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Plaques in various styles of Japanese script mounted at the entrance to Gyogan-ji temple, Kyoto Japan
DANVILLE VA: DAN RIVER MILLS: Once upon a time, a long time ago, factory workers lived very close to the factory. So close, in fact, they could be called to work by the ringing of the factory bell or whistle.
Edinburgh continues to be a city were the details are beyond fascinating and warrants infinite gazing.
Bronze relief plaque
Etruscan (?)
6th c. BCE
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
Gift of Drs. Arnold-Peter C. and Yvonne S. Weiss
2002.114.2
Calles de Gerona Cataluña / Spain
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M.S.C. Mmemelland Memel.
Senamiestis, Klaipėda County, Lithuania
Memel dispute, Memel also called Klaipėda, post-World War I dispute regarding sovereignty over the former German Prussian territory of Memelland. Its seizure by Lithuania was eventually approved by the great powers.
Before World War I, Memelland, an area on the Baltic Sea located to the north of the Neman (Memel) River, belonged to Prussia. A large portion of its population, particularly outside the port city of Memel, however, was Lithuanian; and after the war the newly formed state of Lithuania requested that the Allied Powers at the Paris Peace Conference grant it possession of the Memel territory (March 24, 1919). The Allied Powers did detach Memelland from Germany (Versailles Treaty; Article 99); but rather than annex the region to Lithuania, whose political situation was then unstable, they assumed direct control over the area, appointed a French administration to rule it, and only in the fall of 1922 created a special commission to review the status of Memelland. When that commission displayed sympathy for a plan, supported by German and Polish interest groups, to transform Memelland into a free state, Lithuanian inhabitants of the region formed a Committee for the Salvation of Lithuania Minor, gained the support of numerous volunteers from Lithuania proper, and on Jan. 9, 1923, announced at Silutė (Heydekrug) that they were taking over the government of Memelland in order to unite the region, as an autonomous unit, with Lithuania. By January 15 the Lithuanian forces had gained control over the entire district, including the city of Memel. The Allied Powers sent formal notes to Lithuania protesting against this action, but their Ambassadors’ Conference decided on February 16 to place Memelland under Lithuanian control. The subsequent negotiations concerning the nature of the union and control of the port continued inconclusively until December; and only after the matter was referred to the League of Nations did Lithuania reach an accord with Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan (the member states of the Ambassadors’ Conference) and sign the Memel Statute, which officially made Memelland an autonomous region within Lithuania, outlined the governmental structure of the territory, and also established an administrative body for the port of Memel, renamed Klaipėda.
The Memel Statute remained in effect until March 23, 1939, when Lithuania was forced to accept a German ultimatum demanding the return of Memelland. At the close of World War II, it was returned to Lithuania, which by then had become part of the U.S.S.R.
"Limestone plate"
Forêt domaniale d'Aitone (Evisa - Corse du sud)
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Plaques on the Piermont pier commemorating the nearby WWII embarkation post of Camp Shanks. During the war the pier was used to load troop ships.
Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda was built by the monks and nuns of the Nippon Myohoji and enshrines sacred relics of Lord Buddha presented from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Berlin. It was the first to be built in the western hemisphere.
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I've always had the plaque above but only in recent years have I discovered Marian spirituality, a la Saint Louis De Montfort. This gives a new depth and scope to the original sentiments on the plaque.
From a Fifties Pontiac on display at the Blacktop Nationals in Wichita during the summer of 2015. . .
Panneau indicateur de chemin de grande communication.
Matériaux: Fonte de fer : moulé, fondu.
La plaque était anciennement peinte de couleur bleue.
Située sur la commune de Saint-Yzans-de-Médoc en Gironde.
Voir également: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaque_de_cocher
Lyttleton Gaol, situated on Oxford Street, could house a maximum of 300 prisoners; such as murderers, lunatics, debtors and thieves. Seven men were hanged inside the walls between 1868 – 1918. There were even 29 cells for female inmates. At the time it was the largest jail in the country and it did take prisoners from other parts of New Zealand.
It was closed and demolished in 1922 when Paparua Prison opened. Only 3 cells remain along with a over-bearing prison wall. During its life time, Sunnyside Mental Hospital opened which took over the care of the mentally ill prisoners and Addington Prison dealt with the overflow. Today the old gaol houses a garden, a memorial clock for Dr. Upham and Lyttelton Main School. Standing inside, you feel the depressing shadow of the place but yet, you can view the harbour in all its glory…its hard to imagine a gaol in such a place.