Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of
Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest
of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. The town began in
early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a
prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold
rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners, and service
providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in
Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's
biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine. Rhyolite declined almost
as rapidly as it rose. After the richest ore was exhausted, production
fell. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the financial Panic of 1907
made raising development capital more difficult. By the end of 1910, the
mine was operating at a loss, and it closed in 1911. By this time, many
out-of-work miners had moved elsewhere, and Rhyolite's population was
close to zero by 1920. After 1920, Rhyolite and its ruins became a
tourist attraction and a setting for motion pictures.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyolite,_Nevada>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1066:
William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed
at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England>
1901:
Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas killed more than
forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on
Samar Island.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balangiga_massacre>
1972:
Paul Henderson scored the game-winning goal against Vladislav
Tretiak, securing a Canadian victory in the Summit Series over the
Soviet ice hockey team.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Series>
1978:
Pope John Paul I died only 33 days after his papal election due
to an apparent myocardial infarction, resulting in the most recent Year
of Three Popes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I>
1994:
The ferry MS Estonia sank while commuting between Tallinn,
Estonia, and Stockholm, Sweden, claiming 852 lives in one of the worst
maritime accidents in the Baltic Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
meadery:
A place where mead is made.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meadery>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of
principle.
--Confucius
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius>