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  2. Numbered highways in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Inter-County Highways were created on June 9, 1911, with the passage of the McGuire Bill (Senate Bill 165, 79th Ohio General Assembly). [5] Main Market Roads, the most important of the system, were defined on April 15, 1913.

  3. Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The climate of Ohio is a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfa/Dfb) throughout most of the state, except in the extreme southern counties of Ohio's Bluegrass region section, which are located on the northern periphery of the humid subtropical climate (Cfa) and Upland South region of the United States. Summers are ...

  4. Barksdale Air Force Base - Wikipedia

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    Barksdale died on 11 August 1926, over McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio, when testing a Douglas O-2 observation airplane for spin characteristics. He did not recover from a flat spin , and while parachuting out of the plane his parachute was caught in the wing's brace wires, causing Barksdale to fall to his death.

  5. Controlled-access highway - Wikipedia

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    The first section of motorway, the M6 Preston Bypass, opened in 1958, followed by the first major section of motorway (the M1 between Crick and Berrygrove in Watford), which opened in 1959. From then until the 1980s, motorways opened at frequent intervals; by 1972 the first 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi) of motorway had been built.

  6. Intelligent design in politics - Wikipedia

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    In February 2006, the Ohio Board of Education voted 11-4 to delete the science standard and correlating lesson plan adopted in 2002. [25] The board also rejected a competing plan from intelligent design proponents to request a legal opinion from the state attorney general on the constitutionality of the science standards.

  7. Criticism of college and university rankings in North America

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    Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.

  8. Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Under the plan, the PTC would assume all maintenance and toll-taking operations on I-80. The plan called for up to 10 toll plazas along the length of I-80 in Pennsylvania with a toll rate of $0.08 per mile ($0.050/km), which would have been comparable to the rate on the Pennsylvania Turnpike following a projected toll increase. [11]

  9. NBC chimes - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, NBC's Advertising and Promotions Director, E. P. H. James, made an agreement with NuTone Chimes of Cincinnati to provide chime sets for sale to the general public. The chimes were used in the dining cars for a few railroad and steamship company lines, starting with the Baltimore and Ohio and New York Central railroads.