The MAX Orange Line is a light rail service in Portland, Oregon, United
States, operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It
connects Portland City Center to Portland State University, Southeast
Portland, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove. The Portland–Milwaukie Light Rail
Project was the second and final phase of the South Corridor Project
that in its first phase expanded light rail services to Interstate 205
and the Portland Transit Mall. The extension, which followed years of
failed light rail plans for Clackamas County, began construction work in
mid-2011. As part of the project, TriMet built Tilikum Crossing
(pictured), billed as "the largest car-free bridge in the United
States", over the Willamette River. The extension opened to Orange Line
service on September 12, 2015. The line serves 17 stations and runs for
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a minimum headway of 15 minutes during most of the day.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX_Orange_Line>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1806:
Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company at
Vellore Fort.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore_mutiny>
1921:
Irish War of Independence: One day after a truce was agreed
between the Irish Republican Army and British forces, violence broke out
between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281921%29>
1941:
The Holocaust: Ethnic Poles murdered at least 340 Jewish
residents of Jedwabne in German-occupied Poland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedwabne_pogrom>
2018:
The last members of a junior football team and their coach were
rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gorge:
1. (intransitive, reflexive) Often followed by on: To stuff the gorge or
gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
2. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large
mouthfuls or quantities.
3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
4. (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or
obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or
passage, causing an obstruction.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gorge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what
another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes
of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon. Thanks to
art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as
many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal,
differing more widely from each other than those which roll round the
infinite and which, whether their name be Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us
their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they
emanate is extinguished. This labour of the artist to discover a means
of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something
different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the
operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly
engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion,
accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for
practical ends which we falsely call life.
--Marcel Proust
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust>
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