🏢 The United Nations headquarters was almost put in Michigan! On Dec. 7, 1945 Michigan leaders formally offered the entire 33,000-acre Sugar Island (near Sault Ste. Marie) as a peaceful new “International Island” for the U.N. headquarters. Detroit newspapers published proposals showing massive U.N. buildings on Sugar Island. However, John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated $8.5 million in land in New York to the United Nations and New York was ultimately chosen. #UnitedNations #Michigan #saultstemarie

A portrait of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been unveiled at the UN Headquarters in New York, just under two weeks to the end of his tenure as the head of the world body. Mr. Ban, together with his spouse, Yoo Soon-taek, unveiled the portrait at a brief ceremony, held in the UN Secretariat Building lobby today, 14 December 2016. The painter of the portrait, South Korean artist, Professor Lee Won-hee, spoke with UN News about his experience, expressing a sense of "great hon

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