The Tinder Fire was a wildfire that burned 16,309 acres (66.00 km2) of the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona during April and May 2018. The 2017 Arizona wildfires had been followed by drought, including a historically dry winter season. The Tinder Fire was detected from a lookout tower of the U.S. Forest Service on April 27, and firefighters began working to contain its spread within the day. Stoked by strong winds, low humidity, and high temperatures, the fire grew rapidly over late April, prompting the closure of Arizona State Route 87 and evacuation orders for 1,000 houses in Coconino County. These orders remained until May 4. Almost 700 firefighters were involved in combating the fire, which was fully contained on May 24. It destroyed 96 buildings, including 33 homes, and cost $7,500,000 to contain and suppress. An investigation determined that the Tinder Fire was caused by an illegal campfire.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene (featured), the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhay_Garden_Scene
1956:
B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste, publicly converted to Buddhism and became the leader of the Dalit Buddhist movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement
1979:
At least 75,000 people attended the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C., to demand equal civil rights for LGBT people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_March_on_Washington_for_Lesbian_and_Gay_Rights
2021:
Approximately 10,000 John Deere employees went on strike in one of the largest private-sector strikes in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_John_Deere_strike
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annulus: 1. A ring- or donut-shaped area or structure. 2. (anatomy) A ring of fibrous tissue; specifically (cardiology), such a ring around an opening of a heart valve, to which the valve leaflets and muscle fibres of the atria and ventricles are attached; an annulus fibrosus cordis. 3. (astronomy) A ring of light in a celestial body, especially when caused by an annular eclipse (for example, when the Sun and Moon are in line with the Earth, but the Moon does not completely cover the Sun's disc). 4. (biology) 5. (botany) A structure surrounding a sporangium (or part of it) which shrinks and causes it to rupture for spore dispersal; specifically, in a fern: a structure around about two-thirds of the sporangium consisting of differentially thick-walled cells which dry and distort the sporangium; and in a moss: a complete ring of cells around the tip of the sporangium which dissolves to cause the tip to detach. 6. (mycology) The membranous remnants of a partial veil which leaves a ring on the stem of a mushroom. 7. (mathematics) 8. (geometry) The region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii. 9. (topology) Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii. 10. (technology) In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/annulus
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone. --Dwight D. Eisenhower https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower