When the park was proclaimed, land zoning regulations allowed existing mining prospecting rights to continue.
It helps show that the widely proclaimed "land rush" to the Arctic, aimed at oil and gas most of all, is a myth.
When Austria-Hungary was defeated in World War I, the Romanians of Transylvania in late 1918 proclaimed the land united with Romania.
In 1965, as other colonies were gaining independence under black African leaders, Southern Rhodesia's colonial Prime Minister, Ian Smith, unilaterally declared independence from Britain, on behalf of the white minority (eventually proclaiming the land the republic of Rhodesia).
Mr. Mandela is an all-but-impossible act to follow, a man so widely idolized here that one writer recently proposed that the nation stop renaming street after street and just proclaim itself "Mandela-land".
That was what she wanted to say — not to confess but to proclaim to all the land.
Most fascinating are the covers, abundant obituaries and other notices: Mae West weighs whether to release "It Ain't No Sin" without a title; Mexico has a ban on "pornographic" Elvis Presley movies; a banner headline on the 1969 moon landing proclaims the "Greatest Show Off Earth"; an autumnal Bette Davis advertises her availability for work.
The Brandenburg Gate, now open and delivered from a no-man's land, proclaims what the resolve of Europe and North America can accomplish.
When a visitor to the Jurassic Coast is greeted by a sign proclaiming it "the land of the dinosaurs", the imagination is firmly plonked on the path the municipal tourist office has marked out with arrows.
"I want 20,000 Syrians to come, Syrian families to our Venezuelan homeland to share this land of peace, this land of Christ, and of Bolívar, to work with us and to contribute to … the development of this magic land," proclaimed Maduro.
