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	United States Highway 61
		Highway 61 is the popular name for a United States highway that runs from New Orleans through Memphis and Chicago through Hibbing, Minnesota all the way to Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada.
		Both Son Thomas[?] ("Highway 61") and Mississippi Fred McDowell ("61 Highway") wrote songs about it, and many Mississippians, such as Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley took the blues to Chicago along the route.
		The junction of Highway 61 and Highway 49 was the famous crossroads where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/Highway_61.html (242 words)

	U.S. Highway 101 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North of Ventura the highway is an intermittent freeway (i.e.
		Highway 101 enters Oregon four miles south of Brookings, and is seldom out of sight of the Pacific Ocean until it reaches Astoria; the major exception being a significant inland stretch south of Tillamook, Oregon.
		As of 2004, the highway's "northern" terminus is in Olympia, Washington at an intersection with Interstate 5.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Highway_101 (1731 words)

	United States ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
		Forty-eight contiguous states lie in central North America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bounded on land by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south; Alaska is in the northwest of the continent with Canada to its east, and Hawaii is in the mid-Pacific.
		Alaska (the largest state in area) is bound by Canada to its east, with the Pacific Ocean to its south, the Arctic Ocean to its north, and the Bering Strait to the west.
		The United States Constitution is the supreme legal document in the American system, and serves as a social contract for the people of the United States, regulating their affairs through government chosen by and populated by the people.
	www.downes.ca /cgi-bin/page.cgi?topic=123 (4429 words)

	HRI/CORE/1/Add.49 - Core Document - United States of America
		States and insular areas divide relatively evenly among those that elect their judges (22), those that appoint judges (16 including the District of Columbia and four of the insular areas), and those where judges are initially appointed and subsequently run on a retention ballot (18 including Guam).
		The United States Virgin Islands are an unincorporated territory of the United States.
		In the United States system, a treaty may be "self-executing", in which case it may properly be invoked by private parties in litigation without any implementing legislation, or "non-self-executing", in which case its provisions cannot be directly enforced by the judiciary in the absence of implementing legislation.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1997/documentation/coredocs/hri-core-1-add49.htm (14957 words)

	U.S. Highway system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The major routes were named for American Presidents; for example the Lincoln Highway ran from New York City on the Atlantic coast to San Francisco on the Pacific; the Jefferson Highway from New Orleans north to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
		The Jefferson Davis Highway ran from Washington, DC to Blaine in Washington State near the border with Canada.
		Such obsolete highway names survive only in scattered locations in the United States, mostly on old highway routes that have been bypassed by later larger highways and now are used mostly by local traffic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_highway (797 words)

	Encyclopedia: United States Code (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The United States Code (U.S.C.) is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal Law of the United States.
		The United States Statutes at Large, commonly referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the official source for the laws and resolutions passed by Congress.
		The United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules and regulations published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United-States-Code (4083 words)

	Highways and motor vehicles - Wex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Highway law is concerned with the regulation and maintenance of all means of travel open to the public-- such as turnpikes, toll roads, bridges, ferries, navigable waters, etc. Generally, all roads which the legislature has power to establish are public roads.
		Highways are distinguished from private roads in that highways are intended for public use, and are maintained at the public's expense.
		Typically, in most jurisdictions, highway officers are personally liable for injuries to persons or property resulting from acts of their negligence in connection with the construction and repair of highways, streets and bridges, but there is some authority to the contrary.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/highways.html (287 words)

	United States Highway 61: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about United States Highway 61
		Highway 61 is the popular name for a United States highway that runs from New Orleans through Memphis and Chicago through Hibbing, Minnesota all the way to Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada.
		Both Son Thomas[?] ("Highway 61") and Mississippi Fred McDowell ("61 Highway") wrote songs about it, and many Mississippians, such as Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley took the blues to Chicago along the route.
		The junction of Highway 61 and Highway 49 was the famous crossroads where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues.
	www.encyclopedian.com /hi/Highway-61.html (285 words)

	U.S. Highway 61 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United States Highway 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that once ran from New Orleans through Memphis and Iowa through Duluth, Minnesota all the way to the Canadian border.
		Son Thomas ("Highway 61") and Fred McDowellMississippi Fred McDowell ("61 Highway")and Jay Farrar of "Son Volt"("Aftreglow 61") all wrote songs about it, and many Mississippians, such as Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley took the blues to Chicago along the route.
		As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in Wyoming, Minnesota at an intersection with Interstate 35.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Highway_61 (871 words)

	U.S. Highway 26 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		When the U.S. highway system was first defined, it was limited to Nebraska and Wyoming; by the 1950s, it continued into Idaho and Oregon.
		As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is in Ogallala, Nebraska at an intersection with Interstate 80.
		The segment, starting at its intersection with Oregon Highway 35 near Government Camp, Oregon and continuing westward to Sandy, Oregon, which closely follows the route of the Barlow Road, has served to define was is sometimes called the Mt.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/u/s/U.S._Highway_26_9e07.html (717 words)

	city of clarksdale
		It is one of two major trade centers in the State's northern Delta and the major city and county seat of Coahoma County, whose western boundary is the Mississippi River.
		United States Highway 49 leads south through the center of the Mississippi Delta to the State's capital, Jackson, and on to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
		Completion of the four-laning of United States Highway 61 to Memphis is scheduled for 1996, and contracts are either underway or let to complete four-laning north to the point at which United States Highway 49 diverts to the major port od Helena, Arkansas.
	exit3.i-55.com /~crisman/city2.html (1600 words)

	U.S. Highway 40 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is in Atlantic City, New Jersey, near the Atlantic Ocean (and close to the end of U.S. Highway 30).
		These highways' endpoints were extended to San Francisco (at US 101) with the construction of the Bay Bridge in 1936.
		In 1926, the U.S. 40 Association promoted the highway as "The Main Street of America"; however, the U.S. Highway 66 Association also proposed the name for their highway and were more successful.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._Highway_40 (507 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
		That river separates the United States from the Republic of Mexico until at the city of El Paso it turns northward; from that point to the Colorado River an arbitrary line marks the boundary of the two republics.
		In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state.
		It also provides that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states; for the return of fugitives from justice and for the admission of new states.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15156a.htm (21027 words)

	Highway Traffic Noise in the United States, Problem and Response - FHWA
		Highway traffic noise is a major contributor to overall transportation noise.
		Compliance with the noise regulations is a prerequisite for the granting of Federal-aid highway funds for construction or reconstruction of a highway.
		Highway construction noise should generally be addressed in a qualitative, rather than quantitative, manner commensurate with the scope of the highway project.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /environment/probresp.htm (5790 words)

	United States Numbered Highways Information
		As these highways were coordinated among the states, they are sometimes referred to as Federal Highways, but they have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.
		This grid is the opposite of the Interstate Highways, which increase from west to east and south to north.
		For the most part, the U.S. Highways remained the primary method of intercity travel; the main exceptions were toll roads such as the Pennsylvania Turnpike and parkways such as the Merritt Parkway.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/United_States_Numbered_Highways (3377 words)

	Weathervane - Do Cheap Gas Prices Undermine U.S. Climate Policy?
		In its broadest terms, total energy consumption was flat in the United States from the first oil crisis in 1973 to the break in the oil market in 1986.
		Federal regulation ensured that the fuel efficiency of the average automobile on the road rose steadily from 13.4 miles to the gallon in 1973 to 21.5 in 1997, according to the EIA.
		But on the highway, as elsewhere in the energy economy, that progress is more than offset by the rapidly rising demands of an increasing, and increasingly prosperous, population.
	www.weathervane.rff.org /solutions_and_actions/United_States/Fuel_Efficiency/Does_Cheap_Gas_Undermine_Climate_Policy.cfm (1177 words)

	FHWA - FAPG, 23 CFR 470A, Federal-Aid Highway Systems
		The STRAHNET includes highways which are important to the United States strategic defense policy and which provide defense access, continuity, and emergency capabilities for the movement of personnel, materials, and equipment in both peace time and war time.
		State transportation agencies are permitted to erect informational Interstate signs along a federally designated future Interstate corridor only after the specific route location has been established for the route to be constructed to Interstate design standards.
		States and MPOs should fully consider whether a direct connection should be identified for such terminals, or whether being in the proximity (2 to 3 miles) of an NHS route is sufficient.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /legsregs/directives/fapg/cfr0470a.htm (3188 words)

	U.S. Highway Ends: maps and terminus photos
		Highways highlighted in pink are 3-digit routes with numbers that I consider to be major violations of the US route numbering system.
		I realize that's subjective, but the point is I'm not inclined to waste bandwidth by posting photos of statelines where a highway happened to end for a few years, or of "incremental" endpoints that were just temporary while a route was in the process of being truncated or extended to another location.
		All highways are shown in the context of their "route family" (in other words, 3-digit branch routes are shown on the same map as their 2-digit parent route).
	www.geocities.com /mapguy_denver/HwyEnds/index.htm (1063 words)

	United States Highway 9 - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		United States Highway 9 is a United States highway in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in the United States.
		It extends from the Canadian border at Rouses Point, New York to an intersection with United States Highway 13 in Laurel, Delaware.
		The highway is mentioned in the lyrics of the song "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/United_States_Highway_9 (171 words)

	U.S. Highway 61 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		United States Highway 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that once ran from New Orleans through Memphis and Iowa through Duluth, Minnesota all the way to Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada.
		It is the only instance of a Minnesota state highway and a US Highway having the same number.
		North of the Canadian border, the highway continues as Ontario Provincial Highway 61 for 58 km (36 miles) to its terminus in Thunder Bay at a junction with Highways 11 and 17.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/U.S.-Highway-61.htm (843 words)

	Rough and Ready - California Ghost Town
		Populated mostly by miners from the state of Wisconsin hoping to rid themselves of any and all outside laws and other restrictions, it was decided in a town meeting in 1850 to take the drastic step of secession.
		Little is left of the town today but it is easily accessible on highway 20, west of the Grass Valley junction at highway 49.
		West of Grass Valley on Highway 20 is the once thriving gold town that bears the nickname of General Zachary Taylor.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/ca/roughandready.html (267 words)

	Title 49, United States Code Chapter 301 Motor Vehicle Safety
		"United States district court" means a district court of the United States, a United States court for Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and the district court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
		However, the United States Government, a State, or a political subdivision of a State may prescribe a standard for a motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment obtained for its own use that imposes a higher performance requirement than that required by the otherwise applicable standard under this chapter.
		The action may be brought in a United States district court for the judicial district in which the manufacturer or distributor resides, is found, or has an agent, to recover damages, court costs, and a reasonable attorney's fee.
	www.nhtsa.dot.gov /cars/rules/standards/chapt301.html (12009 words)

	Off Highway Riding
		Idaho Traffic Law defines a highway as the entire width between the boundary lines which are publicly maintained when any part is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel.
		unpaved roads on state or federal public lands which is not part of a highway system of the state or county, highway district or city, and 3.
		State and Federal agencies along with private landowners establish road closures to maintain deer and elk numbers and distribution.
	www.fs.fed.us /ipnf/rec/activities/ohv/index.html (1240 words)

	IMPAIRED DRIVING IN THE UNITED STATES
		Alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost the public an estimated $114.3 billion in 2000, including $51.1 billion in monetary costs and an estimated $63.2 billion in quality of life losses.
		In 18 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, the primary belt law potentially reduces alcohol-related fatalities by an estimated average of 10%.
		Child safety seat laws like those in the United States typically reduce occupant fatalities of children age 4 and under by approximately 15% and their alcohol-involved deaths by a similar amount.
	www.nhtsa.dot.gov /people/injury/alcohol/impaired_driving_pg2/US.htm (1586 words)

	U.S. Highway 49 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		US 49 is a north-south (additional info and facts about United States highway) United States highway.
		As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in (additional info and facts about Piggott, Arkansas) Piggott, Arkansas at an intersection with (additional info and facts about US 62) US 62.
		While the main line of US 49 passes through (additional info and facts about Indianola) Indianola, US 49E veers to the east to serve (Woodlands in full leaf) Greenwood.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/u/u.s._highway_491.htm (222 words)

	NPC Online Library: Highway Traffic Noise in the United States (APPENDIX A)
		All highway projects which are developed in conformance with this regulation shall be deemed to be in conformance with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) noise standards.
		A proposed Federal or Federal-aid highway project for the construction of a highway on new location or-the physical alteration of an existing highway which significantly changes either the horizonal or vertical alignment or increases the number of through-traffic lanes.
		When Type II projects are proposed for Federal-aid highway participation at the option of the highway agency, the provisions of Subsec.
	www.nonoise.org /library/highway/appendix.htm (1687 words)

	Comments of Consumers Union of United States, Inc. to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Consumer ...
		Consumers Union of United States, Inc. (CU), the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, is grateful for the opportunity to provide comments to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on the Agency's plans to evaluate a number of driving maneuver tests for its information program to rate rollover resistance.
		Most highways in the United States have a wet skid number between 40 and 60, which is a measure of the coefficient of friction between a control tire and the wet pavement.
		To determine the effect of temperature and humidity on the frictional characteristics of a dry surface, an evaluation should be conducted using a skid trailer on a dry surface to assess any changes that may exist due to climatic conditions.
	www.consumersunion.org /other/rollover_dc_1101.htm (2892 words)

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