New York State Route 174 is a state highway in the county of Onondaga,
located in Central New York, United States. The highway is 16.70 miles
(26.88 km) long and passes through mostly rural regions. Route 174
begins at an intersection with NY 41 in Borodino, a hamlet of Spafford.
It heads northward for most of its length, except for short distances
in the villages of Marcellus and Camillus. The route ends at a junction
with NY 5 west of Camillus, at the west end of the Route 5 Camillus
bypass. Route 174 is located along a large mapped sedimentary bedrock
unit, known as the Marcellus Formation. The formation is named for an
outcrop found near the town of Marcellus, New York, during a geological
survey in 1839. The road was first laid out in the early 19th century
following the path of Nine Mile Creek, which connected several early
settlements in Central New York. The northern half of the route,
between the villages of Marcellus and Camillus, was later improved as a
plank road in 1855 by a private corporation that collected tolls from
travelers on the road. The state took over the maintenance of the road
by the beginning of the 20th century. The former plank road and an
extension south to Otisco Lake and southwest to Skaneateles Lake was
first designated as Route 174 in the 1930 state highway renumbering.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1815:
After escaping from his exile in Elba, Napoleon Bonaparte entered
Paris, officially beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days>
1852:
American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was first
published, profoundly affecting attitudes toward African Americans and
slavery in the United States, and further intensifying the sectional
conflict leading to the American Civil War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin>
1987:
The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (AZT) became the first antiviral
medication approved for use against HIV and AIDS.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidovudine>
1995:
The Aum Shinrikyo sect carried out a poison gas attack on the Tokyo
Subway, killing 12 people and injuring thousands of others with sarin.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway>
2006:
Cyclone Larry made landfall in Far North Queensland, eventually causing
nearly AU$1 billion in total damage and destroying over 80 percent of
Australia's banana crop.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Larry>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
question the question (v):
To ask that a proposed question’s presuppositions be explicitly
justified, especially as a preliminary to answering it
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years,
compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is
nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all
stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we
go.
--Friedrich Hölderlin
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