King's Highway 71 is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Part of the Trans-Canada Highway, the 194-kilometre (121 mi) route travels west from the Fort Frances-International Falls International Bridge in Fort Frances, concurrently with Highway 11, for 40 kilometres (25 mi). At Chapple, Highway 71 branches from Highway 11, travelling 154 kilometres (96 mi) north to a junction with Highway 17 just east of Kenora. The concurrent portion of the highway follows the Cloverleaf Trail, which was completed by the end of the 1880s and improved over the next several decades. The portion between Highway 11 and Highway 17 follows the Heenan Highway, which connects the Rainy River region with Kenora and the remainder of Ontario's road network; before its opening the area was accessible only via the United States. Both highways were incorporated into the provincial highway system in 1937 following the merger of the Department of Highways and the Department of Northern Development.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1774:

Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, ordered soldiers to remove gunpowder from a magazine, causing Patriots to prepare for war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_Alarm

1804:

German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Juno

1914:

The passenger pigeon, which once had a population of at least 3 billion birds, became extinct, when the last individual died in captivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

1969:

A bloodless coup led by Muammar Gaddafi overthrew Idris I of Libya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi

1983:

A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian airliner Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

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desire line: A path that pedestrians or vehicles take informally rather than taking a sidewalk or set route, for example, a well-worn ribbon of dirt cutting across a patch of grass, or a path in the snow. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desire_line

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There’s very good news from the asteroids. It appears that a large fraction of them, including the big ones, are actually very rich in H2O. Nobody imagined that. They thought they were just big rocks … It’s easier to get to an asteroid than to Mars, because the gravity is lower and landing is easier. Certainly the asteroids are much more practical, right now. If we start space colonies in, say, the next 20 years, I would put my money on the asteroids.   --Freeman Dyson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson