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The Downtown Seattle Transit A magnitude 7.1

Tunnel is a public transit tunnel for
buses and light rail trains in Seattle,
Washington, in the United States. It
runs northsouth through Downtown
Westlake Station Seattle, connecting five stations on 3rd
Avenue and Pine Street. It is the
busiest section of Sound Transit's Link light rail network,
with an average of over 10,000 weekday train boardings at
the four stations served by light rail. The $469 million tunnel
was planned in the late 1970s and built between 1987 and
1990, using tunnel boring machines and cut-and-cover
excavation. Between 1990 and 2004, the tunnel was
exclusively used by dual-mode buses that ran on overhead
wires; they were later replaced with hybrid electric buses
using batteries within the tunnel. After a two-year renovation,
the tunnel reopened on September 24, 2007, and light rail
service began in July 2009, sharing the platforms with
existing buses. Planned expansion of the light rail system,
along with the closure of one station, will necessitate the
removal of buses from the tunnel by 2019. (Full article...)
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... that after a drunkard smashed the
Portland Vase into hundreds of
pieces, John Doubleday (pictured)
was dubbed "the prince of
restorers"?
... that Slovenian architect Joe
Plenik used concrete sewer pipes
for construction of the Church of John Doubleday with
the Portland Vase
St. Michael?
... that, in 1895, Orelia Key Bell dedicated a collection
of poems to her "Heavenly Muse" Ida Jane Ash, next to
whom she is now buried in Atlanta?
... that after the Stadt Zrich collided with another ship
in Lindau Harbour, a Bavarian correspondent
sarcastically commented that it had sunk more German
ships than the entire Royal Danish Navy?
earthquake strikes
central Mexico (damage
pictured), killing more
than three hundred
people.
Hurricane Maria
crosses the Antilles as a Earthquake damage
Category 5 hurricane, in Mexico City
causing widespread destruction and at least
37 deaths.
In U.S. television, The Handmaid's Tale
wins Best Drama and Veep wins Best
Comedy at the Primetime Emmy Awards.
In Gaelic football, Dublin beat Mayo in the
final to win their third consecutive All-
Ireland title.
The CassiniHuygens mission to the
Saturn system ends with a controlled fall
into the atmosphere of the planet.
Ongoing: Northern Rakhine State clashes
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Shepherd Afzal Ahsan Randhawa Mary Fairfax
On this day...
September 24: Banned Books Week begins
(2017); Heritage Day in South Africa
1645 English Civil
War: Royalists under
the personal command
of King Charles I
suffered a significant
defeat in the Battle of Camp Nou, Barcelona
Rowton Heath.
1841 The Sultan of Brunei granted
Sarawak to British adventurer James
Brooke.
1957 Barcelona's Camp Nou (pictured),
currently the largest stadium in Europe with
a seating capacity of 99,354, opened.
1992 Oba Chandler was arrested three
years after he committed a triple murder in

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... that Hippopotamus is Sparks' first UK top-ten album
in over 40 years?
... that architect Mikhail Eisenstein and his film-
director son Sergei fought on opposite sides of the
Russian Civil War?
... that the Association for Improving the Condition of
the Poor raised money for New York's Neponsit Beach
Hospital by distributing pictures of "Smiling Joe", a
boy with spinal tuberculosis?
... that Tubulanus superbus and Tubulanus annulatus
are both known as "football jersey worms"?
Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S., when his
neighbor identified handwriting samples
that police had placed on local billboards.
2007 During the Saffron Revolution in
Myanmar, the largest anti-government
protests in 20 years took place in Yangon.
Antoine-Louis Barye (b. 1796) Georges
Claude (b. 1870) Gennady Yanayev (d. 2010)
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A female cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) on the Phinda

Private Game Reserve, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
Cheetahs accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour (0 to
97 km/h) in less than 3 seconds and average 40 mph
(64 km/h) during a chase. The species is classified as
vulnerable, with only 7,000 left in the wild.

Photograph: Charles J. Sharp

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