The More Hall Annex was a nuclear research building on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Built in 1961, it housed a small research reactor until June 30, 1988, operating at a peak of 100 kilowatts thermal (kWt), and was decommissioned in 2007. The building was designed in the Brutalist architectural style by UW faculty members, using reinforced concrete walls. Large windows overlooking the reactor room allowed observation from the outside, in an attempt to demonstrate the safety of nuclear energy. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, after a campaign led by an architecture student in response to a demolition proposal from the university. Despite a lawsuit from preservation groups and the City of Seattle, the university began demolition of the building in July 2016. It will be replaced by a new computer science building that is expected to open in 2019.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1559:

During a jousting match, King Henry II of France was mortally wounded when fragments of the splintered lance of Gabriel Montgomery pierced his eye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_France

1859:

French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, making him one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Blondin

1894:

London's Tower Bridge, a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames, opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge

1960:

The Belgian Congo received its independence from colonial rule, beginning a period of instability that ended in the dictatorship of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu in 1965. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis

1985:

Ryan White was denied re-admittance to his school due to HIV he had contracted during treatments for hemophilia; his legal battle made him a poster child for the disease in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

pulse-pounding:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pulse-pounding

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Someone will read as moral That the people of Rome or Warsaw Haggle, laugh, make love As they pass by martyrs' pyres. Someone else will read Of the passing of things human, Of the oblivion Born before the flames have died. But that day I thought only Of the loneliness of the dying, Of how, when Giordano Climbed to his burning There were no words In any human tongue To be left for mankind, Mankind who live on.   --Czesław Miłosz https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz