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Daily Bread for 9.19.12

Good morning.

Whitewater’s midweek will be sunny and breezy, with a high of seventy-three.

The city’s Zoning Rewrite Steering Committee meets tonight at 6 PM.

From Australia, a film maker caught a rare fire devil, a fiery tornado, on film. Astounding:

On this day in 1832, the Fox and Sauk signed the treaty that ended the Black Hawk War:

1832 – Sauk and Fox cede Iowa Lands
On this date Sauk and Fox Indians signed the treaty ending the Black Hawk War. The treaty demanded that the Sauk cede some six million acres of land that ran the length of the eastern boundary of modern-day Iowa. The Sauk and Fox were given until June 1, 1833 to leave the area and never return to the surrendered lands. Some sources place the date as September 21.[Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 160-161]

Google’s daily puzzle asks about ancient Egyptian religion: “Who did the wife of the first monotheist king of Egypt worship?”

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