Good morning.
Saturday brings an even percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mostly in the afternoon. We’ll have a high of eighty-four, and south winds at 5 to 10 mph. Sunrise was 5:17 a.m., and sunset will be 8:37 p.m. It’s a waxing gibbous moon, with 99% of its the visible disk illuminated.
Cartographers Stephan Hormes and Silke Peust have prepared an Atlas of True Names, describing locations with their names’ original meanings.
Here’s a map of our part of the world:
Red River Land‘s a good name, all in all.
On 6.22.1944, Pres. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill:
On this day in 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services–known as G.I.s–for their efforts in World War II….
By giving veterans money for tuition, living expenses, books, supplies and equipment, the G.I. Bill effectively transformed higher education in America. Before the war, college had been an option for only 10-15 percent of young Americans, and university campuses had become known as a haven for the most privileged classes. By 1947, in contrast, vets made up half of the nation’s college enrollment; three years later, nearly 500,000 Americans graduated from college, compared with 160,000 in 1939.