Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at 3,021 miles (4,862 km). It runs from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts, passing through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Great Plains, and Midwest. The highway serves 13 states and has 15 auxiliary routes, primarily in major cities such as Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Rochester. The route incorporates several toll roads that predate the Interstate Highway System, including the Ohio Turnpike, New York State Thruway, and Massachusetts Turnpike. These toll roads opened in the 1950s and were followed by toll-free sections a decade later. The Midwestern sections of I-90 were fully completed in 1978, and the majority of the route between Seattle and South Dakota opened by 1987. The final section, near the western terminus in Seattle, opened on September 12, 1993; an eastern extension in Boston was completed in 2003 as part of the Big Dig project.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
The English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning eloped to Italy, marrying in secret to avoid their disapproving families. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning
1933:
Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard
1948:
The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign, the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaoshen_campaign
1995:
Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ismael
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
pink tea: 1. (countable, US) 2. (historical) A fashionable formal tea party or other social gathering; specifically, one organized and attended chiefly by women to discuss matters of suffrage, raise funds for charity, etc. 3. (by extension) Any exclusive social gathering. 4. (figurative, chiefly in the negative, also attributively) Something (as an event or policy) excessively polite and refined; specifically, one regarded as ineffective and weak. 5. (uncountable, India, Pakistan) A hot drink from the Indian subcontinent with a pink colour, made with gunpowder tea, baking soda, and milk. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pink_tea
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Cancel me not — for what then shall remain? Abscissas some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain. --Stanisław Lem https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem