On Saturday, Iraq's majority Shiite population will commemorate the death of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, a revered religious figure buried in Kadhimiya in northern Baghdad.
During the next three years the Michigan State museum will bring out taxidermied specimens of vanished populations to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," and the 2014 centennial of the death of the last passenger pigeon.
In 1999 Louis Paschoud, Peter Holberton, and Ally Cane launched YouDraw, a project that sought to commemorate the population of Earth hitting 6 billion by gathering 500,000 drawings of human figures, collated from contributions posted to the project's website and assembled into an installation showing the scale of the human population.
In the First World War Keswick lost many of its young men: the war memorial near Fitz Park commemorates 117 names, from a population at the time of less than 4,500.
Clearly, Metastasio's fictional Titus was more important than the historical one, who in A.D. 70 brutally suppressed the Jewish rebellion in Judea by besieging and sacking Jerusalem, massacring much of its population and destroying the Second Temple: events commemorated by a Jewish fast day, as it happens, next Sunday.
Today, Israeli Arabs marked their 25th Land Day in Israel, which commemorates their emergence from a relatively docile population into a political force during a large protest against land expropriations in 1976.
In the 1860's, as more African-Americans moved from rural to urban areas, ads for black photographers and printers (and for some white photographers) began to appear in black newspapers, which obviously served a sizable population that read the paper and could pay to be commemorated.
It was a mission in line with The National Day of Mourning and Unthanksgiving, two holidays focused on commemorating the struggles of this country's native population.
Bolivar (rhymes with Oliver), population about 2,500, still has a Pioneer Oil Museum, open by appointment, to commemorate its boom town past.
The Bronx's large German population in the 1890s was only one reason that a fountain commemorating one of Germany's greatest poets was placed there (Streetscapes: "Sturm und Drang Over a Memorial to Heinrich Heine," May 27).
