Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve is a protected area in the northern Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon near the California border, managed since 1933 by the US National Park Service. The 4,554-acre (1,843 ha) park features a marble cave that was discovered in 1874. Three years after President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act of 1906, President William Howard Taft used it to establish Oregon Caves. In 2014 the protected area was expanded by about 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) and designated a National Monument and Preserve. Oregon Caves is a solutional cave, with passages totaling about 15,000 feet (4,600 m), formed in marble. The parent rock was originally limestone that metamorphosed to marble during the geologic processes that created the Klamath Mountains, including the Siskiyous. Although the limestone formed about 190 million years ago, the cave itself is no older than a few million years. Another attraction at the park is the Oregon Caves Chateau, a six-story hotel built in a rustic style in 1934; it is a National Historic Landmark and is part of the Oregon Caves Historic District within the monument.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Caves_National_Monument_and_Preserve
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1709:
Great Northern War: Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden in Poltava, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poltava
1808:
Joseph Bonaparte approved the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain during the Peninsular War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonne_Statute
1879:
Led by George W. De Long, the ill-fated Jeannette Expedition departed San Francisco to reach the North Pole by pioneering a route through the Bering Strait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Expedition
1947:
After various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Force personnel in Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance weather balloon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident
1972:
Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad agents in response to the Lod Airport massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghassan_Kanafani
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
demiurge: 1. (Platonic philosophy) The (usually benevolent) being that created the universe out of primal matter. 2. (Gnosticism) A (usually jealous or outright malevolent) being who is inferior to the supreme being, and sometimes seen as the creator of evil. 3. (figuratively) Something (such as an idea, individual or institution) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power. 4. (historical, Ancient Greece) The title of a magistrate in a number of states of Ancient Greece, and in the city states (poleis) of the Achaean League. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demiurge
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. --Marianne Williamson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson