Good morning, Whitewater.

Friday will bring partly cloudy, and windy, skies to Whitewater, with a high of forty-three. Sunrise is 6:45 and sunset 4:33, for 9h 48m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.2% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law requiring racial segregation on buses:

Washington, Nov. 13th An Alabama law and a city ordinance requiring segregation of races on intrastate buses were declared invalid by the Supreme Court today.

The Court affirmed a ruling by a three-judge Federal court that held the challenged statutes “violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”

The Fourteenth Amendment provides that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law nor deny to any citizen the equal protection of the laws.

In upholding the lower court’s judgment, the Supreme Court cited its 1954 decision outlawing racial discrimination in public parks and on public golf courses.

[Officials of several Southern states indicated they would continue to enforce bus segregation laws despite the court’s decision. Segregationist leaders were bitter in their denunciations of the court and its ruling.]

On this day in 1858, a famous brewery gets its start:

1858 – Heileman Brewery Founded

On this day, one of Wisconsin’s best-known breweries was established by John Gund and Gottlieb Heileman (1824-1878). By the time Gund retired in 1872, the firm’s annual beer production had increased from 500 barrels in 1860 to 3,000. By the turn of the century, as this postcard shows, it had become one of the city’s largest manufacturing concerns, and throughout the 20th century its storage tanks (painted to resemble a six-pack of beer) were a LaCrosse landmark. At its peak, Heileman’s annual sales of 7.5 million barrels brought in $900 million, making it a target for purchase by a series outside investors whose management eventually forced it into bankruptcy in 1991. The brewery officially closed in 1999, throwing more than 500 workers out of work. Today the former Heileman Brewery is home to City Brewing Co., which manufactures and packages beers, teas, soft drinks, energy drinks and other new age beverages. Its packaging capacity of over 50 million cases makes the LaCrosse firm one of the largest beverage producers in the country. [Sources: History of LaCrosse Co. (Chicago, 1881); City Brewing Co.; N. Y. Times, Nov. 2, 1993; Modern Brewery Age, March 4, 1996; Food & Drink Weekly, Aug. 16, 1999]

Here’s the final game in Puzzability‘s Chinese Takeout series:

This Week’s Game — November 9-13

Chinese Takeout

May we take your reorder? For each day this week, we started with a phrase, removed the seven letters in CHINESE, 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:

Google or Bing, for example; wrath

Answer:

Search engine; anger

What to Submit:

Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Search engine; anger” in the example), for your answer.

Friday, November 13

Antiterrorism cabinet department; honorable feeling of obligation

Good morning, Whitewater.

Thursday will be cloudy and windy, with a high of forty-nine.  Sunrise is 6:43 and sunset 4:34, for 9h 50m 33s of daytime. We’ve a new moon again today, with just .6% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1954, Ellis Island ceases processing immigrants to America:

…Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. Today, an estimated 40 percent of all Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor off the New Jersey coast and named for merchant Samuel Ellis, who owned the land in the 1770s.

On January 2, 1892, 15-year-old Annie Moore, from Ireland, became the first person to pass through the newly opened Ellis Island, which President Benjamin Harrison designated as America’s first federal immigration center in 1890. Before that time, the processing of immigrants had been handled by individual states.

Not all immigrants who sailed into New York had to go through Ellis Island. First- and second-class passengers submitted to a brief shipboard inspection and then disembarked at the piers in New York or New Jersey, where they passed through customs. People in third class, though, were transported to Ellis Island, where they underwent medical and legal inspections to ensure they didn’t have a contagious disease or some condition that would make them a burden to the government. Only two percent of all immigrants were denied entrance into the U.S.

Immigration to Ellis Island peaked between 1892 and 1924, during which time the 3.3-acre island was enlarged with landfill (by the 1930s it reached its current 27.5-acre size) and additional buildings were constructed to handle the massive influx of immigrants. During the busiest year of operation, 1907, over 1 million people were processed at Ellis Island….

On this day in 1836, our territorial legislature passes its first law, both over-broad and ineffectual:

1836 – Governor Dodge Signs First Law

On this date territorial governor, Henry Dodge, signed the first law passed by the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature. The law prescribed how the legislators were to behave, and how other citizens were to behave towards them. For example, it authorized “the Assembly to punish by fine and imprisonment every person, not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect, disorderly or contemptuous behavior, threats, in the legislature or interference with witnesses to the legislature; also to expel on a two thirds majority in either house a member of its own body…” This did not keep the members from vociferous arguments, fist fights, or even shooting one another (see this This Day in Wisconsin History for February 11th).

