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Today's featured article: 1 Wall Street Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York. Designed in the Art Deco style, the building is 654 feet (199 m) tall and consists of two sections. The original 50-story building was constructed between 1929 and 1931 for Irving Trust . A 28-story annex to the south (later expanded to 36 stories) was built between 1963 and 1965. The building occupies a full city block between Broadway , Wall Street , New Street, and Exchange Place . At the time of its construction, 1 Wall Street occupied what was considered one of the most valuable plots in the city. The building is one of New York City's Art Deco landmarks , although architectural critics initially ignored it in favor of such buildings as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building . The original portion of the building is designated as a New York City landmark . It is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District , a National Register of Historic Places district created in 2007. (Full article...
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Earth planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life . It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of its four rocky planets . About 29 percent of Earth's surface is land , with the remaining 71 percent covered with water and much of Earth's polar regions covered in ice . Earth's interior is active with a solid-iron inner core , a liquid outer core that generates Earth's magnetic field , and a convective mantle that drives plate tectonics . Earth formed more than 4.5 billion years ago . Within the first billion years of Earth's history , life appeared in the oceans and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, its physical properties and its geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive, including more than 8 billion humans as of 2024. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon , which orbits Earth at a radius of 384,400 km (238,900 mi) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. This photograph of Earth straddling the lunar horizon was taken in 2015 by NASA 's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter while located 134 km (83 mi) above the crater Compton , visible in the foreground. To capture the image, the spacecraft had to be rolled 67 degrees to its side, and slewed with the direction of travel to maximize the width of the lunar horizon, while traveling more than 1600 m/s (3600 mph) relative to the surface.
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