Interstate 296 (I-296) is a part of the Interstate Highway System in
the US state of Michigan. It is a state trunkline highway that runs for
3.43 miles (5.52 km) parallel to the Grand River on the west bank,
entirely within the Grand Rapids area. Its termini are I-196 near
downtown Grand Rapids and I-96 on the north side of Grand Rapids in
Walker. For most of its length, the Interstate runs concurrently with US
Highway 131, which continues as a freeway built to Interstate Highway
standards north and south of the shorter I-296. The highway was first
proposed in the late 1950s and opened in December 1962. The Michigan
Department of Transportation has since eliminated all signage for I-296
and removed the designation from their official state map, leaving it
unsigned, but I-296 is still listed on the Interstate Highway System
route log maintained by the Federal Highway Administration.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_296>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1790:
The Aztec sun stone, now a modern symbol of Mexican culture,
was excavated in the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_sun_stone>
1970:
Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging
from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass
anti-communist protests across the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Polish_protests>
2010:
Arab Spring: Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set
himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the
Tunisian Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nithing:
1. (archaic) A coward, a dastard; a wretch.
2. (archaic) A wicked person; also, one who has acted immorally or
unlawfully.
3. (archaic) Cowardly, dastardly.
4. (archaic) Notoriously evil or wicked; infamous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nithing>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Son of God became incarnate to infuse into the human soul the
feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God. Abba,
as he called the Father. I will show you the way, he said. Follow me and
you will find the Father and you will all be his children and he will
take delight in you. Agape, the love of each one of us for the other,
from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has
given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.
--Pope Francis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pope_Francis>
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