE” in the example), for your answer.
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Monday, June 2
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