Roxy Ann Peak is a 3,576-foot-tall (1,090 m) mountain in the Western
Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. Composed of several geologic
layers, the majority of the peak is of volcanic origin and dates to the
early Oligocene. It is primarily covered by oak savanna and open
grassland on its lower slopes, and mixed coniferous forest on its upper
slopes and summit. Despite the peak's relatively small topographic
prominence of 753 feet (230 m), it rises 2,200 feet (670 m) above
Medford, and it is the city's most important viewshed, open space
reserve, and recreational resource. Roxy Ann Peak was originally settled
8,000 to 10,000 years ago by ancestors of the native Latgawa tribe. In
the early 1850s, a sudden influx of non-indigenous settlers led to the
Rogue River Wars. After the wars, the Latgawa were forced away from the
region onto reservations. The peak was named in the late 1850s after one
of its first landowners, Roxy Ann Bowen. In 1937, the 1,740-acre
(704.2 ha) Prescott Park was created on the peak's upper slopes and
summit from land donated by the Lions Club and the federal government,
and the park is largely undeveloped.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy_Ann_Peak>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in
the British Army, arrived at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the sole European
survivor of the massacre of over 4,500 military personnel and over
10,000 civilian camp followers retreating from Kabul, excluding a few
prisoners released later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brydon>
1910:
The first public radio broadcast, a live performance of the
opera Cavalleria rusticana, was sent out over the airwaves from the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_public_radio_broadcasting>
1953:
Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first President of
Yugoslavia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito>
1968:
American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At
Folsom Prison live at the Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Folsom_Prison>
2012:
The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef
off the shore of Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, and partially sank.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gherao:
(India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician,
building, etc. until demands are met.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gherao>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Faith cannot be given to man. Faith arises in a man and
increases in its action in him not as the result of automatic learning,
that is, not from any automatic ascertainment of height, breadth,
thickness, form and weight, or from the perception of anything by sight,
hearing, touch, smell or taste, but from understanding. 
--G. I. Gurdjieff
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff>