Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater brings decreasing clouds and a high of seventy-five, with winds at 5 to 15 mph. Sunrise was at 5:37 AM, and sunset will be at 8:25 PM. The moon is in a waning gibbous phase with 98% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM today.
NASA’s Cassini probe took pictures of the Earth from near Saturn, and the results are astonishing:
On this day in 1885, the death of a former president cuts short a serving vice president’s visit to Wisconsin:
1885 – U.S. Vice President Visits Ashland
On this date the untimely death of Ulysses S. Grant cut short Vice President Thomas Hendricks visit to Ashland. The Vice President arrived in Ashland via the steamship China in 1885. While Vice President Hendricks was in Ashland, he and his wife enjoyed trout caught in the Brule River and Fish Creek. [Source: “B” Book I, Beer Bottles, Brawls, Boards, Brothels, Bibles, Battles & Brownstone by Tony Woiak, p.11]
Puzzability’s current puzzle series (7.22 to 7.26) is called Sun Screens:
Sun Screens
If you can’t stand the heat, we’ve got just the ticket. For each day this week, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the title of a movie that’s set during the summer. Each has 10 or more letters and any number of words. To find the title, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.
Example:
F S U
O M A
R E M
Answer:
Summer of Sam
Here’s Tuesday’s puzzle:
R A I
E W N
Y D O