Mount Price is a stratovolcano in the Garibaldi Ranges of southwestern British Columbia. It is 2,049 m (6,722 ft) high, and rises on the western side of Garibaldi Lake in New Westminster Land District. It has a number of features, including Clinker Peak, the source of two thick lava flows between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. These unstable flows produced large landslides as recently as the 1850s. A provincial park surrounds Mount Price and other local volcanoes. It lies within an ecological region that surrounds much of the Pacific Ranges. Mount Price is one of a small group of volcanoes called the Garibaldi Lake volcanic field, part of the larger Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, a volcanic zone in the Canadian Cascade Arc. It began forming 1.2 million years ago and continued until sometime in the last 15,000 years. It has not been active for thousands of years, but if it did erupt, the Interagency Volcanic Event Notification Plan outlines how agencies involved in relief efforts may be notified.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1388:
Despite being vastly outnumbered, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Näfels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_N%C3%A4fels
1939:
After being denied permission to perform at Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, African-American singer Marian Anderson gave an open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson
1959:
NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts in Project Mercury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Seven
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jarp: 1. (Cumbria, Ireland, Northumbria, Yorkshire, games) The act of knocking one's pace-egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries. 2. (transitive, Cumbria, Ireland, Northumbria, Yorkshire, games) To knock (a pace-egg) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jarp
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
"Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply! Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won, Lo! the Sun's eclipse is o'er, Lo! He sets in blood no more. --Charles Wesley https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Wesley