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Hoodoo Mountain is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its flat-topped summit is covered by an ice cap that is more than 100 metres (330 feet) thick and at least 3 kilometres (2 miles) in diameter, and has an elevation of 1,850 metres (6,070 feet). The primary rock types comprising the volcano are phonolite and trachyte, which were deposited during six periods of eruptive activity beginning about 85,000 years ago. There was at least one period of explosive activity. The latest eruptive period began around 10,000 years ago. A lava flow covering the southwestern slope may have been produced within the last few hundred years. There have been periods of seismic activity since at least the mid-1980s, indicating possible future eruptions. Two valley glaciers on the sides of the mountain have retreated significantly over the last hundred years. The closest communities are more than 30 kilometres (20 miles) away. (Full article...)

Wilderness at Ham House

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• ... that 2020 European pommel horse champion Matvei Petrov won Albania's first medal at the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
• ... that the season-one finale of Riverdale, "Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter", almost included Sabrina Spellman from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina?
• ... that the text of "In dir ist Freude" ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and first published in a collection of Christmas carols?
• ... that Jonathan Reynolds deep-fried a real turkey during his performance of Dinner With Demons at the Second Stage Theater, New York?

Hunga Tonga eruption

• The Hunga Tonga volcano erupts (satellite animation shown), causing damage in Tonga and tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean.
• An apartment fire in the Bronx, New York City, kills 17 people.
• A rockfall at Furnas Lake in Capitólio, Brazil, kills 10 people.
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January 19

Klaus Barbie

• 649 – Conquest of the Western Turks: Kuchean forces surrendered after a siege, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China.
• 1511 – War of the League of Cambrai: Troops led by Pope Julius II captured Mirandola after a brief siege.
• 1930 – In Watsonville, California, tensions between nativists and Filipino Americans escalated into riots that later spread to other cities in the state.
• 1972 – The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie (pictured), the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.
• 2012 – The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.