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Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park in
northwestern Wyoming, established on February 26, 1929. Approximately
310,000 acres (130,000 ha), it includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-
long (64 km) Teton Range and most of the northern sections of the
valley known as Jackson Hole. Human history dates back 11,000 years,
when the first nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated into the region. The area
was explored by mountain man John Colter in 1807, but permanent white
settlers did not inhabit it until the 1880s. Efforts to preserve the
area as a national park began in the late 19th century and the eventual
expansion of the park in 1950 was a watershed in the land conservation
movement. Though the Teton Range is the youngest mountain chain in the
Rocky Mountains, some of the rocks in the park are the oldest found in
any U.S. National Park, at nearly 2.7 billion years. More than
1000 species of vascular plants, dozens of species of mammals, 300
species of birds, more than a dozen fish species and a few species of
reptiles and amphibians exist. The park is a popular destination for
mountaineering, camping and fishing, and has over 200 miles (320 km) of
hiking trails.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton_National_Park>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
747 BC:
According to Ptolemy, the reign of the Babylonian king
Nabonassar began and with it, a new era characterized by the systematic
maintenance of chronologically precise historical records.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonassar>
364:
Following the death of the Roman emperor Jovian, officers of the
army at Nicaea in Bithynia selected Flavius Valentinianus to succeed
him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_I>
1815:
Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba, an island off the coast
of Italy where he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty of
Fontainebleau one year earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon>
1935:
Adolf Hitler ordered the German air force Luftwaffe reinstated,
violating the Treaty of Versailles signed at the end of the First World
War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe>
1991:
British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced
WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
beaver away:
(idiomatic) To work hard at a task.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beaver_away>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where
vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
--François Arago
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Arago>