Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the
longest Interstate Highway in the United States at 3,021 miles
(4,862 km). It runs from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts,
passing through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Great Plains, and
Midwest. The highway serves 13 states and has 15 auxiliary routes,
primarily in major cities such as Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, and
Rochester. The route incorporates several toll roads that predate the
Interstate Highway System, including the Ohio Turnpike, New York State
Thruway, and Massachusetts Turnpike. These toll roads opened in the
1950s and were followed by toll-free sections a decade later. The
Midwestern sections of I-90 were fully completed in 1978, and the
majority of the route between Seattle and South Dakota opened by 1987.
The final section, near the western terminus in Seattle, opened on
September 12, 1993; an eastern extension in Boston was completed in
2003 as part of the Big Dig project.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_90>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
The English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning eloped to Italy, marrying in secret to avoid their disapproving
families.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning>
1933:
Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea
of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in
Bloomsbury, London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard>
1948:
The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign,
the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of
the Chinese Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaoshen_campaign>
1995:
Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it
went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ismael>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pink tea:
1. (countable, US)
2. (historical) A fashionable formal tea party or other social
gathering; specifically, one organized and attended chiefly by women to
discuss matters of suffrage, raise funds for charity, etc.
3. (by extension) Any exclusive social gathering.
4. (figurative, chiefly in the negative, also attributively) Something
(as an event or policy) excessively polite and refined; specifically,
one regarded as ineffective and weak.
5. (uncountable, India, Pakistan) A hot drink from the Indian
subcontinent with a pink colour, made with gunpowder tea, baking soda,
and milk.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pink_tea>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Cancel me not — for what then shall remain? Abscissas some
mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The
inverse of my verse, a null domain.
--Stanisław Lem
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem>
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