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 20.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical- align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser- output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overf low:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 hours daily with a minimum headway of 15 minutes during most of the day.
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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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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
___________________________ 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