Good  morning, Whitewater.

Midweek in town offers increasingly sunny skies with a high of eighty-one. Sunrise is 5:58 and sunset 8:00, for 14h 02m 16s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 4.7% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1898, a peace protocol brings to an end fighting during the Spanish-American War:

With defeats in Cuba and the Philippines, and both of its fleets incapacitated, Spain sued for peace and negotiations were opened between the two parties. After the sickness and death of British consul Edward Henry Rawson-Walker, American admiral George Dewey requested the Belgian consul to Manila, Édouard André, to take Rawson-Walker’s place as intermediary with the Spanish Government.^[78][79][80]

Hostilities were halted on August 12, 1898, with the signing in Washington of a Protocol of Peace between the United States and Spain.^[81] After over two months of difficult negotiations, the formal peace treaty, the Treaty of Paris, was signed in Paris on December 10, 1898,^[82] and was ratified by the United States Senate on February 6, 1899.

On this day in 1939, Oconomowoc hosts a world premiere:

1939 – Wizard of Oz World Premier — in Oconomowoc

According to the fan site, thewizardofoz.info, “The first publicized showing of the final, edited film was at the Strand Theatre in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin on August 12, 1939. No one is sure exactly why a small town in the Midwest received that honor.” It showed the next day in Sheboygan, Appleton and Rhinelander, according to local newspapers. “The official premiere was at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on August 15, attended by most of the cast and crew and a number of Hollywood celebrities.” [Source: thewizardofoz.info/

Here’s the Wednesday game from Puzzability in its Logical Deductions series:

This Week’s Game — August 10-14

Logical Deductions

This week, we’re bringing order and disorder at the same time. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, removed the seven letters in LOGICAL, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.

Example:

Greasy stuff used for massage; what masseurs do to the greasy stuff (or, make someone feel worse about something)

Answer:

Lubricating oil; rub it in

What to Submit:

Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Lubricating oil; rub it in” in the example), for your answer.

Wednesday, August 12

Judicial proceeding, as a suit brought against a prohibited gambling den; poker chip to help start the pot

Good morning, Whitewater.

We’ll have a mostly sunny Tuesday in Whitewater, with a high of eighty-one. Sunrise is 5:57 and sunset 8:02, for 14h 04m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 9.5% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets this afternoon at 5:30 PM.

On this day in 1965, riots begin in the Watts section of Los Angeles:

The Watts riots (or, collectively, Watts rebellion)^[1] were race riots that took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965.

On August 11, 1965, a black motorist was arrested for drunk-driving, and a minor roadside argument suddenly turned into a riot. There followed six days of looting and arson, especially of white-owned businesses, and police needed the support of nearly 4,000 members of the California Army National Guard. There were 34 deaths and over $40 million in property damage. The riots were blamed principally on unemployment, although a later investigation also highlighted police racism. It was the city’s worst unrest until the Rodney King riots of 1992.

What’s this neighborhood like now, a half-century later? See, Watts, 50 Years On, Stands in Contrast to Today’s Conflicts.

On this day in 1919, a founding:

1919 – Green Bay Packers Founded

On this date the Green Bay Packers professional football team was founded during a meeting in the editorial rooms of Green Bay Press-Gazette. On this evening, a score or more of young athletes, called together by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, gathered in the editorial room on Cherry Street and organized a football team. [Source: Packers.com]

Here’s Puzzability‘s Tuesday game:

This Week’s Game — August 10-14

Logical Deductions

This week, we’re bringing order and disorder at the same time. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, removed the seven letters in LOGICAL, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.

Example:

Greasy stuff used for massage; what masseurs do to the greasy stuff (or, make someone feel worse about something)

Answer:

Lubricating oil; rub it in

What to Submit:

Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Lubricating oil; rub it in” in the example), for your answer.

Tuesday, August 11

Religious young women who Billy Joel said “start much too late”; central figure in the religion of those young women

Good morning, Whitewater.

Monday brings scattered thunderstorms and a high of eighty to Whitewater. Sunrise is 5:56 and sunset 8:03, for 14h 07m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 16.4% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6:30 PM.

It’s the birthday of the Smithsonian Institution:

British scientist James Smithson (d. 1829) left most of his wealth to his nephew Henry James Hungerford; however, when Hungerford died childless in 1835,^[5] the estate passed “to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge among men”, in accordance with Smithson’s will.^[6] Congress officially accepted the legacy bequeathed to the nation, and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust on July 1, 1836.^[7] The American diplomat Richard Rush was dispatched to England by President Andrew Jackson to collect the bequest; Rush returned in August 1838 with 105 sacks containing 104,960 gold sovereigns (about $500,000 at the time, which is equivalent to $11,073,000 in 2015).^[8][9]

Once the money was in hand, eight years of Congressional haggling ensued over how to interpret Smithson’s rather vague mandate “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”^[7][9] Unfortunately the money was invested by the US Treasury in bonds issued by the state of Arkansas which soon defaulted. After heated debate, Massachusetts Representative (and ex-President) John Quincy Adams persuaded Congress to restore the lost funds with interest^[10] and, despite designs on the money for other purposes, convinced his colleagues to preserve it for an institution of science and learning.^[11] Finally, on August 10, 1846, President James K. Polk signed the legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution as a trust instrumentality of the United States, to be administered by a Board of Regents and a Secretary of the Smithsonian.^[7]

Puzzability‘s series this week is called Logical Deductions. Here’s Monday’s game:

This Week’s Game — August 10-14

Logical Deductions

This week, we’re bringing order and disorder at the same time. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, removed the seven letters in LOGICAL, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.

Example:

Greasy stuff used for massage; what masseurs do to the greasy stuff (or, make someone feel worse about something)

Answer:

Lubricating oil; rub it in

What to Submit:

Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Lubricating oil; rub it in” in the example), for your answer.

Monday, August 10

Sculptor of David and painter of Adam; virile guys like David and Adam

Good morning, Whitewater.

Sunday in town will bring a likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms and a high of seventy-three. Sunrise is 5:55 and sunset 8:05, for 14h 09m 41s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 24.3% of its visible disk illuminated.

Friday’s FW poll asked readers which candidate in the Fox GOP debate they thought performed the best. Respondents picked a top three of Marco Rubio (20.25%), Scott Walker 17.72%), and Rand Paul (15.19%).

Guam, Thursday, Aug. 9 — Gen. Carl A. Spaatz announced today that a second atomic bomb had been dropped, this time on the city of Nagasaki, and that crew members reported “good results.”

The second use of the new and terrifying secret weapon which wiped out more than 60 percent of the city of Hiroshima and, according to the Japanese radio, killed nearly every resident of that town, occurred at noon today, Japanese time. The target today was an important industrial and shipping area with a population of about 258,000.

The great bomb, which harnesses the power of the universe to destroy the enemy by concussion, blast and fire, was dropped on the second enemy city about seven hours after the Japanese had received a political “roundhouse punch” in the form of a declaration of war by the Soviet Union.

On this day in 1793, a pioneer is born:

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]

Good morning, Whitewater.

Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of seventy-eight. Sunrise is 5:54 and sunset 8:06, for 14h 12m 06s of daytime. Tee moon is a waning crescent with 34.1% of its visible disk illuminated.

On the evening of August 8, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon sat at his desk in the Oval Office and announced that he was resigning the office of the president. The next day, he submitted his letter of resignation to Henry Kissinger and left for Yorba Linda, California.

In his immediate wake, Nixon left a shattered and confused nation, a host of spurned aides, and an accidental president. The fallout from Watergate stripped the nation of its political innocence, revolutionized executive power, and bequeathed a range of new reforms. It sent a huge new crop of politicians to Washington. It marked the American vocabulary, producing a range of new expressions and one durable naming scheme for scandals. We’re still grappling with the scandal today: In every debate about executive power or campaign-finance law or White House press management, Nixon looms in the background, glowering under his perpetually furrowed brow.

Tesla, the American maker of electric cars, has a charger that will find the port on one of its cars automatically. Clever: