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The reason they have dropped so far is a planned parade to commemorate two IRA men who blew themselves up transporting a bomb into the town almost 40 years ago.

Fifty years later the Irish Republic will commemorate the rebellion with equal national enthusiasm but with most of its population more concerned with the huge debts bestowed upon the current generation than the imperative of the "dead generations" urging it on to take back the north of Ireland and fulfil its historic mission towards unity.

Directly over the river from Govan, on the north bank, the restored Clyde-built tall ship Glenlee is hosting an arts event to commemorate 100 years since the loss of another ship built here, the Lusitania, torpedoed and sunk in 1915, leaving 1,198 dead.

The other climbs in Sheffield on the route are named after the villages they skirt: Côte de Midhopestones, which has gradients of between 9% and 15%; Côte de Bradfield, which includes a 20% stretch; and Côte d'Oughtibridge, known locally as 'Jawbone Hill' because (according to VeloViewer) the actual jawbones of a whale once spanned the road to commemorate the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

The Google Trekker project is the result of a collaboration between Linblad Expeditions and National Geographic to commemorate the centenary of Shackleton's extraordinary expedition.

When Europe's leaders gather at a Flanders field next Thursday to commemorate the mass slaughter of a generation of young European men in the first world war, they will want to avoid another battle, particularly one between Britain and Germany.

Obama is due to speak at Nike's headquarters in Portland later on Friday, where he will be given a one-of-a-kind pair of red, white and blue "Air Force One" sneakers [trainers] to commemorate the visit.

We'd also like to hear how you commemorate the anniversary – and if you are doing anything special to mark the centenary.

It has ostensibly been organised to commemorate the anniversary of the introduction of internment without trial in 1971 as well as highlighting the case of republican dissident prisoners currently held in jails here and abroad.

In Bénouville, however, his memory lives on; as well as the plaques and a large brass bust of Howard, the museum has been built on Avenue du Major Howard, where on Friday the few veterans still able to make the pilgrimage, along with the families and relatives of those who cannot, will return to Pegasus Bridge to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy landings.

A friendly against Hungary was arranged to commemorate the occasion, featuring several of the players who had made the Elche meeting so memorable.