The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is located at 1 Bowling Green,
near the southern end of Manhattan. Named for Alexander Hamilton, a
Founding Father, and designed by Cass Gilbert in the Beaux-Arts style,
it was erected from 1902 to 1907 to house the Port of New York's duty-
collection operations. The building contains the George Gustav Heye
Center museum, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern
District of New York, and local offices of the National Archives. The
facade and part of the interior are New York City designated landmarks,
and the building is a National Historic Landmark listed on the National
Register of Historic Places. The main entrance consists of a grand
staircase flanked by Four Continents, a set of four statues by Daniel
Chester French. The United States Customs Service moved out of the
building in 1974, and it remained vacant for more than a decade until
renovations in the late 1980s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_U.S._Custom_House>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1952:
Three trains collided (aftermath pictured) at Harrow &
Wealdstone station in London, killing 112 people and injuring 340
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_and_Wealdstone_rail_crash>
1967:
Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was
captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara>
1998:
A new airport for Oslo, Norway, opened at Gardermoen, replacing
a smaller one at the same location that had served as a backup to the
city's previous main airport at Fornebu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Airport,_Fornebu>
2001:
At Linate Airport in Milan, Italy, Scandinavian Airlines Flight
SK686 collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation II business jet,
killing 118 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linate_Airport_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
brusque:
1. Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.
2. (obsolete) Sour, tart.
3. (transitive) To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or
rudely abrupt manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brusque>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Does a populace have informed consent when a ruling minority acts
in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the
minority's forces? History already has answered that question. Every
society in the ConSentiency today reflects the historical judgment that
failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an
issue represents an ultimate crime.
--Frank Herbert
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert>
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