Interstate 15 in Arizona is part of Interstate 15 (I-15), a transcontinental Interstate Highway from San Diego, California, to the Canadian border. The highway segment passes through Mohave County in the far northwest corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. Despite its length of 29.43 miles (47.36 km) and isolation from the rest of the state in the remote Arizona Strip, it is notable for the scenic section through the Virgin River Gorge. The highway heads in a northeasterly direction from the Nevada border northeast of Mesquite, Nevada, to the Utah border southwest of St. George, Utah. The southern portion of the routing of I-15 was built close to the alignment of the old U.S. Route 91, but the northern section through the Virgin River Gorge was built along an alignment that previously had no road. The southern section of the highway was complete and opened in the early 1960s, while the section through the gorge did not open to traffic until 1973. When it opened, the portion of I-15 through the Virgin River Gorge was the most expensive section of rural Interstate per mile.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1759:

Seven Years' War: British forces defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France, though General James Wolfe was mortally wounded . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham

1814:

War of 1812: Fort McHenry in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was attacked by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore, later inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," which later became the national anthem of the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McHenry

1848:

American railroad worker Phineas Gage survived an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head and destroyed areas of his brain's frontal lobes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

1964:

South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc staged a coup attempt after junta leader Nguyen Khanh demoted them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1964_South_Vietnamese_coup_attempt

1993:

After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin formally signed the Oslo Peace Accords. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

2007:

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Rights_of_Indigenous_Peoples

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

corkscrew (v): 1. To wind or twist in the path of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting. 2. To extract information or consent from someone http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corkscrew

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,

And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. --Alexander Pope http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope