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From today's featured article I-196 entering downtown Grand Rapids Interstate 196 (I-196) is an auxiliary interstate highway that runs for 80.6 miles (129.7 km) in the US state of Michigan. It is a state trunkline highway that links Benton Harbor, South Haven, Holland, and Grand Rapids. I-196 is known as the Gerald R. Ford Freeway in Kent, Ottawa, and Allegan counties, after the 38th president of the United States, who was raised in Grand Rapids and served Michigan in the House of Representatives. There are two business loops (BL I-196) and one business spur (BS I-196) that serve the South Haven, Holland, and Grand Rapids areas. The current I-196 is the second in the state to bear the number. The Benton Harbor–Grand Rapids freeway was designated I-96 in the 1950s while another interstate, between Muskegon and Grand Rapids, was numbered I-196. That I-196 was built in the late 1950s and completed in the early 1960s. Michigan officials requested a change in 1963, which switched the two numbers. (This article is part of a featured topic: Interstate 96.)
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Hernando de Soto (c. 1500 – 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatán Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States. He was the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River, which he did on May 8, 1541, depicted in this engraved vignette, an example of art on United States banknotes. Produced for the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the engraving is of William Henry Powell's painting Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto, which hangs in the Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. Engraving credit: Frederick Girsch, after William Henry Powell; restored by Andrew Shiva
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