Like the AIDS quilt, a celebrated multiyear project to commemorate and document the AIDS pandemic, one quilt panel at a time, the site was forced into existence to commemorate people whose lives risked being forgotten, but also as a means of assembling in one place the random fragments of an atomized community and carrying its stories into the future.
Two years ago, a seven-year-old dog enthusiast Gideon started a blog to commemorate and document his dog-petting adventures.
"The party last night and the event this evening are being documented for possible future use to commemorate our 50th anniversary," Rea Hederman, the magazine's publisher, said in an email.
Now a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress, led by Representative J. C. Watts Jr., Republican of Oklahoma, is calling for a task force to study the documents and recommend how best to commemorate the black slaves, who were never recognized or rewarded for their role.
Thesmokinggun.com, a unit of Court TV, found an apt way to commemorate a particularly meaningful document from Martha Stewart's case.
A section told in the second person, about a journalist seeking to commemorate the tragedy years later, contends with the futility of documenting such tragedies at all.
Offices of the European Union Mission, the Council of Europe and UNICEF have also made available a number of public information documents, including a special logo, translation of the Convention, photographs and background information to commemorate this anniversary.
On Thursday, perhaps to commemorate the looming 50th anniversary of that 1966 report, the Vatican released a new document saying that Jews don't need Jesus to be saved something that's long been a sore spot between the religions.
The Diamond Sutra, one of the most famous documents recovered from Dunhuang, was commissioned in 868 A.D., "for free distribution," by a man named Wang Jie, who wanted to commemorate his parents.
A photographer wanted to commemorate the moment.
