Interstate 470 (I-470) is a 10.63-mile-long (17.1-kilometer) auxiliary
Interstate Highway of I-70 that bypasses the city of Wheeling, West
Virginia, in the United States. It is the only auxiliary Interstate
Highway in West Virginia. The western terminus of I-470 is an
interchange with I-70 in Richland Township, Ohio. Passing southeast
through rural Belmont County, I-470 crosses the Ohio River on the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, entering Ohio County, West Virginia,
at a complex three-level diamond interchange with concurrent highways
U.S. Route 250 and West Virginia Route 2. After turning east towards
Bethlehem, it terminates at I-70 in West Virginia near Elm Grove. The
freeway was built between 1975 and 1983. On average, between 25,500 and
37,840 vehicles use the highway daily. The West Virginia portion of
I-470 has been named the USS West Virginia Memorial Highway since
December 2000, commemorating the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_470_%28Ohio%E2%80%93West_Virginia%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1893:
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio
featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_%28Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k%29>
1918:
Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet
Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%9319%29>
1938:
Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German
Mother as an order of merit for German mothers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_Mother>
2014:
A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney,
Australia, came to an end when police stormed the building, killing the
perpetrator, but also one of the hostages.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Sydney_hostage_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
prototype:
1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or
objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations
and models.
2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
3. (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name,
return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
4. (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its
most representative attributes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prototype>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and
discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one
— the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
--Arthur C. Clarke
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke>