County in the U.S. state of California from the Santa Ana Mountains to
the Pacific Ocean, collecting seven main tributaries. It flows generally
south-southwest through a narrow coastal watershed at the southern
extreme of the arid Los Angeles Basin in a fairly straight course. Owing
to the submersion of Southern California in the Pacific Ocean until
10 million years ago, the creek flows over marine sedimentary rock that
dates from the late Eocene to the Pliocene. The watershed's broad
sediment-filled valleys and deeply eroded side canyons were shaped by
climate change during the last Ice Age. Historically, the creek served
as the boundary between the Juaneño (Acjachemem) and Gabrieleno
(Tongva) Indians. Although attempts to use the creek and its watershed
as a municipal water source date to the early 20th century, the water
it provided was erratic and of poor quality. The creek has become little
more than an open wastewater drain, but the watershed supports some
biodiversity, and remains a popular recreational area.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliso_Creek_(Orange_County)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
240:
Shapur I was crowned shahanshah ("king of kings") of the
Sasanian Empire, the last Iranian empire before the rise of Islam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapur_I>
1204:
Alexios V Doukas fled Constantinople as forces under Boniface
the Marquess of Montferrat and Enrico Dandolo the Doge of Venice entered
and sacked the Byzantine capital, effectively ending the Fourth Crusade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1204)>
1861:
Confederate forces began firing at Fort Sumter in the harbor of
Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter>
1980:
Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and began running his "Marathon
of Hope" towards the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver, British Columbia, to
raise funds across Canada for cancer research.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox>
2007:
The canteen of the Council of Representatives of Iraq building
was attacked by a suicide bomber, killing one Member of Parliament and
wounding 23 other people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Iraqi_Parliament_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
darrein:
(law, historical) In the names of legal actions, pleas, writs, etc.:
final, last; dernier.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/darrein>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
--Tom Clancy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy>
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