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From today's featured article The Chickasaw Turnpike is a short two-lane toll road in the rural south central region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It stretches for 13.3 miles (21.4 km) from north of Sulphur to just south of Ada, running southwest-to-northeast through Murray and Pontotoc counties. The first section opened in 1991. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority owns, maintains, and collects tolls on most of it; a four-mile (6.4 km) segment was transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in 2011. Originally it was part of a plan to link Ada to the Interstate system and connect southern and eastern Oklahoma with a longer turnpike. It was proposed at the same time as three other turnpikes, which would become the Kilpatrick Turnpike in Oklahoma City, the Creek Turnpike in Tulsa, and the Cherokee Turnpike in eastern Oklahoma. Rural legislators objected to the Kilpatrick and Creek Turnpikes, and moved to block them unless the Chickasaw Turnpike was built. Lightly traveled, the road is used by about 2,000 vehicles per day. It is the only two-lane turnpike in Oklahoma. (Full article...) Recently featured: Silent Hill 4 Pancreatic cancer Amanita bisporigera Did you know... Painted during internment ... that Jewish-Ukrainian artist Adolphe Féder produced art (example pictured) while imprisoned in the Drancy internment camp? ... that the concept of lost sales used by the content industry assumes that if pirated products were not available, people would buy them at market rate? ... that when growing up in Ireland, Terry Conroy was sentenced to probation for playing football in the street? ... that Yugo Nakamura avoided elements of modern web design to keep the appearance of FFFFOUND! simple? ... that in the music video for Mamamoo's "Um Oh Ah Yeh", three members dress as men and wear wigs, beards, and prosthetic makeup? ... that in preparation for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, three stations will be added to the initial sixteen stations in the G:link, a light rail system serving the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia? ... that Akashi District existed for another 30 years after the city of Akashi left?

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Today's featured picture Charles I in Three Positions is an oil painting of Charles I of England by Flemish artist Anthony Van Dyck. It depicts the King from three viewpoints: left full profile, face on, and right three quarter profile. Painted in 1635 or 1636, it was sent to Rome in 1636 to be used as a reference work for the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini's marble bust of Charles I. Widely copied, the original stayed with Bernini and his heirs until c. 1802, when it was sold to British art dealer William Buchanan and returned to England. The painting was acquired for the Royal Collection in 1822, and is usually displayed at Windsor Castle. Painting: Anthony van Dyck Recently featured: Delftsevaart Emily Batty Flying gurnard

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