Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be party cloudy, with a high of seventy. Sunrise is 5:24 and sunset 8:25, for 15h 11m 08s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 65.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
The lights dim. Cameras start to roll. A film crew silently watches. Suddenly! From behind a hand-built skyline, a towering beast appears! Shaking off a layer of dust, the massive foam-and-rubber monster leans back to act out an amazing roar (the sound effect will be added in later). Then, stomping towards the camera, the giant moves closer, and closer, until…”Cut!”
Seen this film before? This live action genre, known as “Tokusatsu” (??) in Japanese, is unmistakable in its style, and still evident in many modern beast-based thrillers. In today’s Doodle, we spotlight one of Tokusatsu’s kings, Eiji Tsuburaya, the quiet pioneer who created Ultraman, co-created Godzilla, and brought Tokusatsu to the global cinematic mainstream….
On this day in 1832, Gen. Atkinson’s militia, including Abraham Lincoln, encamp at Palmyra during the Black Hawk War:
1832 – Black Hawk War Encampment in Palmyra
On this date during the Black Hawk War, General Atkinson led his entire militia, which included future President’s Abraham Lincoln and Zachary Taylor, to a camp just south of Palmyra. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers, edited by Sarah Davis McBride]
A Google a Day asks a question about philosophy:
Which virtue do Socrates and Thrasymachus try to define in Book I of The Republic?