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The Wikipedia article of the day for February 8, 2018 is U.S. Route 50 in Nevada.
In Nevada, U.S. Route 50 runs from the resort communities of Lake Tahoe eastward to the Utah border near Great Basin National Park. Route 50 is a transcontinental highway that stretches from West Sacramento, California, to Ocean City, Maryland, on the east coast. The Nevada portion crosses several large desert valleys separated by alpine forestland, across the Basin and Range province of the Great Basin. It passes through the state capital in Carson City as well as Fort Churchill State Historic Park, ghost towns and petroglyph sites. The route was constructed along a historic corridor, first used for the Pony Express and Central Overland Route and later for most of State Route 2 (before the U.S. Highway System) and the Lincoln Highway. U.S. Route 50 in Nevada was named “The Loneliest Road in America” by Life magazine in 1986; they were referring to large desolate areas with few or no signs of civilization along the route, but Nevada officials seized on the name as a marketing slogan.

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Seriously Cool Amateur Footage Of The Simultaneous Falcon Heavy Booster Landing

Seriously Cool Amateur Footage Of The Simultaneous Falcon Heavy Booster Landing
One thing you don’t get a good sense of from the SpaceX livestream is the sonic booms as the boosters are about to land and just how dang loud they are. It’s quite something.
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sawpit: Word of the day for February 8, 2018

sawpit , n :
A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawn with a long two-handled saw by two people, one standing above the timber and the other in the pit below.

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Watch SpaceX Attempt To Launch Falcon Heavy, The World’s Most Powerful Rocket

Watch SpaceX Attempt To Launch Falcon Heavy, The World’s Most Powerful Rocket
The Falcon Heavy — which has the power of eighteen Boeing 747s at takeoff — successfully went to space today.
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wordster: Word of the day for February 7, 2018

wordster , n :
One who is skilled at using words; a wordsmith. One who studies words. (pejorative) One who uses words instead of actions; a hypocrite, a verbalist. Scottish lexicographer and philologist Sir James Murray, who was the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, was born on this day in 1837.

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Wikipedia article of the day for February 7, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 7, 2018 is Guadalcanal Campaign.
In the Guadalcanal Campaign of the Second World War, the Allies reversed the gains of Imperial Japan in the southwest Pacific. U.S. forces had inflicted heavy losses on the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, but Japan had remained on the offensive, pushing into the Solomon Islands from Rabaul and threatening supply lines to Australia and New Zealand. In August 1942, U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands. The Japanese had occupied the islands since May, and were building an airfield (later named Henderson Field). The Allies overwhelmed the surprised Japanese defenders and captured the airfield. The Japanese attempted to retake it but were defeated in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November. They abandoned their campaign in December, and evacuated their remaining forces on 7 February 1943. The Allied victories on Guadalcanal, and in New Guinea, marked the transition from defensive operations to a series of offensives that culminated in the Japanese surrender in 1945.

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