Good morning, Whitewater.
Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy, with rain in the morning, and a high of seventy-eight. Sunrise is 5:17 and sunset 8:37, for 15h 19m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 59.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Downtown Whitewater’s board meets today at 8 AM.
On this day in 1876, Gen. Custer and those under his immediate command are killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The New York Times shortly thereafter reported the defeat:
The dispatches giving an account of the slaughter of Gen. Custer’s command, published by The Times of yesterday, are confirmed and supplemented by official reports from Gen. A.H. Terry, commanding the expedition. On June 25 Gen. Custer’s command came upon the main camp of Sitting Bull, and at once attacked it, charging the thickest part of it with five companies, Major Reno, with seven companies attacking on the other side. The soldiers were repulsed and a wholesale slaughter ensued. Gen. Custer, his brother, his nephew, and his brother-in-law were killed, and not one of his detachment escaped. The Indians surrounded Major Reno’s command and held them in the hills during a whole day, but Gibbon’s command came up and the Indians left. The number of killed is stated at 300 and the wounded at 31. Two hundred and seven men are said to have been buried in one place. The list of killed includes seventeen commissioned officers.
It is the opinion of Army officers in Chicago, Washington, and Philadelphia, including Gens. Sherman and Sheridan, that Gen. Custer was rashly imprudent to attack such a large number of Indians, Sitting Bull’s force being 4,000 strong….
These generations later, it seems impossible to argue against the view that Custer was, truly, ‘rashly imprudent.’
On this day in 1950, North Korea’s Communists start the Korean War:
On this date Communist North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea. The Korean War, often called the “forgotten war,” involved more than 132,000 Wisconsinites. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p. 112]
Here’s the Thursday game in Puzzability‘s Colorful Characters series:
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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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Example:
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Dark red leatherneck
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Answer:
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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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Thursday, June 25
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