Lever House is an office building at 390 Park Avenue in Midtown
Manhattan, New York City, that was originally the US headquarters of the
soap company Lever Brothers, a subsidiary of Unilever. Constructed from
1950 to 1952, the building is 307 feet (94 m) tall and has 21 office
stories topped by a triple-height mechanical section. It was designed by
Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in
the 20th-century modern International Style. Lever House was the second
skyscraper in New York City with a glass curtain wall, after the United
Nations Secretariat Building. The skyscraper was nearly demolished in
the 1980s before being designated as a city landmark. After the
construction of Lever House, many masonry residential structures on Park
Avenue in Midtown were replaced with largely commercial International
Style office buildings. Its design was also copied worldwide by
buildings such as the Emek Business Center in Ankara, Turkey.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_House>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1773:
American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea
into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation without representation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party>
1938:
Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German
Mother as an order of merit for German mothers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_Mother>
1997:
Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the
British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human
consumption.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_Bones_Regulations_1997>
2012:
A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi,
generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Delhi_gang_rape_and_murder>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
seethe:
1. (intransitive)
2. Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be
boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
3. (figurative)
4. Of a liquid, vapour, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or
froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
5. Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a
way that is not obvious to others.
6. Of a place: to be filled with many people or things moving about
actively; to buzz with activity; also, of people or things: to move
about actively in a crowd or group.
7. Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to
be in a state of unrest.
8. (transitive)
9. (archaic, chiefly passive voice)
10. To overboil (something) so that it loses its flavour or texture;
hence (figurative), to cause (the body, the mind, the spirit, etc.) to
become dull through too much alcoholic drink or heat.
11. To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
12. (obsolete)
13. To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or
stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.
14. (obsolete, physiology) Of the stomach: to digest (food).
15. (chiefly figurative) A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition,
seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seethe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and
very often, in fact almost … perpetually, he deliberately deceives
himself about that precious little fragment as well.
--Philip K. Dick
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick>