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Fanno Creek
Fanno Creek is a 15-mile (24 km) tributary of the Tualatin River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Part of the drainage basin of the Columbia River, its watershed covers about 32 square miles (83 km2) in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties, including about 7 square miles (18 km2) within the Portland city limits. From its headwaters in the Tualatin Mountains (West Hills) in southwest Portland, the creek flows generally west and south through the cities of Portland, Beaverton, Tigard and Durham, and unincorporated areas of Washington County. It enters the Tualatin River about 9 miles (14 km) above the Tualatin's confluence with the Willamette River at West Linn. For thousands of years, the Atfalati (Tualatin) tribe of the Kalapuya inhabited the watershed. The first settler of European descent, Augustus Fanno, for whom the creek is named, arrived in the mid-19th century. Fanno Farmhouse, the restored family home, is a Century Farm on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of 14 urban parks in a narrow corridor along the creek. Although heavily polluted, the creek supports aquatic life, including cutthroat trout in its upper reaches. (Full article...)
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Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, Annunciation
... that even the originator of the term thought that "Boredom is a requisite of the Roman Counter-Maniera style" in painting (example illustrated)?
... that Alexander Stewart Herschel helped identify the connection between comets and meteor showers?
... that Giorgio Moroder won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in the 1984 ceremony for Flashdance instead of Scarface, for which he was also nominated?
... that in April 1968, Nell Truman and her sister Christine became the first winners of an open tennis event by winning the women's doubles title at the British Hard Court Championships?
... that Güstrow Castle contains a museum related to the male line of Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg's family?
... that Marilinda Garcia was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives when she was 23 years old?
... that pedestrians walking along Malet Street in London hear the sound of a stick hitting an iron railing ... though there's no railing in sight?
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Enhanced infrared satellite image of Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan (satellite image shown), the strongest tropical cyclone of 2013, causes extensive damage across the Philippines, with an estimated death toll in the thousands.
The European Central Bank cuts its bank rate to a record low of 0.25%.
A court in Bangladesh sentences 152 people to death for their part in the Bangladesh Rifles revolt.
The Congolese army defeats the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In horse racing, Fiorente, ridden by Damien Oliver, wins the Melbourne Cup.
India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
Recent deaths: John Cole
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November 12: Birth of Bahá'u'lláh, a holy day in the Bahá'í Faith

Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe (pictured) first took the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
1330 – Led by voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
1936 – The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic.
1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (Bangladesh), becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history, with over 300,000 people killed.
More anniversaries: November 11 – November 12 – November 13
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Line integral of scalar field
In mathematics, a line integral is an integral where the function to be integrated, be it a scalar field as here or a vector field, is evaluated along a curve. The value of the line integral is the sum of values of the field at all points on the curve, weighted by some scalar function on the curve (commonly arc length or, for a vector field, the scalar product of the vector field with a differential vector in the curve).
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Fanno Creek
Fanno Creek is a 15-mile (24 km) tributary of the Tualatin River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Part of the drainage basin of the Columbia River, its watershed covers about 32 square miles (83 km2) in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties, including about 7 square miles (18 km2) within the Portland city limits. From its headwaters in the Tualatin Mountains (West Hills) in southwest Portland, the creek flows generally west and south through the cities of Portland, Beaverton, Tigard and Durham, and unincorporated areas of Washington County. It enters the Tualatin River about 9 miles (14 km) above the Tualatin's confluence with the Willamette River at West Linn. For thousands of years, the Atfalati (Tualatin) tribe of the Kalapuya inhabited the watershed. The first settler of European descent, Augustus Fanno, for whom the creek is named, arrived in the mid-19th century. Fanno Farmhouse, the restored family home, is a Century Farm on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of 14 urban parks in a narrow corridor along the creek. Although heavily polluted, the creek supports aquatic life, including cutthroat trout in its upper reaches. (Full article...)
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From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, Annunciation
... that even the originator of the term thought that "Boredom is a requisite of the Roman Counter-Maniera style" in painting (example illustrated)?
... that Alexander Stewart Herschel helped identify the connection between comets and meteor showers?
... that Giorgio Moroder won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in the 1984 ceremony for Flashdance instead of Scarface, for which he was also nominated?
... that in April 1968, Nell Truman and her sister Christine became the first winners of an open tennis event by winning the women's doubles title at the British Hard Court Championships?
... that Güstrow Castle contains a museum related to the male line of Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg's family?
... that Marilinda Garcia was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives when she was 23 years old?
... that pedestrians walking along Malet Street in London hear the sound of a stick hitting an iron railing ... though there's no railing in sight?
Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

 
In the news


Enhanced infrared satellite image of Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan (satellite image shown), the strongest tropical cyclone of 2013, causes extensive damage across the Philippines, with an estimated death toll in the thousands.
The European Central Bank cuts its bank rate to a record low of 0.25%.
A court in Bangladesh sentences 152 people to death for their part in the Bangladesh Rifles revolt.
The Congolese army defeats the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In horse racing, Fiorente, ridden by Damien Oliver, wins the Melbourne Cup.
India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
Recent deaths: John Cole
More current events...

On this day...


November 12: Birth of Bahá'u'lláh, a holy day in the Bahá'í Faith

Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe (pictured) first took the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
1330 – Led by voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
1936 – The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic.
1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (Bangladesh), becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history, with over 300,000 people killed.
More anniversaries: November 11 – November 12 – November 13
Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries
It is now November 12, 2013 (UTC) – Reload this page



Today's featured picture


Line integral of scalar field
In mathematics, a line integral is an integral where the function to be integrated, be it a scalar field as here or a vector field, is evaluated along a curve. The value of the line integral is the sum of values of the field at all points on the curve, weighted by some scalar function on the curve (commonly arc length or, for a vector field, the scalar product of the vector field with a differential vector in the curve).
Diagram: Lucas V. Barbosa
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