Good morning.
One last day of consecutive temperatures in the nineties for Whitewater: a high of ninety-one with a one-third chance of early afternoon thunderstorms.
The European Space’s Agency’s satellite, Mars Express, offers sharp and stunning pictures of that planet’s surface:
On 7.19.1799, a profound discovery:
On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been “dead” for nearly 2,000 years.
Puzzability‘s current series, Switch Hitters, concludes today.
Switch Hitters
There are some changes in this week’s lineup. For each day, change a letter in each of the two words given and move the space to get the name of a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Example:
TOSS WAVER
Answer:
Tom Seaver
Here’s the puzzle for Friday:
ASK ALICE