The American Bank Note Company Printing Plant is a repurposed complex of
three interconnected buildings in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the
Bronx in New York City. The innovative Kirby, Petit & Green design was
built in 1909–1911 by the American Bank Note Company on land which had
previously been part of Edward G. Faile's country estate. A wide
variety of financial instruments were printed there; at one point, over
five million documents were produced per day, including half the
securities traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Although the plant
printed currency for many countries around the world, it was best known
for producing Latin American banknotes, which led to it being the target
of a FALN terrorist bombing in 1977. The facility was used by American
Bank Note until about 1984, after which it was sold, redeveloped as
commercial space, subdivided, and designated a New York City landmark.
Major tenants include a charter school and the New York City Human
Resources Administration.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bank_Note_Company_Printing_Plant>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1861:
An earthquake occurred in the Argentine province of Mendoza,
causing at least 6,000 deaths and destroying most of the buildings in
the province's capital city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861_Mendoza_earthquake>
1922:
The United States Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier,
USS Langley.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Langley_%28CV-1%29>
1944:
World War II: U.S. Marines made a landing on Emirau Island in
the Bismarck Archipelago to develop an airbase as part of Operation
Cartwheel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_on_Emirau>
1987:
The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (chemical structure
pictured) became the first treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration for HIV/AIDS.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidovudine>
2014:
Taliban militants killed nine civilians in a mass shooting at
the Kabul Serena Hotel in Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
anodontia:
(dentistry, teratology) The congenital absence of some or all primary or
permanent teeth, caused by a rare genetic disorder.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anodontia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be
thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of
this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth Ashes and sparks,
my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth The
trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley>
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