Woodleigh MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the North East line in Bidadari, Singapore. The station is underneath Upper Serangoon Road, near the junction with Upper Aljunied Road. Surrounding points of interest include Stamford American International School and Avon Park. The station also serves the developing Bidadari Estate and Woodleigh Residences (pictured). Woodleigh was among the 16 North East line stations first announced in March 1996. Despite being completed along with the rest of the line in June 2003, the station remained closed due to the lack of local development. It eventually opened on 20 June 2011. As with most of the North East line stations, it is a designated Civil Defence shelter. Woodleigh station features an Art-in-Transit public artwork Slow Motion by April Ng on thirty zinc panels, depicting commuters going about their daily lives.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1848:

In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government in present-day Romania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachian_Revolution_of_1848

1948:

The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first computer program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby

2000:

President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to 22 Asian Americans, mostly from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, for actions during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_Pacific_American_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

rhapsody: 1. (Ancient Greece, poetry, historical) An epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation. 2. (by extension) 3. (sometimes with a negative connotation) An exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing. 4. (music) An instrumental composition of irregular form, often incorporating improvisation. 5. (archaic) A random collection or medley; a miscellany; also, a confused string of stories, words, etc. 6. (sometimes with a negative connotation, obsolete) A literary composition consisting of miscellaneous works. 7. Synonym of rhapsodize 8. (transitive) 9. To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm. 10. (obsolete, rare) To perform (a rhapsody (“an epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation”)) 11. (intransitive) Followed by about, on, over, or upon: to speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhapsody

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

O great wide beautiful wonderful World With the wonderful waters around you curled And the beautiful grass upon your breast O World you are beautifully dressed.   --John Crowley https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Crowley