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...)

Las Tarascas

• ... that although the sculptor of Las Tarascas (work pictured) based their faces on that of a real woman, their bodies were invented?
• ... that in 1976, Karen Ferguson founded the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit pensioner advocacy organization, with encouragement and monetary support from Ralph Nader?
• ... that the Nishi-Okoppe and Yubetsu stations on the former Nayoro Main Line are now the site of a hotel and fire station respectively?
• ... that Hurley Goodall was appointed back onto the school board in Muncie, Indiana, following the death of his successor in a plane crash?
• ... that The Romans was the first Doctor Who serial with a humorous tone?
• ... that in October 1981, American doctor and mountaineer Peter Hackett became the third known person to complete a solo ascent of Mount Everest?
• ... that the landscapes in the manga series Star Red were drawn from photographs taken by NASA during the Viking 1 Mars exploration mission?
• ... that when Lou Almada brought his younger brother with him to spring training, the team gave his brother his job?

Hunga Tonga eruption

• Microsoft announces its intent to acquire video game company Activision Blizzard.
• A 5.3 magnitude earthquake in Qadis, Afghanistan, kills at least 28 people.
• 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.

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.