Black Moshannon State Park is a 3,480-acre (1,410 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is just west of the Allegheny Front, 9 miles (14 km) east of Philipsburg on Pennsylvania Route 504, and is largely surrounded by Moshannon State Forest. The park surrounds a lake formed by a dam on Black Moshannon Creek. A bog in the park provides a habitat for diverse wildlife not common in other areas of the state, such as carnivorous plants, orchids, and species normally found farther north. The Seneca tribe used the Black Moshannon area as hunting and fishing grounds. European settlers clear-cut the vast stands of old-growth forest during the late 19th century. The forests were rehabilitated by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Many of the buildings built by the Corps stand in the park today and are protected on the National Register of Historic Places in three historic districts.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1886:

French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine

1907:

Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present- day Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery

1945:

At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations

2003:

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in the country in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

indri: One of the largest living lemurs, Indri indri, which is native to Madagascar. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indri

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Most extremely healthy people frequently experience of intense affirmation and certainty; Maslow called these "peak experiences." No one had made this discovery before because it had never struck anyone that a science calling itself "psychology" and professing to be a science of the human mind (not merely the sick mind), ought to form its estimate of human beings by taking into account healthy minds as well as sick ones. A sick man talks obsessively about his illness; a healthy man never talks about his health; for as Pirandello points out, we take happiness for granted, and only begin to question life when we are unhappy.   --Colin Wilson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson