Rochdale Cenotaph is a First World War memorial on the Esplanade in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in the north west of England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is one of seven memorials in England based on his Cenotaph on Whitehall in London, and one of his more ambitious designs. The memorial was unveiled in 1922 and consists of a 10-metre (33 ft) pylon, topped by an effigy of a recumbent soldier, and Lutyens' characteristic Stone of Remembrance. A public meeting in February 1919 established a consensus to create a monument and a fund for the families of wounded servicemen. The meeting agreed to commission Lutyens to design the monument. His design for a bridge over the River Roch was abandoned after a local dignitary purchased a plot of land adjacent to Rochdale Town Hall and donated it for the site of the memorial. Lutyens revised his design, and Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, unveiled the memorial on 26 November 1922. It was upgraded to a Grade I listed structure in 2015, when Lutyens' war memorials were declared a national collection by Historic England.

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1693:

An intensity XI earthquake, the most powerful in Italian history, struck the island of Sicily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693_Sicily_earthquake

1787:

German-born British astronomer William Herschel discovered two Uranian moons, later named, by his son, Oberon and Titania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titania_(moon)

1927:

Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer invited 36 people involved in the film industry to a banquet, where he announced the creation of what would become the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences

1946:

Albania was proclaimed the People's Republic of Albania with Enver Hoxha (pictured)) as the de facto head of state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha

1986:

The Gateway Bridge was opened in Brisbane, Australia, the largest prestressed concrete, single box bridge in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges

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Everester: Someone who climbs Mount Everest. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Everester

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There is immense silent agony in the world, and the task of man is to be a voice for the plundered poor, to prevent the desecration of the soul and the violation of our dream of honesty. The more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the prophets, the more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of the Prophets sought to convey: that morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.   --Abraham Joshua Heschel https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel