Monday 1 January 2018

NEW YEAR'S EVE: FROM TIMES SQUARE TO THE UNO HQ

The Beans with the New Year's Eve Ball
Last night, The Beans went to Times Square to celebrate the New Year. It was an incredible experience sharing this special moment with hundreds of New Yorkers and visitors like them.

During the afternoon, they had visited the famous ball and they had seen how the technicians prepared all the elements to reach an exceptional event, perhaps, one of the most celebrated around the world during this New Year's Eve. Cristina Bean had expressed her illusion about this event to the Grandma and The Beans decided to got to this unforgettable event.

More information: TimeOut

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as The Crossroads of the World, The Center of the Universe, the heart of The Great White Way, and the heart of the world

The Beans arriving to Times Square
One of the world's busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.

Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually. More or less 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.

Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building –now One Times Square– the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop which began on December 31, 1907, and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every year.

More information: The Washington Post

After spending all night enjoying those wonderful moments, The Beans returned to the Bryant Park Hotel to rest a little because today they want to visit the UNO

The Beans arriving to the UNO Headquarters
The Grandma is a great admirer of the United Nations since she had the chance of seeing Pau Casals playing one of his last compositions, El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the Birds), which became in the Hymn of the United Nations

He conducted its first performance in a special concert at the United Nations on October 24, 1971, two months before his 95th birthday. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant, awarded Pau Casals the U.N. Peace Medal in recognition of his stance for peace, justice and freedom.

More information: Fundació Pau Casals

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. 


The Beans inside the UNO Headquarters
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193.

The headquarters of the UN is in Manhattan, New York City, and is subject to extraterritoriality. Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. 

Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world.

More information: UNO

The UN Charter was drafted at a conference between April–June 1945 in San Francisco, and was signed on 26 June 1945 at the conclusion of the conference; this charter took effect 24 October 1945, and the UN began operation. The UN's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies.


 Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, 
and let every new year find you a better man. 

Benjamin Franklin

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