Good morning.
Whitewater will see showers throughout the day, with a high of sixty-three.
Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM.
It’s the anniversary of the Normandy landings:
On the morning of June 5, 1944, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe gave the go-ahead for Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history. On his orders, 6,000 landing craft, ships and other vessels carrying 176,000 troops began to leave England for the trip to France. That night, 822 aircraft filled with parachutists headed for drop zones in Normandy. An additional 13,000 aircraft were mobilized to provide air cover and support for the invasion.
By dawn on June 6, 18,000 parachutists were already on the ground; the land invasions began at 6:30 a.m. The British and Canadians overcame light opposition to capture Gold, Juno and Sword beaches; so did the Americans at Utah. The task was much tougher at Omaha beach, however, where 2,000 troops were lost and it was only through the tenacity and quick-wittedness of troops on the ground that the objective was achieved. By day’s end, 155,000 Allied troops–Americans, British and Canadians–had successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches.
On this day in 1822, a peculiar series of scientific experiments begins:
1822 – Shooting Leads to Medical Experiments
On this date Alexis St. Martin was accidently shot in the stomach at Mackinac Island. St. Martin was treated by Dr. William Beaumont, who saved his life but left an open wound in the young man’s side. Over many subsequent years, Dr. Beaumont conducted experiments through the opening in St. Martin’s stomach. Beaumont and the St. Martin family moved to Prairie du Chien for a period, where the doctor conducted 238 scientific experiments on St. Martin’s exposed stomach with only a spool of thread, a scissors, various foods, and a thermometer. Beaumont’s important discoveries about digestion were published in 1833 in “Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.” His experiments proved to be crucial to a scientific understanding of how human digestion works. More information is available elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org. [Source: Badger Saints and Sinners by Fred L. Holmes, p. 136-150]
Here’s Puzzablity‘s weekly theme for June 3-7: “For each day this week, we’ll give you as a clue a review we wrote of a Tony-winning Best Play. Remove any spaces and punctuation, then delete exactly half of the letters from anywhere in the clue to reveal, reading the remaining letters in order, the title of the play. (You’ll need to add spaces for your final answer.)”
Example:
A HUGE BUST ONSTAGE, ACTED WITHOUT SANITY!
Answer:
August: Osage County
Here’s June 6th’s puzzle:
THE ORCHESTRATION GETS SHRILL, NOT GAY!