Manganese is a ghost town and former mining community in the U.S. state
of Minnesota that was inhabited between 1912 and 1960. Built in Crow
Wing County on the Cuyuna Iron Range about 2 miles (3 km) north of
Trommald, Minnesota, it was named after the mineral found near the town.
The Trommald Formation beneath the town and the adjacent Emily District
constitutes the main ore-producing unit of the North Range district of
the Cuyuna Iron Range and the largest resource of manganese in the
United States. At its peak around 1919, Manganese had two hotels, a
bank, two grocery stores, a barbershop, a show hall, and a two-room
school, and housed a population of nearly 600. After World War I, the
population of Manganese went into steady decline as mining operations
shut down; the community was abandoned, and in 1961 the town was
formally dissolved. In 2017 some of the land was redeveloped for
primitive campsites.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese,_Minnesota>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1869:
Girton College, one of the 31 constituent colleges of the
University of Cambridge and England's first residential college for
women, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girton_College,_Cambridge>
1923:
Roy and Walt Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
in Hollywood; it eventually grew to become one of the largest media and
entertainment corporations in the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company>
1964:
With the success of Project 596, China became the world's fifth
nuclear power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_596>
1991:
A man drove his vehicle through the window of a Luby's
Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 people before
he committed suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
esculent:
1. Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.
2. (figuratively) “Good enough to eat”; attractive.
3. Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
4. (mycology, specifically) An edible mushroom.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/esculent>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We can begin to create new goals for ourselves, ends for our
days! A new discipline for life will spring into being, a new will and
power to live, a new ideal to measure the value of our lives by! … We
need a new leader who will teach us that ideal, who by his life will
exemplify it and make it a living truth for us — a man who will prove
that man's fleeting life in time and space can be noble. We need, above
all, to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit
in ourselves!
--Eugene O'Neill
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill>