Morningside Park is a 30-acre (12-hectare) public park in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The area, originally known as "Muscota" by the Lenape Native Americans, features a cliff that separates Morningside Heights (to the west) from Harlem. The city commissioned Central Park's designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to produce a design for the park, which they did in 1873. Jacob Wrey Mould was hired to design new plans in 1880, but little progress occurred until Olmsted and Vaux were asked to modify their plans following Mould's death in 1886. After the park was completed in 1895, three sculptures were installed: Lafayette and Washington, Carl Schurz Memorial, and Alfred Lincoln Seligman Fountain. Columbia University proposed constructing a gym in the park's southern end in the early 1960s, but abandoned the plan after students protested in 1968. The site of the unbuilt gym was turned into a waterfall and pond around 1990, and an arboretum was added in 1998.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1931:
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first constitution, replacing the Fetha Nagast, which had been the supreme law since the Middle Ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Constitution_of_Ethiopia
1951:
The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
1983:
A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_British_Airways_Sikorsky_S-61_crash
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
wristlet: 1. An elastic band worn to keep a glove from slipping off the wrist. 2. A decorative band or bracelet that encircles the wearer's wrist; especially, a closely knitted one to keep it warm; a muffetee. 3. A small handbag with a short strap for attaching it to the wearer's wrist. 4. A handcuff. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wristlet
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. --The Catcher in the Rye https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye