Good morning.
Whitewater’s Saturday will be mostly cloudy, seventy-eight degrees, with east winds around 10 miles per hour.
On this day in 1864, Atlanta fell to the Union Army:
On this day in 1875,
Edgar Rice Burroughs [Was] Born
On this date the author of the Tarzan book series was born in Chicago, Ill. Burroughs was educated all around the Midwest. His mid-west ties are seen often in his books. In chapter 27 of “Tarzan of the Apes”, Burroughs depicts Tarzan saving Jane from a forest fire in Wisconsin. [Source: Literature.org]
Google’s daily puzzle asks the name of someone with a really bad reputation: “I often get blamed for starting the “Dark Ages” because I deposed the last Western Roman emperor. What’s my name?”