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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Shirley Chisholm — Unbought and Unbossed

In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.

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Offset T-intersection

Offset T-Intersection

An offset T-intersection[1] is an at-grade road intersection where a conventional four leg intersection is split into two three-leg T-intersections to reduce the number of conflicts and improve traffic flow.[2] Building the offset T-intersections as continuous green T-intersections (also called seagull intersection), there is a single stop on the arterial road, only.[3] A higher volume of through traffic on the cross road,[4] or on unsignalized intersections, a rebuild to a conventional four-leg intersection may be adequate, also when the offset is a few feet only like staggered junctions causing slower traffic for a longer time on the arterial road.[5]

Seen as a spur route or access road, offset T-intersections can be seen as an A2 or B2 type partial cloverleaf interchange with no arterial road.[6]

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  1. ^ Federal Highway Administration (April 2010). "Chapter 6.3.4". Alternative Intersections/Interchanges: Informational Report (AIIR). Federal Highway Administration. FHWA-HRT-09-060. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  2. ^ Indiana Department of Transportation (14 January 2014). Intersection Decision Guide (PDF). Indiana Department of Transportation. p. 43. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  3. ^ Transportation Research Board (2010). National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 650: Median Intersection Design for Rural High-Speed Divided Highways (PDF). Transportation Research Board. pp. 92–99. doc. P. 84–91.
  4. ^ Federal Highway Administration (July 2008). Intersection Safety Strategies Brochure (PDF). Federal Highway Administration. FHWA-SA-08-008. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  5. ^ Institute of Transportation Engineers. Convert Two Offset T-Intersections to a Single Four-Legged Intersection (PDF). Institute of Transportation Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  6. ^ Institut für Straßen- und Eisenbahnwesen am KIT. Entwurf und Bau von Straßen – Teil: Straßenentwurf (PDF) (in German). Institut für Straßen- und Eisenbahnwesen am KIT. pp. SE–5–18 –20. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

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Offset T-intersection

An offset T-intersection is an at-grade road intersection where a conventional four leg intersection is split into two three-leg T-intersections to reduce the number of conflicts and improve traffic flow. Building the offset T-intersections as continuous green T-intersections (also called seagull intersection), there is a single stop on the arterial road, only. A higher volume of through traffic on the cross road, or on unsignalized intersections, a rebuild to a conventional four-leg intersection may be adequate, also when the offset is a few feet only like staggered junctions causing slower traffic for a longer time on the arterial road. Seen as a spur route or access road, offset T-intersections can be seen as an A2 or B2 type partial cloverleaf interchange with no arterial road.

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Seagull intersection

A seagull intersection or continuous green T-intersection (also called a turbo-T (in Florida) or High-T intersection (in Nevada and Utah)) is a type of three-way road intersection, typically used on high traffic volume roads and dual carriageways. This form of intersection is popular in Australia and New Zealand, and sometimes used in the United States and other countries.

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Split intersection

A split intersection is a rarely-built at-grade variant of the diamond interchange. Compared to a conventional four-leg intersection or road crossing, the arterial road is split into separate carriageways by 200 to 300 feet (61 to 91 m), which allows a queue of left turning vehicles behind a completed turn into the crossroad without any conflict to oncoming traffic. On the crossroad, the four-leg intersection is replaced by two intersections. The beginning of one-way traffic at the fourth leg makes the intersections reduce the number of conflicts, similarly to a three-leg T-intersection, to improve traffic flow.

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Three-way junction

A three-way junction (or three-way intersection) is a type of road intersection with three arms. A Y junction (or Y intersection) generally has three arms of equal size coming at an acute or obtuse angle to each other; while a T junction (or T intersection) also has three arms, but one of the arms is generally a smaller road joining a larger road at right angle.

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Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Which Black woman became the first elected to the United States Congress?

Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968.