Interstate 675 (I-675) is a 7.7-mile-long (12.4 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway, state trunkline highway and loop route in the US state of Michigan. Splitting from I-75 and US Highway 23, which run north concurrently along the eastern side of Saginaw, I-675 heads west into the downtown area and spans the Saginaw River on the Henry G. Marsh Bridge. After an interchange with M-58, the Interstate turns northward, then runs northeasterly to connect back to I-75. The Marsh Bridge was constructed as an alternative to the Zilwaukee Bridge, which is just southeast of this junction on I-75 over the Saginaw; the I-75 bridge was until 1988 a drawbridge that would impede traffic on the freeway for up to four hours at a time. Construction of I-675 started in 1969 and the freeway opened in 1971. Sections near downtown were reconstructed from 2009 through 2011 to update one of the freeway's interchanges and to rebuild the Marsh Bridge.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_675_%28Michigan%29

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1573:

A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, ceding Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War_%281570%E2%80%931573%29

1900:

The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kaiser_Wilhelm_der_Grosse

1945:

World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge, which possibly hastened the war's conclusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Remagen

1965:

Unarmed civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were attacked by police on "Bloody Sunday". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

nervous: 1. Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge. 2. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried. 3. Relating to or affecting the nerves. 4. (archaic) Having nerves; nervose. 5. (obsolete) Showing nervous strength; sinewy, vigorous. 6. (obsolete) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nervous

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A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations. … Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, he walks in the midst of wonders.   --John Herschel https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Herschel