Hove War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Sir Edwin
Lutyens and located on Grand Avenue in Hove, part of the city of
Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England. Hove was the site of
one of the earliest recruiting events at the beginning of the war and
later of several military hospitals. Over 600 men from the town were
killed during the war. A war memorial committee was established in 1919
and Lutyens was engaged as architect. He designed a Tuscan column on a
three-staged base, topped with a statue of Saint George, patron saint of
England. George, cast in the studio of Sir George Frampton, holds a
sword by the blade in one hand and a shield in the other. The same
statue, with variations, appears on several other monuments. The base
contains several dedicatory inscriptions but no names, which are instead
recorded on plaques in the town's library. The memorial was unveiled on
27 February 1921 by Lord Leconfield. It is a Grade II listed building.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hove_War_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1913:
A severe blizzard reached its maximum intensity in the Great
Lakes Basin of North America, destroying 19 ships and 68,300 tons of
cargo, and killing more than 250 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913>
1938:
Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed
and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and
Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of 30,000
men to concentration camps.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht>
1967:
The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing
on music, politics and popular culture, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone>
1993:
Bosnian War: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the
Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city
of Mostar (rebuilt bridge pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jot:
1. (transitive) Chiefly followed by down: to write (something) quickly;
to make a brief note of (something).
2. The smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota.
3. (by extension, chiefly in the negative) A small, or the smallest,
amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.
4. (obsolete) An instant, a moment.
5. A brief and hurriedly written note. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jot>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between
two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses
that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new
ideas … If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through
to you … On the other hand, if you are open to the point of
gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you
cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
--Carl Sagan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan>
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