Powder House Island (also known as Dynamite Island) is an artificial island on the lower Detroit River in southeast Michigan, directly adjacent to the Canada–United States border. It was constructed in the late 1880s by the Dunbar & Sullivan Company to manufacture and store explosives during their dredging of the Livingstone Channel, in a successful attempt to circumvent an 1880 court order forbidding the company from storing explosives on nearby Fox Island. In 1906, twenty short tons (18,000 kg) of the island's dynamite exploded after two men "had been shooting with a revolver" near it. The explosion was clearly audible from 85 mi (137 km) away. By the 1980s, it was completely unused; by 2015, the island was owned by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, managed by its Wildlife Division as part of the Pointe Mouillee State Game Area, and accessible to the public for hunting and camping.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1614:

Pocahontas, a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe in the Colony of Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas

1902:

A spectator stand collapsed during a Scotland–England football match at Ibrox Park, Govan, killing 25 supporters and injuring more than 500 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_Ibrox_disaster

1944:

Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lederer%27s_escape_from_Auschwitz

1986:

The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

whelm: 1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. 2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. 3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy. 4. (intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whelm

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The world has already seen many war crimes. At different times. On different continents. But it is time to do everything possible to make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of such evil on earth.   --Volodymyr Zelenskyy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy