The Surrogate's Courthouse is a historic building at the northwest
corner of Chambers and Centre Streets in New York City. A seven-story,
steel-framed structure in the Beaux Arts style, with a granite facade
and elaborate marble interiors, it was completed in 1907. John Rochester
Thomas created the original plans while Arthur J. Horgan and Vincent J.
Slattery oversaw the building's completion. The exterior is decorated
with fifty-four sculptures by Philip Martiny and Henry Kirke Bush-Brown,
as well as three-story Corinthian-style colonnades on Chambers and Reade
Streets. The building's basement houses the New York City Municipal
Archives. The fifth floor contains the surrogate's court for New York
County, which handles probate and estate proceedings for the New York
State Unified Court System. The Surrogate's Courthouse is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark,
and its facade and interior are both New York City designated landmarks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate%27s_Courthouse>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the first official land speed
record, averaging 63.15 km/h (39.24 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) in
Achères, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record>
1916:
The French defeated German forces around the city of Verdun-
sur-Meuse in northeast France, ending the longest and one of the
bloodiest battles in the First World War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun>
1963:
Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in
Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student
Edmund Assare-Addo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Moscow_protest>
1996:
The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial
resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to
be a separate language or dialect.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English_and_education>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
primum mobile:
1. (astronomy, historical) The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens
in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner
spheres to rotate.
2. (chiefly philosophy, theology) The prime mover or first cause (“an
initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).
3. (by extension) The person or thing that is the main impetus for some
action; a driving force.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primum_mobile>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I'm away from you I'm happier than ever Wish I could
explain it betterI wish it wasn't true. Give me a day or two To think
of something clever To write myself a letter To tell me what to do.
--Billie Eilish
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish>