New York State Route 22 is a north–south state highway in eastern New
York in the United States. It runs parallel to the state's eastern edge
from the outskirts of New York City to the hamlet of Mooers in Clinton
County. At 337 miles (542 km), it is the state's longest north–south
route. The southernmost section of the road connected New York City to
White Plains in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Route 22 in
its modern form was established in 1930 as one of the principal routes
from New York City to Canada. It is a two-lane road passing through
small villages and hamlets, as well as the city of Plattsburgh in the
north, lower Westchester County, and the heavily populated borough of
The Bronx. The rural landscapes include picturesque reservoirs of the
New York City watershed, dairy farms in the Taconic Mountains and the
Berkshires, and the undeveloped, heavily forested Adirondack Park along
the shores of Lake Champlain. An 86-mile (138 km) section from Fort Ann
to Keeseville is part of the Lakes to Locks Passage, an All-American
Road.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_22>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1704:
War of the Spanish Succession: The Duke of Marlborough led
Allied forces to a crucial victory in the Battle of Blenheim.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blenheim>
1868:
A major earthquake near Arica, Peru (now in Chile), caused an
estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami caused
considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868_Arica_earthquake>
1918:
Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the United
States Marine Corps.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opha_May_Johnson>
1977:
Members of the UK's far-right National Front party (NF) clashed
with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests
and at least 111 injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewisham>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
freewheeling:
Unbounded by rules or conventions; unrestrained.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/freewheeling>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth
is in the keeping of others.
--V. S. Naipaul
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V._S._Naipaul>
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