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Exit E of Dhoby Ghaut station

Dhoby Ghaut MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the North South, North East and Circle lines in Singapore. Located in Dhoby Ghaut, the station is beneath Orchard Road and is integrated with the commercial development The Atrium@Orchard. The station serves landmarks such as the Istana and Plaza Singapura. The only triple-line MRT interchange station in Singapore, Dhoby Ghaut station is one of the deepest and largest stations in Singapore with five basement levels. Constructed as part of Phase I of the MRT network, the station commenced operations on 12 December 1987. The North East line platforms were completed in 2003, while the Circle line platforms opened in 2010 along with Stages 1 and 2 of the line. The station features many works of art, three of them under the Art-in-Transit scheme in the North East line and Circle line stations, a pair of Art Seats at the Circle line platforms, and a piece above the North South line platforms. (Full article...)

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December 12: Beginning of the Yule Lads' arrival in Iceland

Oaks Colliery explosion

1388 – Unable to defend her possessions, Maria of Enghien sold the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.
1866 – England's worst mining disaster occurred when a series of explosions (depicted) caused by flammable gases ripped through the Oaks Colliery, killing 361 people.
1905 – In support of the December Uprising in Moscow, the Council of Workers' Deputies of Kiev staged a mass uprising, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in the city.
1941 – The Holocaust: At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish people.
1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, killing 256 people, including 248 members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Johann Christoph Gottsched (d. 1766)
Gustave Flaubert (b. 1821)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (d. 1921)

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The New Zealand dotterel (Charadrius obscurus) is a species of shorebird found only in certain areas of New Zealand. The southern subspecies (C. o. obscurus) is considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with only 60 to 80 mature individuals remaining in 2017. This individual, from the more numerous northern subspecies (C. o. aquilonius), was photographed at Point Chevalier, Auckland.

Photograph credit: John Harrison

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