In Tennessee, Interstate 40 (I-40) runs from west to east, from the Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the Blue Ridge Mountains at the North Carolina state line. Paralleling the older U.S. Route 70 corridor, I-40 passes through Tennessee's three largest cities—Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville—and serves the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most-visited national park in the United States. At 455.28 miles (732.70 km), the Tennessee segment of I-40 is the longest of those in the eight states through which the highway passes and the state's longest Interstate Highway. Built in segments, I-40 in Tennessee was mostly complete by the late 1960s. The construction of the highway resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe (1971), increasing the scope for judicial review of administrative actions. The case caused the state to realign I-40's route through Memphis onto what was originally a section of I-240.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_40_in_Tennessee
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1973:
U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Alaska. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System
1997:
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, released on ostensibly medical grounds after spending eighteen years in prison, was deported to the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng
2002:
The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory coronavirus disease, was recorded in Guangdong, China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS
2020:
The El Dorado Fire in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado_Fire
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
woof: 1. (weaving) 2. The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft. 3. (by extension) A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric. 4. (by extension, loosely, chiefly poetic) The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft. 5. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”) 6. (figurative) 7. Something which is interwoven with another thing. 8. An underlying foundation or structure of something; a fabric. 9. The sound a dog makes when barking; a bark. 10. (by extension) A sound resembling a dog's bark; specifically (sound engineering), a low-frequency sound of bad quality produced by a loudspeaker. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woof
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
This week we saw the horrible images and stories from Israel and Gaza, and I know what you're thinking: "Who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson?" Well, in a lot of ways, I am a good person to talk about it because when I was seven years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack. So I know something about what that's like. I saw so many terrible pictures this week of children suffering — Israeli children and Palestinian children. And It took me back to a really horrible, horrible place. No one in this world deserves to suffer like that, especially not kids, ya know? … My heart is with everyone whose lives have been destroyed this week. But tonight, I'm gonna do what I've always done in the face of tragedy, and that's try to be funny. Remember, I said TRY. --Pete Davidson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pete_Davidson