US Highway 141 is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs for about 169 miles (272 km) in the states of Wisconsin and Michigan. The highway runs north-northwesterly from Bellevue, Wisconsin, near Green Bay, to an intersection near Covington, Michigan. In between, it follows city streets in Green Bay and a freeway section north of that city. Most of the remainder of US 141 is a rural two-lane highway that crosses into Michigan, back into Wisconsin and then finally back into Michigan again. When the highway was created in 1926, its northernmost section in Michigan was numbered US 102, and US 141 extended farther south from Bellevue to Milwaukee. Two years later, US 141 was extended north into Michigan to replace US 102. Since then, parts of the highway have been converted to freeway; the highway has ended southeast of Green Bay in Bellevue since the 1980s—the southern segment was redesignated as I-43. (This article is part of a featured topic: U.S. Highways in Michigan.).
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1752:
Under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping 11 days of the month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_%28New_Style%29_Act_1750
1940:
Hungarian forces massacred at least 150 ethnic Romanians in Ip, Transylvania, following rumors that Romanians were responsible for the deaths of two soldiers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_massacre
1960:
At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to help unify and coordinate their petroleum policies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
1992:
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia unconstitutional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Republic_of_Herzeg-Bosnia
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
epicene: 1. (linguistics) Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.). 2. (linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents. 3. (by extension) Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex. 4. (biology and figurative) Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex. 5. (by extension) Indeterminate; mixed. 6. (by extension, usually derogatory) Of a man: effeminate. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epicene
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The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained. --Sydney J. Harris https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sydney_J._Harris
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