The Tinder Fire was a wildfire that burned 16,309 acres (66.00 km2) of
the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona during April
and May 2018. The 2017 Arizona wildfires had been followed by drought,
including a historically dry winter season. The Tinder Fire was detected
from a lookout tower of the U.S. Forest Service on April 27, and
firefighters began working to contain its spread within the day. Stoked
by strong winds, low humidity, and high temperatures, the fire grew
rapidly over late April, prompting the closure of Arizona State
Route 87 and evacuation orders for 1,000 houses in Coconino County.
These orders remained until May 4. Almost 700 firefighters were
involved in combating the fire, which was fully contained on May 24. It
destroyed 96 buildings, including 33 homes, and cost $7,500,000 to
contain and suppress. An investigation determined that the Tinder Fire
was caused by an illegal campfire.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinder_Fire>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene
(featured), the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhay_Garden_Scene>
1956:
B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste,
publicly converted to Buddhism and became the leader of the Dalit
Buddhist movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement>
1979:
At least 75,000 people attended the National March on
Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C., to demand
equal civil rights for LGBT people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_March_on_Washington_for_Lesbian_and_Gay_Rights>
2021:
Approximately 10,000 John Deere employees went on strike in one
of the largest private-sector strikes in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_John_Deere_strike>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
annulus:
1. A ring- or donut-shaped area or structure.
2. (anatomy) A ring of fibrous tissue; specifically (cardiology), such a
ring around an opening of a heart valve, to which the valve leaflets and
muscle fibres of the atria and ventricles are attached; an annulus
fibrosus cordis.
3. (astronomy) A ring of light in a celestial body, especially when
caused by an annular eclipse (for example, when the Sun and Moon are in
line with the Earth, but the Moon does not completely cover the Sun's
disc).
4. (biology)
5. (botany) A structure surrounding a sporangium (or part of it) which
shrinks and causes it to rupture for spore dispersal; specifically, in a
fern: a structure around about two-thirds of the sporangium consisting
of differentially thick-walled cells which dry and distort the
sporangium; and in a moss: a complete ring of cells around the tip of
the sporangium which dissolves to cause the tip to detach.
6. (mycology) The membranous remnants of a partial veil which leaves a
ring on the stem of a mushroom.
7. (mathematics)
8. (geometry) The region in a plane between two concentric circles of
different radii.
9. (topology) Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a
plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
10. (technology) In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space
between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole
surrounding it.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/annulus>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength
alone.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower>
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