Lever House is an office building at 390 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, that was originally the US headquarters of the soap company Lever Brothers, a subsidiary of Unilever. Constructed from 1950 to 1952, the building is 307 feet (94 m) tall and has 21 office stories topped by a triple-height mechanical section. It was designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the 20th-century modern International Style. Lever House was the second skyscraper in New York City with a glass curtain wall, after the United Nations Secretariat Building. The skyscraper was nearly demolished in the 1980s before being designated as a city landmark. After the construction of Lever House, many masonry residential structures on Park Avenue in Midtown were replaced with largely commercial International Style office buildings. Its design was also copied worldwide by buildings such as the Emek Business Center in Ankara, Turkey.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1773:

American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation without representation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

1938:

Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother as an order of merit for German mothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_Mother

1997:

Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_Bones_Regulations_1997

2012:

A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Delhi_gang_rape_and_murder

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seethe: 1. (intransitive) 2. Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot. 3. (figurative) 4. Of a liquid, vapour, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling. 5. Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others. 6. Of a place: to be filled with many people or things moving about actively; to buzz with activity; also, of people or things: to move about actively in a crowd or group. 7. Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest. 8. (transitive) 9. (archaic, chiefly passive voice) 10. To overboil (something) so that it loses its flavour or texture; hence (figurative), to cause (the body, the mind, the spirit, etc.) to become dull through too much alcoholic drink or heat. 11. To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep. 12. (obsolete) 13. To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling. 14. (obsolete, physiology) Of the stomach: to digest (food). 15. (chiefly figurative) A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seethe

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