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Today's featured article New York State Route 174 is a state highway in the county of Onondaga, located in Central New York, United States. The highway is 16.70 miles (26.88 km) long and passes through mostly rural regions. Route 174 begins at an intersection with NY 41 in Borodino, a hamlet of Spafford. It heads northward for most of its length, except for short distances in the villages of Marcellus and Camillus. The route ends at a junction with NY 5 west of Camillus, at the west end of the Route 5 Camillus bypass. Route 174 is located along a large mapped sedimentary bedrock unit, known as the Marcellus Formation. The formation is named for an outcrop found near the town of Marcellus, New York, during a geological survey in 1839. The road was first laid out in the early 19th century following the path of Nine Mile Creek, which connected several early settlements in Central New York. The northern half of the route, between the villages of Marcellus and Camillus, was later improved as a plank road in 1855 by a private corporation that collected tolls from travelers on the road. The state took over the maintenance of the road by the beginning of the 20th century. The former plank road and an extension south to Otisco Lake and southwest to Skaneateles Lake was first designated as Route 174 in the 1930 state highway renumbering. (more...) Recently featured: Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Tom Crean Archive – By email – More featured articles... Did you know... From Wikipedia's newest articles: ... that Drosera falconeri (pictured) is one of the few carnivorous plants that grow in alkaline soils? ... that Para Siempre, the 79th studio album by Vicente Fernández, reached number-one on the Mexican charts and won Best Ranchero Album at the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards ceremony? ... that in 1779, New York State Senator John Williams was expelled from the Senate for defrauding fellow soldiers of income during the American Revolutionary War? ... that the main characteristic of the continental Celtic deity Dusios was its ability to impregnate animals and women, often by surprise or force? ... that Republican National Committee official Rob Bickhart wrote a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil? ... that the aviso SMS Hela was the first German ship to be sunk by a British submarine in World War I? ... that Fabian Joseph, a former team captain of the Canada men's national ice hockey team, won two winter Olympic silver medals for Canada in the early 1990s? ... that the last words of the British judge Lord Tenterden were "and now, gentlemen of the jury, you will consider of your verdict"? Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

In the news The first Millennium Prize is awarded to Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture. A fire destroys the Kasubi Tombs (main building pictured), a World Heritage Site in Uganda where the Bugandan kings are buried. As much as ninety percent of Chile's population loses power in a massive blackout. A series of bomb attacks kills at least 72 people in Lahore, Pakistan. The Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Paralympics is held in Vancouver, Canada. In Kazakhstan, at least 40 people are killed and more than 1,000 evacuated after the Kyzyl-Agash dam bursts. Mykola Azarov is appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine, following the resignation of Yulia Tymoshenko. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events... On this day... March 20: March Equinox (17:32 UTC, 2010); Equinox Earth Day (2010); Nowruz in Iran, Central Asia, and Zoroastrianism (2010); Independence Day in Tunisia 1815 – After escaping from his exile in Elba, Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, officially beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. 1852 – American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (illustration pictured) was first published, profoundly affecting attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, and further intensifying the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War. 1987 – The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (AZT) became the first antiviral medication approved for use against HIV and AIDS. 1995 – The Aum Shinrikyo sect carried out a poison gas attack on the Tokyo Subway, killing 12 people and injuring thousands of others with sarin. 2006 – Cyclone Larry made landfall in Far North Queensland, eventually causing nearly AU$1 billion in total damage and destroying over 80 percent of Australia's banana crop. More anniversaries: March 19 – March 20 – March 21 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now March 20, 2010 (UTC) – Refresh this page

Today's featured picture An illustration from a ca. 1916 edition of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, a children's novel written by the Reverend Charles Kingsley and originally serialised in 1862–63. The book, a didactic moral fable, tells the story of Tom (lower left), a young boy who drowns and is reincarnated as a "water-baby". He undergoes a series of adventures and eventually regains his human form. It was extremely popular during its day and through the 1920s, but has since fallen out of favour, perhaps due to Kingsley's expression of many of the common prejudices of that time period, such as against Americans, Jews, blacks, and Catholics, particularly the Irish. Illustration: Jessie Willcox Smith; Restoration: ErikTheBikeMan Recently featured: Tuskegee Airmen – Dune stinkhorn – Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland Archive – More featured pictures...

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