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[Joseph Addison]
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330 West 42nd Street, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building, is a 485-foot-tall (148 m), 33-story skyscraper in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Raymond Hood and J. André Fouilhoux in a mixture of the International Style, Art Deco, and Streamline Moderne styles. The exterior has numerous setbacks, blue-green terracotta ceramic tile panels, and green metal-framed windows. The lobby originally had blue and green panels, and most of the upper stories have similar floor plans. The building, constructed from 1930 to 1931, was originally the headquarters of the McGraw-Hill Companies until 1972. Since then, ownership of 330 West 42nd Street has changed several times; Deco Towers has owned the building since 1994. Moed de Armas and Shannon completely renovated the building in 2021, and the upper stories were converted into apartments starting in 2023. Designated as a city landmark, the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Full article...)
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On this day: April 30
April 30: International Jazz Day; Persian Gulf National Day in Iran
- 313 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: An outnumbered army led by Roman emperor Licinius defeated his rival Maximinus II's forces at the Battle of Tzirallum.
- 1006 – SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus.
- 1789 – George Washington (pictured) took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
- 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
- 1994 - Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.
- 2014 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China, killed three people and injured 79 others.
- Hildegard (d. 783)
- Cloris Leachman (b. 1926)
- Victor Glover (b. 1976)
- Gerry Ryan (d. 2010)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].