Good morning, Whitewater.

Our Monday will be sunny and cold, with a high of nine degrees. Sunrise is 6:38 and sunset is 5:37, for 10h 58m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 27% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1945, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-flag-raised-on-iwo-jima“United States Marines raise the American flag on Iwo Jima:

The famous photograph taken by Rosenthal was the second U.S. flag-raising event of the day. On orders from Colonel Chandler Johnson—passed on by Captain Dave Severance—Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon H. Block, Private First Class Franklin R. Sousley, and Private First Class Ira H. Hayes (all four from the Second Platoon, Easy Company) spent the morning after the first flag-raising laying a telephone wire to the top of Mt. Suribachi. Severance also dispatched Private First Class

Rene A. Gagnon, the battalion runner for Easy Company, to the command post for fresh SCR-300 walkie-talkie batteries.[17]

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Albert Theodore Tuttle[16] had found a larger (96-by-56–inch) flag in nearby Tank Landing Ship USS LST-779. He made his way back to the command post and gave it to Johnson. Johnson, in turn, gave it to Rene Gagnon, with orders to take it up to Lt. Schrier on Mt. Suribachi and raise it.[18] The official Marine Corps history of the event is that Lt. Tuttle received the flag from Navy Ensign Alan Wood of USS LST-779, who in turn had received the flag from a supply depot in Pearl Harbor.[19][20][21]

On this day in 1846, a (malted) milk magnate is born:

1846 – William Horlick Born
On this date William Horlick was born in Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England. A noted food manufacturer and philanthopist, Horlick arrived in the U.S. in 1869 and settled in Racine. In 1872 he moved to Chicago with his brother and began to manufacture food products.

In 1876 his company moved to Racine where he began to experiment with creating a dried milk product. In 1887 he trademarked Malted Milk. In 1889 he opened a company branch in New York City and another in England the following year. He constructed additional plants in Racine in 1902 and 1905. The company name was changed to Horlick’s Malted Milk Co. in 1906. This success enabled Horlick to achieve a widespread reputation as a philanthropist in Racine. He also helped fund the first Byrd expedition to the South Pole and the Amundsen expedition to the North Pole. After his death in 1936, control of the company passed to his son, Ander James Horlick. [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, SHSW 1960, pg. 177]

Puzzability‘s game for the week is about hit singles:

This Week’s Game — February 23-27

Singled Out

There are hits missing this week. For each day, fill in the two-word title of a #1 hit song so that a familiar phrase or compound word is formed by the first word in the clue followed by the first word in the song title, and likewise a phrase or word is formed by the second word in the song title followed by the second word in the clue.

Example:

GILA ____ ____ NOTE

Answer:

“Monster Mash”

What to Submit:

Submit the song title (as “Monster Mash” in the example) for your answer.

Monday, February 23

HERE’S ____ ____ DUST

Sunday in town will be sunny and cold, with a high of nine degrees. Sunrise is 6:40 and sunset is 5:35, for 10h 55m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with eighteen percent of its visible disk illuminated.

In the Friday FREE WHITEWATER poll, readers voted on their preferred Best Picture winner at tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony. A plurality of respondents favored American Sniper (28.57%), with Boyhood coming in next (16.33%), then The Theory of Everything (14.29%), The Grand Budapest Hotel (12.24%), Birdman (10.2%), Whiplash (8.16%), and Selma (4.08%).

It’s cold today, but in on February 22, 1922, Wisconsin saw much worse:

1922 – Ice Storm Wreaks Havoc

Unprecedented freezing rain and snow assaulted the Midwest February 21-23, 1922. In Wisconsin, the central and southern parts of the state were most severely affected, with the counties between Lake Winnebago and Lake Michigan south to Racine being hardest hit. Ice coated trees and power lines, bringing them down and cutting off electricity, telephone and telegraph services.

Cities were isolated, roads were impassible, rivers rose, streets and basements flooded, and train service stopped or slowed. Near Little Chute a passenger train went off the rails, injuring several crew members. Appleton housed 150 stranded traveling salesmen, near Plymouth a sheet of river ice 35 feet long and nearly three feet thick washed onto the river bank, while in Sheboygan police rescued a flock of chickens and ducks from their flooded coop and a sick woman from her flooded home.

Icy streets caused numerous automobile accidents, but the only reported deaths were a team of horses in Appleton that were electrocuted by a fallen power line. Sources: Wisconsin newspaper accounts, February 22 and 23, including the Appleton Post-Crescent, the Sheboygan Press, Waukesha Daily Freeman, Oshkosh Daily Northwestern.

For more about the storm, see This Day in Weather History for southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa, and western Wisconsin. On page 20, National Weather Service meteorologists Todd Rieck and Jeff Boyne describes the conditions in Wisconsin during 1922 ice storm.

Good morning, Whitewater.

Saturday in town will bring a twenty-percent chance of snow showers with a high of twenty-eight. Sunrise is 6:41 and sunset 5:34, for 10h 52m 46s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 9.5% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1972, Nixon arrives in China:

Before even being elected president, Richard Nixon had talked of the need for better relations with the PRC, with which the U.S. did not maintain diplomatic relations as it recognized the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan as the government of China. Early in his first term, Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger began sending subtle overtures hinting at warmer relations to the PRC government. After a series of these overtures by both countries, Kissinger flew on secret diplomatic missions to Beijing, where he met with Premier Zhou. On July 15, 1971, the President announced that he would visit the PRC the following year.

