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Daily Bread for 6.23.13

Good morning.

Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny, with a high of eighty-eight, and a slight chance of late afternoon showers.

If you’ve a house full of wild baboons, and one of them has not the slightest worry about your threats for it to leave, then you’ve a situation like this:

On this day in 1911, a first for Wisconsin aviation:

1911 – First Home-Built Airplane Flies
On this date Wausau native John Schwister became a pioneer in Wisconsin aviation by flying the state’s first home-built airplane. The plane, named the “Minnesota-Badger,” was constructed of wooden ribs covered with light cotton material. Powered by an early-model aircraft engine, the “Minnesota-Badger” flew several hundred feet and reached a maximum altitude of 20 feet. [Source: Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame]

Watch Wausau – Wisconsin’s First Homebuilt Airplane on PBS. See more from Wisconsin Hometown Stories.

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