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This east wing of the south front of the Guildhall was restored in 1910 according to the original design and as built by George Dance RA in 1788.
The Rt. Hon. Sir John Knill, bart, Lord Mayor
F. G. Painter Esq Deputy Chairman City Land Committee
Sydney Perks FRIBA, FSA, Architect
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In gratitude to Crystal Hale, tireless campaigner & founder of The Islington Boat Club. The club has provided safe boating for thousands of youngsters on City Road Basin and now celebrates its 25th anniversary.
1970 - 1995
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Guests and neighbours, on the site of this guest-hall once stood the lecture-room of the Hammersmith Socialists. Drink a glass to the memory! May 1962.
- News from nowhere. William Morris.
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{Latin translated} Wise is he who looks ahead.
In recognition of the hospitality received on this hill during the 4 years 1942-1946 AD and of so many beneficiaries, the Council of Malvern College arranged for this clock to be installed in the year of our lord 1950.
Take with a grateful hand every hour that God gives you.
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Mary Seacole Trust: This plaque is to honour those healthcare workers who have dedicated themselves to aiding others in times of war, conflict and catastrophe throughout history 8th September 2017
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Ernies BeachThis stretch of the river foreshore is named afer local resident and community activist John Hearn (known as Ernie). This is in recognition of his work gaining appreciation of the Thames as an asset and amenity for London...
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A hospital for sick poor and lying-in women formed part of the Hebra Guemilut Hassadim established in 5425-1665 and was located on this site in front of the burial ground of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Association the first cemetery acquired by Jews after their re-settlement in this country. In 5507-1747 the hospital was established as a separate institution Beth Holim and is now used as a home for the aged. Re-erected to the glory of god
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The former resident
of this historic building,
the great fellow citizen
Petar Hektorovic 1487-1572
, patron of Slavic villas
and pioneer of artistic
Croatian literature.
On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of his death
in times of fought-for
national freedom
for the Stari Graders and the whole world. Built
on Trvdalj in a spirit of
unifying, joyful pride. August 20, 1922
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She said she comes from Iceland... I told her I was from the west
She took me to the snow-capped mountains ... then she put me through the test
We walked across the glacier, the horses stayed behind ... and as we laid between the frozen vallies .. we kissed for the very first time And now we're stuck together
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On this site stood the residence of The Hervey Family. Their house was completed in 1676 and occupied the following year by John Hervey. Treasurer to Queen Catherine of Braganza. Wife of King Charles II. In 1700 the property passed to his nephew also John Hervey who became Earl of Bristol in 1714. His descendants retained it until 1955. The house was demolished in 1958 and has been twice replaced. The present building was completed in 2014.
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Hidden River 1860s. The River Fleet runs under your feet. This subterranean stream flows from the Hampstead and Highgate ponds to the River Thames
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ALFONS MARIA HILI 1865-1943 WITH A MUSCLE MOUTH BROADCAST THE WORD OF GOD WITH GOOD WORKS OF WITNESSES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH GREAT BOALB LOVED HIS SPIRITUAL CHILDREN AS A PRIEST WAS THEIR SERVANT SING THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OM THE DEATH SAINT JOHN BOSCO HIS ORATORY WAS STOPPED BY DUN PAWL MICALLEF AS A DEPUTY IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MALTA
SPEAK FOR THEM AS ARCHPRIEST OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA HE LIVED WITH THEM AND WORKED AMONG THEM AND FROM THE CHURCH, PARISH OF SAINT GEORG WHERE THE GREAT BENEFACTOR AND WETTAO TO THE END HIS PASTORAL WORK GIVE THEM THE GOODNESS OF HEAVEN DIED ON DECEMBER 31, 1943
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This court is named after Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bt. PC, GCB, 1786 -1869, created Baron Broughton 1851, who was Member of Parliament for Westminster from 1820 to 1833, for Nottingham from 1834 to 1847 & for Harwich from 1848 to 1851. He held several important offices of state, including those of Secretary of State for War and Chief Secretary for Ireland. In 1824 Sir John spoke at the first dinner of the Society of British Artists, whose galleries on Whitcomb Street have been kept and restored. He was appointed First Commissioner of Woods & Forests (the then title of the First Crown Estate Commissioner) in 1834. His close connection with the Crown Estate, with the City of Westminster & with the Society of British Artists is commemorated by the naming of this Court after him.
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{Postmarked 13 III 58}
Dear Mother & Dad, I haven't got any letters from you yet so I guess that if you wrote, they were lost. Jerry has had some from his mother so there shouldn't be any reason for them not being here unless they were lost. Everything is going fine here. We are back in London for a few days. Then we start back on the road again for the remainder of the tour. It shouldn't be too much longer until we are back in the states again. I don't know why, but in a foreign country I get a lot more what could be called homesick than I do in the states even though it actually isn't too much further away from home. I'll sure be glad to get back where I can call home and talk for a while every few days. I guess that's really what I miss. It's pretty hard to call from over here and costs a lot too. It seems you have to reserve your call a few days in advance or something like that. Well there's not too much else to say other than both shows tonight went real good. Almost unbelievably good because we usually do "not so good" the first show because our spirits are kind of low about that time of the evening. It's 2:00 A.M. Thur. here but it's just 8:00 P.M. Wed. there at home. Seems kinda funny doesn't it? Well, that's all for now. Love, Buddy P.S. Tell Larry, Trav, and Pat "hi" for me.
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At this place New Years Day 1881 were spoken these deathless words "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive" by Mr. Sherlock Holmes in greeting to John H. Watson, M.D. at their first meeting. The Baker Street Irregulars - 1953 by the amateur mendicants at the caucus club.
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Homenagem da Cidade do Funchal a Maria Aurora Carvalho Homem escritora, poeta, jornalista e dinamizadora cultural 26 de Septembro 2019 (Tribute from the City of Funchal to Maria Aurora Carvalho Homem writer, poet, journalist and cultural promoter 26th of September 2019)
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This building and its contents being a portion of a gift from Frederick John Horniman MP to the London County Council as representing the people of London, are dedicated to the public for ever as a free museum for their recreation, instruction & enjoyment. 1901
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From April to August 1945, in this hotel, then transformed into a reception centre, a large party of the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps were received. Happy to find freedom and the loved ones from whom they had been torn away.
Their joy could not erase the anguish and pain of the families of the thousands of missing people who waited in vain for their loved ones in these places.
40th anniversary of the liberation of the camps. May 21, 1985
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The house where I was born in the South American Pampas... W.H.Hudson. Hudson's Friends Society of Quilmes, near Buenos Aires, where the great writer was born on August 4th 1841, and where he spent his youth, has placed this bronze tablet at 40 Saint Luke's Road, London, the house in which Hudson lived his last years, and died on August 18th, 1922. The plaque was erected by Hudson's Friends Society of Quilmes in 1938 and adopted by the London County Council in the same year.
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Hugh Lupus, first Duke of Westminster, K.G., lessor to the Improved Industrial Dwellings Coy. Ltd. Of this and other buildings on his London estate accommodating nearly 4,000 persons of the working class, the friend and benefactor of his poorer brethren. Obit 1899.
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Hydraulic Power Dockland's Lifeblood
History
With the advent of the industrial revolution, the exports and imports of Victorian Britain caused the rapid early nineteenth century growth of the London docklands. Muscle and then steam provided the power to do everything from opening the lock gates to loading and unloading the vast warehouses flanking both banks of the Thames. However, fire was such a great risk that the insurance companies insisted on an alternative to steam. This problem was solved largely by the hydraulic inventions of Lord Armstrong of Newcastle, amongst which was the 'jigger' preserved here, which in this case was built by the Hydraulic Engineering Co. Ltd. of Chester in 1890. Hydraulic power was the lifeblood of the docklands.
Mechanics
Widely distributed and easily controllable high-pressure water was fed into the large cylinder. This pushed the piston up, forcing the sheaves apart such that 10cm (4") of silent piston movement gave 80cm (32") of chain movement over the wall crane to unload lighters or barges in the river below. For loading boats out of the warehouse, water was exhausted from the cylinder so that the weight of the piston and load descended by gravity. Two small jiggers control slew, the horizontal semi-rotation of the crane for reaching different cargo positions and swinging the loads into the warehouse doors on each floor served by the same crane. The jigger and crane could be controlled from any floor via a reach rod running up through the building.
The refurbishment of the jigger is part of a series of improvement projects by Taylor Woodrow Property Co. Ltd., owners of St Katharine Docks, with contributory funding from the Government Office for London Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund through an award by the Pool of London Partnership.
It can be seen going through its cycle by pressing the button once.
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The Totem was the British Columbia Indians's coat of arms. Totem poles are unique to the north west coast of B.C. and lower Alaska. They were carved from western red cedar and each carving tells of a real or mythical event. They were not idols nor were the worshipped. Each carving on each pole has a meaning. The eagle represents the kingdom of the air. The whale the lordship of the sea. The wolf, the genius of the land, and the frog, the transitional link between land and sea.
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Born in this house in Tezak in 1903 was the communist Jerko Ivanic member of the district committee. In 1942 he was arrested by the fascist occupiers and showed superhuman courage in the torments to which he was subjected. Died January 27 1942 in Split prison.
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Jacob, the Circle dray horse
The famous Courage dray horses were stabled on this site from the early nineteenth century and delivered beer around London from the brewery on Horselydown Lane by Tower Bridge.
In the sixteenth century the area became known as Horselydown, which derives from 'horse-lie-down', a description of working horses resting before crossing London Bridge into the City of London.
Jacob was commissioned by Jacobs Island Company and Farlane Properties as the centrepiece of the Circle to commemorate the history of the site. He was flown over London by helicopter into Queen Elizabeth Street to launch the Circle in October 1987.
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The Rorke's of Rorke's Drift Rorke's Drift was named after James Rorke who settled here with his wife Sarah in 1849 to farm and trade. During the 26 years James spent here until his death in 1875, he became actively involved within the community. He was the Government Border Agent, Justice of the Peace and First Lieutenant in the Buffalo Border Guard. He became well known amongst the Zulu. They called this place "Kwa Jimu" (Jim's Place). Rorke broke down the steep banks of the Mzinyathi (Buffalo) River, where it was easiest to cross, to improve travel between Natal and Zululand. This became known as Rorke's Drift.
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These Almshouses were erected & built at y sole & proper cost & charges of James Smyth Esquior. citizen & salter of London in y year of our lord 1659
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Clive James born 1939. In Sydney Harbour...the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back. UNRELIABLE MEMOIRS (1980). Born in Sydney, Clive James settled in London in the early 1960s and became known as a TV and literary critic, poet, novelist and broadcaster. NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers Walk
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Jasper Information Centre This building is one of the finest and most influential examples of rustic architecture in Canada's national parks. Designed by A.M. Calderon and completed in 1914, it introduced a building tradition based on the use of local construction materials, in this case cobblestone and timber. The facility originally housed park administration offices, a museum, and living quarters for the park superintendent. As the first major building in the townsite, it helped to define the character of Jasper's early development and provided a conspicuous landmark that greeted park visitors upon their arrival by train.
I have no information about Petar Jelusic. Please contact me if you do.
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This is where the youth Jelusic Petar
was killed by gendarmes in 1928 . Committee for the Promotion of the Tradition of the National Liberation War, Stari Grad 1978
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Place of meditation upon the martyrdom of 65 thousand Polish citizens of Jewish nationality from Kraków and its environs killed by the Nazis during World War II.
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The roll of honour John Kidd & Co Ltd.
In memory of those who gave their lives in the World War 1939 - 1945 their name liveth for evermore.
Baines Alfred J Lieut Essex Reg May 1940 France
Black William E Bombadier RA Sept 1944 Malaya
Fisher Joseph Pte RAMC Dec 1944 Italy
Greenaway Stanley F Gunner RA Jan 1943 Singapore
Hawkins Edward L Pte Cambs Feb 1942 Singapore
Richards George F Caretaker Sept 1940 London
Richards Ann Mary his wife Sept 1940 London
Tenwick William J E Able Seaman RN June 1944 At Sea
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This plaque, erected by London Underground Ltd, is dedicated to the memory of Ian Jones MIMechE 25th February 1948 - 4th May 2003 He was greatly admired colleague and friend.
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Henryk Jordan Born July 23, 1842 - Died May 16, 1907 Doctor of Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics Pioneer of Physical Education for Youth, Founder of the First Jordan Park in Kraków
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He lived in this house Prof Dr Ljudevit Jurak The founder of human and animal pathology in Croatia for witnessing the truth about the mass graves in Katynska Suma and Vinica shot in June 1945.
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On November 22nd 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, visited Dallas. A presidential parade traveled north on Houston Street to Elm Street and west on Elm Street. As the parade continued on Elm Street at 12:30 p.m., rifle shots wounded the President and Texas Governor John Connally. Findings of the Warren Commission indicated that the rifle shots were fired from a sixth floor window near the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository building, Elm and Houston, a block north of this marker. President Kennedy expired at Parkland Memorial Hospital at 1:00 p.m. The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Plaza is nearby, bounded by Main, Record, Market and Commerce Streets.
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Designed by the eminent Architect Maxwell Fry in 1937, Kensal House was hailed at the time as the first "modern" housing scheme in Britain.
Kensal House forged new frontiers for social housing in several innovative ways. Built by the Gas, Light and Coke Company to house its work force and their families, it was the British attempt to produce a self-contained and self-supporting community. With its own nursery and residents social club, containing sewing rooms and workshops, the fame of Kensal House spread far and wide.
Kensal House was also built as a practical demonstration of the economic use of gas, the comprehensive use of which throughout the flats was included in the weekly rent of 11s 6d.
Kensal House is now a Grade II Listed Building and in 1991/1992 was provided with much needed environmental and security improvements with monies provided under the Governments "Estate Action" programme and by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Ten years later, modernisation works were carried out in 2001/02 funded by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. These works provided residents with new double glazed windows, new kitchens, new insulated roofs and large scale concrete repairs were undertaken to the building structure.
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The arch designed by Wm. Kent c.1750, came here from Northumberland House on the Embankment into the garden of Tudor House, demolished to form the park in 1900. It was renovated in 1997 to form this gateway funded by Tesco plc.
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Warrant to Execute Kinge Charles the First AD 1648 At the high court of Justice for the tryinge and judging of Charles Steuart Kinge of England January XXIXth Anno Dni 1648 Whereas Charles Steuart Kinge of England is and standeth convicted aitaynted and condemned and other high Crymes, ANd Sentence uppon Saturday last pronounced against him by this Court to be putt to death by the severinge of his head from his body. Of wch sentence execution yet remayneth to be done, these are therefore to will and require you to see the said sentence executed so the open street before Whitehall uppon the morrow being the This Day of this instante month of January betweene the hours of tenn in the morninge and five in the afternoone of the same day with full effect And for so doing this shall be yet sufficient warrant And there are to require All Officers and Soudiers and other good people of the Nation of England to be offeringe unto you in this service given under our hands and Sealed.
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Near this spot on 27th April 1646 King Charles I, when fleeing from Oxford with two companions on his way to surrender to the Scottish Army at Southwell, rested to take a last look at London and to water his horses at the spring which still runs below and has ever since been called King Charles's Well.
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In commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of His Majesty King George V This reach of the river beweeen London Bridge and Westminster Bridge was with His Majesty's gracious permission named by The Port of London Authority "King's Reach"
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This office was officially opened by His Majesty King Mswati III on the 6th of May 1995 on the occasion of the commemoration of the victory in Europe
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Near this place is interred Theodore King of Corsica who died in this parish Dec 11 1756, immediately after leaving the Kings Bench Prison by the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, in consequence of which he registered his Kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors.
The grave, great teacher, to a level brings
Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings,
But Theodore this moral learn'd ere dead:
Fate poured its lessons on his living head,
Bestow'd a kingdom, and denied him bread.
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1400-2014. To Vladislav King of Poland Grand Duke of Lithuania Founder and Most Exceptional Benefactor of the University of Kraków.
Jagiellonian University
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TO JOIN MEAKKAR THAT THIS PLACE SERVED AS IS BAI LA NAZIONALE'S FIRST CLUB TODAY KING'S OWN
KNOWN BY THE PEOPLE
TALLISTED
WHEN IT HAPPENED IN 1874
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George Strickland Kingston 1807-1880 Engineer, Architect & Statesman G.S. Kingston arrived in SOuth AUstralia in 1836, employed as Deputy Surveyor to Colonel William Light and later became Government Architect. He was an early landowner at Lacepede Bay where on January the seventh 1858 he surveyed the first township, later named KINGSTON by Governor McDonnell. Five streets were named after his family: Charles, Cameron, Gough, Strickland and Holland. Kingston's name is also commemorated by the Hundred of Kingston, Mount Kingston and Kingston Park, a suburb of Adelaide. Despite his strong republican outlook he accepted a knighthood in 1870 for services to South Australia which included being a member of the Legislative Council and Speaker in the House of Assembly for many years. Locally he remained a generous benefactor.
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Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 Sydney ... was populated by leisured multitudes all in their shirt-sleeves and all picknicking all the day. They volunteered that they were new and young, but would do wonderful things some day. SOMETHING OF MYSELF (1937) Rudyard Kipling visited Sydney in 1891. A prolific writer of verse and stories including the two volumes of The Jungle Book, he had a strong influence on Australian poets like 'Banjo' Paterson. NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers Walk
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Edmund Klemensiewicz 1839 - 1916
Graduate of the Jagiellonian University Esteemed notary, President of the Notary Chamber, Patriot dedicated to activities for the country and society, Insurgent of 1863, exiled to Siberia, Deputy to the National Parliament, Distinguished City Councillor of Kraków.
He donated this house to serve as the headquarters of the Society of Folk Schools
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Colonel Goran Kliskic, the hero of the homeland defensive war, was born and lived in this house. The first commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 4th Guards Brigade of the National Guard
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In the year 1775, lived in this house Tadeusz Kosciuszko at that time Captain of the Cadet Corps. This plaque was founded by ... in 1946 in place of the previous one destroyed by the Germans
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Kossuth 1802-1894 Here on March 30, 1852 Louis Kossuth Governor of Hungary Leader of the 1848 revolution Addressed the citizens of New Orleans Hungarians of Louisiana, Arpadhon and Hungarians Worldwide 2002
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The remains of the inscription indicate that this building was once a house of study for a Torah group who conducted Talmud lessons for the adult members of the Jewish community.
The inscription within the Shields of David indicates, according to the Jewish calendar, that the group was founded in 1810 (right) and that the building was renovated in 1912 (left).
In 1773 the building was damaged by fire, and was only renovated in the first half of the 19th century. During renovation it was converted into the group's learning centre for Talmudic studies, which previously operated from 6 Esther Street, in the Jewish quarter. The building was renovated again in 1912.
The acronym ח"ק stands for 'חברה קדושה' (Holy Society), a common name for voluntary organizations engaged in activities related to observing the Jewish commandments within the Jewish community.
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The remains of the inscription indicate that this building was once a house of study for a Torah group who conducted Talmud lessons for the adult members of the Jewish community.
The inscription within the Shields of David indicates, according to the Jewish calendar, that the group was founded in 1810 (right) and that the building was renovated in 1912 (left).
In 1773 the building was damaged by fire, and was only renovated in the first half of the 19th century. During renovation it was converted into the group's learning centre for Talmudic studies, which previously operated from 6 Esther Street, in the Jewish quarter. The building was renovated again in 1912.
The acronym ח"ק stands for 'חברה קדושה' (Holy Society), a common name for voluntary organizations engaged in activities related to observing the Jewish commandments within the Jewish community.
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In this building the German occupiers set up in the years 1939 - 1944 the so-called Transitional Labour Camp where thousands of Poles were imprisoned and then sent to Germany. Here the prisoners were starved and tortured, and many of them were cruelly murdered. In eternal memory of the German violence, this plaque was placed by the Municipal Administration in 1946.
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The Croatian author, Miroslav Krleza was born in this house on July 7 1893. He died on December 29, 1891. A memorial plaque was placed by the Croatian Academy of Sciences of Intelligence, the Association of Croatian Authors
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Aware of the significance of the heroic mission of disabling the empire of evil through the intellect and will of a lone soldier, we establish this monument to Colonel Ryszard Kukliński.
{on the reverse} No statutory law, no oath, no threat can hold back the human conscience (Josef Tuschner). Colonel Ryszard Kukliński was the first Polish officer in NATO. He served Poland well (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
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To Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, Polish diplomat, soldier, and founder of the first Viennese coffeehouse in 1684. The commemoration of the 325th anniversary of this historical event
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His childhood was spent in this house Rajmund Kupareo 1914 - 1996 Dominican, philosopher, writer, composer and Chilean academician. Built
by the people of Vrboska on the anniversary of his birthday .
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THE ILLUSTRIOUS AND REVERED MONSIGNOR BISHOP OF MALTA BROTHER DON VINCENZO LABINI GRANTS 40 DAYS OF INDULGENCE TO THOSE WHO DEVOTELY RECITE A PATER AVE REQUIEM IN SUFFRAGE OF THE SOULS OF THE POOR DEAD
AS PER DECREE 5. OCTOBER 1789.
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{above}IN MEMORY OF THE STUDENTS OF THIS SCHOOL DEPORTED FROM 1942 TO 1944 FOR BEING BORN JEWS, INNOCENT VICTIMS OF NAZI BARBARISM AND THE VICHY GOVERNMENT. THEY WERE EXTERMINATED IN THE DEATH CAMPS.
MORE THAN 700 OF THESE CHILDREN LIVED IN THE 18th ARONDISSEMENT.
LET'S NEVER FORGET THEM
{below}Yvonne Le Tac (1882 - 1957) Former principal of this school. Resistant deported.
January 27, 2005
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Hereabouts on the 19th March in 1689 David Leslie, Earl of Leven, raised a Regiment of Foot in the space of two hours for the defence of the City. To commemorate this act and also the gallant behaviour of the new Regiment at the Battle of Killiecrankie some months later, the City Magistrates conferred upon LEVEN'S Regiment the unique right of recruiting by beat of drum in the City and of marching through the City at any time with drums beating, colours flying and bayonets fixed: the Regiment, later titled the 25th Edinburgh Regiment of Foot, is now known as THE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS and frequently exercises this privilege
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This is the place where 360 members of the Navy Women Battalion had 19 trials in 1992 for the defence of the motherland in front of the commander, Admiral Svete Letice
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In memory of the leaders of the local scout groups that cared for the scout memorial.
Skipper Gandolfi, 1904 - 1990.
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And Kim Mayo, 1907 - 1999.
Kim inspired the research that gave FONC the Leysdown tragedy and the memorial that now marks the boys grave.
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ON AUGUST 20, 1944, AT DAWN, THE RESISTANCE OCCUPY THE TOWN HALL FOR THREE DAYS AND FOUR NIGHTS THEY RESISTED THE ENEMY ASSAULTS.
ON AUGUST 23,THE PARISIAN LIBERATION COMMITTEE IS INSTALLED. ON THE EVENING OF AUGUST 24, THE FIRST SOLDIERS OF THE LECLERC DIVISION ARRIVE ON THE SCENE. ON AUGUST 25, 1944, PARIS WAS LIBERATED. THE BULLET IMPACTS ON THE FACADE OF THE TOWN HALL TESTIFY TO THESE FIGHTS
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Lighthouse Cape L'Agulhas This lighthouse sited on the most dangerous part of the South African coast was completed in 1849 at an approximate cost of £12,000. It is the second oldest lighthouse in South Africa.
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Livingstone House This house was placed by the Sultan Seyyid Majid at the disposal of the famous explorer David Livingstone for some weeks when fitting out his last expedition to the mainland in 1866. It later became the property of Ethnasheri Khoja Indian community who used it as a rest house and as a place of religious meetings and became known as Sonabach. In 1947 the government purchased and renovated it for use as laboratories for scientific research and living quaters (sic). It now houses the Zanzibar Tourist Corporation head office.
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London Bridge 1825 - 1967 These granite slabs are coping stones from the former London Bridge which was dismantled in 1967 and re-erected in Lake Havasu, Arizona, USA. Designed by John Rennie, the bridge was opened in 1831 and has since featured in many films and books including those of Charles Dickens. Substantial parts of the abutments and walls still remain and are preserved as part of the fabric of the new bridge, where two large granite stair chambers (including 'Nancy's steps') still exist as part of the original Rennie southern vault. Southwark Heritage Association - Southwark Heritage - alive today, working with Transport for London.
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London Coliseum
Home of English National Opera since 1968, The London Coliseum, opened in 1904, was originally conceived as a variety theatre, Sir Oswald Stoll wanted a revolving dome to top his sumptuous theatre, but this being deemed illegal, he settled instead for the flashing electric lights familiar today.
Theatreland - Heart of the Performing Arts in London
A joint venture by the City of Westminster and the Society of West End Theatre
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Lyric Theatre
Built by C.J. Phipps, the Lyric Theatre opened in 1888, with the comic opera 'Dorothy' and has since developed a tradition of drama, light comedy and popular musicals, the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse made her debut here in 'Camille' in 1893
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In the years 1940 - 1972 lived and worked here Feliks Mlynarski 1884 - 1972 outstanding Polish economist and banker, vice president of Bank Polski, S.A., chairman of the financial committee of the League of Nations during the occupation period, with the consent of the Polish government in exile, president of the Bank of Issue in Poland.
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{top left} In 1940 the sinister shadow of Fascism spilled across Europe and into North Africa. Malta, under the protection of Great Britain, found herself alone in a hostile Mediterranean 800 miles from her nearest allies in Gibraltar and Alexandria. Besieged by enemies Malta became a fulcrum on which the fate of the war balanced for the next three years. If Malta fell the rest of North Africa would follow, opening the door to the oil fields of the Middle East and for the Axis Powers to join in Asia and threaten India. The allies knew this. So did the Axis Powers. Malta, besieged, became and remains the most bombed place in the history of War.
Supplied only by Sea, at great cost, Malta was defended not only by her own people but by forces drawn from the whole free world. Fighter aircraft delivered by the American and Royal Navies were piloted by Britons, Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders. Convoys crewed by British, American and Commonwealth seamen were supported by the free forces of Greece, the Netherlands, and Poland. Free Norwegians added their merchant fleet to the Allied cause. In April 1942 King George VI awarded to the People of Malta the George Cross, the highest decoration for civilian courage and heroism.
By summer 1942 only weeks of food remained and the Allies mounted operation Pedestal as a last attempt to save Malta. After a five-day running battle the Convoy's four remaining merchant vessels and the immortal Tanker Ohio, all that was left of the fourteen that set out, entered Grand Harbour. The date was 15th August, 1942, the feast of Santa Maria. The siege was broken; within months North Africa was retaken and the first steps of European liberation begun.
This stone taken from Malta, was presented by the Maltese Government on the 60th Anniversary of the end of Second World War to commemorate all who participated in the siege and defence of Malta, 1940-43.
Placed by the George Cross Island Association, 15th August 2005.
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SALUTE TO THE THOUSANDS OF MALTESE WHO MOVED TO LIVE IN A FOREIGN LAND DURING THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES.
DELEGATES OF MALTESE CONVENTIONS ABROAD JANUARY 28-FEBRUARY 1, 2000
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13 DECEMBER 1974 MALTA IS PROUD THAT ITS PARLIAMENT WITH A LARGE MAJORITY CONSIDERS IT A REPUBLIC
BEST EVER TO GET FOR THE FIRST TIME
IN HER GRACE
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(Note by John Mann, Historian): It says this house is on the site of the prebend which goes back to the times of Henry VIII [first half 16C]
This is wrong by two or three hundred yards and almost four centuries.
The area of the prebend was roughly the area bounded by Willesden Lane, Walm lane, and Shoot up Hill. The moated manor house was about half way between Deerhurst and Coverdale Roads with its main exit on to Willesden Lane [known until 19C as Mapes Lane]. In 19C the manor house garden extended as far as Chatsworth.
Walter Map after whom the prebend and the manor estate are named lived and flourished in the time of Henry II [ie second half of 12C] who spent most of his reign in France about half of which belonged to him or his wife. Map was an almost man in both church and state, who wrote satirical sketches about court life. H II's sons included Richard the Lion Heart and bad king John who was the one who was forced to sign Magna Carta which was really about rights for barons not rights for you and me.
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Marconi 25 Anos de Cabos Submarinos (1969-1994) e 68 Aniversário da Companhia. A partir da praia do Gorgulho a Marconi interliga três continentes - Europa, África e Américas através dos cabos submarinos em fibra óptica EURÁfrica, SAT-2 e COLUMBUS II. Funchal, Dezembro de 1994
(Marconi 25 Years of Submarine Cables (1969-1994) and 68th Anniversary of the Company. From Gorgulho beach, Marconi connects three continents - Europe, Africa and the Americas through the submarine cables in fiber optic EURAfrica, SAT-2 and COLUMBUS II. Funchal, December 1994)
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on left: This wall rebuilt August 1817. John Belworthy Tho. Chancellor Churchwardens on right:This wall again rebuilt, June 1879. Robert H. Pearson Jubal Webb Churchwardens
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Croatian Poet Ivan Mazuranic Creator of EPA Death of smail-age cencica Born 18 VIII 1814 in Novi Vinodolosk. He lived in this house from 25 11 1880 until his death 4 VII 1890. Association of Croatian Literary...
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This Metropolitan Benefit Societies asylum was founded by John Christopher Bowles in 1829 and successfully raised by his untiring efforts for the good of his brethren.
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In furtherance of the objects of this asylum for the members of all friendly or benefit societies Mary Ann MacKenzie who died in 1861 made a munificent bequest of nearly nine thousand pounds.
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London County Council Near this site stood Millbank Prison, which was opened in 1816 and closed in 1890. This buttress stood at the head of the river steps from which until 1867 prisoners sentenced to transportation embarked on their journey to Australia.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn;
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty; in both the last:
The force of nature could no farther go,
To make a third, she joined the other two. John Milton was born in Bread-Street on Friday the 9th day of December 1608 and was baptised in the parish-church of All-Hallows Bread-Street on Tuesday the 20th day of December 1608.
This tablet was placed on the church of All-Hallows, Bread Street early in the nineteenth century, as a memorial of the event therein recorded and was removed in the year 1876 when that church was pulled down and the parish united for ecclesiastical purposes with the parish of St. Mary-le-Bow.
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In this spot Dr John Monsell, rector of St Nicolas & hymn writer fell and injured his arm which led to his death on 9th April 1875 during the building of this church. This plaque was laid here by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey Lord Hamilton of Dalzell to commemorate the extension to the church. 27th November 1977
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1747 Iolo Morganwg 1826 Y gwir yn erbyn y byd The truth against the world This is the site of the first meeting of the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain 22.6.1792. Yma y cyfarfu Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain gyntaf
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The Mountbatten Copse These flowering trees, planted 19 November 1981 by HRH The Prince of Wales KG, Commodore Royal Thames Yacht Club, commemorate Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Commodore 1946 - 1970, Admiral 1970 to 1979.
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Captain Alexander Musgrave who sailed against the Spanish Armada - 1588 lived in a house on this site. Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk
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Mydiddee
A native of Tahiti. Sailed to England with Captain William Bligh in HMS Providence. Died in Deptford, 4th September 1793.
Stranger with solemn step approach and know,
A fav'rite son of nature sleeps below.
From that fam'd queen of southern isles he came,
fair Otahytey, fir'd by British fame:
And Providence each deep safe wafted o'er,
Yet only gave to hail the promis'd shore;
For here could life alas! no more supply,
Than just to look around him and to die.
Edward Harwood, surgeon of the Providence.
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This building was opened as the headquarters of the National Institute for the Deaf by his majesty King George VI when HRH the Duke of York on the 11th day of June 1936.
I have no information about Navy Landing New Orleans. Please contact me if you do.
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Navy Landing Dedicated by the City of New Orleans to honor the personnel of the United States navy and offer appreciation for their sacrifices and service to the nation and the city 8 February 1991
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The North Star, 104 Finchley Road. The North Star was built in 1850 as one of the first buildings to grace the new Finchley Road. This highway had been constructed in 1835 as an alternative by-pass route to the old road from London to the north, which took the gruelling haul up through the congested streets of Hampstead. The North Star was purpose built as a pub, as can be seen from the handsome exterior, which boasts attractive embossed stars at the tops of the main pillar supports. Originally above this, at roof level, was an elaborate stone balustrade and arch, but these became unsafe, and were eventually removed. However, at first floor level there remains a magnificent cast-iron Victorian balcony. The pub was once the terminus for short-haul trams out of London in the 1920's, but far closer ties with London Transport was to come in the 1930's. A decision was made to extend the Bakerloo Line (now the Jubilee line) to relieve the overcrowded Metropolitan line. In order for the new line to come to the surface between Swiss Cottage and Finchley Road stations, the Metropolitan had to be diverted, and opened in November 1939 with the southbound line in a tunnel that lies a mere three feet below the cellar floor. The rumblings of the trains can easily be heard, and felt, in the bar.
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Northern Outfall Sewer, part of London's main drainage system, constructed mid 19th century by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
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Nortraship From 1940 to 1945 this building housed NORTRASHIP - The Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission - established by the Norwegian Government in exile and Norwegian shipowners. NORTRASHIP operated the Norwegian merchant fleet of more than 1000 ships which made a vital contribution to the allied victory in World War II.
