The modern practice of roadside shrines commemorate the last place a person was alive before receiving fatal injuries in a car crash, even if he should actually die in a hospital after the crash.

This period saw the largest accumulation of papal tiaras in modern times, with both popes accumulating 10 tiaras between them, with Leo receiving an unprecedented solid gold tiara in 1903 to commemorate his Silver Jubilee on the papal throne.

This monument, built to commemorate Prussia's victories, was relocated 1938 – 39 from its previous position in front of the Reichstag.

* Sly Fox Brewery ( Phoenixville, PA ) hosts an annual goat race to commemorate its bock fest.

The church was founded " to commemorate the word and works of Jesus " and " reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing ".

As the university celebrated its Golden Jubilee on December 24, 2005, a special emblem ( see above ) was created to commemorate the occasion, and the motto ' To Know Is To Grow ' was coined.

This is a monument erected in 113 in Rome to commemorate the conquest of Dacia by Emperor Trajan ( ruled 98-117 ): its bas-reliefs are a key source for Roman military equipment.

The lorica segmentata eventually disappeared from Roman use, most likely due to its high cost and difficult maintenance despite its good qualities, although it appears to have still been in use into the early 4th century, being depicted in the Arch of Constantine erected in 315 during the reign of Constantine I to commemorate his military achievements.

The city added a red star to its flag in 1933 to commemorate the Century of Progress Exposition ( it was the fourth of the four stars currently on the flag ).

The U. S. Post Office Department issued a special fifty-cent Air Mail postage stamp, ( C-18 ) to commemorate the visit of the German airship depicting the Federal Building in Chicago, the Graf Zeppelin in flight, and its home hangar in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

The battalion lost over 80 % of its members in combat and was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor to commemorate the fallen.

After much campaigning from Arsenal supporters, the club designated one of its Highbury matchday themes, organised to commemorate the stadium's final season as home of Arsenal, to Dennis Bergkamp.

In its earlier form this ceremony was instituted to commemorate the conquest of Dalmatia by Doge Pietro II Orseolo in 1000, and was celebrated on Ascension Day.

Fort Battleford has been declared a National Historic site of Canada to commemorate its role as military base of operations for Cut Knife Hill, Fort Pitt, as a refuge for 500 area settlers and its role in the Siege of Battleford.

Following the First World War, the King made an official visit to Leicester in 1919 to commemorate its contributions to the military victory.

In 1578 Henry created the Order of the Holy Spirit to commemorate his becoming first King of Poland and later King of France on the Feast of Pentecost and gave it precedence over the earlier Order of St. Michael, which had lost much of its original prestige through its having been awarded too frequently and too readily.

This county celebrates the Covered Bridge Festival every autumn in Oneonta to commemorate its three remaining covered bridges.

The numerous coins of Nicaea which still exist attest the interest taken in the city by the emperors, as well as its attachment to the rulers ; many of them commemorate great festivals celebrated there in honour of gods and emperors, as Olympia, Isthmia, Dionysia, Pythia, Commodia, Severia, Philadelphia, etc.

Karzai at the 2011 Afghan Independence Day in Kabul, which is held every year on 19 August to commemorate Afghanistan's independence from British Raj | British control over its foreign affairs.

The community of Tregaron, under the leadership of its own modern-day Twm, Dafydd Wyn Morgan, held a year of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Twm Siôn Cati in 2009.

In 1936, Val Verde County received Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 5625 to commemorate its founding.

The building is of cut limestone with a large recessed door, circular headed windows and fenestration on the wheel window over the door is in the form of the ‘ Star of David ’ to commemorate its Welsh Builders.

Among other things, he restored the Pyramid of Unas and added an inscription to its south face to commemorate the restoration.

A park, monument, and museum commemorate the fort on its original site.

These were built by the various Greek city states — those overseas as well as those on the mainland — to commemorate victories and to thank the oracle for her advice, which was thought to have contributed to those victories.

In northwest Asia, he founded and dedicated a city to commemorate a she-bear he killed.

For example, on 3 September 1944, the personnel of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division marched six abreast to the music of massed regimental pipe and drum bands through the streets of Dieppe, France to commemorate the liberation of the city from German occupation, as well as commemorate the loss of over 900 soldiers from that formation during the Dieppe Raid two years earlier.

A temple dedicated to Athena ( on the site of today's Cathedral ), was erected in the city to commemorate the event

A newer landmark of the city is the Memorial of Rebirth, a stylized marble pillar unveiled in 2005 to commemorate the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which overthrew Communism.

Each year on 13 February, the anniversary of the British and American fire-bombing raid that destroyed most of the city, tens of thousands of demonstrators gather to commemorate the event.

In 1550 the Norwich authorities decreed that in future 27 August should be a holiday to commemorate " the deliverance of the city " from Kett's Rebellion, and paid for lectures in the cathedral and parish churches on the sins of rebellion.

* Augustus founds the city of Nicopolis in Egypt to commemorate his final victory over Mark Antony.

In 1991 the city festival was inaugurated on June 11 to commemorate the confirmation of the incorporation of the city in 1282.

It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.

In 2011 the city erupted in controversy after the City Council voted to ban the flying of the Confederate flag on city light poles, a practice which had previously been allowed to commemorate the Virginia holiday Lee-Jackson Day, which is observed on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

In 2010, honoring his lifelong commitment to the music of the city of his birth, and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of that event, Prima was honored by being the annual poster subject of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, in a painting created by artist and singer Tony Bennett, under his birth name Anthony Benedetto.

Cathedral City hosts an annual Mexican Independence Day festival on every third weekend of September, also has an " el Grito de Dolores " to commemorate the event at the city hall / movie theater complex.

On September 11, 2007, the city dedicated its Liberty Plaza to commemorate the event.

On 18 November 2006 approximately 25, 000 people from all over the country gathered in Vukovar for the 15th anniversary of the fall of the city to commemorate those who were killed during the siege.

A quote from ' Wiki Christchurch NZ ': " The river that flows through the centre of the city ( its banks now largely forming an urban park ) was named Avon at the request of the pioneering Deans brothers to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was their grandfathers ' farm and flows into the Clyde ".

In 1935 the K6 ( kiosk number six ) was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be extensively used outside London, and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites.

On January 19, 2008, 2 million Iraqi Shia pilgrims marched through Karbala city, Iraq to commemorate Ashura.

To commemorate the death of the Virgin Mary, sawdust dyed in various colors, flowers and plant matter is arranged in patterns on the ground to form what are called “ Las Alfombras ” or “ carpets .” It is also done during the night before Good Friday for the Stations of the Cross procession that passes by a number of the churches on various streets in the city.

The city has repeatedly been asked to commemorate the company it gave birth to, but it has always declined, on the grounds that mobile phones were never produced there.