King's Highway 403 is a 400-series highway in Ontario, Canada, between
Woodstock and Mississauga, which branches off southwards from
Highway 401 and travels through Hamilton and Mississauga before
reuniting with the 401. It is concurrent and co-signed with the Queen
Elizabeth Way (QEW) for 22 km (14 mi) from Burlington to Oakville. The
403 designation was applied to a short stub in 1963; the entire route
was completed when the Brantford to Ancaster section opened on
August 15, 1997. The Woodstock to Burlington stretch was dedicated as
the Alexander Graham Bell Parkway in 2016. Most of Highway 403 runs
through suburbia, although the areas west of Hamilton are agricultural
except for Brantford. In Hamilton, Highway 403 descends the Niagara
Escarpment, then runs north of Hamilton Harbour to the QEW. It then
travels through Burlington and Oakville, departing from the QEW to the
north at the Mississauga–Oakville boundary. It then crosses
Mississauga's city centre before turning north and ends at Highway 401.
Some lanes continue north to Brampton as Highway 410.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_403>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
American Indian Wars: General William J. Worth declared an end
to the Second Seminole War, fought between U.S. forces and the Seminole
people of Florida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Seminole_War>
1888:
One of the first recordings of music, of Arthur Sullivan's "The
Lost Chord" (audio featured), was played at a press conference in London
to introduce Thomas Edison's phonograph.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Chord>
2010:
The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in
Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Olympic_Games>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
athwart:
1. From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.
2. Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.
3. (figuratively) Against the anticipated or appropriate course of
something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.
4. From one side to the other side of; across.
5. Across the course or path of, so as to meet; hence (figuratively), to
the attention of.
6. Across the course or path of, so as to oppose.
7. (figuratively)
8. Across; through.
9. Opposed to.
10. (nautical) Across the line of a ship's course, or across its deck.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/athwart>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All of a sudden I had to remember some words that Marlowe had
told me over fifteen years ago: "Dead men don't wear plaid." Hmm...
Dead men don't wear plaid. I still don't know what it means.
--Steve Martin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Martin>