a social appointment or date arranged, usually by a third person, between two people who have not met. 2. either of the participants in such an arrangement. Origin of blind date. 1920-1925.
1 Mount Teide is currently a dormant volcano, but many scientists believe it will erupt again in the near future. 2  In the mid seventeenth century a group of Englishmen were the first Europeans to reach the summit of Mount Teide. The most recent eruption of Mount Teide happened in 1909. 2  It also erupted in 1798, 1706, 1705 and 1704. 3  On his voyage of discovery Christopher Columbus apparently saw the 1492 eruption of Mount Teide when he was sailing past Tenerife.
California Institute of Technology. Four volcanoes in the central Andes mountains of South America, all previously thought to be dormant, must now be considered active due to ground motions detected from space, geophysicists say.n a paper appearing in the July 11 issue of the journal Nature, California Institute of Technology geophysics graduate student Matt Pritchard and his faculty adviser, Mark Simons, unveil their analysis of eight years of radar interferometry data taken on 900 volcanoes in the Andes.