110px|McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink
McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink is a multi-purpose venue within
Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, US. On
December 20, 2001, it became the first attraction in Millennium Park to
open. The $3.2 million plaza was funded by a donation from the
McCormick Tribune Foundation. It has served as an ice skating rink, a
dining facility and briefly as an open-air exhibition space. The plaza
operates as McCormick Tribune Ice Rink, a free public outdoor ice
skating rink that is generally open four months a year, from
mid-November until mid-March, when it hosts over 100,000 skaters
annually. It is known as one of Chicago's better outdoor
people-watching locations during the winter months. For the rest of the
year, it serves as "Plaza at Park Grill" or "Park Grill Plaza",
Chicago's largest outdoor dining facility. The 150-seat park grill
hosts various culinary events as well as music during its months of
outdoor operation, and it is affiliated with the 300-seat indoor Park
Grill restaurant located beneath AT&T Plaza and Cloud Gate. The outdoor
restaurant offers scenic views of the park. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1941:
World War II: The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air
Force, popularly known as the Flying Tigers, engaged in its first
combat missions.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers>
1973:
Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assassinated by a bomb
planted by members of the Basque nationalist and separatist
organisation ETA.
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1988:
The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs
and Psychotropic Substances, a treaty mostly devoted to fighting
organized crime by mandating cooperation in tracing and seizing
drug-related assets, was signed in Vienna.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Illicit_Traffic_in_Narcotic_Drugs_and_Psychotropic_Substances>
1999:
Portugal transferred sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of
China .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau>
2005:
US district court Judge John E. Jones III ruled against mandating the
teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover
Area School District.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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An interpretive commentary on scripture, especially one in Hebrew
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent
"elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that
the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and
arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum
interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality,
and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular
and contingent forms within this whole.
--David Bohm
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