County, California, that extends from La Jolla Parkway at Interstate 5
(I-5) in La Jolla, San Diego, to SR 67 in Santee. A freeway for its
entire length, it serves as a major east–west route through the
northern part of the city of San Diego and connects the major
north–south freeways of the county. SR 52 passes north of the Rose
Canyon Fault before traversing Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (MCAS
Miramar). East of Santo Road and west of SR 125, the highway goes
through Mission Trails Regional Park, a large open preserve. Plans for a
route between La Jolla and Santee date from 1959, and SR 52 was
officially designated in the 1964 state highway renumbering.
Construction of the freeway east of Santo Road encountered delays from
environmentalists over the endangered Least Bell's Vireo songbird, which
faced habitat destruction, as well as those concerned with the
destruction of homes and businesses. The extension to Mission Gorge Road
opened in 1993, but funding issues delayed the completion of the entire
route to Santee until 2011, more than fifty years after construction
began.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_52>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1676:
Puritans and their Native American allies killed Wampanoag
sachem Metacomet (known as "King Philip"), essentially ending King
Philip's War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War>
1883:
The last known quagga (pictured), a subspecies of the plains
zebra, died at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga>
1952:
Thirteen Jewish poets in Moscow were executed for espionage
based on false confessions.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets>
1969:
Riots erupted in the Bogside area of Derry and spread across
much of Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bogside>
2000:
The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy
exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
repechage:
(sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors
who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left
in the next round.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/repechage>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great
knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution
of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that
within.
--Edith Hamilton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_Hamilton>
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