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Immortalized

Biological immortality, where death occurs from injury or disease rather than deterioration


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2nd Battalion 6th Marines

The exploits of the 2/6 were immortalized in the WWII classic novel, "Battle Cry", by Leon Uris.

Acres of Books

In its long history Acres of Books has served clientele such as Jack Vance, Upton Sinclair, Stan Freberg, Gary Owens, James Hilton, Greg Bear, Tim Powers, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Paul Schrader, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Easton, Eli Wallach, Diane Keaton, and, most notably, Ray Bradbury, who immortalized the bookstore in an essay entitled "I Sing the Bookstore Eclectic".

Adrian Diel

With the Balduinsteiner Kinderbirne, now lost, Diel also immortalized that Diez belongs to the neighborhoods of Balduinstein.

Alexey Voyevoda

His triumph over legendary arm-wrestler John Brzenk, was immortalized in the feature length documentary, "Pulling John", directed by Sevan Matossian.

Azalea

In Chinese culture, the azalea is known as "thinking of home bush" (sixiang shu) and is immortalized in the poetry of Du Fu and is used to rich effect in contemporary stories such as by Taiwanese author Pai, Hsien-Yung.

Balaklava

The British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson immortalized this battle in verse.

Bill Shoemaker

He was immortalized as part of a series of portraits by Andy Warhol in the mid-1970s.

Bobby Thomson

The moment was immortalized by Giants play-by-play announcer Russ Hodges's excited multiple repetitions: "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!"

Charlotte Wolter

Her repertory included Medea, Sappho, Lady Macbeth, Mary Stuart, Preciosa, Phèdre, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Jane Eyre and Messalina, in which character she was immortalized by the painter Hans Makart.

Circle Jerks

That same year, the group was one of several California punk bands to be immortalized in the Penelope Spheeris documentary The Decline of Western Civilization; live versions of five songs from Group Sex appear on the movie's soundtrack.

Donaukanal

The banks of the Donaukanal were immortalized by Heinz Conrads in his song "A schräge Wiesn" ("A Sloping Lawn"; later covered by Willi Resetarits and Rainhard Fendrich), where the hero, Franz, chooses not to go on holiday.

Dungarvon River

The river is noted for Atlantic salmon fishing, and is immortalized by the legend of the Dungarvon Whooper and in the Brennen Siding Trilogy by Canadian writer Herb Curtis.

DZMB

His story was recently immortalized in the TV anthology Magpakailanman.

Earl Sande

Sande's fame was such that he was immortalized in a number of poems by Damon Runyon.

Fred Bear

Bear has been immortalized in the song "Fred Bear" from the album Spirit of the Wild by hard rock musician Ted Nugent, who was Bear's friend.

Gold Hill, Colorado

The Mines was immortalized in verse by poet Eugene Field, who stayed at the hotel while working as a newspaper man in Denver.

Haldighati Pass

The battle between Rana Pratap and Akbar’s army under the leadership of Man Singh has been immortalized by a great classic poem by Shyam Narayan Pandey.

Hassel Island, U.S. Virgin Islands

The Royal Mail Inn, a small hotel located on Hassel Island, may have been the hotel immortalized in Herman Wouk's novel Don't Stop the Carnival.

Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster

Hubert Skidmore, a West Virginian, immortalized the tragic events from the common man's perspective in his book Hawk's Nest which followed the fictional accounts of several tunnel workers and their families.

Highly Illogical

The collection includes "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins", which tells the story of J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit, and has been immortalized by being included on various novelty compilations over the years.

Hubcap

Hubcaps were immortalized in the Art Deco styling near the top of one rung of setbacks (ornamental frieze) incorporates ncorporates a band of hubcaps on the Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan.

Jeremy Taylor

Here he became private chaplain to and benefited from the hospitality of Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery, whose mansion, Golden Grove, is immortalized in the title of Taylor's still popular manual of devotion, and whose first wife was a constant friend of Taylor.

Juliette Gordon Low

Ogden Nash, 10 years old in 1912, grew up to be a well-known poet; he immortalized "Mrs. Low's House" in one of his poems.

Litfiba

Litfiba's biggest tour was immortalized on a VHS, whose profits went to the victims of earthquakes in Umbria and Marche regions, and on a double live CD both titled Croce e delizia.

Longwood, Bronx

At this time, crime reached such a level that the 41st Precinct Station House at 1086 Simpson Street became known by the police as "Fort Apache", as was later immortalized in a 1981 movie named for it.

Malandragem

Those who practice malandragem (o malandro) act in the manner of the popular Brazilian adage, immortalized in a catch phrase of former Brazilian soccer player Gérson de Oliveira Nunes in a cigarette TV commercial (hence the name it was given: Lei do Gérson, or Gérson's law): “I like to get an advantage in everything.”

María Santos Corrales

María Santos Corrales (November 1, 1797 – 1881) was the inspiration of Peru's famous poet and patriot soldier, Mariano Melgar; she is forever immortalized as "Silvia" in his poetry.

Mark Crispin

During that time, he wrote the infamous RFC 748, the only document specifically marked in the RFC index with note date of issue; and a series of Telnet implementations for the Incompatible Timesharing System, WAITS, and TOPS-20 operating systems whose escape behavior was playfully immortalized by Guy Steele in the April 1984 Communications of the ACM as The Telnet Song.

Moulin de la Galette

Artists, such as Renoir, van Gogh, and Pissarro have immortalized Le Moulin de la Galette; likely the most notable was Renoir's festive painting, Bal du moulin de la Galette.

Mount Nonotuck

The Connecticut River Oxbow (now a lake), immortalized by the famous landscape painter Thomas Cole just before natural flooding and erosion separated it from the Connecticut River, is visible from the ruins.

National Sporting Goods Association

Such iconic names as Evinrude, Colt, Remington, Riddell, du Pont, Shakespeare, Coleman, Cramer, Head, Brunswick, Dassler, Easton and Knight are among those whose accomplishments have been immortalized with their Hall of Fame inductions.

New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema

Most recently, NEFIAC hosted prominent Cuban novelist Edmundo Desnoes who is wordly known for his novel Memories of Underdevelopment immortalized by Cuban director Gutiérrez Alea in 1966.

Nytorget

The area has been immortalized in numerous Swedish plays and novels, most notably Per Anders Fogelström's Mina drömmars stad (The City of My Dreams).

Santa Margherita di Belice

The author immortalized the palace in his novel, The Leopard, under the name Donnafugata.

Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey

She was immortalized as Zenobia in Disraeli's novel Endymion.

Shackamaxon

The treaty has not been authenticated, but the signing was immortalized in several works of art (in particular, Benjamin West's paintings) and was mentioned by the French author Voltaire.

SS Commodore

The event was immortalized when passenger and author Stephen Crane, who was traveling as a war correspondent for the Bacheller-Johnson syndicate, wrote the classic short story "The Open Boat" about his experience.

Sylvester Joe

On September 10, 1822, five days into their journey, Cormack immortalized Joe by naming Mount Sylvester in his honour.

The Acharnians

Cleonymus: A supporter of Cleon, he is immortalized in later plays as the coward who threw away his shield at the Battle of Delium in 424 BCE (soon after The Acharnians was produced).

Tomás de Suría

The two astronomers, Ciriaco Zevallos and José Espinosa y Tello, are immortalized in the places names for the Vancouver Island town of Zeballos and the nearby Espinoza Inlet.

Tunica Resorts, Mississippi

Businesses other than the casinos include a small number of motels, convenience stores and fast food restaurants, along with an outlet-style shopping center and the community's oldest business, the Hollywood Cafe — a blues club immortalized in the popular song "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn in 1991.

Tunis Craven

The English poet Henry Newbolt immortalized Commander Tunis' sacrifice in Craven

Wainscott, New York

The hamlet was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and from which most of the early settlers of East Hampton came.

Watertown, Tennessee

In 1997, songwriter Tom T. Hall immortalized the city in a song titled appropriately, "Watertown, Tennessee".

WRGB

Its newscasts were anchored for over 40 years by the venerable Ernie Tetrault (who was immortalized in the 1992 film Sneakers directed by one-time WRGB intern Phil Alden Robinson).

Zem Zem

Zamzama, a cannon outside Lahore Museum, immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim


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