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On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.
The plaque is made of bronze, and is a star set in a circle with a blue background, and the words " SHEFFIELD LEGEND " GORDON BANKS OBE.
The first stratigraphic boundary was defined in 1977 by identifying the Silurian-Devonian boundary with a bronze plaque at a locality called Klonk, northeast of the village of Suchomasty in the Czech Republic.
There is a stone monument with a bronze plaque at the Hürtgen military cemetery dedicated by veterans of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division to the memory of Friedrich Lengfeld ( 29 September 1921 12 November 1944 ), a German lieutenant.
In Dublin, Ireland there is a bronze plaque depicting this 13 August 1887 event on the statue of expedition Surgeon Major Thomas Heazle Parke who removed the arrow and sucked the poison from the wound.
Many older illustrations ( above ) show the statue with one foot on either side of the harbor mouth with ships passing under it: "... the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land ..." (" The New Colossus ", a poem engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty in 1903 ).
Other artifacts include bronze reliefs depicting a sea deity, fishermen and tritons, nine stone or bronze statues of dogs, one of which has a human face, and some of which are similar to Irish Wolfhounds, a bronze plaque of a woman, a bronze arm, an oculist's stamp ( used by physicians to mark their cakes of eye ointment ), about 320 pins, nearly 300 bracelets, and over 8, 000 coins.
The name of each inductee is inscribed in bronze on the Hall of Fame plaque at the CAB offices in Ottawa.
On the parade ground a native boulder bears a bronze plaque in memory of Eagle Scout twin brothers from Troop 2, Towanda, Pennsylvania, Air Force Lieutenants John R. and William G. Winter.
A bronze plaque, dedicated to all who were affected, was later placed near the pond.
A bronze plaque reflecting Hickam's " national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America " took its place among other memorials surrounding the base flagpole.
Near the entrance to the hall is a bronze plaque commemorating the services and life of Father Thomas Connors, a bi-lingual French / English priest from the Our Lady of La Salette Order Missionaries of La Salette, who was assigned to St. Joseph's parish in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Hall is buried in the vicinity of the so-called " store well ," with a bronze plaque bolted to a ledge as commemoration.
This information comes from the bronze plaque in the town's center at Utica and Cunningham Streets.
The bronze plaque in the lobby commemorates Sir Philip's father, Captain Charles William Harris, after whom the building is named.
A couple of years later, Highland Park Elementary School was presented with a bronze plaque in honor of the students ' achievement.
Today, this event is commemorated by a historic monument with a bronze plaque bearing the names of the fifteen men who lost their lives during the massacre.
The bronze plaque, listing the names of the fallen, was optimistically dated Memorial Day, 1920.
" Despite this, there is a bronze plaque attached to the corner of the building declaring that exact spot to be the place where the phrase " Give ' em hell, Harry " was first uttered.
A bronze plaque recognizing various pioneers who have been to Wishram begins with Meriwether Lewis and ends with John C. Fremont.
Also unveiled that day was a memorial to the members of the press who died at Munich, which consisted of a bronze plaque that named the eight lost journalists.

bronze and inscribed
i., Berlin, 1863 ; 1438-1454 ), small bronze cylinders inscribed, and used as oracles, were perhaps found here in the 16th century.
The subject would be obscure, save that the names of the characters are inscribed in the bronze.
A Western Zhou ceremonial bronze of cooking-vessel form inscribed to record that the King of Zhou gave a fiefdom to Shi You, ordering that he inherit the title as well as the land and people living there
A bronze matzo plate designed by Maurice Ascalon, inscribed with the opening words of Ha Lachma Anya
Livy informs us that the rapid spread of the cult, which he claims indulged in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, led in 186 BC to a decree of the Senate the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Apulia in Southern Italy ( 1640 ), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.
It has become conventional to refer to the script as " Proto-Canaanite " until the mid-11th century, when it is first attested on inscribed bronze arrowheads, and as " Phoenician " only after 1050 BC.
Eos and Tithonus ( inscribed Tinthu or Tinthun ) provided a pictorial motif that was inscribed on Etruscan bronze hand-mirrorbacks, or cast in low relief.
He is unknown throughout the rest of the Roman Empire and is therefore thought to have been a local god of the Roman fort at Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, possibly associated with either a natural spring or a stream in the neighbourhood The god is known only from an inscribed bronze feather, very likely some sort of votive object, dedicated to him
The largest cache by far is the Iguvine Tablets, nine inscribed bronze tablets found in 1444 in an underground chamber at Gubbio ( ancient Iguvium ).
Most of the inscriptions are very short, but there is one longer inscription, a bronze tablet inscribed with a text of 35 words.
This consisted of a golden basin, supported by a bronze serpent with three heads ( or three serpents intertwined ), with a list of the states that had taken part in the war inscribed on the coils of the serpent.
Pope Gregory VII was abbot of the monastery and in his time Pantaleone, a rich merchant of Amalfi who lived in Constantinople, presented the bronze doors of the basilica maior, which were executed by Constantinopolitan artists ; the doors are inscribed with Pantaleone's prayer that the " doors of life " may be opened to him.
An additional early use of the term, is Augustus Caesar's apologia or defense of his accomplishments as Roman Emperor inscribed outside of his tomb, at his death in 14 AD on pillars of bronze, called The Deeds of the Divine Augustus ( in Latin: Res Gestae Divi Augusti ).
The surviving copy is inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Calabria in Southern Italy ( 1640 ), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Today, there are over a million rare and valuable works of art in the permanent collection of the Palace Museum, including paintings, ceramics, seals, steles, sculptures, inscribed wares, bronze wares, enamel objects, etc.
It has been issued since 1960, when it was presented to Eleanor Roosevelt, and consists of a certificate, a ceremony, and the presentation of a bronze medallion inscribed with a quotation by Gandhi, " Love Ever Suffers / Never Revenges Itself.
They are all inscribed with identifying text and a bronze black on the back of the base is inscribed:
The parts of it inscribed on a bronze tablet preserved in the museum at Parma are entirely concerned with arranging the judiciary: the law appoints two viri and four viri juri dicundo, and also mentions a Prefect of Mutina.
The Inscription of Alba Fucus is a bronze plate inscribed with ALBSI PATRE .< ref > gives the CIL number, as the inscription was originally taken to be early Latin: CIL I < sup > 2 </ sup > 385, VI 3672, IX 4177 .</ ref > Conway reconstructs the first word as * albe ( n ) si, a dative case.
Outside the city was a sanctuary dedicated to Sol Indigetes and a vast sanctuary with numerous altars, where the bronze inscribed plaque records that the Dioscuri were being venerated at one of numerous altars.
Mycenaean artifacts have been found well outside the limits of the Mycenaean world: namely Mycenaean swords are known from as far away as Georgia in the Caucasus, an amber object inscribed with Linear B symbols has been found in Bavaria, Germany and Mycenaean bronze double axes and other objects dating from 13th century BC have been found in Ireland and in Wessex and Cornwall in England.

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