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  1. My son and I had a walk round #Rottingdean and Saltdean this afternoon. Rottingdean is so historically fascinating that he quite happily put up with me photographing everything, including two plaques that I’d never come across before. I spoke to the lovely owners, wanting to know if they knew who Anona Winn was and they’d researched the entire history of their house. She’d heard that ‘anoraky’ people bag plaques and I murmured that it was too hot for my anorak today. #plaques

  2. #Trump #DonaldTrump #President #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #fascist #America #America #Presidency #WhiteHouse #Plaques #Lies #News #BBC #BBCNews
    I seriously think he’s suffering from a mental illness. Whoever becomes the next president will need more than a plaque to document Trump’s lies. A concrete plinth 300 metres high built by a team of construction engineers would be more appropriate. Using 6pt Helvetica to make sure they can fit everything on.

    bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn7k8evp6k

  3. You can get a high contrast mark wen laser marking anodised aluminium making it perfect for labels and plaques.
    #LaserMarking #AnodisedAluminium #Labels #Plaques #ThinkLaser

  4. Lockerbie Memorial Garden in Lockerbie, Scotland

    A remembrance of the local Scottish victims of the Lockerbie Bombing Incident in the now-restored neighborhood.#memorials #plaques #memorialsinternal #plaquesinternal #section-Atlas
    Lockerbie Memorial Garden

  5. Memorial for Victims of the KZ-Außenlager Stoffeln in Düsseldorf, Germany

    In the middle of a wonderful recreational park, this memorial reminds us of the dark past of this place.#plaques #memorials #holocaust #section-Atlas
    Memorial for Victims of the KZ-Außenlager Stoffeln

  6. Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle in Kiischpelt, Luxembourg

    This modest monument marks the only point of intersection between longitude and latitude in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.#geographicmarkers #plaques #sundials #section-Atlas
    Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle

  7. Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle in Kiischpelt, Luxembourg

    This modest monument marks the only point of intersection between longitude and latitude in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.#geographicmarkers #plaques #sundials #section-Atlas
    Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle

  8. Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle in Kiischpelt, Luxembourg

    This modest monument marks the only point of intersection between longitude and latitude in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.#geographicmarkers #plaques #sundials #section-Atlas
    Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle

  9. Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle in Kiischpelt, Luxembourg

    This modest monument marks the only point of intersection between longitude and latitude in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.#geographicmarkers #plaques #sundials #section-Atlas
    Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle

  10. Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle in Kiischpelt, Luxembourg

    This modest monument marks the only point of intersection between longitude and latitude in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.#geographicmarkers #plaques #sundials #section-Atlas
    Kiischpelt’s Solar Circle

  11. Saquon Barkley Plaque in Coplay, Pennsylvania

    A tribute to one of Coplay’s best athletes and beloved sons.#sports #plaques #section-Atlas
    Saquon Barkley Plaque

  12. Cordova Fisherman’s Memorial in Cordova, Alaska

    A small maritime town's own way of memorializing the local lives spent at sea.#plaques #oceans #sea #monuments #fishing #section-Atlas
    Cordova Fisherman’s Memorial

  13. Thomas Briggs’ Plaque in London, England

    This blue plaque memorializes the first person to be murdered on a railway train.#history #trains #murder #plaques #section-Atlas
    Thomas Briggs’ Plaque

  14. Why I Understand Hoarders

    To be clear, I am not a hoarder. I have downsized more often than I can count and I regularly donate items to the thrift store. At the same time, I have some things that are very hard to dispose of.

    This week, my focus is on the artwork created by my late husband. He was very talented at drawing and painting and he occupied a lot of his work time and personal time being creative. Some of his works are excellent, some are okay, and some are . . . well, not great. That’s what the creative life is like. Variable.

    At some point, I forwarded some of his best works to family members and friends so that they all could have a creative remembrance of him. But even after that, I still have a lot of drawings, paintings, and notes to make decisions about.

    There are some excellent pieces, some okay pieces, and some not-so-great pieces that all occupy a space in my apartment, and I don’t know what to do with it all. The not-knowing is the hard part. I emailed my children to see if they wanted any of it, and they declined. So, the choices are left to me but they are not easy choices.

    When I mentioned my dilemma to a friend she shared her own question about what to do with her late husband’s many award plaques that were of value to him, and appreciated by those who loved him, but otherwise not destined for display.

    How do you dispose of artwork, or certificates of excellence, or plaques for awards, when their recipient has passed on? They all belong in the category of too-extraneous-to keep-but-too-good-to-trash, and they cannot easily be thrown in a dumpster.

    As such, today I chose a compromise. I met with a photographer who specializes in artwork to have some of my husband’s illustrations digitized. Many decades ago my husband created two books for children on watercolour paper, but they were never published. Since then they have languished in a portfolio which has been relocated multiple times and now sits under my guest-room bed.

    When I showed the pages to the photographer we discussed how best to deal with the stains from moisture, the leaching from adjacent pages, and warping. We were talking about many decades of neglect. Ultimately, though, he thought that he and his computer could do them justice. I will be interested to see what he comes up with.

    The question I am still left with now, though, is what I should do with the originals.  I don’t know if I am capable of putting them in the garbage containers in my apartment building. I don’t even know if I could put them in the paper recycling bin. Does anyone know? Perhaps they are just trash. Either way, I think I’ll simply ask the photographer to do it. I might even pay him to do it. That’s a good hoarder’s solution, don’t you think?

    #artwork #awards #certificates #creativeWorks #disposal #family #hoarding #memorabilia #memories #Photography #plaques #trash

  15. Frank Gilbert Crichlow Plaque in London, England

    Celebrating the man behind the Mangrove, a restaurant that became a crucial hub for Black activism in London.#activism #civilrights #restaurants #blackhistory #history #plaques #section-Atlas
    Frank Gilbert Crichlow Plaque

  16. James Joyce Plaque in Slovenia

    The only monument in Slovenia celebrating the famous writer, who stayed there for one night entirely by mistake.#authors #memorials #plaques #literature #section-Atlas
    James Joyce Plaque

  17. Halabat al Tawba in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Outside a historic fort stands a replica of the “tree of repentance” where criminals were publicly punished.#replicas #plaques #section-Atlas
    Halabat al Tawba

  18. The inspirational #plaques are hard to make heads or tails of, but that's the point. You get one & muse on it. "Sunshine is the axle of love." "Thank the pine needles for their footsteps." Things like that.

    For a price, you can make your own. You're blindfolded & taken into a room filled with #piles of brass slips with nouns & verbs stamped on them. You pick out four & they'll be put on a piece of polished maplewood, with conjunctions & prepositions interspersed. Voila!

    #wss366 #microfiction

  19. The inspirational #plaques are hard to make heads or tails of, but that's the point. You get one & muse on it. "Sunshine is the axle of love." "Thank the pine needles for their footsteps." Things like that.

    For a price, you can make your own. You're blindfolded & taken into a room filled with #piles of brass slips with nouns & verbs stamped on them. You pick out four & they'll be put on a piece of polished maplewood, with conjunctions & prepositions interspersed. Voila!

    #wss366 #microfiction

  20. The inspirational #plaques are hard to make heads or tails of, but that's the point. You get one & muse on it. "Sunshine is the axle of love." "Thank the pine needles for their footsteps." Things like that.

    For a price, you can make your own. You're blindfolded & taken into a room filled with #piles of brass slips with nouns & verbs stamped on them. You pick out four & they'll be put on a piece of polished maplewood, with conjunctions & prepositions interspersed. Voila!

    #wss366 #microfiction

  21. The inspirational #plaques are hard to make heads or tails of, but that's the point. You get one & muse on it. "Sunshine is the axle of love." "Thank the pine needles for their footsteps." Things like that.

    For a price, you can make your own. You're blindfolded & taken into a room filled with #piles of brass slips with nouns & verbs stamped on them. You pick out four & they'll be put on a piece of polished maplewood, with conjunctions & prepositions interspersed. Voila!

    #wss366 #microfiction

  22. The inspirational #plaques are hard to make heads or tails of, but that's the point. You get one & muse on it. "Sunshine is the axle of love." "Thank the pine needles for their footsteps." Things like that.

    For a price, you can make your own. You're blindfolded & taken into a room filled with #piles of brass slips with nouns & verbs stamped on them. You pick out four & they'll be put on a piece of polished maplewood, with conjunctions & prepositions interspersed. Voila!

    #wss366 #microfiction

  23. My motto exactly, although I should practice more of the third item.

    (names redacted for privacy)

    #dedications #motto #plaques

  24. My motto exactly, although I should practice more of the third item.

    (names redacted for privacy)

    #dedications #motto #plaques

  25. My motto exactly, although I should practice more of the third item.

    (names redacted for privacy)

  26. My motto exactly, although I should practice more of the third item.

    (names redacted for privacy)

    #dedications #motto #plaques

  27. My motto exactly, although I should practice more of the third item.

    (names redacted for privacy)

    #dedications #motto #plaques

  28. The Ghost Plaque of the Keyhole House in Gothenburg, Sweden

    This mysterious sign claims an American astronomer haunts the building—but is it true?#plaques #houses #haunted #ghosts #architecturaloddities #section-Atlas
    The Ghost Plaque of the Keyhole House

  29. Morse Seaside Laboratory Site in Fujisawa, Japan

    The oft-overlooked site of one of the first marine biological research facilities in the world.#archaeology #plaques #islands #biology #marine #laboratories #section-Atlas
    Morse Seaside Laboratory Site

  30. The things you miss when you're SpinCycling at the mall...

    #Biking #StJacobs #WaterlooRegion

    (wasn't some #Fedizen looking to document #Bench #Plaques? This is at

    43.53035° N, 80.54607° W

    Please pass it on...)

    Edit: typos in AltText

  31. The things you miss when you're SpinCycling at the mall...

    #Biking #StJacobs #WaterlooRegion

    (wasn't some #Fedizen looking to document #Bench #Plaques? This is at

    43.53035° N, 80.54607° W

    Please pass it on...)

    Edit: typos in AltText

  32. The things you miss when you're SpinCycling at the mall...

    #Biking #StJacobs #WaterlooRegion

    (wasn't some #Fedizen looking to document #Bench #Plaques? This is at

    43.53035° N, 80.54607° W

    Please pass it on...)

    Edit: typos in AltText

  33. The things you miss when you're SpinCycling at the mall...

    #Biking #StJacobs #WaterlooRegion

    (wasn't some #Fedizen looking to document #Bench #Plaques? This is at

    43.53035° N, 80.54607° W

    Please pass it on...)

    Edit: typos in AltText

  34. The things you miss when you're SpinCycling at the mall...

    #Biking #StJacobs #WaterlooRegion

    (wasn't some #Fedizen looking to document #Bench #Plaques? This is at

    43.53035° N, 80.54607° W

    Please pass it on...)

    Edit: typos in AltText

  35. Liszt Memorial in Geneva, Switzerland

    A memorial to a 19th-century composer who was known for driving crowds wild.#music #musichistory #composers #plaques #memorials #section-Atlas
    Liszt Memorial

  36. Køge Huskors Memorial in Køge, Denmark

    This marker commemorates a long-lasting historical haunting and demonic possession that led to one of Denmark's worst witch trials.#memorials #plaques #devils #haunted #witches #witchcraft #section-Atlas
    Køge Huskors Memorial