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Interstate 182 (I-182) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Washington. It serves as a connector from I-82 to the Tri-Cities region that crosses the Columbia River on the Interstate 182 Bridge between Richland and Pasco. I-182 is 15 miles (24 km) long and entirely concurrent with U.S. Route 12; it intersects State Route 240 and US 395. Business leaders in the Tri-Cities began lobbying for a freeway in 1958 after early alignments for I-82 were routed away from the area. I-182 was a compromise to the routing dispute, which allowed for direct access to the Tri-Cities and a bypass for other traffic. The new freeway would also include construction of a bridge between Richland and Pasco. Construction on I-182 was scheduled to begin in 1971, but was delayed and began in late 1980; it opened to traffic three years later. The final sections of the freeway, between I-82 and Richland, opened to traffic in March 1986. (This article is part of a featured topic: Interstate 82.)

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HMS Campbeltown during the St Nazaire Raid

1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Pallas, the second asteroid to be identified, but at the time considered to be a planet.
1935 – The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.
1942 – Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces (ship pictured).
1946 – The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.
1979 – British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.
1999 – Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.

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John Barrowman portrayed Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood and Doctor Who.

Following Doctor Who's successful return to television screens in 2005 the BBC commissioned Torchwood, a spin-off series intended for mature audiences. The programme centres around Captain Jack Harkness, a former time-traveling companion of the Doctor, who leads a Cardiff-based team of black operatives that investigate extraterrestrial incidents and are collectively referred to as "Torchwood". Between 22 October 2006 and 15 September 2011, Torchwood broadcast 41 episodes split across four series. Over the course of the programme, Torchwood moved channels. It originally aired on BBC Three while the second series was broadcast on BBC Two and the final two were transmitted on BBC One. The last series also acquired an American co-production deal with the premium cable network Starz. The show initially utilized a monster of the week format but later shifted to a serialised format in Children of Earth and Miracle Day. Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who that was used as a title ruse during Doctor Who's revival process. (Full list...)

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Joseph Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. He later designed the second and current Hammersmith Bridge, which opened in 1887. This photograph of Bazalgette was taken between 1864 and 1877.

Photograph credit: Lock & Whitfield; restored by Adam Cuerden

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