AirTrain JFK is an 8.1-mile-long (13 km) elevated people mover system
and rail link serving John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York
City. Its three lines and ten stations, operated by the Canadian firm
Bombardier Transportation, connect the airport's six terminals with the
New York City Subway in Howard Beach, Queens, and with the Long Island
Rail Road and subway in Jamaica, Queens. In-depth planning for a
dedicated transport system at JFK began in 1990, and construction
commenced in 1998. The system opened in December 2003 after multiple
delays. Since then, several improvements have been proposed for AirTrain
JFK, including an extension to Manhattan. The system was originally
projected to carry 4 million annual paying passengers and 8.4 million
annual inter-terminal passengers, but the AirTrain has consistently
exceeded these projections; in 2017, it had approximately 7.66 million
paying passengers and 12.6 million inter-terminal passengers.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: In the world's first battle between two
ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw near
the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads>
1932:
Éamon de Valera, one of the dominant political figures in
20th-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the
Irish Free State.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera>
1944:
World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air
Forces heavily bombed Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly
civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tallinn_in_World_War_II>
2010:
The first legal U.S. same-sex marriages south of the
Mason–Dixon line took place in Washington, D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_District_of_Columbia>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ply:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to
adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to
submit.
2. (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way
or yield (to a force, etc.). […]
3. (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
4. (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or
vigorously.
5. (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
6. (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the
purpose of inducement or persuasion.
7. (transitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
9. (intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so
that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to
the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ply>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have nothing to prove to you.
--Captain Marvel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_%28film%29>
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