Little Butte Creek is a 17-mile (27 km) long tributary of the Rogue
River located in the U.S. state of Oregon. Its drainage basin consists
of approximately 354 square miles (917 km2) of Jackson County and
another 19 square miles (49 km2) of Klamath County. The north fork of
the creek begins at Fish Lake, while the south fork begins near Brown
Mountain. The two forks flow generally west until they meet near Lake
Creek. The main stem then flows through the communities of Brownsboro,
Eagle Point, and White City, finally emptying into the Rogue River about
3 miles (5 km) west of Eagle Point. Little Butte Creek's watershed was
originally settled by the Takelma, and possibly the Shasta tribes of
Native Americans. In the Rogue River Wars of the 1850s, most of the
Native Americans were either killed or forced onto Indian reservations.
On October 8, 1855, Major J. A. Lupton gathered 35 men from Jacksonville
and attacked the Rogue River Indians near the mouth of Little Butte
Creek, killing about 30 of them. Lupton was also killed, and eleven of
his men were injured.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Butte_Creek_(Rogue_River)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: The Battle of Perryville, one of the
bloodiest battles of the war, was fought in the Chaplin Hills west of
Perryville, Kentucky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Perryville>
1904:
The Canadian cities of Edmonton, Alberta, and Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan, were both incorporated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert,_Saskatchewan>
1932:
The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of
the Indian Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Air_Force>
1952:
Three trains collided (wreckage pictured) at Harrow &
Wealdstone station in London killing 112 people and injuring 340.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_and_Wealdstone_rail_crash>
1998:
Gardermoen Airport, the main domestic hub and international
airport for Norway, opened as Oslo Airport, Fornebu, closed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Airport,_Fornebu>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
choreography:
1. The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a
ballet, etc.
2. The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
3. The notation used to construct this record.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/choreography>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new
way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by
such demands. "I already know the important things!" we say. Then
Changer comes and throws our old ideas away. in
--Chapterhouse : Dune
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Chapterhouse:_Dune_.281985.29>