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Eve Cone is a cinder cone in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It has an elevation of 1,740 metres (5,710 feet) and is one of several volcanic cones in the Desolation Lava Field at the northern end of the Big Raven Plateau. It lies in Mount Edziza Provincial Park and is part of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex. A roughly 12-kilometre-long (7.5-mile) lava field issued from Eve Cone during the Holocene and travelled down the northern side of the Big Raven Plateau. It branches out into narrower channels, the largest extending to Buckley Lake. The cone contains a circular summit crater 45 m (148 ft) deep, but most of the lava from the volcano appears to have issued from vents around the base of the 350 m (1,150 ft) wide cone. Eve Cone is surrounded by volcanic features including Tsekone Ridge, Pillow Ridge, Sidas Cone and the Triplex Cones. Access is via horse trails from Telegraph Creek and Iskut or float-equipped aircraft. (Full article...)

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Oleksandra Nazarova and Maksym Nikitin, six-time Ukrainian national champions in ice dance

The Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition organized by the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation to crown the national champions of Ukraine. Following Ukraine's independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the first Ukrainian Championships were held in December 1992 in Odesa, and they have been held without interruption since. Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior and junior levels, although each discipline may not necessarily be held every year due to a lack of participants. Vitaliy Danylchenko and Anton Kovalevski are currently tied for winning the most Ukrainian Championship titles in men's singles (with five each), while Elena Liashenko holds the record in women's singles (with seven). Stanislav Morozov holds the record in pair skating (with seven), although these were not all won with the same partner. Irina Romanova and Igor Yaroshenko, and Oleksandra Nazarova and Maksym Nikitin, are tied for winning the most titles in ice dance (with six each). (Full list...)

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Olivia de Havilland (July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. De Havilland first came to prominence with Errol Flynn as a screen couple in adventure films such as Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). One of her best-known roles is that of Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she received the first of her five Oscar nominations. Before her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her younger sister, with whom she had a noted rivalry well documented in the media, was Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine. This photograph by Bernard Gotfryd shows de Havilland in 1985.

Photograph credit: Bernard Gotfryd; restored by Adam Cuerden

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