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Whenever the monarch or another member of the Royal Family is in Ottawa, they will, regardless of the date, lay a wreath at the monument.
The funeral wreath suggests that Maya will die if Nancy doesn't stop the demolition.

wreath and be
It is well for us to remember that a wreath on a coffin never can atone for flowers withheld while they still can be enjoyed.
Archimedes knew that the irregularly shaped wreath could be crushed into a cube whose volume could be calculated easily and compared with the mass ; but the king did not approve of this.
The two shields in the centre form the coat of arms of the Electorate of Saxony with the Saxon arms on the right, whose gold and black stripes recall the Ascanian rulers ' house colours with the Rautenkranz ( literally " lozenge wreath ", although it is no such thing, as can be seen at the Saxony article ) across them symbolizing the town's founder Duke Albrecht II since 1262, when it appeared in his arms.
When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS ; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that " krans " meant " funeral wreath " in Swedish ( though it simply means " wreath "; this part of the story may be apocryphal ).
The ' white wreath ' was said to be related to the public humiliation in 1450 and death beneath the tree of a local girl wrongly accused of adultery.
Apart from the traditional form, crowns also may be in the form of a wreath and be made of, flowers, oak leaves or thorns and be worn by others, representing what the coronation part aims to symbolize with the specific crown.
The rank can be denoted by a coronet or wreath placed on the helmet ( often instead of directly above the shield ).
Thus we can choose Ω := H. In this special ( but very common ) case the unrestricted and restricted wreath product may be denoted by A Wr H and A wr H respectively.
In 2008 the Labour Government agreed that one wreath could be laid for all 14 territories by a representative of the territories.
To be precise, the generalized permutation matrices are a ( faithful ) linear representation of this abstract wreath product: a realization of the abstract group as a subgroup of matrices.
Bay laurel may also be used, and these wreaths are known as laurel wreath.
The harvest wreath would be hung by the door year-round.
The laurel or olive wreath would be hung at the door, and then offerings were made to Helios and the Hours.
A wreath may be used as a headdress made from leaves, flowers and branches.
The winner of this contest would wear the wreath as his crown, and would be recognized as the May Day King for the rest of the holiday.
The flowers used in making the Midsummer wreath had to be picked early in the morning before the dew had dried ; the belief was that once the dew dried, the magical properties of the plants evaporated with the dew.
At least until the 5th century BC ( Pindar's time ) the winners of the Isthmian games received a wreath of celery ; later, the wreath was altered such that it consisted of pine leaves .< ref >“ As he was marching up an ascent, from the top of which they expected to have a view of the army and of the strength of the enemy, there met him by chance a train of mules loaded with parsley ; which his soldiers conceived to be an ominous occurrence or ill-boding token, because this is the herb with which we not infrequently adorn the sepulchres of the dead ; and there is a proverb derived from the custom, used of one who is dangerously sick, that he has need of nothing but parsley.
So to ease their minds, and free them from any superstitious thoughts or forebodings of evil, Timoleon halted, and concluded an address suitable to the occasion, by saying, that a garland of triumph was here luckily brought them, and had fallen into their hands of its own accord, as an anticipation of victory: the same with which the Corinthians crown the victors in the Isthmian games, accounting chaplets of parsley the sacred wreath proper to their country ; parsley being at that time still the emblem of victory at the Isthmian, as it is now at the Nemean sports ; and it is not so very long ago that the pine first began to be used in its place .” “” ( Plutarch, Life of Timoleon ).</ ref > Victors could also be honored with a statue or an ode.

wreath and placed
" Arthur placed on the grave a wreath he wove himself of margarite and wild broom, expressive of their innermost feelings, commemorating the event with a private poem, To Margaret my beloved wife, not published until after his death decades later:
At her request, after her funeral the wreath that had lain atop her coffin was placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, in a gesture that echoed her wedding-day tribute 79 years before.
There is a plaque commemorating these US servicemen in Quorn's Memorial Gardens, upon which a poppy wreath is placed each year on Remembrance Sunday.
They march behind the girl who wears the wreath to the squire's house, and while he receives the wreath and hangs it up in the hall, the Corn-mother is placed on the top of a pile of wood, where she is the centre of the harvest supper and dance.
In Paris, at a banquet held in his honor on April 4, 1859, a laurel wreath was placed over the head of a bust of Morphy, carved by the sculptor Eugène-Louis Lequesne.
* February 18 – The first Washington, D. C. – New York City telecast through AT & T coaxial cable, in which General Dwight Eisenhower placed a wreath at the base of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial and others made brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers and viewers, although Time magazine calls it " as blurred as an early Chaplin movie.
The wreath was placed there because O ' Rourke was not speaking at a rally against the fees.
In Thailand ashes are generally placed in a wreath with lit candles and floated off to sea from a vessel followed by a procession of mourning wreaths, with lit candles also.
As part of the city's memorial service, Cryer's body was carried into the rotunda of City Hall by an honor guard of policemen, a wreath placed on his casket by Mayor Norris Poulson, and his body lay in state in the rotunda.
Nine of these are crowned and placed on a laurel and oak wreath.
Members are only revealed after their death, when a wreath of black magnolias in the shape of a " 7 " is placed at the gravesite, the bell tower of the University Chapel chimes at seven-second intervals on the seventh dissonant chord when it is seven past the hour, and a notice is published in the University's Alumni News, and often in the Cavalier Daily.
Symbolic of his dreamland plight, Elmer appears nearly nude, wearing only his derby hat and a strategically placed " loincloth " consisting of a laurel wreath.
On March 5, 1947, a few months before the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Chapultepec, U. S. President Harry S. Truman placed a wreath at the monument and stood for a few moments of silent reverence.
On 13 February 2011, there was an afternoon mass at Saint Joseph's Church in Coolock and a wreath was placed at the Stardust Memorial Park.
Along with Kohl, there was 90-year-old General Matthew Ridgway, who had commanded the 82nd Airborne in World War II, and Steinhoff ; Reagan placed a wreath at a wall of remembrance in the cemetery.
In contrast, the medallion for the Order of the State has the trident of Prince Volodymyr of Kiev ( St. Vladimir ) placed on top of a wreath of oak leaves.
The badge of rank worn on the epaulettes by the Deputy Commissioner is unique in the British police service, this being a crown, above two small pips placed side by side, above crossed tipstaves in a wreath.

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It was a pity because she had planned to lay a wreath at the foot of the Garibaldi statue, towering over Rome in spectacular benediction from the highpoint of the Gianicolo.
All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.
The ceremony ended with the laying of a wreath at the crypt of Pike in the House of the Temple.
In commemoration of this legend, the winners at the Pythian Games received a wreath of laurel picked in the Temple.
The President's wreath ( in green ) laid at Ireland's Remembrance Day ceremonies in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin | St. Patrick's Cathedral in 2005.
The Guns Platoon ( as it is known for short ) has the task of rendering military honors in the National Capital Region, including armed forces full-honors funerals ; state funerals ; presidential inaugurations ; full-honors wreath ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery ; state arrivals at the White House and Pentagon, and retirement ceremonies for general-grade officers in the Military District of Washington, which are normally conducted at Fort Myer.
Theodosius offers a laurel wreath to the victor, on the marble base of the Obelisk of Thutmosis III at the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
Julius Caesar was granted the right to wear the laurel wreath and “ some elements ” of triumphal dress at all festivals-Cassius Dio adds that Caesar wore the laurel wreath “ wherever and whenever ”, excusing this as a cover to his baldness.
When Rosenberg laid a wreath bearing a swastika at the tomb of the unknown soldier, a British war veteran promptly threw it in the Thames.
Lord wrote that " the biggest wreath, worthy of a Mafia Godfather's funeral, was delivered from the porters at London's Heathrow Airport, along with a card that read: ' To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls.
In 1928, at the funeral of Emmeline Pankhurst, Jones laid a wreath " to do honour to the memory of Mrs Pankhurst and Miss Emily Davison ".
Governor of Western Australia laying a wreath at the Eternal flame, Kings Park, Western Australia 11 November 2011
The various parties then lay their wreaths at the base of the memorial ; one wreath is set by the Silver Cross Mother, a recent recipient of the Memorial Cross, on behalf of all mothers whose children died in conflicts in which Canada participated.
The Prince was about to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Belgian Unknown Soldier at the foot of the Colonne du Congrès.
Velázquez painted Góngora crowned with a laurel wreath, but painted over it at some unknown later date.
Yet another tradition is to put a wreath of daisies at the foot of the statue of Charles McIver at UNCG and on the grounds of the North Carolina state capitol on Founder's Day.
Coins minted at Cnossus from the fifth century showed the kneeling bull or the head of a goddess crowned with a wreath of grain and on the reverse — the " underside "— a scheme of four meander patterns joined at the centre windmill fashion, sometimes with sickle moons or with a star-rosette at the center: " it is a small view of the nocturnal world on the face of the coin that lay downward in the printing process, and is, as it were, oriented downward ".

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