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London and North Western Railway War Memorial

The London and North Western Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial outside Euston station in London, England. The memorial was designed by Reginald Wynn Owen and commemorates employees of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) who were killed in the First World War. Over 37,000 LNWR employees left to fight in the war, of whom 3,719 were killed. The memorial cost £12,500 and consists of a single obelisk, 13 metres (43 feet) tall, on a pedestal. At the top, on each side, is a cross in relief and a bronze wreath. At each corner of the base is a statue of a military figure—an artilleryman, an infantryman, a sailor, and an airman—each larger than life-size. Field Marshal Earl Haig unveiled the memorial on 21 October 1921, accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury; more than 8,000 people attended the ceremony. The memorial and two entrance lodges are all that remain of the former Euston station complex, as it was rebuilt in the 1960s. The memorial is a Grade II* listed building. (Full article...)

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There are fifteen interrelated families of alismatid monocots, a group of flowering plants named after their largest order, Alismatales. Like other monocots, they have a single embryonic leaf (cotyledon) in most of their seeds, and are generally characterized by leaves with parallel veins, scattered vascular systems, flowers with parts in groups of three or multiples of three, and roots that can develop in more than one place along the stems. The alismatids were the first species to diverge from the other monocots, occurring during the Cretaceous period. Like the earliest monocots, many of them are aquatic, and some grow completely submerged. Apart from the sweet-flag family of wetland plants, which form the order Acorales (species pictured), all alismatid families are in Alismatales. (Full list...)

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Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. It serves fifty stations along six routes on 131 miles (211 kilometers) of rapid transit lines, including a spur line to Antioch that uses diesel multiple unit trains, and an automated guideway transit line to Oakland International Airport. The system had 26,026,800 passengers in 2021. This photograph, captured by a line-scan camera using strip photography, shows the length of a nine-car Bay Area Rapid Transit train comprising four C1 cars and five B2 cars.

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