Interstate 675 (I-675) is a 7.7-mile-long (12.4 km) auxiliary
Interstate Highway, state trunkline highway and loop route in the US
state of Michigan. Splitting from I-75 and US Highway 23, which run
north concurrently along the eastern side of Saginaw, I-675 heads west
into the downtown area and spans the Saginaw River on the Henry G. Marsh
Bridge. After an interchange with M-58, the Interstate turns northward,
then runs northeasterly to connect back to I-75. The Marsh Bridge was
constructed as an alternative to the Zilwaukee Bridge, which is just
southeast of this junction on I-75 over the Saginaw; the I-75 bridge was
until 1988 a drawbridge that would impede traffic on the freeway for up
to four hours at a time. Construction of I-675 started in 1969 and the
freeway opened in 1971. Sections near downtown were reconstructed from
2009 through 2011 to update one of the freeway's interchanges and to
rebuild the Marsh Bridge.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_675_%28Michigan%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1573:
A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end,
ceding Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War_%281570%E2%80%931573%29>
1900:
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the
first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kaiser_Wilhelm_der_Grosse>
1945:
World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied
forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge, which possibly
hastened the war's conclusion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Remagen>
1965:
Unarmed civil rights activists marching from Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama, were attacked by police on "Bloody Sunday".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nervous:
1. Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
2. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
3. Relating to or affecting the nerves.
4. (archaic) Having nerves; nervose.
5. (obsolete) Showing nervous strength; sinewy, vigorous.
6. (obsolete) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nervous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and
has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases
which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and
exciting contemplations. … Accustomed to trace the operation of
general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in
circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither
novelty nor beauty, he walks in the midst of wonders.
--John Herschel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Herschel>