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unusual facts about Epitaph



21st Century Schizoid Man

Before a live performance of the song on December 14, 1969 (as shown in the live album Epitaph), Fripp remarked that the song was dedicated to "an American political personality whom we all know and love dearly. His name is Spiro Agnew."

Al Giordino

In Trojan Odyssey Giordino reveals the epitaph he wishes inscribed on his tombstone: "It was a great party while it lasted. I trust it will continue elsewhere."

Cemetery

The Merry Cemetery in Săpânţa, Romania has extravagantly decorated grave markers with original epitaphs.

Charles Irving Thornton

His tombstone, located in Cumberland State Forest in Cumberland County, Virginia, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places as one of only two gravestones in the world, and the only one in the United States, known to exist with an epitaph by Charles Dickens.

Crantor

He is accordingly called by the poet Theaetetus, in an epitaph which he composed upon him, the friend of the Muses; and we are told, that his chief favourites among the poets were Homer and Euripides.

Dan Greenburg

Greenburg has had small acting roles in several films he's written, including Private Lessons, Private School, and I Could Never... He had ten speaking scenes in Doc, the Frank Perry remake of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, playing the role of John Clum, editor of the Tombstone Epitaph.

Domitius Marsus

He was the author of a collection of epigrams called Cicuta ("hemlock") for their bitter sarcasm, and of a beautiful epitaph on the death of Tibullus; of elegiac poems, probably of an erotic character; of an epic poem Amazonis; and of a prose work on wit (De urbanitate).

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Elisabeth died a year later, in 1558, in Ilmenau, apparently completely exhausted and with a "broken heart." Her children commissioned an epitaph with her portrait by the sculptor Sigmund Linger from Innsbruck, which was erected in 1566 in the St. Giles Chapel of the St. John's Church in Schleusingen.

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The title of the album is a reference to Billy Pilgrim's epitaph in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

Félix Faure

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was "Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée" (another wordplay in French; could mean both "he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey", or "he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown": the verb "pomper" in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper L'Aurore, wrote that "upon entering the void, he Faure must have felt at home".

George-Barthélemy Faribault

The epitaph written by the French Academy at the time the subject was first brought up and approved by William Pitt, was duly inscribed.

Greg Graffin

After a stint with major label Atlantic Records ended in the early 2000s, Bad Religion re-signed with Epitaph and Gurewitz rejoined.

Hirpini

Taurasia mentioned as a town only in the celebrated epitaph of Scipio Barbatus, left its name to the Taurasini Campi not far from Beneventum, and must therefore have been itself situated in that neighborhood.

Honey, I'm Homely!

Prior to recording Honey, I'm Homely!, DHC toured with bands such as Blink-182 and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and a host of Epitaph punk bands.

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole

Another Jesuit in the family was Henry Walpole (1558–1595), who wrote An Epitaph of the life and death of the most famous clerk and virtuous priest Edmund Campion.

Inscription of Abercius

De Rossi and Duchesne at once recognized in it phrases similar to those in the epitaph of Abercius.

Johannes Narssius

An epitaph of his was collected in Robert Monro, Monro his Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment.

John Dunstaple

He died on Christmas Eve 1453, as recorded in his epitaph, which was in the church of St Stephen Walbrook in London (until it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666).

John Maxwell Edmonds

This epitaph was inspired by an epigram of the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos to the fallen at the Battle of Thermopylae, and was later used (with a misquote) for the memorial for those who fell at the Battle of Kohima.

Josep Romaguera

Romaguera was born in Barcelona during the Catalan Revolt (Guerra dels Segadors) against Castile in 1642 and lived until 1723, according to the epitaph of him published in the manuscript Historia Eclesiástica del principado de Cataluña by the Mercedarian historian Pere Serra i Postius.

Knock on Any Door

A sequel of the film, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, was produced in 1960 and directed by Philip Leacock and featuring Shelley Winters, James Darren, among others.

Law school of Beirut

At the turn of the 20th century, archaeological excavations in the souq between the Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral and Saint George Cathedral of the Maronites unearthed a funerary stele etched with an epitaph to a man named Patricius, "whose career was consecrated for the study of law".

Lazarus of Aix

Some of his relics are preserved in the Abbey of St. Victor, Marseille, where his epitaph is also to be found, and others are kept in Autun Cathedral, which is dedicated to him.

Liu Peng

According to the Gravestone Epitaph of his son Liu Ji, he was a 20th generation descendant of Liu Bei.

Llanwrthwl

A commemorative stone, from the precincts of the extinct chapel of Llanwrthwl, was found at Maes Llanwrthwl (Llanwrthwl Field) with a Paulinus Adventvh | MAQVERIGH | FIUIVS.

Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo

The epitaph also recorded that the Princess died on Monday, 6 July 792, during the fifty-sixth year of the Daeheung era.

Nathaniel Rochester

His gravestone features a paraphrase of Christopher Wren's epitaph: "SI QUÆRIS MONUMENTUM, CIRCUMSPICE" ("If you seek his monument, look around yourself").

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

"Here Comes the Knight" is a pun on the Them song, "Here Comes the Night" and quotes from the epitaph on the gravestone of one of Van's favorite poets, W. B. Yeats.

Oliwa Cathedral

The interior also holds Rococo chapels of the Holy Cross and St John of Nepomuk, an ambo, tombstones, epitaphs, the Pomeranian Dukes tomb, the Kos family tomb, bishop’s crypt, antique chandeliers, canopies, and many other antiquities, including a feretory of great cultural value, showing Our Lady of Oliwa with an Infant Jesus.

Pat Conway

Among the episodes are "Gunslinger from Galeville" (the series premiere), "A Bullet for an Editor", "Guns of Silver", "Postmarked for Death", "The Epitaph", "Geronimo", "The Outcasts" (about a religious sect), "The Lady Gambler", "The Black Marshal from Deadwood", and "Doc Holliday in Durango".

Peter Melander Graf von Holzappel

The older literature says that he was born in 1585; this was based on an erroneous inscription in his epitaph in the church of Holzappel.

Rupam Islam

Combining his two loves — music and literature — Rupam wrote his first book of songs, Epitaph from AAhir Publication, one of the leading little magazines, which was released in 2006 and became one of the most sought-after books at the Kolkata Book Fair.

Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice

The album title is Latin for 'If you seek his monument, look around you', from the epitaph of Christopher Wren's tomb at St Paul's Cathedral.

The Final Epitaph Live

The Final Epitaph Live is the recording of Play Dead's final performance in Stevenage, England on December 22, 1985.

The Joykiller

The Joykiller were formed in 1995 by Jack Grisham and Ron Emory after the disbanding of their previous band T.S.O.L., they then went on to recruit Billy Persons (The Weirdos/Gun Club) on bass, Ronnie King on Keyboards, and Chris Lagerborg on drums.They recorded one album on Epitaph records "The Joykiller." Ron Emory left Late in 1996.

The Pirate Signal

Eventually labels began calling, as TVT, Atlantic, Warner Bros. Records, and Sony expressed interest, as well as major indies like Def Jux, Rhymesayers, Strange Famous, Black Clover and even Epitaph itself inquiring about the band.

The Upbeat

This stark freshman effort garnered them airplay across the country and a series of compilation offers from the likes of Epitaph/Hellcat Records, Moon Records, and SRH Presents: Supporting Radical Habits.

They Were Defeated

Her death coincides with the execution of the king's favourite, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, an alumnus of Cleveland's college, to whom she had been in the process of writing an epitaph.

Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele

Like van der Paele's panel, this work was created as an eventual epitaph for the donor's burial church, in this case for Nicolas Rolin's family chapel in Notre Dame-du-Chastel in Autun.

William Camden

Among Camden's other works are a Greek grammar, which remained a standard school textbook for many years; Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine (1605), a more popular English-language companion to Britannia, comprising a collection of themed historical essays; the official account of the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters; and a catalogue of the epitaphs at Westminster Abbey.


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