Good morning, Whitewater.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. In Whitewater, the day will be increasingly sunny with a high of forty-four. Sunrise is 7:01 and sunset 7:03, for 12h 02m 00s of daytime. We’ve now a majority of the full day in daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 12.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
Common Council meets tonight at 6 PM.
Long before a holiday celebrated even in the New World, there was a man in the Old World:
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius; Proto-Irish: *Qatrikias;[2] Modern Irish: Pádraig…. [3] Welsh: Padrig[4]) was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the “Apostle of Ireland”, he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, along with Saints Brigit and Columba.
The dates of Patrick’s life cannot be fixed with certainty but, on a widespread interpretation, he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the fifth century.[5] He is generally credited with being the first bishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland.
According to the Confessio of Patrick, when he was about 16, he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Britain, and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After becoming a cleric, he returned to northern and western Ireland. In later life, he served as an ordained bishop, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the seventh century, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.
Saint Patrick’s Day is observed on 17 March, which is said to be the date of his death.[6] It is celebrated inside and outside Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday. In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation; it is also a celebration of Ireland itself.
Here’s the Tuesday game from Puzzability:
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This Week’s Game — March 16-20
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Green Party
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We’ve minted some new questions for jaded solvers. In this St. Patrick’s Day trivia quiz, the answer to each day’s question is a name or title that includes a shade of green.
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Example:
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For what 1978 movie did director Michael Cimino suggest that little-known Meryl Streep write her own lines to flesh out her underdeveloped role?
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Answer:
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The Deer Hunter
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What to Submit:
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Submit the name or title (as “The Deer Hunter” in the example) for your answer.
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Tuesday, March 17
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