Norwich War Memorial is a First World War memorial in Norwich in Eastern
England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it was the last of his eight
cenotaphs (empty tombs) to be erected in England. In 1926 Norwich's
newly elected lord mayor established an appeal to raise memorial funds
for local hospitals and to construct a physical monument. He
commissioned Lutyens, who designed a cenotaph atop a low screen wall
with bronze gas-lit torches at either end, and a protruding Stone of
Remembrance. Lutyens also installed a roll of honour listing the city's
dead at Norwich Castle in 1931. A local disabled veteran unveiled the
memorial in October 1927. It was moved from its original location to
become the centrepiece of a memorial garden between the market and the
City Hall in 1938. The structure on which the garden is built was found
to be unstable in 2004; the memorial was closed off, and fell into
disrepair. Work was completed in 2011, and the memorial was restored and
rotated to face the city hall. It was rededicated on Armistice Day 2011
and is today a grade II* listed building.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich_War_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1215:
The Fourth Lateran Council convened, during which it was
declared that belief in the Roman Catholic doctrine of
transubstantiation was obligatory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Council_of_the_Lateran>
1500:
During the Italian War of 1499–1504, Louis XII of France and
Ferdinand II of Aragon signed a secret treaty to divide the Mezzogiorno
between themselves.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_War_of_1499%E2%80%931504>
1934:
The Shrine of Remembrance, a memorial to all Australians who
have served in war, opened in Melbourne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_Remembrance>
1940:
Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-
aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in
the Battle of Taranto.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto>
1999:
The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most
hereditary peers from the British House of Lords.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_Act_1999>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bachelor's fare:
(dated) A simple meal that requires no cooking, such as bread and
cheese.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bachelor%27s_fare>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of
discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery
itself, at all. But what's the use of talking! I suspect that all I'm
saying now is so like the usual commonplaces that I shall certainly be
taken for a lower-form schoolboy sending in his essay on "sunrise", or
they'll say perhaps that I had something to say, but that I did not know
how to "explain" it. But I'll add, that there is something at the bottom
of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every
earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be
communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and
were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left
which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you
forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone
perhaps the most important of your ideas.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky>