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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Price_%28British_Columbia%29>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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>
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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>