Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday in town will be stormy with a high of eighty-six. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset 8:37, for 15h 20m 19s. The moon is a waxing crescent with 30.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW poll asked whether readers thought a customer’s pictures of a Kentucky Fried Chicken meal looked more like fried chicken or a fried rat. A majority of respondents (78.57%) chose fried chicken as their answer.
Hitler tours Paris with architect Albert Speer (left) and sculptor Arno Breker (right), 23 June 1940. Via Wikipedia.
On this day in 1940, France surrenders to Nazi Germany, by signing an armistice with her aggressor. It’s impossible to imagine circumstances under which any armistice or arrangement with the Third Reich could be other than tragic for civilized peoples:
Discouraged by his cabinet’s hostile reaction to a British proposal to unite France and Britain to avoid defeat, and believing that his ministers no longer supported him, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud resigned on 16 June. He was succeeded by Marshal Philippe Pétain, who delivered a radio address to the French people announcing his intention to ask for an armistice with Germany. When Hitler received word from the French government that they wished to negotiate an armistice, he selected the Forest of Compiègne as the site for the negotiations.[239]
Compiègne had been the site of the 1918 Armistice, which ended the First World War with a humiliating defeat for Germany; Hitler viewed the choice of location as a supreme moment of revenge for Germany over France.[240] The armistice was signed on 22 June 1940 in the very same railway carriage in which the 1918 Armistice was signed (it was removed from a museum building and placed on the precise spot where it was located in 1918), Hitler sat in the same chair in which Marshal Ferdinand Foch had sat when he faced the defeated German representatives.[241] After listening to the reading of the preamble, Hitler left the carriage in a calculated gesture of disdain for the French delegates, and negotiations were turned over to Wilhelm Keitel, the Chief of Staff of the OKW. The armistice and cease-fire went into effect at 01:35 on 25 June.[242]
On this day in 1943, Joe McCarthy lies about an accident:
1943 – McCarthy Breaks Leg in Drunken Accident
On this date future senator Joseph McCarthy broke his leg during a drunken Marine Corps initiation ceremony, despite a press release and other claims that he was hurt in “military action.” Although nicknamed “Tail Gunner Joe”, McCarthy never was a tail gunner, but instead served at a desk as an intelligence officer. In 1951 he applied for medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to those who had flown at least 25 combat missions. The Marine Corps has records of only 11 combat flights McCarthy flew on, and those were described as local “milk run” flights. Many of McCarthy’s claims were disputed by political opponents as well as journalists.
Puzzability begins a new series, entitled Colorful Characters:
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This Week’s Game — June 22-26
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Colorful Characters
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Would you like to join our rainbow coalition? For each day this week, we started with the name of a color and formed a new word that’s a type of person that has “consonantcy” with the color—a word with all the same consonants, in the same order, but a different set of vowels, which can appear anywhere in the word. (The letter Y is not used in any words here.) The resulting two-word phrase, with the color first, is described in each day’s clue.
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Dark red leatherneck
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Maroon marine
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What to Submit:
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Submit the two-word phrase (as “Maroon marine” in the example) for your answer.
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Monday, June 22
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