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22 hours ago · The Michigan Department of Transportation continues to prepare drivers for the coming of a new way to pay for road maintenance. As the gasoline tax generates less, the agency has been exploring a road user fee based on how many miles each driver has driven. Speaking on the MDOT podcast, Talking Michigan Transportation, the Reason Foundation’s ...
22 hours ago · The history of the U.S. state of Minnesota is shaped by its original Native American residents, European exploration and settlement, and the emergence of industries made possible by the state's natural resources. Early economic growth was based on fur trading, logging, milling and farming, and later through railroads and iron mining.
22 hours ago · The charge was repelled by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great loss to the Confederate army. Setting out on the Fourth of July, Lee led his army on the torturous retreat from the north. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle, the most costly in US history.
- July 1–3, 1863
- Union victory
22 hours ago · Arizona is the sixth largest state by area, ranked after New Mexico and before Nevada. Of the state's 113,998 square miles (295,000 km 2 ), approximately 15% is privately owned. The remaining area is public forest and parkland, state trust land and Native American reservations.
- 113,990 sq mi (295,234 km²)
22 hours ago · Map indicating Highways network of Tamil Nadu Main article: Road network in Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu has an extensive road network covering about 271,000 km as of 2023 with a road density of 2,084.71 kilometres (1,295.38 mi) per 1000 km 2 which is higher than the national average of 1,926.02 kilometres (1,196.77 mi) per 1000 km 2 . [461]
- 1 November 1956
- India
22 hours ago · Pennsylvania ( / ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪniə / ⓘ, lit. 'Penn's forest country' ), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie ), [7] is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
