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Daily Bread for 7.17.15

Good morning, Whitewater.

Friday will be warm with a likelihood of thunderstorms, and a high of eighty-nine. Sunrise is 5:32 and sunset 8:29, for 14h 57m 32s of daytime. The moon is a taxi g crescent with 2.1% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1975, an American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock together in orbit:

On this day in 1832, Gen. Atkinson’s men complete a fort during the Black Hawk War:

1832 – Fort Koshkonong Construction Completed
On this date General Henry Atkinson wrote General Winfield Scott that he had finished constructing Fort Koshkonong. The fort, constructed of oak logs, was abandoned when the army pursued and defeated Black Hawk at the Battle of Bad Axe in August of 1832. The logs from the fort were then used in the construction of houses in the community now known as Fort Atkinson. By 1840, little of the original fort remained. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p. 107]

A Google a Day asks a question about science and business:

What company patented the invention of James Dewar, thus denying him the credit?

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