Green Park is a London Underground station on the north side of Green
Park, with entrances on both sides of Piccadilly. It is in fare zone 1
and is a busy interchange between the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Victoria
lines, used by over 39 million passengers in 2017. The station was
opened on 15 December 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and
Brompton Railway and was originally named Dover Street. It was
modernised in the 1930s when escalators replaced lifts and new entrances
were provided on Piccadilly. The Victoria line platforms opened on 7
March 1969 and the Jubilee line platforms opened on 1 May 1979 with the
official opening journeys by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles
starting from this station. Improvements in the 2000s made the station
wheelchair accessible throughout. The original station building designed
by Leslie Green has been demolished. Decorative elements around the
station include tiling schemes by Hans Unger and June Fraser and
stonework by John Maine.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Park_tube_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1169:
Norman mercenaries landed at Bannow Bay in Leinster, marking
the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_invasion_of_Ireland>
1794:
War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it
lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of
Boulou.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Boulou>
1931:
New York City's Empire State Building, at the time the tallest
building in the world, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building>
1994:
Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, a three-time Formula One
World Champion, was killed in a crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand
Prix.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
synaesthesia:
1. (neurology, psychology) A neurological or psychological phenomenon
whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of
sensation.
2. (by extension) The association of one sensory perception with, or
description of it in terms of, a different perception that is not
experienced at the same time.
3. (art, literature) A literary or artistic device whereby one kind of
sensation is described in the terms of another.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/synaesthesia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified
that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were
real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and
could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he
would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would
be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane,
he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to;
but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved
very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and
let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he
observed.
--Catch-22
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catch-22>