The outward normalcy, combined with scouting traditions like flag ceremonies and merit badges, made it easy to nearly forget the razor wire crowning fences around nearby buildings.
A replica World Cup trophy is held aloft, along with a football replete with a barbed-wire crown.
His work has taken a variety of forms: from Sleeper which was a performance in a bear suit at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, to a replica of Brian Haw's war protest shown at Tate Britain, to Race, Class, Sex which are sensual and beautiful paintings of racehorses, and Ecce Homo, a pale figure of Christ wearing a barbed-wire crown which stood on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar square in 1999.
To make this simple wired crown you can pick enough flowers to circle your entire head or just the sides and front.
A giant wire beehive crowns the United Kingdom's booth near Belarus' towering "Wheel of Life".
Held in place by a gossamer grid of columns and wires, and crowned with a central mast, the structure has more in common with the world of sails and rigging in the nearby harbour than the weighty domain of buildings on land – a feeling that might be explained by the preoccupation of its designer, Renzo Piano.
Before that time, the control of marionettes seems to have been by a stout wire to the crown of the head, with subsidiary strings to the hands and feet; even more primitive methods of control may still be observed in certain traditional folk theatres.
This is the date that Homeland, the drama threatening to trump The Wire as the crowning show of this television "golden age", returns with a second series.
All hail the golden age of television, in which complex series like The Sopranos and The Wire have been crowned (by some) as the new novels, and the proliferation of DVRs and instant streaming services means we can watch whatever we want, whenever we want.
The bed has "a metal headpiece of wire extensions forming a crown of rays that ends in small metal balls, the entire structure being supported by a series of superimposed metal circles".