Here’s the Thursday game from Puzzability‘s Chinese Takeout series:

This Week’s Game — November 9-13

Chinese Takeout

May we take your reorder? For each day this week, we started with a phrase, removed the seven letters in CHINESE, 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:

Google or Bing, for example; wrath

Answer:

Search engine; anger

What to Submit:

Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Search engine; anger” in the example), for your answer.

Thursday, November 12

Breakfast pastry with creamy topping; Greek god of the underworld

Good morning, Whitewater.

We’ll have an even chance of afternoon showers, and a high of sixty-one this Wednesday.  Sunrise is 6:42 and sunset 4:35, for 9h 52m 49s of daytime.  We’ve a new moon today.

On this day in 1918, the First World War ends:

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.

On this day in 1964, a part of Britain arrives in Milwaukee:

1964 – Rolling Stones Play Milwaukee

On this date the Rolling Stones first performed in Wisconsin, to a crowd of 1,274 fans at Milwaukee Auditorium. Although Brian Jones remained in a Chicago hospital with a high fever, the rest of the band performed. According to a dubious reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, “Chances are, few in the audience missed his [Jones’] wailing harmonica. Screams from a thousand throats drowned out all but the most insistent electronic cacophony and the two-fisted smashes of drummer Charlie Watts.” The reporter continued, “Unless someone teaches guitar chords to chimpanzees, the visual ultimate has been reached in the Rolling Stones. With shoulder length hair and high heeled boots, they seemed more feminine than their fans. The Stones make the Beatles look like clean cut kids. You think it must be some kind of parody – but the little girls in front paid $5.50 a seat.” [Source: Milwaukee Journal November 12, 1964, p.14]

Here’s the midweek game from Puzzability:

This Week’s Game — November 9-13

Chinese Takeout

May we take your reorder? For each day this week, we started with a phrase, removed the seven letters in CHINESE, 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:

Google or Bing, for example; wrath

Answer:

Search engine; anger

What to Submit:

Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Search engine; anger” in the example), for your answer.

Wednesday, November 11

Trying to fall asleep; classic Navy pilots movie

Good morning, Whitewater.

Tuesday will be sunny, with a high of fifty-five. Sunrise is 6:41 and sunset 4:36, for 9h 55m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.4% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Parks and Recreation Board meets at 5:30 PM, and her Zoning Code Update Committee at 7:00 PM.

On this day in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans’ War Memorial opens to visitors in Washington, D.C.:

Washington, Nov. 10 — President Reagan stopped by the National Cathedral to listen for a while to the reading of the names of the Vietnam war dead this evening.

His motorcade sounded fast and far-off heading northwest to the cathedral in the dusk as Tom Toohey, unheeding in another part of town, stepped up to the glossy dark wall of the war’s freshly completed memorial with its long listing of its dead, touching it for the name, he emphasized, of ”one good lieutenant.”

”There,” said Mr. Toohey, his fingers brushing the name of Richard H. Housh. ”A real good lieutenant. I saw him jump up with his pump shotgun one time and blow away four guys coming at us. He was somebody else, one good lieutenant.”

Ceremony by Candlelight

While the President journeyed to one part of the capital’s weeklong commemoration of the Vietnam dead, the continuous reading of their names in a candlelighted chapel at National Cathedral, Mr. Toohey and hundreds of other Americans continued to arrive at the wall even after darkness fell tonight, the eve of Veterans Day. They bore the slow grief of the Vietnam time and indulged the simplest sort of human memorial, the act of touching stone, feeling the cold, stony texture of the engraved names of the dead that showed up by flashlight and in the wavering glow of matches struck in the dark.

On this day in 1862, Wisconsinites riot over the draft:

1862 – Draft Riot of 1862

On this date angry citizens protesting a War Department order for 300,000 additional troops, rioted in Port Washington, Ozaukee County. As county draft commissioner William A. Pors drew the first name, cannon fire resounded and a mob of over 1,000 angry citizens wielding clubs and bricks and carrying banners scrawled with the words “No Draft!” marched through the streets. The mob stormed the city destroying buildings, setting fires, and gutting the interior of homes and shops. Troops were brought in the next day to quell the violence. The Ozaukee rioters were captured and remained prisoners at Camp Randall for about a year before they were finally released. In all, more than a half-dozen homes were damaged and dozens of citizens were injured. [Source: Ozaukee Country Wisconsin]

Here’s Tuesday’s game from Puzzability:

This Week’s Game — November 9-13

Chinese Takeout

May we take your reorder? For each day this week, we started with a phrase, removed the seven letters in CHINESE, 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:

Google or Bing, for example; wrath

Answer:

Search engine; anger

What to Submit:

Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Search engine; anger” in the example), for your answer.

Tuesday, November 10

“Creation of Adam” location; braids