The Tweed Courthouse (officially the Old New York County Courthouse) is
a historic courthouse building in Civic Center, Manhattan, New York
City. Listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and
protected as a New York City designated landmark, it is the second-
oldest city-government building in Manhattan, after City Hall. It was
built in the Italianate style, with Romanesque Revival interiors, under
the leadership of William M. "Boss" Tweed, whose political machine,
Tammany Hall, controlled the city and state governments when the
courthouse was built. Architect John Kellum designed the original two
wings of the building, which was constructed from 1861 to 1872. The
project was completed by architect Leopold Eidlitz, who added the rear
wing and finished the interior between 1877 and 1881. Modern restoration
and historic preservation were completed in 2001.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweed_Courthouse>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1930:
Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a
military coup by José Félix Uriburu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip%C3%B3lito_Yrigoyen>
1952:
A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in
Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29
spectators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Farnborough_Airshow_crash>
1970:
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four
airliners, landing two at Dawson's Field in Jordan and one in Cairo,
while the last hijacking attempt was foiled.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings>
1995:
Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive Major League
Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Ripken_Jr.>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bray:
1. (intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the
ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
2. (intransitive, by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a
donkey's bray.
3. (transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly,
loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner. [...]
4. (transitive, archaic) To crush or pound, especially using a pestle
and mortar.
5. (transitive, Britain, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit
(someone or something).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bray>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Better were the prospects of a people under the influence of the
worst government who should hold the power of changing it, than those of
a people under the best who should hold no such power.
--Frances Wright
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frances_Wright>