- Long, narrow Lake Chelan snakes its way almost 50 miles northwest through the foothills of the Cascades. The lake measures only about one to two miles wide, but at almost 1,500 feet deep it is the third deepest freshwater lake in the United States. The lake’s crystal clear waters and its long shoreline offer every type of recreational activity imaginable: hiking, boating, fishing, swimming, biking, golf, fine dining, wine tasting, and lodging. Lake Chelan is a vacationing paradise! The lake itself is stunning, bright blue waters are surrounded by steep forested slopes. While enjoying the lake, take some time to appreciate its geologic story—were it not for the vast continental glaciers of the last ice age, none of this breath-taking scenery would exist.
- William McKinley (allthetropes.org)
William McKinley is mainly known nowadays as the President whose assassination resulted in the much-better-known Theodore Roosevelt coming into office. He is also one of the more famous victims of violence perpetrated in the name of Anarchism; a few short but eventful decades later, the radicals to really be afraid of would be communists instead. Much like James Garfield before him, technology was right there that probably would have saved him, but several decisions surrounding the operation didn’t work out for keeping him alive (the new “x-ray machine” being exhibited at the very expo where he was shot was too untested for doctors to trust it, and apparently they didn’t think to do the surgery under the brand-new electric lighting, nor could they use candles because ether was still the best anesthetic available at the time). Similarly, his assassination receives little attention in public memory compared to that of Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy, despite serving longer than the latter.