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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Cenotaph>
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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>
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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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