This day in history: Did you know...

Friday, 21 November 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that the High Line (pictured), once an abandoned elevated railway slated for demolition in New York City, is now a linear parkwith about 5 million annual visitors?
... that Jack Lumber was the first game published by Sega's third-party publisher Sega Alliance?
... that following the 2014–15 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season,CBS will broadcast the Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament for the 18th consecutive year?
... that William E. Bradley, Jr. resigned less than a year after becoming the first President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics?
... that the Central Mental Hospital in Ireland, completed in 1850, was the first secure hospital in Europe?
... that the 1856 University Boat Race was umpired by a former Cambridge University Boat Club president who had rowed in both the March and December races of 1849?
... that the largest leishu encyclopedia ever printed contained 852,408 pages?

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