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US 141 in Beecher, Wisconsin

US Highway 141 is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs for about 169 miles (272 km) in the states of Wisconsin and Michigan. The highway runs north-northwesterly from Bellevue, Wisconsin, near Green Bay, to an intersection near Covington, Michigan. In between, it follows city streets in Green Bay and a freeway section north of that city. Most of the remainder of US 141 is a rural two-lane highway that crosses into Michigan, back into Wisconsin and then finally back into Michigan again. When the highway was created in 1926, its northernmost section in Michigan was numbered US 102, and US 141 extended farther south from Bellevue to Milwaukee. Two years later, US 141 was extended north into Michigan to replace US 102. Since then, parts of the highway have been converted to freeway; the highway has ended southeast of Green Bay in Bellevue since the 1980s—the southern segment was redesignated as I-43. (This article is part of a featured topic: U.S. Highways in Michigan.)

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Alexander Ovechkin

... that NHL 21 marks the second time that Alexander Ovechkin (pictured) has appeared on the cover of an NHL video game, the first being NHL 07?
... that William H. Strayer was the only Democrat in the Oregon State Senate in 1931?
... that My Michael, a novel by Israeli author Amos Oz set in Jerusalem of the 1950s, was reviled by critics as being "politically dangerous and subversive"?
... that President Donald Trump watched the 2019 film Joker with his friends and family at the White House and reportedly enjoyed it?
... that Cheye Alexander became a professional footballer despite suffering acute knee pain as a teenager due to Osgood–Schlatter disease?
... that General Order No. 1's broad definition of "sexually explicit" material led to a ban on bodybuilding magazines and underwear catalogues for U.S. personnel during the Gulf War?
... that Christian Dierstein has played world premieres as the percussionist of Trio Accanto, which also includes a saxophonist and a pianist?
... that nearly half the milk produced in India, whose dairy industry is the largest in the world, comes from buffaloes?

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September 14

Fort Manoel

1723 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, laid the first stone of Fort Manoel (pictured) in Malta.
1752 – Under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping 11 days of the month.
1940 – Hungarian forces massacred at least 150 ethnic Romanians in Ip, Transylvania, following rumors that Romanians were responsible for the deaths of two soldiers.
1960 – At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to help unify and coordinate their petroleum policies.
1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia unconstitutional.

Constantine V (d. 775)
Jeremiah Dummer (b. 1645)
Eduardo Castro Luque (d. 2012)

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Pat Metheny

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for quality contemporary jazz performances. The honor was first presented to the Manhattan Transfer at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards (1992) for the song "Sassy". Pat Metheny (pictured) held the record for the most wins, with six, including five with the Pat Metheny Group. Randy Brecker received the award four times, including once with his brother Michael as the duo Brecker Brothers. The group Yellowjackets held the record for the most nominations without a win, with seven. In 2012, the award was discontinued in a major overhaul of Grammy categories, with contemporary jazz recordings shifted to the newly formed Best Jazz Instrumental Album category. (Full list...)

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The Portrait of the Duke of Wellington is an oil-on-panel painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It depicts the British general Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, during his service in the Peninsular War. It was begun in August 1812, after his entry into Madrid, depicting him as an earl, in uniform and wearing the Peninsular Medal. Goya then modified it in 1814, adding the Order of the Golden Fleece and Military Gold Cross with three clasps (both of which Wellington had been awarded in the interim). In this portrait, probably painted from life, the duke's face is gaunt and exhausted from battle, contrasting with the bright crimson military uniform he wears. The painting now hangs in the National Gallery in London.

Painting credit: Francisco Goya

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