The Chickasaw Turnpike is a short two-lane toll road in the rural south central region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It stretches for 13.3 miles (21.4 km) from north of Sulphur to just south of Ada, running southwest-to-northeast through Murray and Pontotoc counties. The first section opened in 1991. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority owns, maintains, and collects tolls on most of it; a four-mile (6.4 km) segment was transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in 2011. Originally it was part of a plan to link Ada to the Interstate system and connect southern and eastern Oklahoma with a longer turnpike. It was proposed at the same time as three other turnpikes, which would become the Kilpatrick Turnpike in Oklahoma City, the Creek Turnpike in Tulsa, and the Cherokee Turnpike in eastern Oklahoma. Rural legislators objected to the Kilpatrick and Creek Turnpikes, and moved to block them unless the Chickasaw Turnpike was built. Lightly traveled, the road is used by about 2,000 vehicles per day. It is the only two-lane turnpike in Oklahoma.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

860:

A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sailed into the Bosporus and started pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(860)

1815:

War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo in present-day Belgium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo

1953:

A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa_air_disaster

1983:

Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were hanged because of their membership in the Bahá'í Faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Mahmudnizhad

2009:

NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, its first mission to the moon in over ten years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

mandilion: A loose outer garment resembling a cassock or coat, often sleeveless, worn by soldiers over armour or by menservants as a type of overcoat. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mandilion

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Quantum theory is now discussing instantaneous connections between two entangled quantum objects such as electrons. This phenomenon has been observed in laboratory experiments and scientists believe they have proven it takes place. They’re not talking about faster than the speed of light. Speed has nothing to do with it. The entangled objects somehow communicate instantaneously at a distance. If that is true, distance has no meaning. Light-years have no meaning. Space has no meaning. In a sense, the entangled objects are not even communicating. They are the same thing. At the “quantum level” (and I don’t know what that means), everything may be actually or theoretically linked. All is one. Sun, moon, stars, rain, you, me, everything. All one.   --Roger Ebert https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert