The CBS Building is a 38-story tower at 51 West 52nd Street in Midtown
Manhattan, New York City. Built from 1962 to 1965, it is the
headquarters of the American broadcasting network CBS, which owned the
structure until 2021. The only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen, the
building occupies the eastern side of Sixth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd
Streets, near the Museum of Modern Art. The interior spaces and
furnishings were designed by Saarinen and Florence Knoll Bassett. Its
nickname, "Black Rock", is derived from the design of its facade, which
consists of angled dark-gray granite piers alternating with dark tinted
glass. The CBS Building has won several architectural awards, but
according to critic Ada Louise Huxtable, "The dark dignity that appeals
to architectural sophisticates puts off the public, which tends to
reject it as funereal." The New York City Landmarks Preservation
Commission designated the CBS Building as a city landmark in 1997.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Building>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1896:
In the shortest recorded war in history, the Sultanate of
Zanzibar surrendered to the United Kingdom after less than an hour of
conflict.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War>
1955:
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was
published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records>
1964:
South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a
triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện
Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, both of whom had been involved in plots to
unseat Khánh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_V%C4%83n_Minh>
2003:
The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in almost
60,000 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bumbershoot:
(originally and chiefly US, slang, humorous) An umbrella.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bumbershoot>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended
to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience
and history teach is this, that peoples and governments never have
learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a
condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be
regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. It
is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past. The pallid
shades of memory struggle in vain with the life and freedom of the
Present.
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel>