Blog for a busy Thursday

I might have something later today - it was PRETTY exciting driving home yesterday, it's not often you can actually witness 4 spinoff's. DJ and I were going WHOA look at that one and Watch out Whoo hoo!!!
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I'm a little busy today so here are a couple tidbits of random stuff to clog your brain on a Thursday.

On this day in 1920 the Janesville city Council voted to allow billiards halls and bowling alleys to be open for a limited time on Sundays. If you stay open longer you would be fined $15 which is the equivalent of $154 in today's money.

And in a bring you down moment on this day three days ago in 1943 Mildred Harnack was guillotined in Berlin. She was born in Milwaukee and a founding member of the Red Orchestra, a German resistance group which assisted German Jews and political dissidents, circulated illegal literature, met secretly with prisoners of war, and worked to document Nazi atrocities in Europe and most importantly informed the Soviets of the upcoming Operation Barbarossa.

Mildred fell in love with Arvid Harnack, a German exchange scholar majoring in economics in Madison in 1925 and married. The two shared a love of Germany and hatred for social injustice. Two years later Arvid returned to Germany and Mildred followed him to her husband's homeland.

Mildred is the only female American executed inside the German Reich for opposing Hitler.

Her last words were "Und ich hatte Deutschland so geliebt" ("And I had loved Germany so much").

nuff said