Brockway Mountain Drive is an 8.883-mile (14.296 km) scenic highway
just west of Copper Harbor in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the
United States. Drivers can access the road from state highway M-26 on
either end near Eagle Harbor to the west or Copper Harbor to the east in
the Keweenaw Peninsula. The drive runs along the ridge of Brockway
Mountain on the Keweenaw Fault and climbs to 1,320 feet (402 m) above
sea level, 720 feet (220 m) above the surface of Lake Superior. Several
viewpoints along the route allow for panoramas of Lake Superior
(pictured from the road), Copper Harbor, and undeveloped woodland. On a
clear day, Isle Royale (approximately 50 miles (80 km) away) can be
seen. Brockway Mountain was named for David D. Brockway, one of the
pioneer residents of the area. The road was constructed by the county
road commission with funding through Depression-era work programs in
1933. It was briefly used as a connection for the parallel state highway
after it opened. Since it opened, it has been recognized nationally and
locally in several media outlets for its picturesque qualities, usually
in profiles of Keweenaw County, the Upper Peninsula or other scenic
drives.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockway_Mountain_Drive>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
American Civil War: In the Battle of Bristoe Station, the
Union II Corps was able to surprise and repel the Confederate attack
on the Union rear guard, resulting in a Union victory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bristoe_Station>
1888:
French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene,
the earliest surviving motion picture, in Roundhay, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_Prince>
1943:
World War II: During the second raid on Schweinfurt, the US
8th Air Force suffered so many losses that it lost air supremacy over
Germany for several months.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Raid_on_Schweinfurt>
1953:
Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101
special forces attacked the village of Qibya on the West Bank,
destroying 45 buildings, killing 42 villagers, and wounding 15 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibya_massacre>
1973:
After student protests against the Thai military government
turned to violence, King Bhumibol Adulyadej announced that Prime
Minister Thanom Kittikachorn had resigned.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Thai_popular_uprising>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
iatrogenic:
(of a medical condition) Induced by the words or actions of the
physician.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iatrogenic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a
single human being can be taught to feel … the moment you feel, you're
nobody-but-yourself. To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing
its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight
the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop
fighting.
--E. E. Cummings
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings>