roof and sides to protect the wooden structure from the weather, crosses
Loyalsock Creek in Hillsgrove Township, Sullivan County in the U.S.
state of Pennsylvania. Built by Sadler Rodgers around 1850 and serving
as a landing site for lumber rafts between 1870 and 1890, it has been on
the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. Nineteenth-century
regulations restricting speed, number of animals, and fire are still
posted on the bridge. It gets its strength and rigidity from load-
bearing Burr arches sandwiching multiple vertical king posts on each
side. Restoration work was carried out in 1963, 1968, 2010, and, after
serious flood damage (pictured), again in 2012. The bridge was still in
use in 2015, and its average daily traffic was 54 vehicles in 2012, but
the same year, the National Bridge Inventory found the bridge to be
"Structurally Deficient" despite the restorations, with problematic
railings and a 16.5 percent structural sufficiency rating. Only three
of the 30 covered bridges that were in Sullivan County in 1890 remain
in 2015: Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown. Pennsylvania had the
first covered bridge in the United States, and has had more of them than
any other state since the mid-19th century.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsgrove_Covered_Bridge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1297:
Francesco Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture
the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as
the rulers of Monaco.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco>
1889:
Statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his
electric tabulating machine, the precursor to modern computers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith>
1920:
The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United
States steel industry in the wake of World War I, collapsed in complete
failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_strike_of_1919>
1964:
During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B.
Johnson declared a "War on Poverty".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty>
2010:
Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the
Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national
football team to the Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo_national_football_team_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
factitious:
1. Created by humans; artificial.
2. Counterfeit, fabricated.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/factitious>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The psychological basis for the use of nonviolent methods is
the simple rule that like produces like, kindness provokes kindness, as
surely as injustice produces resentment and evil. It is sometimes
forgotten by those whose pacifism is a spurious, namby-pamby thing that
if one Biblical statement of this rule is "Do good to them that hate
you" (an exhortation presumably intended for the capitalist as well as
for the laborer), another statement of the same rule is, "They that sow
the wind shall reap the whirlwind." You get from the universe what you
give, with interest!
--A. J. Muste
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._J._Muste>
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