The Cloisters is a museum in Washington Heights in New York City featuring four covered walkways pieced together from several abandoned European monasteries and rebuilt in the United States. Specializing in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, the museum has about five thousand works, most dating from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The varied objects include stone and wood sculptures, around three hundred panels of stained glass, and panel paintings, including the Early Netherlandish Mérode Altarpiece (c. 1422). Designed by architect Charles Collens, the museum houses medieval gardens, several indoor chapels and thematic display spaces. Two rooms are dedicated to the tapestry series Nine Heroes (c. 1385) and The Hunt of the Unicorn (c. 1495–1505). Illuminated manuscripts displayed in the Treasury room include the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (c. 1399–1416), attributed to the Limbourg brothers. (Full article...). Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloisters> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1828: Juan Lavalle, returning to Buenos Aires with troops that fought in the Cisplatine War, deposed the provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolution_%28Argentina%29> 1918: With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal union with Denmark through a common monarch. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iceland> 1948: In "one of Australia's most profound mysteries", the body of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, a case which remains unsolved today. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case> 1988: Four armed men hijacked a bus carrying thirty schoolchildren and one teacher in Ordzhonikidze, Soviet Union (now Vladikavkaz in Russia), and were later given an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft and ransom in exchange for the release of the hostages. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Ordzhonikidze_bus_hijacking> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: Playboy Bunny: A waitress at a Playboy Club, characteristically dressed in a strapless teddy, black pantyhose, cuffs, a collar and bowtie, bunny ears, and a short, fluffy tail. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Playboy_Bunny> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   The potency of knowledge depends on how and when it is used.   --Murder by the Book <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe#Murder_by_the_Book>