Pink candy-striped bags of sweets are stacked on a table at the University of Bedfordshire's students' union, alongside free pin badges, inscribed pens and balloons.
They are covered in names, each inscribed in letters 1.35 cm (0.53 inches) high.
Enormous shell middens can be found all over the world, wherever ancient migrants came across handy oyster and mussel beds.Archaeologists have found papyruses inscribed with parts of lost plays by Sophocles and Euripides in a Greco-Roman rubbish tip in Egypt.
Waiters in blue robes with gold trim delivered steaming pots of Turkish coffee and plates of grilled aubergine to wide-eyed smokers staring out of a window neatly inscribed, "Founded 1908".
The numbers on a clock have fallen away into a jumble, suggesting Gaza's dislocation from modern times, with stanzas of Palestine's national poet, Mahmoud Darwish, inscribed fuzzily at the edges.
Is it inscribed, as it were, in the American constitution, and thence in the national character?
In front is a wall, inscribed with the words of Virgil: "No day shall erase you from the memory of time".
Suffolk police have offered a temporary drug amnesty to anyone who surrenders the red or pink tablets of ecstasy, inscribed with a Superman-style "S" in their centre.
The words "Shiloh April 6, 1862 My life Preserver" are inscribed on the coin.
It is no coincidence, says Alawi, that the columns in the firing sights were inscribed with calligraphic poetry recounting Muhammad's journeys and associated sites of pilgrimage.
The family selected four lines from one of Sophie's poems to be inscribed on the back of the stone.
