Tumbler Ridge is a district municipality in the foothills of the B.C.

Rockies in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, and a member

municipality of the Peace River Regional District. With a population of

2,399 in 2021, the municipality encompasses an area of 1,558 km2

(602 sq mi). Located near the confluence of the Murray River and

Flatbed Creek and the intersection of Highways 52 and 29, it is part of

the Peace River South provincial electoral district and the Prince

George—Peace River—Northern Rockies federal riding. It is a planned

community, with the housing and infrastructure built simultaneously in

1981 by the provincial government to service the coal industry. After

dinosaur footprints and fossils were discovered in the municipality,

along with fossils of Triassic fishes and Cretaceous plants, the Peace

Region Paleontology Research Center opened in 2003. The study of the

area led to a recognition of its geological importance and listing in

the UNESCO Global Geopark Network.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1775:

American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition

departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the invasion of

Quebec.

1897:

Gaki Sherocho was captured by the forces of Ethiopian emperor

Menelik II, bringing an end to the Kingdom of Kaffa.

1914:

First World War: The Australian Naval and Military

Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of

Bita Paka.

1941:

In Des Moines, Iowa, American aviator Charles Lindbergh

delivered an antisemitic speech (reporting pictured) accusing Jews of

controlling the media and manipulating the United States into joining

World War II.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

innominate bone:

(anatomy) Synonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of

the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic

bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage

apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of

the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars. Is not a man

different, utterly different, at dawn from what he is at sunset? And a

woman too? And does not the changing harmony and discord of their

variation make the secret music of life?  

--D. H. Lawrence

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