The Devon County War Memorial is a First World War memorial on Cathedral
Green in Exeter, the county town of Devon, in the south west of England.
It is one of fifteen War Crosses designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to a
similar specification. The Devon County War Memorial Committee
commissioned Lutyens to design a War Cross and chose to site it at
Exeter Cathedral. Hewn from a single block of granite quarried from
Haytor on Dartmoor, it stands just to the west of the cathedral, in
alignment with the altar. The cross stands on a granite plinth, which
itself sits on three steps. After archaeological excavations in the
1970s, the area was remodelled to create a processional way between the
memorial and the cathedral. The memorial is a grade II* listed building
and is included in a national collection of Lutyens' war memorials. It
commemorates the war dead of the county of Devon; the Exeter City War
Memorial in Northernhay Gardens honours those from the city.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_County_War_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1955:
Cardiff (City Hall pictured) was recognised as the capital of
Wales.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff>
1968:
The Zodiac Killer murdered the first of his five confirmed
victims in Vallejo, California, a case which remains unsolved.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer>
1988:
The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances governing international
cooperation against the illegal drug trade was signed in Vienna.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Illicit_Traffic_in_Narcotic_Drugs_and_Psychotropic_Substances>
2007:
Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the
São Paulo Museum of Art and recovered about three weeks later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Suzanne_Bloch>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
leister:
(fishing) A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching
fish, particularly salmon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leister>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know
not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension,
and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to
limited Dimensionality. That is the hope of my brighter moments.
--Edwin Abbott Abbott
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott>