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Daily Bread for 8.7.12

Good morning.

Whitewater’s Tuesday will be a sunny and hot day, with a high of ninety.

The Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 5:45 PM today, and thereafter Common Council meets at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1947, a Norwegian anthropologist tested a theory about prehistoric migration, completing a difficult, replicated journey (although later analysis refuted his thesis):

On this day in 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti. Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the Polynesian islands by drifting on ocean currents.

 

Google’s daily puzzle asks about a common substance: “What’s the melting point of the only non-metallic substance that expands when it freezes?”

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