Significant Objection

I'm a big fan of BBC Radio's A History of the World In 100 Objects series, so I am supremely disappointed and irked that my attempt to join in the series' interactive Web feature invitation to "add your object" to a kind of crowd-curated collection has been rejected!

I was inspired in part by this video in which a guy explains the significance of an ordinary-looking bar of soap — it is of course the object's story (it was from the World Trade Center). Probably many listener submissions have...