Chinatown MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT)
interchange on the North East line (NEL) and Downtown line (DTL) in
Outram, Singapore. It is located near landmarks such as the Buddha Tooth
Relic Temple and Museum, Masjid Jamae (Chulia), Chinatown Point and
People's Park Complex. Announced in 1996 and completed in 2003, the NEL
station was one of the most challenging projects during that line's
construction, requiring diversion of roads, and preservation of the
Garden Bridge. In 2007, an interchange with the DTL at this station was
announced. The DTL platforms opened in 2013. Each of the six entrances
has glass structures, with the Pagoda Street entrance having a pavilion-
style transparent roof structure (pictured) and the DTL entrance having
an elliptical shape. The NEL concourse and platforms feature calligraphy
as part of The Phoenix's-Eye Domain by Tan Swie Hian, while the DTL
concourse walls feature artworks of clothes lines as part of Flying
Colours by Cheo Chai Hiang.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_MRT_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
The United States took possession of Wake Island in the Pacific
Ocean.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Island>
1912:
Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition reached
the South Pole, only to find that Roald Amundsen's team had beaten them
by 33 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition>
1961:
Former Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba was murdered in
circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the Belgian and
US governments and the UN.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba>
2002:
Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began
erupting, killing hundreds and leaving about 120,000 people homeless in
the nearby town of Goma.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
snatch and run:
An unsophisticated method of committing robbery by grabbing someone's
property and attempting to flee with it.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snatch_and_run>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the
help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name
and to the detriment of my readers immediate pleasure as well as my own.
--Anne Brontë
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB>