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In an otherwise nondescript office tower at 42 East 49th Street, a brass wall plaque with a very familiar four-tree logo has appeared. It means one thing: The (new) Four Seasons opens this week.
For the past 20 years, it has hung on the wall ... the plaque to its rightful home. Alan Bourne, 66, from Drayton, near Abingdon, said: “Many years ago I needed a piece of brass for a job ...
About 100 brass plaques have been stolen from a remembrance garden in Shropshire. The 6in (15cm) by 4in (10cm) plaques were on a wall at Wellington Cemetery. They bore personalised messages from ...
The eatery has long touted the historic event, even affixing a brass plaque to the wall to commemorate the spot where Camelot was born, and dozens of couples have since gotten engaged in what ...
She’d quiet the children and point to a brass plaque on the wall, just inside the door, engraved with her name and “2010,” the year she completed her year-long quest to do a shot of every ...
In St Faith's chapel in Westminster Abbey is a small brass wall plaque for Charles Pettit McIlvaine, bishop of Ohio, USA. The inscription reads: In this chapel during Easter week of 1873 by desire of ...
On the corner of 48th Street and 3rd Avenue is the “world’s largest chessboard” affixed to the wall of a building stretching three floors. The brass plaques below the chessboard give only a ...
It has been mounted on the wall of the Grade II-listed church since the early 1700s, but a campaign has been running for the last two years calling for its removal. The brass plaque, mounted on ...
BANGKOK—It is a mystery that is captivating Thailand: Who stole a brass plaque commemorating the revolution that ended royal rule 85 years ago? As memorials go, it isn’t showy. The 12-inch ...