Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater brings decreasing clouds and a high of seventy-five, with winds at 5 to 15 mph. Sunrise was at 5:37 AM, and sunset will be at 8:25 PM. The moon is in a waning gibbous phase with 98% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM today.

NASA’s Cassini probe took pictures of the Earth from near Saturn, and the results are astonishing:

On this day in 1885, the death of a former president cuts short a serving vice president’s visit to Wisconsin:

1885 – U.S. Vice President Visits Ashland
On this date the untimely death of Ulysses S. Grant cut short Vice President Thomas Hendricks visit to Ashland. The Vice President arrived in Ashland via the steamship China in 1885. While Vice President Hendricks was in Ashland, he and his wife enjoyed trout caught in the Brule River and Fish Creek. [Source: “B” Book I, Beer Bottles, Brawls, Boards, Brothels, Bibles, Battles & Brownstone by Tony Woiak, p.11]

Puzzability’s current puzzle series (7.22 to 7.26) is called Sun Screens:

Sun Screens
If you can’t stand the heat, we’ve got just the ticket. For each day this week, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the title of a movie that’s set during the summer. Each has 10 or more letters and any number of words. To find the title, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.

Example:
F S U
O M A
R E M

Answer:
Summer of Sam

Here’s Tuesday’s puzzle:

R A I
E W N
Y D O

Good morning.

Whitewater’s week begins with a mostly sunny day and a high of eighty-six, with a four-in-ten chance of thunderstorms this evening.

Downtown Whitewater’s Design Committee meets this morning at 8 AM.

On this day in 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer is caught in Milwaukee:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police officers spot Tracy Edwards running down the street in handcuffs, and upon investigation, they find one of the grisliest scenes in modern history-Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment….

Apparently, police had been called two months earlier about a naked and bleeding 14-year-old boy being chased down an alley by Dahmer. The responding officers actually returned the boy, who had been drugged, to Dahmer’s apartment–where he was promptly killed. The officers, who said that they believed it to be a domestic dispute, were later fired.

A forensic examination of the apartment turned up 11 victims–the first of whom disappeared in March 1989, just two months before Dahmer successfully escaped a prison sentence for child molestation by telling the judge that he was desperately seeking to change his conduct. Dahmer later confessed to 17 murders in all, dating back to his first victim in 1978.

The jury rejected Dahmer’s insanity defense, and he was sentenced to 15 life terms. He survived one attempt on his life in July 1994, but was killed by another inmate on November 28, 1994.

On 7.22.1864, Wisconsinites participate in the Battle of Atlanta:

1864 – (Civil War) Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
The Atlanta Campaign had begun two months earlier, in May, but a decisive battle was fought on July 22. Union forces met 37,000 Confederate troops in a battle that some historians consider one of the most desperate and bloody of the war. Although 20 percent of Confederate forces were killed, wounded, or missing at the end of the day, the South still controlled the city. The 1st, 12th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 25th, 26th, 31st Wisconsin Infantry regiments and the 5th Wisconsin Light Artillery were engaged in the Battle of Atlanta.

Puzzability’s new puzzle series (7.22 to 7.26) is called Sun Screens:

Sun Screens
If you can’t stand the heat, we’ve got just the ticket. For each day this week, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the title of a movie that’s set during the summer. Each has 10 or more letters and any number of words. To find the title, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.

Example:
F S U
O M A
R E M

Answer:
Summer of Sam

Here’s Monday’s puzzle:

Y G A
T D N
R I C

Good morning.

We’ll have a high of seventy-nine with an even chance of thunderstorms in the late afternoon.

A quick reminder from an earlier post a several days ago – Film: Free Showing of Honor Flight, Sunday, July 21st at 2:30 p.m.

This Sunday, July 21st, there will be a showing of the film Honor Flight at 2:30 p.m. at Mulberry Glen, 1255 W. Main Street, Whitewater. It is being shown courtesy of Mulberry Glen and Capri Senior Communities.

The showing is free and open to the public.

It’s Hemingway’s birthday:

On this day in 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway, author of such novels as “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “The Old Man and the Sea,” is born in Oak Park, Illinois. The influential American literary icon became known for his straightforward prose and use of understatement. Hemingway, who tackled topics such as bullfighting and war in his work, also became famous for his own macho, hard-drinking persona.

On this day in Wisconsin history, Gen. Mitchell conducts a demonstration:

1921 – General Billy Mitchell Proves Theory of Air Power
On this date Milwaukee’s General William “Billy” Mitchell proved to the world that development of military air power was not outlandish. He flew his De Havilland DH-4B fighter, leading a bombing demonstration that proved a naval ship could be sunk by air bombardment. Mitchell’s ideas for developing military air power were innovative but largely ignored by those who favored development of military sea power. Mitchell zealously advocated his views and was eventually court martialed for speaking out against the United States’ organization of its forces. [Source: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Division of Archives & Special Collections]

Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of eighty-one. Sunrise was at 5:35 a.m. this morning, and sunset will be at 8:28 p.m. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase with 94% of its visible disk illuminated.

And of the moon, on this day in 1969, man first walks on its surface:

At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.

No less astonishing, these forty-four years later:

On this day in 1976, a baseball record:

1976 – Hank Aaron Hits Record Home Run
On this date Hank Aaron hit his 755th and last home run at Milwaukee County Stadium against the California Angels. [Source: Milwaukee Brewers]

Good morning.

One last day of consecutive temperatures in the nineties for Whitewater: a high of ninety-one with a one-third chance of early afternoon thunderstorms.

The European Space’s Agency’s satellite, Mars Express, offers sharp and stunning pictures of that planet’s surface:

On 7.19.1799, a profound discovery:

On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been “dead” for nearly 2,000 years.

Puzzability‘s current series, Switch Hitters, concludes today.

Switch Hitters
There are some changes in this week’s lineup. For each day, change a letter in each of the two words given and move the space to get the name of a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Example:
TOSS WAVER

Answer:
Tom Seaver

Here’s the puzzle for Friday:

ASK ALICE