Dhoby Ghaut MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT)
interchange station on the North South, North East and Circle lines in
Singapore. Located in Dhoby Ghaut, the station is beneath Orchard Road
and is integrated with the commercial development The Atrium@Orchard.
The station serves landmarks such as the Istana and Plaza Singapura. The
only triple-line MRT interchange station in Singapore, Dhoby Ghaut
station is one of the deepest and largest stations in Singapore with
five basement levels. Constructed as part of Phase I of the MRT
network, the station commenced operations on 12 December 1987. The North
East line platforms were completed in 2003, while the Circle line
platforms opened in 2010 along with Stages 1 and 2 of the line. The
station features many works of art, three of them under the Art-in-
Transit scheme in the North East line and Circle line stations, a pair
of Art Seats at the Circle line platforms, and a piece above the North
South line platforms.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhoby_Ghaut_MRT_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1866:
England's worst mining disaster occurred when a series of
explosions (depicted) caused by flammable gases ripped through the Oaks
Colliery, killing 361 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaks_explosion>
1905:
In support of the December Uprising in Moscow, the Council of
Workers' Deputies of Kiev staged a mass uprising, establishing the
Shuliavka Republic in the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuliavka_Republic>
1941:
The Holocaust: At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich
Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the
Jewish people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Chancellery_meeting_of_12_December_1941>
1985:
Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after takeoff in Gander,
Newfoundland, Canada, killing 256 people, including 248 members of the
U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Air_Flight_1285>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Wiktionary:
1. A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a
free and complete dictionary in every language; the dictionaries,
collectively, produced by that project.
2. A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain
language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as
the English Wiktionary).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the
ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
--Gustave Flaubert
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert>
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