Lock Haven is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, in the
U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Located near the confluence of the West
Branch Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek, it is the principal city
of the Lock Haven Micropolitan Statistical Area, in a combined
statistical area that includes Williamsport. Its population in 2010 was
9,772. Built on a site long favored by pre-Columbian peoples, Lock Haven
began in 1833 as a timber town and a haven for loggers, boatmen, and
other travelers on the river or the West Branch Canal. Resource
extraction and efficient transportation financed much of the city's
growth through the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century, a
light-aircraft factory, a college, and a paper mill contributed to the
economy. The city has three sites on the National Register of Historic
Places: Memorial Park Site, a significant pre-Columbian archaeological
find; Heisey House, a Victorian-era museum; and Water Street District
(courthouse pictured), with a mix of 19th- and 20th-century
architecture.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_Haven,_Pennsylvania>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1814:
War of the Sixth Coalition: French troops led by Napoleon
forced the Army of Bohemia to retreat after having advanced dangerously
close to Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Montereau>
1878:
Competition between two merchants in Lincoln County, New Mexico
Territory, U.S., turned into a range war when a member of one faction
was murdered by the other.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_County_War>
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the systematic
extermination of perceived hostile elements among Chinese Singaporeans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching>
2010:
WikiLeaks published the first of hundreds of thousands of
classified documents disclosed by Chelsea Manning (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
husbandry:
1. The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of
crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
2. The prudent management or conservation of resources.
3. (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day
matters.
4. (obsolete) Agricultural or cultivated land.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/husbandry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Tongue-suicide is not only the choice of children. It is common
among the infantile heads of state and power merchants whose evacuated
language leaves them with no access to what is left of their human
instincts for they speak only to those who obey, or in order to force
obedience. The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the
tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery
properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more
than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the
limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state
language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud
but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language
of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or
language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist
plunder in its literary cheek — it must be rejected, altered and
exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities,
tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and
patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the
bottomed-out mind. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language
— all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do
not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
--Toni Morrison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison>
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