Cerro Tuzgle is a dormant stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina.
It is a prominent volcano of the back arc of the Andes and lies about
280 kilometres (170 mi) east of the main volcanic arc. The summit of
Tuzgle is 5,486 metres (17,999 ft) above sea level, and it grew during
different stages over a caldera and lava domes. Some major lava flows
emanate from the summit crater. Also associated with this volcano are an
ignimbrite sheet, a confirmed flank collapse unit and a possible one.
The first volcanic activity at Tuzgle occurred 650,000 years ago.
Subsequently, lava domes and several lava flows were erupted; scientists
have proposed two different schemes of naming the units. The latest lava
flows are dated at 300,000 years ago and volcanic activity may have
continued into the Holocene. Several thermal springs are associated with
the volcano, and some have been investigated for possible geothermal
energy production. Sulfur was formerly mined on the mountain.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Tuzgle>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1807:
The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the
American frigate USS Chesapeake in the belief that the crew of the
latter included deserters from the Royal Navy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake%E2%80%93Leopard_affair>
1941:
World War II: German minister of foreign affairs Joachim von
Ribbentrop presented a declaration of war to the Soviet ambassador
Vladimir Dekanozov in Berlin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_on_the_Soviet_Union>
1979:
Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted
of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a
relationship with him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair>
2022:
An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw caused the deaths of at least
1,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2022_Afghanistan_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
blag:
1. (transitive)
2. To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
3. (specifically) To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation
or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing
confidential information.
4. To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired),
through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
5. To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or
perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
6. (Polari) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes,
especially in a social situation; to pick up.
7. (intransitive) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain
something.
8. An attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile
or persuasion; a trick.
9. An act of deceiving; a con, a deception, a hoax.
10. (Britain, informal) Not genuine; fake. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blag>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nature is for art the garb of the Eternal. The real is the finite
expression and representation of the true; forms are the limits affixed
by time and space to the power of life. Nature, reality, and form,
should, all of them, be so rendered and expressed by art, as to reveal
to mankind some ray of the truth — a vaster and profounder sentiment
of life.
--Giuseppe Mazzini
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Mazzini>