Word: epitaph
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Then Mihailovich spoke his epitaph: "I wanted much, I started much, but the gale of the world carried away me and my work...
...darker hours of his life when he finally had to give up horseback riding because no horse could carry his weight. He painted and cast the horse's strenuous anatomy with freedom and exactness. Long before he died (at 48, after an appendectomy) he had his epitaph ready: "He Knew the Horse...
...quiet, rambling country house near Munich, 76-year-old Major General Professor Dr. Karl Ernst Nikolas Haushofer, Germany's apostle of geopolitics, last week took poison. His wife took poison also, then hanged herself. His epitaph had already been written - by his son, Albrecht, whom Old Haushofer had denounced to the Gestapo for taking part in the July '44 bomb plot against the Führer. Wrote Albrecht shortly before he was executed last year...
...monumentum requiris, circumspice-is the apt epitaph of England's great Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral, his architectural monument. The monument is not Wren's alone: within the high-domed, Italianate majesty of St. Paul's on London's Ludgate Hill lie British immortals Nelson, Wellington and Jellicoe. Transepts and chapels bulge with toga-ed statues to admirals of the fleet, generals of the line, with monuments to famous victories...
People in Town. Nobody knows how big Tombstone was in the early '80s, when silver mining was at its height. Some say 12,000. By 1940, the population was down to 800. The citizens mined a little, published the weekly Epitaph, lived mostly in the past, lolling against the boarded-up false fronts. A few were guides who showed visitors around the adobe Bird Cage Theater museum (tour: 25^), a combined variety house, saloon, gambling house and brothel, where Sheriff John H. Behan and friends used to sit on the right and Marshal Wyatt Earp (who wanted...