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Lancashire Fusiliers memorial, Gallipoli Garden, Bury (5).JPG
The Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial is a First World War memorial originally
dedicated to members of the Lancashire Fusiliers killed in that conflict, and later
rededicated to all fusiliers killed in action. It was unveiled on 25 April 1922,
the seventh anniversary of the landing at Cape Helles, part of the Gallipoli
Campaign in which the regiment suffered particularly heavy casualties. It is now
located outside the Fusilier Museum in Gallipoli Gardens in Bury, Greater
Manchester (historically in Lancashire), in north-west England. The prominent
architect Edwin Lutyens, whose father and great uncle were officers in the
regiment, designed a tall, slender obelisk in Portland stone, with inscriptions
containing the regiment's motto and a dedication, and the regiment's cap badge
carved near the top. The memorial was designated a Grade II listed building in
1992. It was upgraded to II* in 2015, and later that year was recognised as part of
a national collection of Lutyens' war memorials. (Full article...)

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April 25:

Violeta Chamorro
Violeta Chamorro
799 � Pope Leo III was attacked by partisans of his predecessor Adrian I, but was
rescued and taken to Charlemagne, as described in the epic Karolus magnus et Leo
papa.
1846 � An open conflict between the military forces of the United States and Mexico
began over the disputed border of Texas north of the Rio Grande and south of the
Nueces River, later serving as a primary justification for the Mexican�American
War.
1915 � First World War: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove
while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion
of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.
1990 � Violeta Chamorro (pictured) took office as the President of Nicaragua, the
first woman elected in her own right as a head of state in the Americas.
2015 � A 7.8 MW earthquake struck Nepal, resulting in 8,964 deaths and 21,952
injuries.
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Leica I
A Leica I camera produced between 1926 and 1936. Intended as a compact camera for
landscape photography, the Leica I was the first practical 35 mm camera that used
standard cinema 35 mm film. In the 1930s, the company began producing lenses to
support its interchangeable models of the Leica I.

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