River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at the lower end of Bull
Run Lake in the Cascade Range, it flows generally west through the Bull
Run Watershed Management Unit, an area restricting potential sources of
contamination. Native Americans living along the Columbia River as early
as 10,000 years ago likely visited the watershed in search of food, and
more recently created trails near the upper part of it over the Cascade
Range and around Mount Hood. By the mid-19th century, pioneers used
these trails to cross the mountains to reach the fertile Willamette
Valley. The river, impounded by two artificial storage reservoirs as
well as the lake, has been the primary source of drinking water for the
city of Portland, Oregon, since 1895. Despite legal protections, about
22 percent of the protected zone was logged during the second half of
the 20th century, and erosion increased, forcing Portland to shut down
the water supply from the river one time in 1996. A law passed later
that year prohibited most logging in or near the watershed. Trees more
than 500 years old cover about half of the watershed, and more than 250
wildlife species, including the protected northern spotted owl, inhabit
this forest.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Run_River_(Oregon)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1542:
Catherine Howard (pictured), the fifth wife of Henry VIII of
England, was executed for adultery.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Howard>
1867:
Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted
main waterway in Brussels to allow urban renewal in the centre of the
city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_of_the_Senne>
1945:
World War II: The Allies began their strategic bombing of
Dresden, Saxony, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm that killed
tens of thousands of civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II>
1978:
A bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, the site of
the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, killing three people and
injuring eleven others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Hilton_Hotel_bombing>
1981:
Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors
destroyed more than two miles (3 km) of streets in Louisville,
Kentucky, US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_sewer_explosions>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
luck out:
1. (US) To be lucky; to experience great fortune: I lucked out and got the
last two tickets to the show.
2. (UK) To run out of luck: I lucked out and wasn't able to get any tickets
to the show.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/luck_out>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale
of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first
morning.
--Eleanor Farjeon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon>
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