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"Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Landseer dog , Boatswain, who had just died of rabies .
The Byron Society is given £230,000 to move the statue from a Park Lane traffic island to Hyde Park. ... The Byron Society was awarded more than £230,000 by the National Lottery towards the cost ...
Tradition suggests that there were once many more and, according to a 19th-century Duxbury resident, it was once possible to "jump from stone to stone from one side of the graveyard to the other." [ 9 ] With the disappearance of many stones, the existing markers are now sparsely scattered.
Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 people have served as President of the United States. [A] Of these, 40 have died. The state with the most presidential burial sites is Virginia with seven.
Name Death Occupation Final known burial place Images Notes Claudio Abbado: 2014 Conductor Reformierte Kirche Fex Crasta [], Sils im Engadin/Segl, Switzerland: Ten months after his death the urn containing his remains was buried in a cemetery belonging to a 15th-century church in Sils-Maria, a village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden where Abbado had a vacation home.
A man prays over a memorial created for the victims at Bourbon street days after a U.S. Army veteran drove his truck into the crowded French Quarter on New Year's Day in New Orleans, Louisiana, on ...
A woman was arrested on Thursday after she took down an American flag and placed it on the muddy ground at a California park, replacing it with a Mexican flag.. Kern County deputies responded to ...
Fairmount Cemetery is a 150-acre (0.61 km 2) rural cemetery in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey, in the neighborhood of Fairmount. [2] It opened in 1855, shortly after the Newark City Council banned burials in the central city due to fears that bodies spread yellow fever .