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On this site stood Norway House and Norway Yard. By the beginning of the 19th century this fine house set in its own large garden, had become a famous boarding academy for young gentlemen. We know that in 1805 the school was run by Bidmead & Johnson, but by 1840 control was in the hands of James Hessey. There is a story in Mary Hill's "Hampstead in Light and Shade" of bread and apples being smuggled in to the hungry pupils by a kindly maidservant. The house and garden underwent further changes of use before being swept away in 1931 to make room for a garage. At a point nearby coaches set-off for London when Hampstead was a country town. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
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The panels located above the public pass through on Poultry are the original friezes taken from a demolished building (12-13 Poultry) that once stood close to their current location.
Each frieze depicts a procession that once went past the site......
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This plaque has been dedicated by the Pepys community in memory of David Ivan O'Hara
1931-1992
who in his last years dedicated himself to the community and the projects of the community of the Pepys Estate
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Ogden Point Breakwater and Docks Constructed 1924-1937 A tribute to the engineers who created this important addition to the transportation infrastructure of Canada. The project used over 4 million tons of rock, more than ten thousand granite blocks, fifty three concrete caissons and one million cubic yards of dredged fi??
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In the mid 16th century this site was the timber yard for the nearby Whitehall Palace. In 1560 Sir Francis Knollys, Treasurer of the Royal Household, leased the land to "buylde a convenient house", which later passed to his son, Viscount Wallingford, becoming known as Wallingford House.
In 1622 George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, the Lord High Admiral, purchased Wallingford House and so began an association between the site and the direction of the Royal Navy that lasted for some 350 years. Sir Christopher Wren recommended this site for the first planned Admiralty Office, which opened in 1695. The builder, John Evans, became Navy Board Purveyor but his building soon failed to meet the Admiralty's growing needs.
The present building was designed by the Master Carpenter, Thomas Ripley, and completed in 1726 (at an "Expence that hath very much exceeded the Estimate"), becoming known as Ripley Block.
The screen wall facing Whitehall was designed in 1760 by the great Scottish architect, Robert Adam. In 1826 "in" and "out" side entrances were added to allow easier access for the carriage of the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, but the screen was restored to its original condition in 1923.
The building contains the room where Nelson's body lay overnight 8th/9th January 1806, before his funeral. It also contains the Admiralty Board Room, a survivor from Evans' building of 1695, with its finely carved overmantel, attributed to Grinling Gibbons' workshop, depicting ancient nautical instruments.
The Board Room boasts an imposing table, with a cut out portion to accommodate the Secretary and his papers. The wind dial, controlled by a vane on the roof , and the carving have survived from the 1695 building. The room was expertly repaired after being damaged by a bomb in World War 2.
From here the worldwide affairs of the Royal Navy were run for centuries by " the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty" until they were replaced, on the formation of the Ministry of Defence in 1964, by the "Admiralty Board of the Defence Council". The board still occasionally meets in the Old Admiralty Board Room.
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Kingscote (Queenscliffe) Police Station and Courthouse The original Kingscote (Queenscliffe) Police Station of four rooms was built in 1884/85 by contractor Wm. Pett and Son. Two cells, stables and a store room were apparently constructed at the same time. The cells were of standard dimensions for the era, seven feet by seven feet for the single cell and seven feet by fourteen feet for the double cell, with wooden beds and pillows. That building can be observed at the rear of this building.......continues.....
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...St Alphage...ning parts of...Old Roman City Wall Closed by act of parliament.
Laid out as a garden 1872 .
George Kemp MA - Rector
William Smith, G. R. Tattershall -Churchwardens
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Old Victoria Custom House Completed in 1875 in the Second Empire style, Victoria's original Custom House is a distinguished example of the buildings erected by the new Federal Government after Confederation. It regulated the trade of the West Coast's busiest port and symbolized the pre-eminence of Victoria as a commercial centre in the late 19th century. Goldseekers from around the world converged on its steps to obtain miners' licences before embarking for the Klondike in 1898. This elegant structure recalls efforts to establish a federal presence across Canada through the construction of impressive public buildings.
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In memory of the thirteen Polish navy sailors who lost their lives on 16 June 1942 when their destroyer ORP Kujawiak hit a mine and sank during a convoy to Malta, Operation Harpoon
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Otter Trail Silver Jubilee 1968-1993 This plaque commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Otter Trail was unveiled on the 11 December 1993.
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Constructed in 1897 and opened for the public traffic in 1898. The road has an average grade of eight percent and is 8800 feet long. The original survey was made by John H. Wilson under supervision of William E. Rowell Superintendent of Public Works, W.W. Bruner Highway Engineer both of the Republic of Hawaii. Completion of the job was due to the vision and ability of John H. Wilson and Louis M. Whitehouse. They did the work under contractor for the Republic of Hawaii. This tablet commemorates the Fiftieth Anniversary and is erected by the City and County of Honolulu January Twentieth, 1948.
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In this house lived Tadeusz Pawlikowski born and died in Krakow 1861 - 1915 Stage Director, two-time director of the Slovak Theatre. The great reformer of the theatre
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The People of Penge in partnership with the London Borough of Bromley erected these plaques to commemorate the Members of the Armed Forces and Civilians who lost their lives in World War II
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This building was erected in 1936 as the People's Palace. It was opened by King George VI on February 13, 1937, being His Majesty's first public engagement as King. It replaced the former Queen's Hall of the People's Palace, which was opened by Queen Victoria on May 14, 1887 and was destroyed by fire in 1931.
The People's Palace became part of Queen Mary College in 1954 and was named the Queens' Building by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Chancellor of the University of London, on June 5, 1956. It now contains the Great Hall of Queen Mary and Westfield College.
The original People's Palace, built between 1887 and 1892, provided facilities for recreation, culture, amusement, sport, training and education for the people of East London.
The panels in low relief on the front of the building are by Eric Gill and depict Drama, Music, Fellowship, Dance, Sport and Recreation.
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Victualling Department Admiralty
This plaque commemorates the closing of the Royal Victoria Yard in 1961 after 219 years of service to the Royal Navy.
This terrace and adjacent colonnade were part of the Victualling Yard, Deptford, built on a site of 35 acres purchased from the Evelyn Estate in 1742. The yard was re-named the Royal Victoria Yard in 1858 by gracious permission of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
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In recognition of the contribution of Peter Forbes Philip MS FRCS Consultant Surgeon and Urologist Charing Cross Hospital 1955 - 1985 and Chairman of the Planning Committee for the building of Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham. A greatly respected Surgeon and Administrator
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This cloister is built in memory of John George Phillips a native of this town, chief wireless telegraphist of the ill-fated S.S. Titanic. He died at his post when the vesssel foundered in mid-Atlantic on the 15th day of April 1912
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Józef Piłsudski 1867-1935 Fighter and Statesman Co-Creator of independent Poland Marshal and Head of the Polish State. First he stayed in Opatija before the great war, for the freedom of the people. Embassy of Poland May 12 2007
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Framed by the towering cedar of Lebanon trees is the rear view of Pitzhanger Manor House, designed by the renowned architect Sir John Soane. This park was created bewteen 1801 and 1806 as grounds for Pitzhanger Manor House. Soane worked closely with John Haverfield, a leading landscape designer from Kew, to create strong visual links between house and park. This formal lawn and flower garden are characteristic of the Regency style, with the landscape framng views of the house and park.
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In this place to commemorate the regaining of independence by the Polish Republic in 1918 on May 3, 1919, was planted the tree of freedom
May 3, a.d. 1999
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"They died because they were Poles." In memory of our compatriots. At least 111,000 victims of communist genocide, murdered in the Soviet Union, along with hundreds of thousands deported deep into the "inhuman land" - to endure starvation, exhaustion, and slave labour under the NKVD's Polish operation of 1937-1938.
On the 80th anniversary of this crime, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2017
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In this city, the workers' holiday
was celebrated for the first time in Dalmatia on May 1, 1891.
"Workers and sailors make music together,
Stari Grad plays music"
and their leader Don Anton Politeo
, pioneer of Christian social democracy
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An important historical event that marked the
pioneer and celebrates the ancestors of the independent social movement in memory of
a grateful and proud generation.
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To commemorate the meeting of Q.T. Pope Francis with the President of Malta I-E.T. George Vella during his visit to our country 2 April 2022
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Here in front of the Church of St Blaise, June 6 2003 Pope John Paul II blessed the city. Celebrating holy mass in Gruj he said 'I wanted to visit Dubrovnik for a long time. My wish has come true today. I thank God for that.'
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IN THIS GARDEN HE PRESIDED THE CELEBRATION OF THE WORD AND PRAYED BEFORE THE IMAGE OF THE LORD SANTO CHRIST OF MIRACLES HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II, ON MAY 11, 1991
TRIBUTE FROM THE PEOPLE OF SAINT MIGUEL
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JOHN PAULUS II A. P. R. M. OUR APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY PRINCE TEMPLE OF S. NICOLAI EPISCO THE BULLMEN WE REDUCED THE NUMBER OF SMALLER BASILICAS DATED AT ROME AT ST. SALVATORE M. CACOPARDO S. S. PRELATO H. C.
ARCHPRESBYTER IGNIATIO CANNAVO ARCHBISHOP MESSANEN
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CATANIA ARISE COVERED WITH LIGHT AND JUSTICE thus JOHN PAUL II ON 4 NOVEMBER 1994 SAYING GREETING TO THE CITY OF AGATA. HE HOPED FOR A NEW REBIRTH
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You gave us faith and hope, you gave us solidarity and freedom, Father bless every day our beloved city and our homeland. To the beloved father John Paul the great Pole
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"MALTA IS LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. YOU HAVE A UNIQUE VOCATION TO BE BUILDERS OF BRIDGES BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, BETWEEN AFRICA AND EUROPE, THE FUTURE OF PEACE IN THE WORLD DEPENDS ON THE OF DIALOGUE AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS. CONTINUE IN YOUR TRADITIONS OF HOSPITALITY, AND CONTINUE IN YOUR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENT IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM, JUSTICE AND PEACE"
THE Q.T. POPE JOHN PAUL II TO THE MALTA PEOPLE, 9 MAY 2001
INAUGURATED
FROM E.T. THE PROF. GUIDO de MARCO PRESIDENT OF MALTA
ON FEBRUARY 10, 2004 FESTIVAL OF THE SHIPWRECK OF OUR FATHER SAINT PAUL
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ON MAY 8, 2001
THE PRESIDENT OF MALTA The E.T. GUIDO de MARCO WELCOMED TO THIS PALACE Q.T. POPE JOHN PAUL II APOSTLE OF PEACE IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR FATHER SAINT PAUL
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On this site stood the lodgings of Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar, Provost of the City of Edinburgh 1566-7, in which lodging Mary Queen of Scotland after her surrender to the confederate lords at Carberry Hill, spent her last night in Edinburgh, 15 June 1567. On the following evening she was conveyed to Holyrood and thereafter to Lochleven Castle as a state prisoner.
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Here in the fortress of St Ivana, spent the most fruitful years of his creativity as a Croatian painter Duro Pulitika 1922-2006 for his loyalty to his native Dubrovnik. Croatian Dragon Brothers Society 2013
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Queens Wood Highgate
This wood comprising 50 acres was opened for the use and enjoyment of the public as an open space for ever, on July 23rd 1898 by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Albany.
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In this house, our distinguished citizen was born, an outstanding Croatian intellectual-visionary of a free Croatia. Dr Bogdan Radica Split, August 26 1904 ; New York December 5 1993
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The ramp up to the towpath opposite this wall is one of a pair either side of the railway bridge and was used to rescue horses which when startled by the trains sometimes bolted and fell into the canal (note - the long shot is approximate, cannot find the original plaque 08/2022)
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Here they lived, suffered
and died at the hands
of Hitler's executioners. From here led their
final path to the death camps Fragment of the walls of the Jewish Ghetto
1941-1943
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Light in the Darkness 2000 by Julian Stocks
This stained glass window celebrates the River Tyburn that flows beneath Marylebone Lane. It was commissioned by Jurys Clifton Ford Hotel in consultation with The Howard de Walden Estate and Westminster City Council and takes the form of a lantern window which, when illuminated, will act as a beacon.
During the 18th century the River Tyburn was an open stream that ran from the hills of Hampstead Heath down to the River Thames. Marylebone Lane followed the banks of the river, the course of which has since been culverted, but still maintains a presence most noticeable in it's serpentine form.
The design makes reference to other aspects of the site's history and includes a chronology of maps and drawings as well as key dates relating to The Howard de Walden Estate. The historical context belies the contemporary method of production which employs the latest techniques of enamelling, etching and computer aided design. This honours the past but also holds up a mirror to the many and varied aspects of urban society.
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This tablet is dedicated to the memory of the engine room staff of the S.S. 'Titanic' who gave their lives at the post of duty when the vessel sank after striking an iceberg on April 15th, 1912.
Joseph Bell, Chief Engineer.....
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Rogers Estate
This estate is named "Rogers Estate" to commemorate the heroic death of Sergeant Maurice Rogers, VC, MM (Wiltshire Regt.) of No. 1 Ravenscroft, Bethnal Green, who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for outstanding gallantry in Italy during the Second World War, 1939 - 1945. The official citation records that Sgt. Rogers destroyed two enemy machine-gun posts single-handed and was killed at point-blank range while attempting to destroy a third. As a result of Sgt. Rogers' gallantry and devotion to duty the position was carried.
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
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In this place on 31 October 1918, Polish Soldiers disarmed the Austrian Garrison. The commandant of Free Krakow at that time was General Boleslaw Roja
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{top half}{illegible} let us falter! From Malta to Yalta! Let nobody alter! Winston S Churchill 1 February 1945 The 1945 Yalta Conference brought together President Franklin D Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin. Prior to the conference, Roosevelt and Churchill met here in the Valletta Grand Harbour for preliminary discussions. While a number of decisions were made at Yalta, tensions over various issues laid the seeds for the Cold War. {bottom half}The Malta summit of 1989 brought together US President George W Bush and USSR Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and marked the end of the Cold War.
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Betsy Ross Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole January 1, 1752 - January 30, 1836 and her husband John Claypoole August 15, 1752 - August 3, 1817
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Rotten Row - The King's Old Road, Completed 1690 This ride originally formed part of King William III's carriage drive from Whitehall to Kensington Palace. Its construction was supervised by the Surveyor of Their Majesties Roads, Captain Michael Studholme, and it was the first lamp-lit road in the kingdom. Designated as a public bridleway in the 1730's, Rotten Row is one of the most famous urban riding grounds in the world.
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This platform was used by HRH King George VI and HRH Queen Elizabeth and their royal highnesses Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. During a garden party held in April 1947 the royal party were guests at the Victoria Falls Hotel.
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The buildings of this museum were occupied until 1933 by The Royal Hospital School founded in 1694 for the sons of seaman of The Royal Navy. The ashes of many of the former pupils of the school have been scattered over the lawns
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The Church of England Children's Society formerly the Waifs and Strays Society was founded in 1881 by Edward de M Rudolf (1852-1933), when he was superintendent of the Sunday School in this Parish of St Anne, South Lambeth. This tablet was erected in 1966 by the Society in thankful remembrance of the life and work of its founder
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HISTORY OF THE BASILICA 16 JUNE 1875
LAYING OF THE FIRST STONE AUGUST 10, 1885
DELIVERY OF ADORATION PERPE TVELLE DY MOST HOLY SACREMENT IN THE PROVISIONAL CHAPEL OCTOBER 17, 1899
BLESSING OF THE DV DOME CROSS BY HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL RICHARD OCTOBER 16, 1919
CONSECRATION OF THE BASILICA BY H-EM-LE CARDINAL AMETTE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CARDINAL VICO LEGAT DV POPE OF 8 CARDINAVX 12 ARCHEVE OVES AND 98 EVEQVES
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Here, 47 rue Jacob, was born, on December 9, 1889, René Sahors, veteran of the 1914-1918 war, secretary general of the clandestine ARAC engaged in the fight against the occupier, shot by the Nazis on March 31 1942 at Mont Valérien.
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IN MEMORY OF THE SANTA MARIA CONVOY ON AUGUST 18, 1942 WHICH HELPED THE MALTESE AND THE ENGLISH SO MUCH IN THE DAUGHTERS AGAINST NAZISM AND FASCISM
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{bottom plaque}This plaque was unveiled by Her Majesty The Queen accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh on 2nd July 2012 to mark the re-opening of the
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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An excerpt from an article in HaAretz newspaper. Reporter: M. Samilanski
One cloudy, cold and wet day as I was riding across the muddy trails and tracks of the Hula Valley, suddenly, in a blink of an eye what did I see? Was I dreaming? Witnessing a magical vision?
At the confluence of the three streams: Dan, Hatzbani and Banias - where they form the river Jordan, I spot a small encampment on the riverbank. . Three canvas tents, three shelters (succot, almost) made from the reeds so common to the Hula, they looked almost like huge rugs; two Hebrew girls jumping around between the tents. Who are they? What are they doing alone, up here, a mere arrow shot from the Syrian border?
No, they are not alone. There are 8 young men with them. A singular minyan in the swamps of the Hula.
They are illegals. As far as the authorities are concerned, the budget-holders who control the purse strings, the land has been allocated to them but the funds have not been approved. They made Aliya anyway. This minyan is part of the kibbutz group called Huliot.
Only four months previously, in December 1940, mid-winter, they made their way to this spot and settled in the middle of the Hula marshes: no roof over their heads and no road to connect them to the rest of the surrounding settlements.
Independently, unauthorised, they ploughed and planted more than 1,000 dunams (250 acres). And the heavens responded. Crops were successful.
I have never witnessed a more beautiful, inspiring sight. There has been nothing to compare to that beautiful scene.
March 1941
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This is where it all began
On this spot, the group called Huliot put up the first tents of Sde Nehemia
These eucalyptus trees were planted on TubishShvat (15th Shvat), February 12th 1941 by the muktar (village chief) David Sonnenfeld and Shoshana Rosen (Gal)
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Huliot Plastics - The Grain Store
This building, characterised by its convex roof, was put up in 1945 to be used as the grain silo for grains such as barley, wheat, sorghum, corn and seed.
It was in this building, in 1947, that Huliot Plastics began manufacturing household products such as plastic plates, cups and mugs, trays, bowls and so on.
Later, illuminated advertising hoardings and signs were produced for shops and petrol stations using the same material. using the same material.
Huliot Plastics was the first of its kind in Israel manufacturing plastic utensils.
In 1948 the building provided living accommodation for young, teenage Holocaust survivors from Romania who had been orphaned in the war and then held in detention camps by the British in Cyprus.
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The Pillbox
This building was erected in 1941 by the British army and served as the northern-most look-out post for the kibbutz. Until the War of Independence (1948-49) members of the kibbutz used the position to guard and protect the kibbutz.
The structure and its shape allowed for a full 360 degree view of the surrounding area. During the 1956 Suez Campaign (Operation Kadesh in Israel), when there was a threat of attack from Syria, the building was used for aircraft spotting and defence.
Access to the Pillbox was through a network of trenches that connected the whole kibbutz in those days as the Syrians held positions overlooking Shamir, Kfar Szold and Dan at the foot of the Golan Heights and this allowed them clear views of the settlements in the area.
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The Swedish HutThis hut was erected in 1951 and renovated in 2011.
The hut, along with the adjacent concrete building, was originally used as a Childrens House where there were bedrooms, a kitchen and dining room and a classroom. Days of collective living?.
The first group to grow up here was called Nachlielli (a kind of wagtail). Class groups in kibbutzim traditionally were named after birds or animals, but most commonly, birds. Nachlielli was made up of the first children of the kibbutz and newcomers to Sde Nehemia, orphaned children from the then Czechoslovakia, Syria and Lebanon.
Many kibbutz children, between 1952 and 1978, lived and were taught in this hut. This was their home.
With the change to family living the hut ceased to be lived in and became a store room for children's playthings, Purim costumes and other equipment used in Children's Houses.
The building next door was used as a music room for many years and today houses the kibbutz archives.
The hut, along with the adjacent concrete building, was originally used as a Childrens House where there were bedrooms, a kitchen and dining room and a classroom. Days of collective living?.
The first group to grow up here was called Nachlielli (a kind of wagtail). Class groups in kibbutzim traditionally were named after birds or animals, but most commonly, birds.
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The Round Watchtower
This position was erected in 1941 and was used as the forward most look-out point guarding the kibbutz. It also served as the living quarters of one couple, members of the kibbutz, until 1948.
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The Water Tower
The water tower was erected in 1941 and delivered water to all the various parts of the kibbutz.
In 1948 the tower served as a look-out point. Here, girls would observe and pass on information to the local Hagana leadership based in nearby kibbutz Kfar Giladi. They used Morse code, mirrors to reflect the sun in the daytime and powerful spotlights and torches at night to transmit their information. In 1960, during the Fedayeen attacks common at the time, girls would sit, observing, with binoculars, the Syrian lines. If they saw men leaving the caves with their flocks, spreading across the hill slopes, they knew there was no danger and the kibbutz could go about its daily routines in safety.
On feast days and holidays the national flag is flown from the tower and until recently (2010) the Red Flag was flown on Mayday.
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Erected by the Governor of the Seamen's Hospital Society, the Port of London. In memory of John Lydekker, Esqr South Sea Ship Owner. Gratefully to record his munificent bequest to that institution. He died on the 23rd July 1832, and was buried in the North Vault of the Church of St Dionis, Backchurch, Fenchurch Street.
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LEAGUE TWO COMBATANTS PARISH BOARD OF SERRETA
TRIBUTE TO THE FIGHTERS OF THIS PARISH, NAMELY THOSE WHO OVERSEAS LOST THEIR LIVES ANTONIO MERMINIO ESTEVES DUARTE 6.06-08-1969.MOCAMBIQUE
JOSÉ GABRIEL DINIS SOUSA
F-08-08-1973.MOZAMBIQUE
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Founded AD 1549 Rebuilt AD 1923 The Ship Tavern This Tavern was established in the year 1549. During the proscription of the Roman Catholic religion, it was used as a shelter for Priests and Services were held here secretly. The neighbourhood was once notorious for the gambling houses of Whetstone Park. Famous visitors have been Richard Penderell, who aided King Charles' escape, Bayford, shoemaker and antiquarian, the woman Chevalier d'Eon, who lived as a man, and Smeaton the builder of the first Eddystone Lighthouse. It was a centre of Freemasonry and a Lodge with the number 234 was consecrated here by the Grand Master the Earl of Antrim in 1786.
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{the English version is hidden behind the wood planks - something like} The Siege Bell Monument erected in 1992 commemorates the award of the George Cross to the People of Malta, dedicated by Censu Tabone President of Malta and Queen Elizabeth II....
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Silver Jubilee Walkway Trust This plaque commemorates the inauguration of the final section of the Silver Jubilee Walkway around Central London from the Tower of London to Leicester Square by the Duke of Gloucester Patron of the Trust on Friday 14 July 1978
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Piotr Skarga The great servant of God, the faithful son of the homeland, preacher, writer and educator of the nation, made his home here. In this house, he established Great works of love for his neighbor, Founded by himself in the years 1584-1587 This is:
The Brotherhood of Mercy,The Pious Bank Providing lasting help, comfort and relief to the poor of Kraków.
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25th anniversary of the elections on June 4, 1989. In this building in 1989 the Malopolska Citizens Committee 'Solidarity' prepared the elections to the Senate of the Third Republic of Poland with the participation of the society of Krakow and Malopolska. Here the road to a free and independent Poland was open.
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Here lies soil brought by Kraków academic expeditions in the years 1999 - 2004 from places of martyrdom of professors and students of higher education institutions of the Second Polish Republic Sachsenhausen Dachau Katyń Charków Lwów Palmiry Ponary Kuropaty Majdanek Auschwitz Poznań Ravensbrüaut;ck Mauthausen Stanisławów Warszawa Nowy Wiśnicz Kraków
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{top left} To commemorate the completion of the third century of this church 1686-1986 and the fifth anniversary of its rebuilding and rededication 1991-1996. This stone was erected by the friends of St Anne's Church soho on 26th July 1996
{top right}This tablet(?) was erected by the ? board of the parish of St Anne .. completion of the second century of this church which event was celebrated by various? meetings of the inhabitants. Presided over by Thomas Francis Blackwell esq on 26th October 1887
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Past and Present
You are standing on holy ground and in front of an important place of prayer. Over 1000 years ago Saint Dunstan dedicated a church on this site to All Saints. It is the mother church of the East End and, with the ancient port of London nearby, became known as the Church of the High Seas. For this reason the red ensign is still flown from the tower, which also houses ten bells of Stepney mentioned in the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons'. In each generation large numbers from this community have gone out to the four corners of the world and Stepney has become home to many newcomers etc.
These notice boards have been erected in memory of Councillor Ben Holmes, 1916 - 1997, sometime Mayor of Stepney.
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St. George's Hospital was established on this site in 1733 in a country home built in 1719 by James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough. In 1826 the trustees of St George's commissioned William Wilkins to design a new hospital. Wilkins was also the architect for the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square and University College This building was completed in the early 1830s. The hospital outgrew the site and moved to new buildings in Tooting, south west London, in 1980. This historic building has now been carefully restored during an extensive four year project (1988-1991) and transformed into a magnificent hotel which takes the name of the former Lanesborough House on this site. The main entrance to the Lanesborough is to be found on the Knighstbridge side of Hyde Park Corner facing Hyde Park.
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St George’s Hospital was established on this site in 1733 in a country home built in 1719 by James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough. The hospital was located in the village of Knightsbridge due to the reputation for healthy country air. The three-storey red brick hospital was of simple design and wings were later added to the structure by architect Isaac Ware.St George’s Hospital quickly outgrew its original building and in 1826, the trustees commissioned William Wilkins to design a new hospital. Wilkins was also the architect for the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square and University College. Completed in the early 1830s, Wilkins' building was designed In the classical style from drawings by Nicholas Revett of the choragic monument to Thrassylus at the Acropolis, Athens. Many of the fathers of modern medicine studied, practiced and taught at St George’s Hospital and its medical school founded in 1831. Chief among these was John Hunter, the father of scientific surgery. Other well-known medical pioneers with careers at St George’s include Edward Jenner, a pioneer of immunology, Thomas Young, professor of natural philosophy to the Royal Institution and Henry Gray renowned for his comprehensive study of anatomy. During World War II, the entire hospital was given over to casualties of war. The hospital and those who worked there escaped injury due to the war with the exception of a thousand pound bomb that fell on the lecture theatre of the medical school, but fortunately failed to explode. The campaign to rebuild the hospital outside the centre of London began during World War II. During the 1950s, the hospital was offered a site in Tooting for the new St George’s Hospital and building began there in the 1970s. St George’s moved to its new buildings in Tooting South West London in 1980. This historic building has now been carefully restored during an extensive four-year project (1988-1991) and transformed into a magnificent hotel which takes the name of the former Lanesborough House on this site.
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Sacred to the memory of the dead interred in the ancient church & churchyard of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook during four centuries.
The formation of the District Railway having necessitated the destruction of the greater part of the churchyard all the human remains contained therein were carefully collected and reinterred in a vault beneath this monument AD 1884.
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Sacred to the memory of the dead interred in the ancient church & churchyard of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook during four centuries.
The formation of the District Railway having necessitated the destruction of the greater part of the churchyard all the human remains contained therein were carefully collected and reinterred in a vault beneath this monument AD 1884.
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{translated from the Latin}At the public expense.
By the authority of the British Government, in favour of King George II. The tower erected and repaired higher, with proud honour raises the head, Saint Margaret's hall, sacred to God, in the year of the Lord 1888 Most Honoured gentlemen, and for the benefices bestowed on the parishioners Often not without being named without praise, ARTHUR ONSLOW British Government, by his greatest merit, once again SPeaker, the Most Noble ROBERT WALPOLE of the Order of the Garter, First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a man most unwearied of all in counsels and public works, yet equal to many.
CHARLES WAGER The Golden Knight head of the seven man of the superior officers of the Royal Navy; And to William Baron Sundon of Ardagh in Ireland, in charge of the five men commission of the public treasury.
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Site of the Church of St Mary Aldermanbury.
First mentioned in 1181, destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666, rebuilt by Wren, destroyed by bombing in 1940, the remaining fabric removed to Westminster College, Fulton Missouri, USA, 1966 and restored as a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill.
This plaque placed by Westminster College
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The Parish Hall of St Olave Hart Street This Hall which stands in part on the site of the former Church of Allhallows Staining was built in 1957 by the Clothworkers Company for the benefit of the united Parish of St Olave Hart Street with Allhallows Staining and St Catherine Coleman.
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A.M.D.G. This church was built in 1819-1822 as the new parish church of the ancient parish of St Pancras under an act of 31 May 1816. The foundation stone was laid on Thursday 1 July 1819 by H.R.H. Frederick Duke of York and Albany (brother of King George IV) and commander-in-chief of the British army, The new church was consecrated on Tuesday 7 May 1822 by the Rt Rev William Howley, Lord Bishop of London....
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This church was re-dedicated on Monday 14 December 1955 by the Rt Rev & Rt Hon Dr J.W.C. Wand Lord Bishop of London, after new roofing & extensive restoration. It had been closed as a dangerous structure on 13 May 1951 in view of widespread dry rot.....
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In this house lived and died the painter and citizen of Kraków, Michał Stachowicz Born August 14, 1768, Died March 26, 1825.
A passionate lover of his hometown, who in his paintings preserved for posterity the monuments of Kraków, the great historical events of the era of T. Kościuszko and Prince Józef Poniatowski, as well as the life and customs of the people.
This plaque was funded by the City Administration in 1939.
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In 384 B.C., Greek navigators from the Aegean island of Paros sailed into this bay and founded Faros - today's Old Town. This coast was built in 2016. It was dedicated to the 2400th year of the foundation of the city.
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In memory of the officers and gentlemen of the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart who were executed on Kennington Common in July, August and November 1746. Nine of the Manchester Regiment and seven Scots are buried here. Francis Towneley, Colonel of the Manchester Regiment lies in the churchyard of Old St Pancras church.
Tandem Triumphans
The 1745 Association
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A famous Croatian educator, revitalizer, historian, lexicographer lived and died in this house Bogoslav Sulek 20.IV.186 - 30.XI.1895 A Slovak born, a Croat of heart and soul he dedicated hislife and work to the Croatian motherland. 100th Anniversary of Podiiso's death. Society of the brothers of the Croatian Dragon Society of Croatian Slovak friendship 1995
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U.S.S. Missouri - Over this spot on 2 September 1945 the instrument of formal Surrender of Japan to the allied powers was signed thus bringing to a close the Second Wworld War. The ship at that time was at anchor in Tokyo Bay
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Dr Szego Kalman (1863-1933) The famous sanatorium for children in the buildings of the present Hotel Belvedere was run from 1894 to 1924 by a Hungarian doctor, a pioneer of Opatija health tourism. Between 1894 and 1924, the prominent figure of the founders of medicine tourism in Abbazia operated his famous chidren's sanatorium in the buildings of the current Belvedere Hotel
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This plaque commemorates 335 years of the tea industry in the City of London, which in its heyday controlled over 85% of the world's tea trade.
The City's trade opened with the British East Indian Company which had a monopoly over the importation of tea from China & India. As a result of the growing tea trade in the City, St Katharine Docks opened on 25th October 1828, with Butler's Wharf following 65 years later in 1893 on the opposite side of the River Thames. At this time, St Katharine Docks was at the centre of Britain's roaring commercial trade and, alongside Butler's Wharf, was recognised as the main tea storage and processing centre in London.
During its 140 years as working docks, St Katharine Docks regularly welcomed tea clippers such the famous 'Cutty Sark' in addition to more modern steam ships. The Docks gained prominence due to its prime location on the River Thames, ensuring ease of access to the main tea companies in the City.
Tea trading was central to Britain's commercial trade in the 1800s as tea was the second largest commodity after wool, with tea warehouses receiving 120,000 tea chests annually. These chests were transported by ships into the docks and then lifted by manual chain pulleys to the platforms and storage floors. At its peak, Butler's Wharf handled 400,000 tea chests a year.
This plaque was generously donated by.....
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THIS HOUSE WAS DONATED BY THE EX SNRE BARONEZA DE TEIXEIRA FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WORKSHOPS IN ORDER TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF HER LATE HUSBAND, EX JOÃO THOMAS TEIXEIRA
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FLORÊNCIO TERRA
JOURNALIST WRITER TO PROFESSOR RETOR AND PRESIDENT OF HORTA CITY COUNCIL
CELEBRATION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
1858-2008
MUNICIPALITY OF HORTA MAY 18, 2008
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Nikola Tesla ....inventor of the ... advance of high-frequency current....born in Smilian ... 1856...was in New York.... his son... fight for freedom....
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In the years 1943-1945, this building housed the secret headquarters of the Kraków Council for Help to the Jews, 'Żegota' of the Polish Underground State, to which many thousands of Jews owe their survival in the Holocaust at the price of the lives of many thousands of Poles.
The plaque was placed by the Museum of the Polish Home Army and the J. Piłsudski Society in 2005.
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In this house was the main headquarters of Tadeusz Kosciuszko and his staff after the memorable oath of the national uprising on March 24, 1794
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The High Synagogue This building housed The High Synagogue, built in the 16th Century, destroyed in 1939 by the occupying German authorities.
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AMPLIFIED PASSAGE Sound work by Miriam Backstrom and Carsten Holler Public commission from the City of Paris In homage to the Jewish children of France deported during the Second World War
From 1942 to 1944, 11,400 Jewish children, including 6,100 Parisians, were deported from France to the Nazi extermination camps, with the complicity of the Vichy government. Of these children, almost all murdered, all that remains is the memory that we want to keep of them. To keep this memory alive, the artists Miriam Backstrom and Carsten Holler offer here a sound work: Amplified Passage. The voices and sounds of the city are picked up by microphones and amplified, without being recorded, by being subtly modified, in such a way that, in a limited space, they seem to come from nowhere. Transformed, distanced, returned to a form of intimacy, the voices of a moment become those of a memory always to be renewed and which carries among the living the memory of the deceased.
PARIS TOWN HALL
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This wellhead or cistern, was built in 1835. It probably replaced a cistern of around 1675, removed when George IV bridge was built.
The cisterns provided water from Comiston Springs via the Castlehill Reservoir for the inhabitants of the Old Town, they became important meeting places where long queues formed. They fell into disuse in the 19th century when supplies to individual houses became possible.
This wellhead was repaired and restored by the Edinburgh Old Town Renewal Trust and Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Limited in 1997.
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Church of St Thomas Apostle, (formerly St Thomas Martyr) Southwark, S.E.1. Parish church of St Thomas 1136-1862, which also served as the chapel of St Thomas's hospital 1215- 1862, rebuilt in 1703 by Thomas Cartwright & Son (sometime master masons to Christopher Wren).The roof space was used as the hospital's herb garret and from 1822 as its operating theatre. Rediscovered by Raymond Russell in 1956, the herb garret and operating theatre is now a museum supported by the Lord Brock Memorial Trust.
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IN MEMORY OF MARTYRS AND HEROES! OF THE RESISTANCE AND THE WAR OF LIBERATION BECAUSE IT IS A WARNING OVER THE CENTURIES THAT THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE RISORCE IN FREEDOM AND LAW IV NOV. MCMLXVI
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Sigismund Bell. The bell was commissioned by King Sigismund I the Old and bears his name. It was cast in 1520 in Kraków by the master bell-founder Hans Behem from Nuremberg. It was hoisted onto the tower on July 9, 1521, in an operation that lasted nine hours, observed by the king, his family, the court, and the people of Kraków. The bell weighs approximately 11 tons, and its clapper weighs 365 kg. Its height, including the crown, is 258 cm. The circumference of the rim is about 8.4 meters, and its diameter is 250 cm. The wall thickness ranges from 7 to 21 cm. It is the largest of the old bells in Poland.
"To God, the Best and Greatest, and to the Virgin Mother of God, His holy patrons, the illustrious Sigismund, King of Poland, had this bell made, worthy of the greatness of his mind and deeds, in the year of salvation 1520."
The bell is adorned with two plaques: one depicting St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, the patron of the cathedral and all of Poland, and the other depicting King Sigismund in his majesty. On both sides of the plaques, the national emblems are visible: the Crown's coat of arms - The Eagle - and Lithuania's coat of arms - the Pahonia. The bell also features the name of the bell-founder Behem, his master mark, and the year of its creation.
The bell is rung by 12 strong men and sounds on great liturgical feasts and other solemn ceremonies.
Pope John Paul II wrote about Sigismund Bell: "How many emotions and memories are evoked by the sound of this royal bell! In its solemn ringing, we hear a prayer across the centuries for freedom and prosperity for the homeland, as well as a call to free the heart from all evil. Perhaps especially a call to elevate the spirit toward the values that our generation has inherited from the splendid tradition of our forefathers."
In 2001, a new clapper was installed in the bell.
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THE CITY OF SYRACUSE DEDICATES THE QUAY NO. 5 IN HONOR AND PERMANENT REMEMBRANCE OF THE SAILORS ON BOARD THE ROYAL BRONZE SUBMARINE THAT FALLEN FOLLOWING BRITISH MACHINING ON 12 JULY 1943. OFF SYRACUSE SYRACUSE. JULY 18, 2014
ASS. LAMBA DORIA
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TO THE UNKNOWN HERO WHO GAVE BLOOD AND GLORY TO THE HOMELAND ASE HE SHADOW AND OBLIGENCE IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE SHED TEARS OR MOTHERS MAKE HYMNS OR POETS BEFORE THE SEA AND THE INFINITIVE SKY 4 Nov 1966
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IN THIS PIAZZA FOR FIFTEEN YEARS FROM 19 SEPTEMBER 1953 TO 29 AUGUST 1968 THE MADONNA OF TEARS ACCEPTING THE supplications of praying multitudes, SHE DISPENSED VERY SIGNIFICANT THANKS A MATERNAL CALL TO CONVERSION AND SANCTITY OF LIFE A VERY SOFT PLEDGE OF LOVE OF HER IMMACULATE AND SORRY HEART FOR SYRACUSE FOR ITALY FOR THE WORLD. THE PRO SANCTUARY COMMITTEE POWERED THIS. THE MAYOR OF SYRACUSE ON 29 AUGUST 1971
THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYRACUSE
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Lines on James Thomson The Poet of Nature. . Ye who from London's smoke and turmoil fly, To seek a purer air and brighter sky, Think of the Bard who dwelt in yonder dell Who sang so sweetly what he loved so well, Think, as ye gaze on there luxuriant bowers Here Thomson loved the sunshine and the flowers. He who could paint in all their varied forms, April's young blooms. December's dreary storms, By you fair stream, which calmly glides along Pure as his life, and lovely as his song, There oft he roved, In yonder churchyard lies All of the deathless Bard that ever dies, For here his gentle spirit lingers still In yon sweet vale - on this enchanted hill; Flinging a holier int'rest o'er the grove, Stirring the heart to poetry and love, Bidding us prize the favourite scenes he trod, And view in Nature's beauties, Nature's God.
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{left plaque} In commemoration of the first anniversary of October 26 1944 when Tito's heroic army, exposing the occupiers, liberated our city
{right plaque}To all the Croatian defenders who died in The Homeland War 1991-1996, who incorporated their lives into the foundations of the State of Croatia, liberating the homeland throughout, and neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina
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City of London Tower Bridge
The main towers, high level walkways and the machine rooms under the southern approach of this bridge were opened to the public on 30th June 1982 by the Rt Hon, the Lord Mayor Sir Christopher Leaver, GBE, DMus, in the presence of Norman Harding, Esq, Chairman of the City Lands and Bridge House Estates Committee and Sir John Reader Welch, Bt, MA, Chairman of the Planning and Communications Committee and the following members of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee:
{list of names, Consultants and Engineers}
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Corporation of London, Tower Bridge
This plaque records the visit on the centenary of Tower Bridge, Thursday, 30th June 1994 by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, AK, QSO, ADC, in the presence of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Alderman Sir Paul Henry Newall, TD, DL, MA, DLitt
{then a list of sheriffs, aldermen, commoners...}
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This Bridge was opened by HRH the Prince of Wales, KG on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, on Saturday the 30th June 1894 in the presence of HRH The Princess of Wales, HRH The Duke of York KG and other members of the Royal Family, the Right Honorable Sir George Robert Tyler, Bart., Lord Mayor.
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The Site of The Toy InnAn ancient Hostelry of Note Built for Oliver Cromwell's troops c.1650 rebuilt c.1700 demolished c.1840 wherein Pope wrote the Rape of the Lock; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards WIlliam IV, formed & presided over his Toy Club; and Thomas Dunckerley founded the Masonic Lodge of Harmony 255 in 1785. The Lodge held here for 37 years, now erects this Tablet. July 1933
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The Trafalgar Way Brentford & Chiswick On Monday 21st October 1805 the Royal Navy decisively defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar on the south west coast of Spain. This victory permanently removed the threat of invasion of England by the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte The first official dispatches with the momentous news of the victory, and the death in action of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, were carried to England on board H. M. Schooner PICKLE by her captain, Lieutenant John Richards Lapenotiere. Lapenotiere landed at Falmouth on Monday 4th November 1805 and set out "express by post-chaise" for London. He took some 37 hours on the 271 mile journey, changing horses 21 times. The last of these was at Hounslow late at night on Tuesday 5th. His orders were to lose no time in reaching the Admiralty so, as the horses were still fresh, he pressed on through fog in Brentford and Chiswick toward Whitehall. Over the following four weeks other important messages arrived from the fleet with further details of the victory and anxiously awaited information on casualties. All the dispatches were landed at Falmouth and their couriers followed the same route through Brentford and Chiswick where horses and hospitality were available from the inns to all travellers on what is now the Trafalgar Way.
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The Trafalgar Way Destination - The Admiralty On Monday 21st October 1805 the Royal Navy decisively defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar on the south west coast of Spain. This victory permanently removed the threat of invasion of England by the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte The first official dispatches with the momentous news of the victory, and the death in action of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, were carried to England on board H. M. Schooner PICKLE by her captain, Lieutenant John Richards Lapenotiere. Lapenotiere landed at Falmouth on Monday 4th November 1805 and set out "express by post-chaise" for London. He took some 37 hours on the 271 mile journey, changing horses 21 times at a total cost of £46 19s 1d. Lapenotiere delivered his dispatches here to the Secretary of the Admiralty, William Marsden, at 1 a.m. on Wednesday 6th. Shortly thereafter a summary of the news was posted here and a crowd soon gathered. The news was passed to the Prime Minister and the King at once and special editions of newspapers were published later the same day to inform the nation.
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The circular stone on the traffic island 300 paces east of this point marks the site of the ancient gallows known as Tyburn Tree. It was demolished in 1759.
I have no information about Mikolaj Tyrchowski. Please contact me if you do.
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MIKOŁAJ TYRCHOWSKI From 1833 to 1850, Vice-Rector of St. Anne's Lyceum Member of the Krakow Scientific Society Chairman of the Department of the Krakow Charity Society 1787 - 1863
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In memory of the Ukrainian Canadians who served their country overseas during the Second World War.
This building housed the headquarters of the Ukrainian Canadian Servicemen's Association from January 1943 to the war's end, of the Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau from September 1945 to the winter of 1948, and of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain from January 1946 to the spring of 1947. Ukrainian-Canadian relief operations continued in Europe until 1952.
Placed by the Ukrainian communities of Canada and Great Britain, 19 September 1995.
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ERECTED 1866 By the Navy Club of Key West To the Memory of the Officers, Sailors & Soldiers of the Army, Navy & Marine Corps of the United States, who lost their lives in their Country's service upon this station from 1861 to 1866
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JAN HUYGEN VAN LINSCHOTEN Haarlem, 1563 Enkhuizen, 161
EXPLORER MERCHANT CHOROGRAPH
ARRIVED IN ANGRA ON JULY 24, 1589 LEFT IN DECEMBER 1991
MUNICIPALITY OF ANGRA DO HEROISM 2021
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You left from Varos, passed through Croatia and died for our freedom..... May this memorial be your return to Varos. God gave peace in the land of Croatia to the people of Varos
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ARRESTED BY THE POLICE OF THE VICHY GOVERNMENT, AN ACCOMPLICE OF THE NAZI OCCUPANT, MORE THAN 11,000 CHILDREN WERE DEPORTED FROM FRANCE FROM 1942 TO 1944 AND MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ BECAUSE THEY WERE BORN JEWISH. MORE THAN 500 CHILDREN LIVED IN THE 4TH DISTRICT, AMONG THEM STUDENTS AT THIS SCHOOL December 15, 2001 LET US NEVER FORGET THEM
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In Tribute to the Exiles of Siberia Victims of the Gulag of the East
To those fighting for the freedom and independence of Poland throughout the centuries,
Imprisoned and murdered in Soviet labour camps, killed and buried in Katyn graves, massively deported and dying there, To men, women, and children.
Kraków Siberian Exiles Families of Victims of the Katyn Crime Community of the City of Kraków
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{left plaque} REMEMBER THE VISIT OF THE MAJOR RECTOR DUN PASQUAL CHAVEZ VILLANUEVA THE NINTH SUCCESSOR OF SAINT JOHN BOSCO
ON THE CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY DON IS-SEBAS ILLU SUNDAY DECEMBER 7, 2003.
{right plaque}CELEBRATING THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM THE DEATH OF SAINT JOHN BOSCO THIS ORATORY WAS STOPPED BY DUN PAWL MICALLEF WHERE FOR THE FIRST TIME THE SALESIANS RESTED IN GOZO AND FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS EDUCATE AND WORK REMEMBER THE VISIT OFG
DON EGIDIO VIGA?? THE SEVENTH SUCCESSION OF DON BOSCO TODAY JANUARY 7, 1989
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In this house in the years 1959 - 2005 lived Henryk Vogler writer, poet, co-founder of the literary publishing house, the Old Theatre and the J Slowacki theatre. A prisoner in concentration camps
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J.N. Von Dessin dwelt on this site from 1756 to 1761 whose book collection became by his bequest the first public library in South Africa
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A Slovenian Croat died in this house on V.24, 1851 Stanko Vraz Croatian Poet. On the 80th anniversary of his birth, this memorial plaque was erected by Brac Hry Zmaja in 1910
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N REMEMBRANCE OF WAR VOLUNTEERS OF LAND, SEA AND AIR FALLEN ON ALL BATTLE FRONTS WHERE THEY HAPPENED FOR THE HONOR OF ITALY THE CITY OF SYRACUSE FIERAVE MEMORE POSE AG-ACMLXXXI
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Water Meeting Bridge. Re-built by the St Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council and opened by His Worship The Mayor of St Pancras, Councillor T R Morris, JP on 22nd November 1961.
Alderman Harold P. Bastie - Chairman Highways Committee
C. S. Bainbridge MPGB, FRICS, MIMunL.- Borough Engineer & Surveyor
L. G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd - Engineers
James Crosby & Sons Ltd - Contractors
R. C. E. Austin, LLM - Town Clerk
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Winston Churchill lay in state here from the Twenty-sevenh of January until his burial at Bladon on the Thirtieth of January Nineteen hundred and Sixty five
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King Charles I The king Charles Stuart was tried for high treason on this spot by the High Court of Justice established by the Commons of England for that purpose. Saturday 20th, Monday 22nd, Tuesday 23rd and Saturday 27th January 1649. The King was convicted of treason and sentenced to death on Saturday 27th January and executed in front of the Banqueting House, Whitehall Place at two o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday 30th January 1649.
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here rested from May 17 until Interment at Windsor May 20 1910 Edward VII King of Great Britain and Ireland & of the British Dominions beyond the seas: Emperor of India
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His Majesty King George the Fifth lay in state here from the twenty-third of January until his Burial at Windsor on the twenty-eighth of January nineteen hundred & thirty-six
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In this hall Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England - Speaker of the House of Commons - Author of Utopia was condemned to death 1 July 1535
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Queen Elizabeth on May 4th 1977 here replied to addresses presented by both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee
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Queen Elizabeth II here replied to addresses presented by both Houses of Parliament on 22nd June 1965 commemorating the meeting of the parliament of 1265 to which Simon de Montfort Earl of Leicester caused to be summoned in the name of King Henry III not only Prelates Lay Magnates and Knights of the Shire but also representatives of cities and boroughs
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Her Majesty Queen Mary lay in state here from the twenty-ninth of March until her Burial at Windsor on the thirty-first of March nineteen hundred & fifty-three
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Near this spot, at the Kings Bench at the South end of the Hall, took place the trial of Sir William Wallace the Scottish Patriot on January 23rd August 1305
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Occasionally whales and seals are seen in the Thames. Since 1986 Common Seals have been spotted as far up as Richmond. A Lesser Rorqual Whale has been seen as well as a Bottle-Nosed Dolphin which was stranded at East India Dock. Such incidents have offered exciting distractions for the people of London over many centuries.
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Several incidents of whales in the Thames were recorded by John Evelyn, Deptford's famous 17th century diarist. In 1658 he noted that "a large whale was taken betwixt my land abutting on the Thames and Greenwich, which drew an in the concourse to sea it, by water, coach and on foote. It appeared first below Greenwich at low water, for at high water it would have destroyed all the boats.
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After a long conflict it was killed with a harping yron, struck in the head, out of which spouted blood and water by two tunnels and after a horrid groan it ran quite on shore and died."
Again in 1699 Evelyn wrote "After an extraordinary storm there came up the Thames a whale fifty-six feet long".
In 1842 the capture of a young fin whale about 20 feet long provided quite an attraction. It was killed off Deptford Pier one Sunday by a number of watermen and its two ton body was displayed at the Bull and Butcher public house on the corner of Old King Street nearby. A printer in Flagon Row, Deptford quickly printed up some bills to advertise this "Extraordinary and Surprising Novelty" for sight-seers.
In 1965 there was great excitement when a school of about 20 whales was sighted off Woolwich pier. Billy Smart's Circus tried to catch one and enlisted the support of skin-divers, a gigantic fishing net and a rubber dingy {stet} to inflate under the unfortunate captive. They planned to take the whale to a temporary pool on Clapham Common then to a permanent aquarium at Windsor.
All was frustrated when a policeman pointed out that anything caught in the Thames becomes property of the Queen and under the Whaling Industry Act you cannot catch a whale in British waters. The whale catchers were last seen edging the whales out of the river, hoping to catch one in the open sea.
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South London and Maudsley Trust Xavier Hilts White was treated here April/June 1985 head injury survivor artist and Bethlem Gallery volunteer SlaM 2018
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George Edward Wileman, known as "Newcastle George". Born 3rd December 1919. Died 18th July 2000. Rose Wileman. Born 23rd December 1921. Died 19th May 1980. "One life, one love."
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This building was provided through the generosity of Sir Howell J Williams D.L., J.P. a vice-president of the Royal Northern Hospital who represented Islington as one of its members on the London County Council for nearly thirty years. June 1931
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This tablet is in memory of Sir Hugh Willoughby, Stephen Borough, William Borough, Sir Martin Frobisher and other navigators who, in the latter half of the sixteenth century, set sail from this reach of the river Thames near Ratcliff Cross to explore the northern seas. Erected by the London County Council 1922
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IN HONOUR OF WOODROW WILSON BORN IN STAUNTON, STATE OF VIRGINIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 28 DECEM323 1886 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR FRIEND OF THE FRINGE DEFENDER OF FREEDOM APOSTLE OF PEACE
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In this house during the last days of 1944, Wincenty Witos, three-time Prime Minister of Poland and activist of the PSL 'Piast' party, was hiding. He was given shelter in his own apartment No. 4 by engineer Bolesław Skapski. Wincenty Witos's stay in Kraków was connected with the plan to transport him to London. The secretive actions related to Witos's stay in the house in Wierchosławice were organized by Bolesław Skapski, Zygmunt Władysław Skapski, and members of the Home Army (AK).
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Lieutenant Charles Campbell Wood R.A.F. of Bloemfontein, South Africa, dived from this spot into the Thames at midnight 27 Dec 1919 and saved a womans life. He died from the injuries received during the rescue.
I have no information about Cheslav Yakubovich. Please contact me if you do.
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Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Department of Society and Youth.
In eternal memory of Cheslav Yakubovich of blessed memory 1920 - 1997 Head of the Kharkiv Community. Passed away on the 28th of Adar I, 5757 (7.3.97). On behalf of the youth delegations From the Ministry of Education and Culture in Israel.
May his memory be blessed.
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Greater London Council "We can all be refugees. Sometimes it only takes a day, Sometimes it only takes a handshake, Or a paper that is signed. We all came from refugees. Nobody simply just appeared, Nobody's here without a struggle, And why should we live in fear of the weather or the troubles? We all came here from somewhere" from We Refugees by Benjamin Zephaniah
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Captain Igor Ziganto 1943-2015 Initiator of the construction of Icican port, establishment of the fisheries society and many activities in the development of maritime. His heart has been and remained there all his life. A man from the sea, a man of his land
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Offer your soul to God, wisdom to people, talent to art, glory to Poland. Prof. Wiktor Zin 1925 - 2007 A researcher of the history of Krakow, architecture, conservator. A promoter of knowledge about our country and its beauty
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In this building from 1850-1852 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University studied Ignacy Łukasiewicz. Pharmacist, chemist, inventor, pioneer of the global oil industry, contributed to oil geology.
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Valletta and the European Parliament celebrate together 50 years of Peace and Prosperity amongst the Peoples of Europe. United in diversity
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In this house lived John Adams, first American Minister to Great Britain, May 1785 to March 1788, afterwards Second President of the United States. From here his daughter Abigail was married to Colonel William Stephens Smith, First Secretary of the Legation and an officer in the Revolution Army on Washington's staff. John Adams and Abigail his wife, through character and personality, did much to create understanding between the two English-speaking countries. In their memory this tablet is placed by the Colonial Dames of America, 1933.
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IN THIS PLACE ON 18 AUGUST 1837 IN FRONT OF THE PEOPLE OF SYRACUSE OF WHICH HE WAS THE TRIBUNE. AFTER HAVING WATCHED THE EXECUTION
OF THE DEATH SENTENCE OF HIS SON CARMELO HE WAS SHOT BY THE BOR BONICA TYRANNY OF THE NATIONAL RESORT. LAV MARIO ADORNO
PATRIOT AND MARTYR THE CITY REMEMBERS HIM AS A SYMBOL OF THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IN 150 OF THE UNITY OF ITALY
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HERE LIVED BERTIE ALBRECHT HEROINE OF THE RESISTANCE COMPANION OF LIBERATION ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE COMBAT MOVEMENT (M.L.N.) EXECUTED IN FRESNES ON MAY 29, 1943 TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
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In memory of Sinaia-Zygmunt Aleksandrowicz 1877 Kraków - 1946 Tel Aviv. A Polish Jew, member of Kraków's city council, and a known philanthropist, Aleksandrowicz founded a handicraft bursary for Jewish orphans. During the interwar period, this building housed the bursary and a Jewish and Zionist educational institution for orphans, where they acquired professional skills. The plaque was erected in October 1998 by his family.
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In loving memory of MNESam Alexander M.C. born Hammersmith 1982, died Afghanistan 2011 one of the bravest of the brave who died for you still whispers in your ear: Now, you be brave too!
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To commemorate the services of Henry Burt, J. P. who was the originator of the proposal to purchase the Palace and Park for the people. His courage, assiduity, and strenuous efforts were rewarded and on the 18th of May, 1901, the Park was opened to the public. His subsequent services and splendid financial help should here be recorded and his name held in remembrance by all who appreciate this great public possession.
By order of the Trustees, 1921.