The Interstate Highway System is a system of freeways in the United States. It was first designed by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 was used to pay for construction. It was mostly built from the 1950s through the 1980s, but more freeways were built later. It is now about 47,000 miles long. Some interstates have tolls, but most do not. Most interstates have rest areas every few dozen miles.
To be an Interstate Highway, there cannot be any stoplights. To get on or off the freeway, an interchange is needed. The speed limit is usually at least 55 miles per hour. It must have at least two lanes going each way. The lanes must be at least 12 feet wide. There has to be a median or barrier between cars going different directions.
North-south interstates have odd numbers. The numbers go up from west to east. East-west interstates have even numbers. The numbers go up from south to north. One and two digit freeways go long distances. Three digit freeways go into or around cities. Freeways that go into cites are called spur routes and start with an odd number. Freeways that go around cities are called loop routes and start with an even number. The last two digits in a spur or a loop route are the same as the freeway it started from.
List of auxiliary Interstate Highways
This is a list of auxiliary Interstate Highways. These are interstate highways with three digits.
TransAsia Airways Flight 222
TransAsia Airways Flight 222 (GE222/TNA222) was a scheduled domestic flight from Kaohsiung International Airport to Magong Airport on 23 July 2014. It had 54 passengers and 4 crew members on board. It crashed at Magong, Penghu Island when it was trying to land. 49 people died in the crash. It tried a go-around after it failed to land on its first try. It crashed at Huxi and caused a fire involving two homes. Typhoon Matmo also passed through Taiwan and caused a heavy thunderstorm and rain.
MATE (software)
MATE is a desktop environment for Linux. It is based on an older version of the desktop environment GNOME, called GNOME 2. Many people in the Linux community did not like the way GNOME 3 (or GNOME Shell) looked, and wanted GNOME 2. This called for someone to fork from part of an existing program) of GNOME based on GNOME 2. An Arch Linux user created MATE, it is named after a South American plant called Yerba Mate and the tea made from the plant, "mate."
MATE comes with programs that are forked from GNOME's classic programs, and they have not changed much from when they were in GNOME. Some of them were made from scratch, not based on a GNOME program. The forked programs were named in spanish, like MATE itself.
Fecal Matter (band)
Fecal Matter was a short lived punk rock band from Aberdeen, Washington. The band was made in 1985 by Kurt Cobain, the future lead guitarist of the band Nirvana, and Dale Crover. The band made a demo tape named "Illiteracy Will Prevail". That demo tape was unofficially released in 1985.
UEFA Euro 1980
The UEFA Euro 1980 was the 6th UEFA European Football Championship tournament. Its formal name was the 1980 UEFA European Football Championship. It was held from 11 June to 22 June. All the European football teams could compete. The defending champion was Czechoslovakia. The tournament was hosted in Italy. 8 teams qualified for the final group stage. The winner of the tournament was Germany after defeating Belgium.
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UEFA Euro 1976
The UEFA Euro 1976 was the 5th UEFA European Football Championship tournament. Its formal name was the 1976 UEFA European Football Championship. It was held from 16 June to 20 June. All the European football teams could compete. The defending champion was Czechoslovakia. The tournament was hosted in Yugoslavia. 4 teams qualified for the final group stage. The winner of the tournament was Czechoslovakia after defeating West Germany.
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2005 FIFA Confederations Cup
The 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup was the 7th FIFA Confederations Cup tournament. It took place in Germany from 15 June to 29 June. Brazil won the tournament after defeating Argentina. The host, Germany, got third place.
1995 King Fahd Cup
The 1995 FIFA Confederations Cup was the 2th King Fahd Cup tournament. It took place in Saudi Arabia from 6 January to 13 January. Denmark won the tournament after defeating Argentina. Mexico got third place.
Shkodran Mustafi
Shkodran Mustafi (born April 17, 1992 in Bad Hersfeld) is a German association football defender (football) of Albanian descent. He plays for Valencia in Spain and for the Germany national football team. He made two appearances in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which his team won.
Bossa Nova Baby
Bossa Nova Baby is a rock n roll song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. on 22 January 1963 it was recorded by Elvis Presley. The album that included the song was Fun in Acapulco.
The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1963 it hit #20 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart.
Sandstone, Minnesota
Sandstone is a city in Pine County, Minnesota, United States, along the Kettle River. The population was 2,849 at the 2010 census.
Club Universidad Nacional
Club de Fútbol Universidad Nacional A. C., commonly known as Pumas de la UNAM, or just Pumas, is a Mexican football club from Mexico City.
Arsenal de Sarandí
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They are also known for having a similar name to the famous English Premier League team Arsenal F.C
Valvatida
Valvatida is an order of sea star in the class Asteroidea. That class contains 695 species in 172 genera in 17 families.
Norman Leyden
Norman Fowler Leyden (October 17, 1917 – July 23, 2014) was an American conductor, composer, arranger, and clarinetist.
He worked in movie and television. He was perhaps best known as the conductor of the Oregon Symphony Pops orchestra. He co-wrote with Glenn Miller the theme "I Sustain the Wings" in 1943, which was used to introduce the World War II radio series.
Leyden died on July 23, 2014, of an unspecified cause.
Percy Bland
Bland was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi on September 23, 1970. He grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. He attended St. Joseph High School. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry at Xavier University of New Orleans. He played collegiate basketball. Bland earned a Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Bland went to work for the Fulton County Health Department in Atlanta, Georgia. There he was an epidemiologist in the Tuberculosis Control Department. Bland met his wife Deidre in Atlanta. They married on August 15, 1999. Deidre Bland is a teacher at Ross Collins in the Meridian Public School District. Bland returned to Mississippi and became the Human Resources Director and Marketing Director with the G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center. Bland moved to Meridian to run a State Farm Insurance Agency.
In 2007, Bland was co-chair to pass a bond issue for the first major renovations and improvements to Meridian’s public schools in more than 20 years. The bond issue was for $19.5 million. The bond issue passed on March 27, 2007 with 71.3%.
Bland also helped establish the Magnolia Youth Sports Association. He still runs his own Summer Basketball Camp. Bland helped establish the First Tee Golf Program in Meridian, the first in the state, a golf program aimed at improving the quality of life of primarily inner-city children.