kilometres (48 mi) east of Perth, that carried Great Eastern Highway
until 2008. It is the only bridge in Western Australia to have spanned
both a waterway and railway, the Clackline Brook and the former Eastern
Railway alignment. The mainly timber bridge has a unique curved and
sloped design, due to the difficult topography and the route of the
former railway. The bridge was designed in 1934 to replace two dangerous
rail crossings and a rudimentary water crossing. Construction began in
January 1935, and the opening ceremony was held on 30 August 1935. The
bridge was still a safety hazard, with increasing severity and numbers
of accidents in the 1970s and 1980s. Planning for a highway bypass of
Clackline and the Clackline Bridge began in the 1990s, and was
constructed between January 2007 and February 2008. The local community
had been concerned that the historic bridge would be lost, but it
remains part of the local road network, and has been listed on both the
Northam Municipal Heritage Inventory and the Heritage Council of Western
Australia's Register of Heritage Places.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackline_Bridge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1799:
Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: A squadron of the navy of
the Batavian Republic surrendered to the Royal Navy without a fight near
Wieringen.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlieter_Incident>
1835:
European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River
in Southeastern Australia founded the city of Melbourne (Parliament
House pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne>
1862:
American Civil War: In separate actions, Confederate forces
were victorious in both the Battle of Richmond in Kentucky and the
Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run>
1918:
Fanni Kaplan shot and wounded Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin,
helping to spark the Red Terror in the future Soviet Union, a repression
against Socialist-Revolutionary Party members and other political
opponents.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror>
1984:
Space Shuttle Discovery took off on its maiden voyage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
leech:
1. (transitive) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from
the patient.
2. (transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leech>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my
ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was
born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of
mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not
particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's
dinner. But I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where
society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that
talent, and set up the laws and the financial system to let me do what I
love doing — and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is
help pay for all that.
--Warren Buffett
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett>
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