Lake Estancia was a former body of water in the Estancia Valley, in the
center of the U.S. state of New Mexico. Mostly fed by creek and
groundwater from the Manzano Mountains, the lake had diverse fauna,
including cutthroat trout. It appears to have formed when a river
system broke up. It reached a maximum water level (highstand) presumably
during the Illinoian glaciation and subsequently fluctuated between a
desiccated basin and fuller stages. Wind-driven erosion has excavated
depressions in the former lakebed that are in part filled with playas
(dry lake beds). The lake was one of several pluvial lakes in
southwestern North America that developed during the late Pleistocene.
Their formation has been variously attributed to decreased temperatures
during the ice age and increased precipitation; a shutdown of the
thermohaline circulation and the Laurentide Ice Sheet altered
atmospheric circulation patterns and increased precipitation in the
region. The lake has yielded a good paleoclimatic record.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Estancia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1810:
Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first
newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Moreno>
1917:
First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines
under German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made
explosion in history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Messines_%281917%29>
1948:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in the French protectorate in
Morocco, during which 44 people were killed and 150 injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Anti-Jewish_riots_in_Oujda_and_Jerada>
1969:
The rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve
Winwood and Ginger Baker, played their only UK show in London's Hyde
Park in front of 100,000 fans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Faith>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
victual:
1. (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
2. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
3. (specifically, obsolete)
4. Edible plants.
5. (Scotland) Grain of any kind.
6. (transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide
(military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of
victuals or food; to provision.
7. (intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food
supplies.
8. (intransitive) To eat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/victual>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself —
in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
--Elizabeth Bowen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen>
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