Upper Pine Bottom State Park is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) Pennsylvania state park near the southern end of what has been called the "Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania", Pine Creek Gorge. The park is in Lycoming County on Upper Pine Bottom Run, a tributary of Pine Creek in the West Branch Susquehanna River drainage basin. Local streams have cut through five major rock formations from the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. The earliest recorded inhabitants of the area were the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks; they were followed by the Iroquois, Lenape, and Shawnee. Upper Pine Bottom Run was the site of a furnace for pig iron in 1814. The first sawmill was built on it in 1815, and in 1825 an earlier bridle path across its headwaters became a turnpike. The park is surrounded by 105,000 acres (42,000 ha) of the Tiadaghton State Forest, which was created after the lumber industry clearcut the area in the 19th century. Upper Pine Bottom State Park is one of the smallest state parks in Pennsylvania.
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1462:
Forces led by Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Attack_at_T%C3%A2rgovi%C5%9Fte
1843:
New Zealand Wars: An armed posse of Europeans set out from Nelson to arrest Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha and clashed with Māori, resulting in 26 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wairau_Affray
1900:
Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts after a brief but bloody battle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taku_Forts_(1900)
1930:
U.S. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law, raising tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act
1963:
Around 2,000 people rioted in South Vietnam, despite the signing of the Joint Communiqué to resolve the ongoing Buddhist crisis one day earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Communiqu%C3%A9
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parliament: 1. (government, politics) Meanings relating to a political body authorized to exercise governmental powers. 2. An institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers. 3. A group of representatives of the people elected or appointed to serve as a parliament (in sense 1 above) for a certain period of time. In this sense the word is commonly used with an ordinal number (for example, first parliament and 12th parliament) or a descriptive adjective (for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament). 4. A flock of owls or rooks. 5. (historical) Parliament cake, a type of gingerbread. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parliament
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We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality. --Heinz Guderian https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heinz_Guderian