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.

A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands – Drake's Plate of Brass – fitting the description in his account, was discovered in Marin County, California but was later declared a hoax.

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.

In 1863, the crew of placed a bronze tablet on a spot called Selkirk's Lookout on a hill of the island in memory of his stay.

In 1999 the horse alone was cast from Leonardo's original designs in bronze and placed in Milan outside the racetrack of Ippodromo del Galoppo.

The tournament, of 393 players of which 167 were Grandmasters, was won by Russian Vladimir Potkin on tie-break, GM Radosław Wojtaszek won the silver, while Polgár placed third, winning the bronze.

A bronze statue of a group of soldiers and an American flag was placed off to one side of the monument as a result.

The concept of dividing pre-historical ages into systems based on metals extends far back in European history, but the present archaeological system of the three main ages: stone, bronze and iron, originates with the Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen ( 1788 – 1865 ), who placed the system on a more scientific basis by typological and chronological studies, at first of tools and other artifacts present in the Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen ( later the National Museum of Denmark ).

This plunder included the gilt bronze horses from the Hippodrome of Constantinople, which were originally placed above the entrance to St Mark's cathedral in Venice, although the originals have been replaced with replicas and the originals are now stored within the basilica.

A 10-foot bronze replica of the original Iron Felix statue was placed on the grounds of the military academy in Minsk, Belarus in May 2006.

He also had the head of the Colossus of Nero adjacent to the Colosseum replaced with his own portrait, gave it a club and placed a bronze lion at its feet to make it look like Hercules, and added an inscription boasting of being " the only left-handed fighter to conquer twelve times one thousand men ".

A bronze statue of Stratton by Nellie Walker was placed on the grounds of his estate in 1909.

A bronze disk was placed at the spot in 1931.

According to Diodorus Siculus, " There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire ."( Bib.

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In 1909 a former player named William James Scott made a bronze cast of a cockerel standing on a football to be placed on top of the West Stand and since then the cockerel and ball have been the major part of the club's identity.

( Other equestrian statues, from the 14th century, had not been executed in bronze and had been placed over tombs rather than erected independently, in a public place.

Audrey Patterson, the first African American woman to win an Olympic medal placed in third, although a finish photo discovered decades later indicates Shirley Strickland should have won the bronze.

* The first of the Athenian sculptor Phidias ' monuments to Athena, the bronze Athena Promachos, is placed on the Athenian Acropolis.

The ruins of Oola Castle stand close to the village and in 1825, some large and perfect antlers of the Irish elk were discovered ; and, in 1828, a brazen trumpet, and spear and arrow heads of bronze were found, which were placed in the museum of Trinity College, Dublin.

A replacement bronze eagle by sculptor John Doubleday was placed on the re-sited column.

For these people, the bogs held some sort of significance, and indeed, they placed votive offerings into them, often of neck-rings, wristlets or ankle-rings made of bronze or more rarely gold.

There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire.

As Geneva shuttered itself in mourning, Elisabeth ’ s body was placed in a triple coffin: two inner ones of lead, the third exterior one in bronze, reposing on lion claws.

A bronze bust of Wood, belonging to the Royal Academy of Music, is placed in front of the Organ for the whole season.

He was then commissioned to execute monumental gilded bronze statues to be placed within select niches of the Orsanmichele in Florence, one of Saint John the Baptist for the Arte di Calimala ( Wool Merchants ' Guild ) and one of St. Matthew for the Arte di Cambio ( Bankers ' Guild ).

A bronze plaque, to commemorate his invention, was placed on his grave in 1945 by telephone company officials.