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After a private lunch with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on Tuesday at Buckingham Palace, he will officiate in Normandy at observances of the 40th anniversary of Dday, including a wreath-laying ceremony at Omaha Beach. At week's end he will attend the annual economic summit meeting in London of seven of the world's major industrial powers (the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan...
...their founding, write John Kieran and Arthur Daley in The Story of the Olympic Games, the Olympics provided "the great peaceful events of civilization." Yet eventually, as Greece gave way to Rome, "they lost the spirit of the older days. Winners were no longer contented with a simple olive wreath as a prize. They sought gifts and money. [Heartened yet?] The games, instead of being patriotic and religious festivals, became carnivals, routs and circuses." Halted by the Roman Emperor Theodosius in A.D. 393, they did not resume until 1896, in which hiatus the world spun reasonably well without them...
While the statue was cheered with a torchlight parade for the 250th anniversary of the College, and the College's Memorial Society used to place a wreath at its base every November '26 the occasion of its 100th birthday may pass with little notice...
Mitterrand flew first to Atlanta to place a wreath on the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. and meet with his widow. He charmed Mayor Andrew Young by claiming that when he read about the Deep South as a youth, Louis Armstrong's version of Georgia on My Mind kept running through his head...
...Like an earlier West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, who visited Israel in 1973, Kohl went first to the Yad Vashem memorial, Israel's monument to the victims of the Holocaust. As a girls' choir sang - and a cantor offered a prayer "for the dead, Kohl laid a wreath beside the eternal flame. At a dinner that evening, Shamir told his guest, "We are not prisoners of the past. We remember it out of belief in a better future...