The North Eastern Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial in
York in northern England designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It commemorates
employees of the North Eastern Railway (NER) who were killed while
serving in the First World War. The NER, one of the largest employers in
the north of England, released over 18,000 of its employees to serve in
the armed forces. By the end of the war, 2,236 men from the company had
died on military service overseas; others were killed at home by
bombardments of east coast ports, including a raid on Scarborough,
Hartlepool and Whitby, and three Zeppelin raids on York. After the war,
thousands of memorials were built across Britain. Among the most
prominent designers of memorials was Lutyens, described by Historic
England as "the leading English architect of his generation". The NER
memorial, unveiled in 1924, consists of a 54-foot-high (16-metre)
obelisk rising from the rear portion of a three-sided screen wall. The
wall forms a recess in which stands Lutyens' characteristic Stone of
Remembrance. The memorial is a grade II* listed building.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Eastern_Railway_War_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1547:
Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pinkie_Cleugh>
1897:
A peaceful labor demonstration made up of mostly Polish and
Slovak anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, U.S., was
fired upon by a sheriff's posse in the Lattimer massacre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattimer_massacre>
1937:
Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met in the
Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean
Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon_Conference>
1960:
Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics,
Abebe Bikila became the first person from Sub-Saharan Africa to win an
Olympic gold medal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abebe_Bikila>
2007:
Nawaz Sharif, the thirteenth Prime Minister of Pakistan,
returned to the country after being ousted in a coup and exiled eight
years earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
from A to B:
From one point to the next; from the beginning of a
trip to the end.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_A_to_B>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe back to your own
world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own
world Because when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your
own world Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your
own world.
--Siobhan Fahey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Siobhan_Fahey>