The group carried black and white photos of deportees and a banner that read "We commemorate the victims of Armenian genocide: some wounds do not heal with time".
Sponsored by the TIPA project (for Toward International Peace Through the Arts), the reading commemorates the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth.
Williams and Turner, who are 20 and 21 respectively, even have matching tattoos that read "07.08.09" that commemorate the day they met on Aug. 7, 2009.
It reads: Bamford commemorated him in a poem written in 1855, and Grindon wrote in 1882 that Horsefield was "one of the most celebrated of the old Lancashire operative botanists".
He stopped to read a plaque commemorating the appearance there of Lincoln, shortly before the 1860 campaign.
The lawns bordered not only the rivers but the woods around Egg Rock, where canoe paddlers can read a plaque commemorating the native people of Concord, which, according to an 1835 history of the town, had been purchased from the Indians for "wampumpeage, hatchets, hoes, knives, cotton cloth and shirts".
The inscription read: A brief ceremony commemorated the event, which was witnessed by about 10,000 people.
Later, U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin, R-Oklahoma City, who was the state's lieutenant governor at the time of the bombing, read a congressional resolution commemorating the anniversary.
When water began to pour through the elaborate system that year, throngs gathered in City Hall Park to celebrate, reading poems to commemorate the event, and singing anthems of lavish praise.
The assignment: produce and read an "occasional poem" to commemorate the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama.
As she read Bush's infamous speech commemorating the United Nations Day in Support of Victims of Torture with power and triumph, I was moved to tears by what our country had done under his regime and by our attempts to make sense of it.
