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The Alamo Cenotaph, also known as The Spirit of Sacrifice, is a monument in San Antonio, Texas, United States, commemorating the Battle of the Alamo of the Texas Revolution, which was fought at the adjacent Alamo Mission. The monument was erected in celebration of the centenary of the battle, and bears the names of those known to have fought ...
The band recorded several songs based on the event, and inspired by the state of Texas generally, including one original composition based on Ozzy Osbourne's infamous visit to the Alamo cenotaph in 1982. Remembers the Alamo was the band's last album to feature guitarist Jim Murphy and fiddler Haydn Vitera.
When the Alamo Cenotaph was created by Pompeo Coppini in 1939, the 187 defender names on the monument came from the research of Amelia Williams, [20] considered the leading Alamo authority of her day. [21] Her work is still used by some as a benchmark, although skepticism has been voiced.
Sharon Osbourne once shut down an opportunity for her husband, Ozzy, and admits she regrets her decision.. Ozzy, 76, was offered an audition for "Pirates of the Caribbean," and Sharon, 72, argued ...
May 2—AUSTIN — Texas Land Commissioner Buckingham has announced that the General Land Office has now obtained ownership of the historic Alamo Cenotaph. This landmark decision was voted on in ...
Forty years ago, on Jan. 20, 1982, 17-year-old metalhead Mark Neal threw a dead bat onstage at an Ozzy Osbourne concert at Des Moines’s Veterans Memorial Auditorium.
The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, a pivotal event of the Texas Revolution in which American folk heroes James Bowie and Davy Crockett were killed. [4]
The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory is a 1987 American Western television film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, directed by Burt Kennedy and written by Clyde Ware and Norman McLeod Morrill, based on the 1958 non-fiction book 13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo by Lon Tinkle.