Southampton Cenotaph is a First World War memorial in Watts Park in the southern English city of Southampton. The cenotaph was the first memorial of dozens designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to be built in permanent form and it influenced his later designs, including the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London. It is a tapering, multi-tiered pylon featuring a recumbent figure of a soldier, a prominent cross, the town's coat of arms, and two lion sculptures. In front is an altar-like Stone of Remembrance. Later cenotaphs by Lutyens, although similar in outline, were much more austere and featured almost no sculpture. By the beginning of the 21st century, the engravings on the memorial had deteriorated noticeably. They have been supplemented by a series of glass panels, unveiled in 2011, which bear all the names from the cenotaph, as well as names from the Second World War and later conflicts. The memorial was upgraded in 2015 to a Grade I listed building.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1917:
First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of Jerusalem, surrendered the city to the British (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jerusalem
1961:
Tanganyika Territory gained independence from Britain before becoming part of Tanzania three years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Territory
1981:
Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner; his subsequent conviction and death sentence became the source of great controversy in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal
2016:
South Korean president Park Geun-hye was impeached, marking the culmination of the country's political scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
out of kilter: (idiomatic) Askew, disturbed; not adjusted or working properly; out of order. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/out_of_kilter
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