The Volcano is the name given to a small cinder cone in the Boundary
Ranges of the Coast Mountains in northwestern British Columbia, Canada.
It is located about 60 km (37 mi) northwest of the small community of
Stewart near the head of Lava Fork. With a summit elevation of 1,330 m
(4,360 ft) and a topographic prominence of 311 m (1,020 ft), it rises
above the surrounding rugged landscape on a remote mountain ridge that
represents the northern flank of a glaciated U-shaped valley. Lava Fork
volcano, as The Volcano is also known, is associated with a small group
of related volcanoes called the Iskut-Unuk River Cones. This forms part
of the much larger Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, which
extends from the Alaska–Yukon border to near Prince Rupert, British
Columbia. Eruptive activity at The Volcano is relatively young compared
to most other volcanoes in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province.
Geologic studies have shown that The Volcano and its eruptive products
were emplaced in the past 400 years. This is well after the last
glacial period, which ended about 10,000 years ago.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
962:
Byzantine–Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas,
Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Arab_Wars_%28780%E2%80%931180%29>
1823:
A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas,
was first published anonymously. Authorship was later attributed to
Clement Clarke Moore .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas>
1954:
Drs. Joseph Murray and J. Hartwell Harrison performed the first
successful kidney transplant.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kidney_transplantation>
1957:
Ian Craig of Australia became the youngest Test cricket captain in
history.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Craig>
1990:
About eighty-eight percent of the population in Slovenia voted to
secede from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Slovenia>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dulse (n):
A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is
sometimes eaten
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dulse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
"Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well-tried maxim,
embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The
spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the
individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the
true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often
enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the
stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are
subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency
is to render them comparatively helpless.
--Samuel Smiles
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Smiles>