M-28 is an east–west state trunkline highway that almost completely traverses the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan, from Wakefield to near Sault Ste. Marie. M-28 is the longest state trunkline with the "M-" prefix at 290 miles (467 km). Three sections of the highway are part of the Lake Superior Circle Tour, and two sections carry memorial highway designations. M-28 passes through forested woodlands, bog swamps, and urbanized areas. Sections of roadway cross the Ottawa National Forest and both sections of the Hiawatha National Forest. Other landmarks accessible from the highway include the Seney National Wildlife Refuge and several historic bridges. M-28 dates to the 1919 formation of the state's trunkline system, though the original highway was much shorter. It was expanded eastward to the Sault Ste. Marie area in the late 1920s.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1744:

War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking the Spanish rear of a Franco-Spanish combined fleet in the Mediterranean Sea off the French coast near Toulon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Toulon_%281744%29

1899:

Philippine–American War: Filipino forces launched their first counterattack in a failed attempt to recapture Manila from the Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Caloocan

1959:

Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Daytona_500

2012:

A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer stop at Once Station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more than 700 injuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Buenos_Aires_rail_disaster

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

vamp: 1. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish. 2. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. 3. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. 4. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”). 5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear). 6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk. 7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. […] 8. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vamp

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.   --George Washington https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington