What is called the "laurel wreath", though actually olive, adorned the reverse of the cent in 1859; beginning in 1860, a reverse with an oak wreath and shield was placed on the cent.
We got what I called the candy-cane wreath in 1981, when I was five years old.
The first daughter, who is Jewish, laid a wreath and recited a prayer, called the Kaddish, before visiting the museum.
When the Queen laid a wreath at Amritsar in 1997, she called the massacre "distressing".
Some Advent wreaths include a fifth candle, which is called the Christ candle and is lit on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Slightly built at 65, and good-humored, with a wreath of salt-and-pepper stubble, he is sometimes called "the old man".
In 1982, Bruce Ruxton from the Victorian RSL called the police on members of the Gay Ex-Servicemen's Association as they sought to lay a wreath.
To the collection (called "Stephanus", wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century CE), a third by Diogenianus (2nd century), and much later a fourth, called the "Circle", by Agathias of Myrina.
Ross Martin, a local landscape designer who donates much of his time in this garden, is hard at work on what he calls the Nest, a giant woven wreath of linden and willow branches, about 20 feet in diameter, which lies in the shade of a big willow tree.
