southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking central Perth with
Mandurah to the south. It interchanges with several major roads,
including Roe Highway and Mandjoogoordap Drive, and is the central
section of State Route 2, which continues north as Mitchell Freeway to
Joondalup, and south as Forrest Highway towards Bunbury. A 4-kilometre
(2.5 mi) section between Canning and Leach highways is also part of
National Route 1. The northern terminus of the Kwinana Freeway is at
the Narrows Bridge, which crosses the Swan River, and the southern
terminus is at Pinjarra Road, east of Mandurah. Planning began in the
1950s, and the first segment in South Perth was constructed between 1956
and 1959. The route has been progressively widened and extended south
since then. The last extension was completed in 2009, with the section
north of Pinjarra Road named as part of the Kwinana Freeway, and the
remainder named Forrest Highway. The freeway has been adapted to cater
for public transport: bus priority measures were introduced in 1987, and
in 2007, the Mandurah railway line (pictured) opened, constructed in the
freeway median strip.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwinana_Freeway>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
904:
The warlord Zhu Quanzhong killed Emperor Zhaozong, the
penultimate emperor of Tang Dynasty China, after seizing control of the
imperial government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Zhaozong_of_Tang>
1776:
Captain Nathan Hale, an American Revolutionary spy from the
Continental Army, was hanged by British forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale>
1792:
French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted
to abolish the monarchy, the French First Republic came into being.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_First_Republic>
1957:
François "Papa Doc" Duvalier was elected President of Haiti as
a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the
rest of his life.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier>
1965:
The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a
resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani
War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
voetsek:
Go away! Get lost! Exclamation of dismissal or rejection.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voetsek>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Among those points of self-education which take up the form of
mental discipline, there is one of great importance, and, moreover,
difficult to deal with, because it involves an internal conflict, and
equally touches our vanity and our ease. It consists in the tendency to
deceive ourselves regarding all we wish for, and the necessity of
resistance to these desires. It is impossible for any one who has not
been constrained, by the course of his occupation and thoughts, to a
habit of continual self-correction, to be aware of the amount of error
in relation to judgment arising from this tendency. The force of the
temptation which urges us to seek for such evidence and appearances as
are in favour of our desires, and to disregard those which oppose them,
is wonderfully great. In this respect we are all, more or less, active
promoters of error. In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we
ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly
that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us;
whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
--Michael Faraday
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday>
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