Good morning.
Thursday will bring much needed showers to Whitewater, on a day with a high of seventy-one.
On this day in 1974, Gerald Ford became president:
A stop-motion video from NASA shows the descent of the Curiosity rover toward Mars:
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls today as the birthday of a notable Wisconsin pioneer:
“1793 – Milwaukee Pioneer Solomon Juneau Born
On this date Laurent Salomon Juneau was born in Repentigny, Quebec, Canada. Known as the founder of Milwaukee, Juneau was a fur trader with John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company. He built the first log house in Milwaukee in 1822 and followed with the first frame house in 1824. In October 1833 he formed a partnership with Morgan L. Martin to develop a village on the east side of the Milwaukee River.
Juneau was elected commissioner of roads and director of the poor in September 1835. He was also appointed postmaster, a position he held until 1843. In 1837 he began publishing the Milwaukee Sentinel. He was elected first mayor of Milwaukee in 1846. Juneau died on November 14, 1856. [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, p.198]”
Google’s daily puzzle, awkwardly worded, asks about anatomy: “The lung that takes in more air has one more what than the other?”