From today's featured articleMorningside Park is a 30-acre (12-hectare) public park in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The area, originally known as "Muscota" by the Lenape Native Americans, features a cliff that separates Morningside Heights (to the west) from Harlem. The city commissioned Central Park's designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to produce a design for the park, which they did in 1873. Jacob Wrey Mould was hired to design new plans in 1880, but little progress occurred until Olmsted and Vaux were asked to modify their plans following Mould's death in 1886. After the park was completed in 1895, three sculptures were installed: Lafayette and Washington, Carl Schurz Memorial, and Alfred Lincoln Seligman Fountain. Columbia University proposed constructing a gym in the park's southern end in the early 1960s, but abandoned the plan after students protested in 1968. The site of the unbuilt gym was turned into a waterfall and pond around 1990, and an arboretum was added in 1998. ( Full article...) Did you know ...
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The Mexican state of Jalisco is divided into 125 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, it is the third-most-populous state, with 8,348,151 inhabitants, and the seventh-largest by land area, spanning 78,595.9 square kilometres (30,346.0 sq mi). Municipalities in Jalisco are administratively autonomous of the state, in accordance with the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico. Their legal framework derives from the state constitution. Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) by a plurality-voting system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council (ayuntamiento) responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The largest municipality by population is Zapopan (pictured), with 1,476,491 residents (17.68 percent of the state's total), while the smallest is Santa María del Oro, with 1,815 residents. The largest municipality by land area is Mezquitic, which spans 3,363.60 km2 (1,298.69 sq mi), and the smallest is Techaluta, with 79.20 km2 (30.58 sq mi). ( Full list...)
Noordhoek is a coastal town in the Western Cape, South Africa, located below Chapman's Peak on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula and is approximately 35 km (22 mi) to the south of Cape Town. The beach is a six-kilometre (3.7 mi) stretch of fine white sand used by walkers and horse-riders; winds are often strong and the sea is cold and wild. The neighbouring suburb of Kommetjie can be seen in the distance. Photograph credit: Diego Delso
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From today's featured articleMorningside Park is a 30-acre (12-hectare) public park in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The area, originally known as "Muscota" by the Lenape Native Americans, features a cliff that separates Morningside Heights (to the west) from Harlem. The city commissioned Central Park's designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to produce a design for the park, which they did in 1873. Jacob Wrey Mould was hired to design new plans in 1880, but little progress occurred until Olmsted and Vaux were asked to modify their plans following Mould's death in 1886. After the park was completed in 1895, three sculptures were installed: Lafayette and Washington, Carl Schurz Memorial, and Alfred Lincoln Seligman Fountain. Columbia University proposed constructing a gym in the park's southern end in the early 1960s, but abandoned the plan after students protested in 1968. The site of the unbuilt gym was turned into a waterfall and pond around 1990, and an arboretum was added in 1998. ( Full article...) Did you know ...
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The Mexican state of Jalisco is divided into 125 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, it is the third-most-populous state, with 8,348,151 inhabitants, and the seventh-largest by land area, spanning 78,595.9 square kilometres (30,346.0 sq mi). Municipalities in Jalisco are administratively autonomous of the state, in accordance with the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico. Their legal framework derives from the state constitution. Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) by a plurality-voting system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council (ayuntamiento) responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The largest municipality by population is Zapopan (pictured), with 1,476,491 residents (17.68 percent of the state's total), while the smallest is Santa María del Oro, with 1,815 residents. The largest municipality by land area is Mezquitic, which spans 3,363.60 km2 (1,298.69 sq mi), and the smallest is Techaluta, with 79.20 km2 (30.58 sq mi). ( Full list...)
Noordhoek is a coastal town in the Western Cape, South Africa, located below Chapman's Peak on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula and is approximately 35 km (22 mi) to the south of Cape Town. The beach is a six-kilometre (3.7 mi) stretch of fine white sand used by walkers and horse-riders; winds are often strong and the sea is cold and wild. The neighbouring suburb of Kommetjie can be seen in the distance. Photograph credit: Diego Delso
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