In Tennessee, Interstate 40 (I-40) runs from west to east, from the
Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the Blue Ridge Mountains at
the North Carolina state line. Paralleling the older U.S. Route 70
corridor, I-40 passes through Tennessee's three largest
cities—Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville—and serves the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park, the most-visited national park in the United
States. At 455.28 miles (732.70 km), the Tennessee segment of I-40 is
the longest of those in the eight states through which the highway
passes and the state's longest Interstate Highway. Built in segments,
I-40 in Tennessee was mostly complete by the late 1960s. The
construction of the highway resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision
Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe (1971), increasing the scope
for judicial review of administrative actions. The case caused the state
to realign I-40's route through Memphis onto what was originally a
section of I-240.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_40_in_Tennessee>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1973:
U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the
construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the
Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Alaska.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System>
1997:
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, released on ostensibly medical
grounds after spending eighteen years in prison, was deported to the
United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng>
2002:
The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory coronavirus
disease, was recorded in Guangdong, China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS>
2020:
The El Dorado Fire in San Bernardino and Riverside counties,
United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20
structures and killed one firefighter.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado_Fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
woof:
1. (weaving)
2. The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed
crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
3. (by extension) A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric.
4. (by extension, loosely, chiefly poetic) The thread or yarn used to
form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft.
5. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven
material on a loom”)
6. (figurative)
7. Something which is interwoven with another thing.
8. An underlying foundation or structure of something; a fabric.
9. The sound a dog makes when barking; a bark.
10. (by extension) A sound resembling a dog's bark; specifically (sound
engineering), a low-frequency sound of bad quality produced by a
loudspeaker. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woof>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This week we saw the horrible images and stories from Israel and
Gaza, and I know what you're thinking: "Who better to comment on it than
Pete Davidson?" Well, in a lot of ways, I am a good person to talk
about it because when I was seven years old, my dad was killed in a
terrorist attack. So I know something about what that's like. I saw so
many terrible pictures this week of children suffering — Israeli
children and Palestinian children. And It took me back to a really
horrible, horrible place. No one in this world deserves to suffer like
that, especially not kids, ya know? … My heart is with everyone whose
lives have been destroyed this week. But tonight, I'm gonna do what I've
always done in the face of tragedy, and that's try to be funny.
Remember, I said TRY.
--Pete Davidson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pete_Davidson>
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