Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of eighty-four. Sunrise today was at 5:16 AM, and sunset will be at 8:37 AM. It’s a waxing gibbous moon with 89% of the its visible disk illuminated.
Multiply all the pizza sales in Russia by all the deliverymen and all the ways to observe them and one’s bound to learn of at least one incident like this:
On this day in 1975, a summer blockbuster debuts:
…Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters. The story of a great white shark that terrorizes a New England resort town became an instant blockbuster and the highest-grossing film in movie history until it was bested by 1977’s Star Wars. Jaws was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Picture category and took home three Oscars, for Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and Best Sound. The film, a breakthrough for director Spielberg, then 27 years old, spawned three sequels.
The film starred Roy Scheider as principled police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as a marine biologist named Matt Hooper and Robert Shaw as a grizzled fisherman called Quint. It was set in the fictional beach town of Amity, and based on a best-selling novel, released in 1973, by Peter Benchley. Subsequent water-themed Benchley bestsellers also made it to the big screen, including The Deep (1977).
On 6.20.1911, a Wisconsin labor strike:
1911 – Italian Working Men Strike
On this date Italian working men, employed by Andrus Asphalt Company in Madison, went on strike and threatened to kill their foreman if they did not receive an increase in wages for laying pavement. The men demanded a 25-cent (a day) raise, from $1.75 to $2.00. To learn more about strikes and the labor movement visit our Birth of the Labor Movement page in Turning Points. [Source: Bishops to Bootleggers: A Biographical Guide to Resurrection Cemetery, pg. 184]
Puzzability has a series about summer, running from 6.17 to 6.21:
Summer Is a-Comin’ In
We’ll be welcoming in the new season every day this week. For each day, we started with a word, added the six letters in the word SUMMER, and rearranged all the letters to get a new phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
Example:
Fish tank scum; church basement flea market-style event
Answer:
Algae; rummage sale
Here’s the puzzle for Thursday:
Pertaining to plants; 1 for hydrogen, 2 for helium, and so on.