Occurring from February 21 to 28, 1972, the visit allowed the American public to view images of China for the first time in over two decades. Throughout the week the President and his most senior advisers engaged in substantive discussions with the PRC, including a meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong, while First Lady Pat Nixon toured schools, factories and hospitals in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou with the large American press corps in tow. Nixon dubbed the visit “the week that changed the world.”
The repercussions of the Nixon visit were vast, and included a significant shift in the Cold War balance, pitting the PRC with the U.S. against the Soviet Union. “Nixon going to China” has since become a metaphor for an unexpected or uncharacteristic action by a politician.

On this day in 1918, Wisconsin’s Assembly stands with La Follette:

…a move to denounce Sen. Robert La Follette and the nine Wisconsin congressmen who refused to support World War I failed in the State Assembly, by a vote of 76-15. Calling LaFollette “disloyal,” the amendment’s originator, Democrat John F. Donnelly, insisted that La Follette’s position did not reflect “the sentiment of the people of Wisconsin. We should not lack the courage to condemn his actions.” Reflecting the majority opinion, Assemblyman Charles F. Hart retorted that “The Wisconsin State Legislature went on record by passing a resolution telling the President that the people of this state did not want war. Now we are condemning them for doing that which we asked them to do.” [Source: Capital Times 2/21/1918, p.1]

Good morning, Whitewater.

The work week ends with a high of seventeen and a seventy-percent chance of snow. Daytime accumulation will be about an inch. Sunrise is 6:43 and sunset 5:33, for 10h 49m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.5% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1950, Sen. McCarthy makes his accusations on the Senate floor:

1950 – McCarthy Delivers Allegations to Senate
On this date, in a six-hour speech delivered before the U.S. Senate, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had the names of 81 U.S. government officials actively engaged in Communist activities, including “one of our foreign ministers.” [Source: Internet Archives]

Puzzability‘s Oscar Losers series ends today:

This Week’s Game — February 16-20

Oscar Losers

Sometimes when you lose, you lose big. For each day this week, we started with a nominee for the Best Actor Oscar who didn’t win it in at least one year (though he may have won it in another year). We then removed all instances of the letters in OSCAR, though not all five of the letters necessarily appear in the name.

Example:

HINFD

Answer:

Harrison Ford

What to Submit:

Submit the actor’s name (as “Harrison Ford” in the example) for your answer.

Friday, February 20

PENETY

Good morning, Whitewater.

It’s a cold Thursday in town, with winds of 5 to 10 mph, wind chill values between -15 and -25, and a high of just one degree. Sunrise today is 6:44 and sunset 5:32, for 10h 47m 10s of daytime. We’ve a new moon.

Happy (Lunar) New Year —

The Police and Fire Commission is scheduled to meet tonight at 6:30 PM.

There’s a new Dr. Seuss book to be published this July:

For the first time in 25 years, a new book by Dr. Seuss will be published this year from an original manuscript and sketches discovered in the home of the beloved children’s author, Random House announced today.

What Pet Should I Get? captures the excitement of a classic childhood moment—choosing a pet—and features the brother and sister characters that Dr. Seuss introduced in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. The new book, to be published in July, was likely written between 1958 and 1962 as the brother and sister are the same age in both stories.

The box filled with pages of text and sketches was found shortly after Ted’s death in 1991 when his widow Audrey Geisel was remodeling her home, according to a release. At that time it was set aside with other of Ted’s materials. It was rediscovered in the fall of 2013 by Mrs. Geisel and Claudia Prescott—Ted Geisel’s longtime secretary and friend—when they were cleaning out his office space. They reviewed the materials, finding the full text and illustrations for What Pet Should I Get? among other work.

On this day in 1868, a noted photographer is born near Whitewater:

1868 – Photographer Edward S. Curtis Born
On this date Edward Sheriff Curtis was born near Whitewater. As a young boy, he taught himself photography. His family eventually moved to the Puget Sound area of Washington state. He settled in Seattle and opened a photography studio in 1897.

A chance meeting on Mount Rainier resulted in Curtis being appointed official photographer on railroad magnate E.H. Harriman’s expedition to Alaska. Curtis also accompanied George Bird Grinnell, editor of Field and Stream magazine, to Montana in 1900 to observe the Blackfoot Sun Dance. After this, Curtis strove to comprehensively document American Indians through photography, a project that continued for over 30 years.

Working primarily with 6 x 8-inch reflex camera, he created over 40,000 sepia-toned images. His work attracted national attention, most notably from Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan, whose family contributed generously to his project. His monumental work, The North American Indian, was eventually printed in 20 volumes with associated portfolios. Curtis’ work included portraits, scenes of daily life, ceremonies, architecture and artifacts, and landscapes. His photographs have recently been put online by the Library of Congress.[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, SHSW 1960, pg. 892]

Here’s the Thursday game in Puzzability‘s Oscar Losers series:

This Week’s Game — February 16-20

Oscar Losers

Sometimes when you lose, you lose big. For each day this week, we started with a nominee for the Best Actor Oscar who didn’t win it in at least one year (though he may have won it in another year). We then removed all instances of the letters in OSCAR, though not all five of the letters necessarily appear in the name.

Example:

HINFD

Answer:

Harrison Ford

What to Submit:

Submit the actor’s name (as “Harrison Ford” in the example) for your answer.

Thursday, February 19

UELLWE