Great Eastern Highway is a 590-kilometre-long (370 mi) road linking the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link between Perth and the eastern states of Australia. The highway forms the majority of National Highway 94, with various segments included in other road routes. The highway was created in the 1930s from an existing system of roads linking Perth with the Goldfields, though the name was coined to describe a different route from Perth to Guildford (modern-day Guildford Road). The Belmont section was constructed in 1867 using convict labour, with the road base made from sections of tree trunks. Several bypasses have been constructed, including Great Eastern Highway Bypass in Perth. Over the years the road has been upgraded, with the whole highway sealed by 1953, segments reconstructed and widened, dual carriageways created in Perth and Kalgoorlie, and grade separated interchanges built at major intersections. A future route to replace its current ascent of the Darling Scarp has been identified.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern_Highway

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

632:

The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, took the throne at the age of eight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazdegerd_III

1407:

During the Ming–Hồ War, the Chinese Ming armies captured Hồ Quý Ly and his sons, thus ending the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming%E2%80%93H%E1%BB%93_War

1846:

Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was elected as Pius IX (pictured), and he would become the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX

1958:

Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 were executed following secret trials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Nagy

1967:

The Monterey Pop Festival rock festival, the venue for the first major American performances by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, and Ravi Shankar, began in Monterey, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

abeyance: 1. (law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined; undetermined ownership. 2. Suspension; temporary suppression. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abeyance

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.   --Ulysses https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulysses