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tribute and generosity
" While paying tribute to American success, ingenuity, and generosity to people in need abroad, Sinclair decried that when America faced crisis itself, it often seemed to face that crisis alone.
It was renamed Peiris House as a tribute to the generosity of Mrs. Maude Peiris.
The collection is a tribute to the great generosity of Dr Brown and his exquisite taste in Australian art through many different eras.

tribute and statue
As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station ( which is overlooked by Tapton House, where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life ) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.
A statue was erected outside of the train station as a tribute to them.
In 1998, one of the last monuments erected at Gettysburg National Military Park was dedicated as a belated tribute to Longstreet, an equestrian statue by sculptor Gary Casteel.
The statue was by Liverpool sculptor, Tom Murphy, and Blair paid tribute to Wilson's legacy at the event, including the Open University.
The story was passed down over time and the statue erected as a tribute to the well-known fable.
Fort Stockton pays tribute to the agile roadrunner with their Paisano Pete the Roadrunner statue.
LaGrange's town square includes a tribute statue to the soldiers of the Civil War.
His worth is reflected in the tribute engraved at the foot of the statue that the Turks, a non-Catholic, non-Christian people, erected of him in Istanbul: " The great Pope of the world tragedy ... the benefactor of all people, irrespective of nationality or religion.
The statue had been the source of an improvised, comical and affectionately touching tribute to Lévesque.
The John Hunt Morgan Memorial statue in Lexington is a tribute to him.
The band who played at the unveiling of the statue was the Dave McHugh band, who formed Ireland's first tribute to Gallagher, ' Aftertaste ' in 1995.
In 2005, a statue of the " Cunumulla Fella " was unveiled in Cunnamulla, Queensland, in tribute to Dusty and Stan Coster and to the iconic song of that name performed by Dusty with lyrics by Coster.
" He also said, " View this statue, as I will, as a surrogate recipient of the tribute that's deserved by all of you who shared the dream, who made it come true and gave all the proud neighborhoods of San Diego the vibrant heart they needed.
After he died in 1999, Waterville Golf Links in County Kerry, Ireland, commissioned a bronze statue of Stewart to pay tribute to him and his affiliation with Waterville.
The nine feet tall cast iron statue, weighing around 3 tons, was got sculpted by the then Maharaja Ram Singh ji of Jaipur, as a tribute to Lord Mayo after his assassination.
A statue of Joe Dolan has been erected on market square as a tribute.
An inscription on the limestone base of the statue shows that it was commissioned by Polyzalus, the tyrant of Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily, as a tribute to Apollo for helping him win the chariot race.
In tribute to Cuneo's trademark, the statue includes a hidden mouse peering from under a book by the artist's feet, and another carved into the statue's plinth near the ground.
Investigating, he found it was canvas covering a life-sized statue of himself, dressed in stonecutters ' clothes, all carved in secret as a tribute by the gang of stonecutters working on the house.
A memorial statue to the Waler Light Horse was erected at Tamworth, New South Wales as a tribute to the men of the ANZAC Corps who served in the Boer, Sudan and First World Wars.
A tribute of candles and flowers around the statue continues today.
In the Japanese version, President Ronnie gave the Bad Dudes a statue of them as a tribute to them.
To commemorate his contribution, the russ in Oslo place an oversized hat on his statue near the Norwegian parliament ; the Jewish community place a wreath on his grave in the morning as a tribute to his efforts on their behalf.
In December 2006, she made her final public appearance as the special celebrity guest for the annual Noel Coward Society birthday tribute in which she laid flowers in front of Coward's statue at The Gershwin Theatre in New York City.

tribute and was
It is a tribute to her talents that she was able to talk the District Attorney into having her removed from the prison to a hotel room, with her meals taken at Vesuvio's, an excellent Italian restaurant.
He was named Pompeii as a tribute to his heritage, and he couldn't have cared less about that either.
It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.
The mortal turned out to be a beautiful young woman, Amethystos, who was on her way to pay tribute to Artemis.
The wars which attended his accession both in Hungary and in Persia terminated unfavourably for the empire, and its prestige received its first check in the Treaty of Zsitvatorok, signed in 1606, whereby the annual tribute paid by Austria was abolished.
Of all the causes of defection, that connected with arrears of tribute and vessels, and with failure of service, was the chief ; for the Athenians were very severe and exacting, and made themselves offensive by applying the screw of necessity to men who were not used to and in fact not disposed for any continuous labor.
It was from tribute paid to the league that Pericles set to building the Parthenon on the Acropolis, replacing an older temple, as well as many other non-defense related expenditures.
The tribute was fixed at 30 talents.
Raimi's use of the Introvision process was a tribute to the stop-motion animation work of Ray Harryhausen.
The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.
Sydney was named as a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the Sydney Cricket Ground, where Lara scored his first Test century-the highly acclaimed 277 in the 1992 – 93 season.
In 2002, a tribute album was released under the name Yüreğimdeki Barış Şarkıları (" Peace's Songs In My Heart ", also " Peace Songs In My Heart ") featuring 15 extremely popular Turkish artists of such diverse genres as arabesque, pop and rock ( both Anatolian and western style ) demonstrating his wide range of influence.
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center, also in Gainesville, and featured performances by his son and daughter, Anthony McDaniel and Evelyn Kelly, long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet, co-producer Scott " Skyntyte " Free, Diddley's touring band, The Debby Hastings Band, and guest artist Eric Burdon.
He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.
In Hollywood, a screening of a restored version of How to Make Movies was held at his former studio, and in Japan, he was honoured with a musical tribute.
However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.
In a tribute, Mike Brown named the stadium after his father during a time when it was a trend in the NFL to accept corporate offers to have the stadium renamed for a corporation.
Mail was introduced to China when its allies in Central Asia paid tribute to the Tang Emperor in 718 by giving him a coat of " link armour " assumed to be mail.
When the Northern Expedition was complete, Kuomintang Generals led by Chiang Kai-shek paid tribute to Dr. Sun's soul in heaven with a sacrificial ceremony at the Xiangshan Temple in Beijing in July 1928.
According to the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba he was killed by Causantín either in 871 or 872 when he returned to Pictland to collect further tribute.
For the Aztecs, the most important tribute was the acquisition of sacrificial victims for their religious rituals.
In 1967 a tribute song called " Chet's Tune " was produced for his birthday, with contributions by a long list of RCA / Victor artists including Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Hank Snow, and others.

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