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9 hours ago · New York State Thruway Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway Map of New York with the Thruway mainline in red; other components of the Thruway system are in blue Route information Maintained by NYSTA Length 496.00 mi (798.23 km) Mainline only Existed June 24, 1954 (June 24, 1954) –present Component highways I-87 from The Bronx to Albany I-287 from Elmsford to Suffern I-90 from Albany to Ripley ...
- June 24, 1954–present
- 496.00 mi (798.23 km)Mainline only
9 hours ago · The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways.
- June 29, 1956; 67 years ago
- 48,756 mi (78,465 km)
- Interstate X (I-X)
9 hours ago · Map showing the flags of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the five inhabited U.S. territories The flags of the U.S. states , territories , and federal district exhibit a variety of regional influences and local histories, as well as different styles and design principles.
1 day ago · Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [122]
- Festivals, partying, parades, church services
- United States
- June 19
9 hours ago · The Iron Curtain, in black. The black dot represents the Berlin Wall around West Berlin. Albania withheld its support to the Warsaw Pact in 1961 due to the Soviet–Albanian split and formally withdrew in 1968. Yugoslavia was considered part of the Eastern Bloc for two years until the Tito–Stalin split in 1948, but remained independent for ...
9 hours ago · The United States ended its economic embargo against Vietnam in early 1994. Although the 1997 Asian financial crisis caused an economic slowdown to 4–5% growth per year, its economy began to recover in 1999, [286] and grew at around 7% per year from 2000 to 2005, one of the fastest in the world.
9 hours ago · The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The World Happiness Report 2018, which ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants, was released on March 14 at a launch event at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican. Table.
