Black Moshannon State Park is a 3,480-acre (1,410 ha) Pennsylvania
state park in Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
It is just west of the Allegheny Front, 9 miles (14 km) east of
Philipsburg on Pennsylvania Route 504, and is largely surrounded by
Moshannon State Forest. The park surrounds a lake formed by a dam on
Black Moshannon Creek. A bog in the park provides a habitat for diverse
wildlife not common in other areas of the state, such as carnivorous
plants, orchids, and species normally found farther north. The Seneca
tribe used the Black Moshannon area as hunting and fishing grounds.
European settlers clear-cut the vast stands of old-growth forest during
the late 19th century. The forests were rehabilitated by the Civilian
Conservation Corps during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Many of the
buildings built by the Corps stand in the park today and are protected
on the National Register of Historic Places in three historic districts.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Moshannon_State_Park>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1886:
French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental
fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine>
1907:
Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others,
Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-
day Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery>
1945:
At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations
signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations>
2003:
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in the country
in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
indri:
One of the largest living lemurs, Indri indri, which is native to
Madagascar.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indri>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most extremely healthy people frequently experience of intense
affirmation and certainty; Maslow called these "peak experiences." No
one had made this discovery before because it had never struck anyone
that a science calling itself "psychology" and professing to be a
science of the human mind (not merely the sick mind), ought to form its
estimate of human beings by taking into account healthy minds as well as
sick ones. A sick man talks obsessively about his illness; a healthy man
never talks about his health; for as Pirandello points out, we take
happiness for granted, and only begin to question life when we are
unhappy.
--Colin Wilson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson>