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commemorate

verb as in honor, observe occasion

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Plenty of other renaming ideas have been floated, including changing the name of the Eastern Cape seaside town of Port Alfred, which commemorates Queen Victoria's second son.

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Both models resembled the famed Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which was commissioned by the French emperor Napoleon in the early 19th century to commemorate fallen soldiers during his military campaigns.

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You would think that the commissioner would commemorate the moment in some way.

Another site near borough hall now commemorates the first worldwide broadcasts by a local radio station in the 1920s and “the earliest transmissions of electronic television images.”

Separately, a wall of plaques on Shark Island in Namibia commemorates German soldiers.

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