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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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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.

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Old Faithful is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. It is a highly predictable geothermal feature, erupting on average every 92 minutes, with the period between eruptions ranging from as short as 35 minutes to as long as 120 minutes. The geyser and the nearby Old Faithful Inn are part of the Old Faithful Historic District. This photograph shows Old Faithful erupting in 2022.

Photograph credit: Dietmar Rabich

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