As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

Jesus ' death and resurrection are commemorated by Christians in all worship services, with special emphasis during Holy Week which includes Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs.

The anniversary of these events in 1965 is commemorated annually on Constitution Day, with week long activities known as Te Maevea Nui Celebrations locally.

Many local businesses with amusingly appropriate names were commemorated in a special edition of the card game Happy Families produced locally in the 1987s, created to raise funds locally.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast day of the " Holy Righteous Prophet and King David " on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers ( two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord ), when he is commemorated together with other ancestors of Jesus.

He is also commemorated on the Sunday after the Nativity, together with Joseph and James, the Brother of the Lord.

It is possible that the Maccabean Martyrs were commemorated in some early French plays or that people just associated the book ’ s vivid descriptions of the martyrdom with the interaction between Death and its prey.

Orwell's time as a bookseller is commemorated with this plaque

Gustavus Adolphus is commemorated today with city squares in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Helsingborg.

Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in England since 5 November 1605.

On 9 May 2012 Google commemorated his 138th birthday with a Google doodle.

He is commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.

He is commemorated on the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, with a feast day on October 17 ( for those churches which follow the Julian Calendar, October 17 currently falls on October 30 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

In 2011, he was commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on February 8.

After first being promoted to Serie A for one season in 1957 – 58, in 1959 the team merged with another city rival ( called Hellas ) and commemorated its beginnings by changing its name to Hellas Verona AC.

He is commemorated on 30 September with a memorial.

A 1948 postage stamp commemorated their heroism with the words: " interfaith in action.

In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares, having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.

In the Church of England he is commemorated on 25 September with a Lesser Festival.

On October 28, 1890, the 50th anniversary of the eight-hour day was commemorated with a parade.

St. Mary of Bethany is commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches with her sister Martha on June 4, as well as on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers ( the Third Sunday of Pascha, i. e. the Third Sunday of Easter ).

She is commemorated on July 29 in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church ( together with Martha and Lazarus ) and in the Calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church and the Church of England ( together with Martha ).

The European Parliament has proclaimed 23 August, the anniversary of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact, as a European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, to be commemorated with dignity and impartiality.

Williams is commemorated by a blue plaque at the address of his father's barber shop in Marchmont Street, London, where he lived from 1935 to 1956.

* Louis Macneice, poet, lived at 52 Canonbury Park South from 1947 to 1952 and is commemorated with a blue plaque.

For the next nine years she continued to live at Oxford, at 17 Bradmore Road, where she is commemorated by a blue plaque.

Actor-manager Sir John Martin-Harvey was born in the village in 1863 and is commemorated by a blue plaque on Quay House, one of his childhood homes.

In 2010, Derbyshire County Council allowed its residents to vote via the internet on a shortlist of notable historical figures to be commemorated in a local blue plaque scheme.

Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, lived in Brittania Row for many years and is commemorated with a blue plaque.

* Sir John Mills, film actor, was a resident of the village for many years, and is commemorated by a blue plaque on his former house by the church.

Gabriel García Moreno, upon assuming power two days after the Battle of Guayaquil in September 1860, the yellow, blue and red triband was returned to use ; its reinstatement on September 26 is commemorated during Ecuador's national flag day.

He was killed in the crash of a vintage WWII aircraft in June 1989 while training to serve as pilot on STS-33, and is commemorated on the mission insignia with a single gold star on the blue field.

It is commemorated by a blue plaque in Cambridge Street near New Wakefield Street.

He is commemorated by a blue plaque on the surviving office building of the Avro factory at Greengate.

Recently commemorated by the village's first blue plaque at his former residence, the White House.

Some unforeseen, and unknown, disaster meant that by the time of his death in 1913 he was living alone in Chiswick, West London at 62 Cranbrook Road where he is commemorated with a blue plaque from English Heritage.

This information is now commemorated by a blue plaque fixed to the wall of the house.

He is commemorated by a blue plaque on Noble Court, Cable Street, close to the place where he was born.

On 22 November 2007, Matcham was commemorated by actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales unveiling a blue plaque at the site of his London home, 10 Haslemere Road, Hornsey.

Westmacott lived and died at 14 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London where he is commemorated by a blue plaque.

In 2011 she was commemorated by Leeds Civic Trust with a blue plaque placed at her childhood home in Cemetery Road, Holbeck.

The anecdote is related in Watson's book The Double Helix and commemorated on a blue plaque next to the entrance.

It is now commemorated with a blue plaque put up at the Queen ’ s Head by the Finchley Society.