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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_71>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>
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