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Daily Bread for 8.28.12

Good morning.

Whitewater’s Tuesday will be mostly sunny with a high of eighty-six.

The city’s Urban Forestry Commission meets today at 4:15 PM.

The History Channel has a tribute to the late Neil Armstrong, with a slideshow, audio of Armstrong on the moon, and a video about the space race with the Soviets.

On this day in 1862, a famous Union Army brigade fought its first battle:

On this date the Iron Brigade (Western soldiers) fought their first battle at Browner Farm. The unit was composed of the 2nd Infantry, 6th Infantry, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, and the 19th Indiana Infantry, 24th Michigan Infantry, and Battery B of the 4th U.S. Light Artillery and was well known for its valor at such Civil War battles as Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg. [Source: WHS Card File].

Via Wisconsin Historical Society.

Google’s daily puzzle asks about particle physics: “The nuclear particle consisting of one down quark and two up quarks has what kind of charge?”

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