After the evaluation, the nomination document is then submitted for consideration by the World Heritage Committee and may or may not be inscribed at the annual World Heritage Committee meeting.

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On a large lonely wooden cross on top of a hill in Antarctica, overlooking a route taken to the South Pole, someone inscribed the words "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield".

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It's not known whether the pages he worked from were in Thomas Jefferson's hand or inscribed by a clerk.

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He added that the stadium's 27-tonne bell was being cast on Friday at London's Whitechapel Foundry - where 13.5-tonne Big Ben was cast in 1856 - and would be inscribed with a quote from The Tempest's Caliban: "Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises".

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