The CBS Building is a 38-story tower at 51 West 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Built from 1962 to 1965, it is the headquarters of the American broadcasting network CBS, which owned the structure until 2021. The only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen, the building occupies the eastern side of Sixth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets, near the Museum of Modern Art. The interior spaces and furnishings were designed by Saarinen and Florence Knoll Bassett. Its nickname, "Black Rock", is derived from the design of its facade, which consists of angled dark-gray granite piers alternating with dark tinted glass. The CBS Building has won several architectural awards, but according to critic Ada Louise Huxtable, "The dark dignity that appeals to architectural sophisticates puts off the public, which tends to reject it as funereal." The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the CBS Building as a city landmark in 1997.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1896:
In the shortest recorded war in history, the Sultanate of Zanzibar surrendered to the United Kingdom after less than an hour of conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War
1955:
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records
1964:
South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, both of whom had been involved in plots to unseat Khánh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_V%C4%83n_Minh
2003:
The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in almost 60,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
bumbershoot: (originally and chiefly US, slang, humorous) An umbrella. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bumbershoot
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this, that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone. Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. It is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past. The pallid shades of memory struggle in vain with the life and freedom of the Present. --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
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