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"Their name liveth for evermore" is a phrase from the Jewish book of Ecclesiasticus or Sirach, chapter 44, verse 14, widely inscribed on war memorials since the First World War. [ 1 ] In full, verse 14 reads "Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore."
Name Time frame Image Occupation 1 Muhammad: c. 570–632 Spiritual & Political leader 2 Isaac Newton: 1643–1727 Scientist 3 Jesus: 4 BC–33 AD Spiritual leader 4 Gautama Buddha: 563–483 BC Spiritual leader 5 Confucius: 551–479 BC Philosopher 6 Paul the Apostle: 5–67 AD Christian apostle 7 Cai Lun: 50–121 AD Inventor of paper 8 ...
Ishikawa Goemon – Japan, bandit hero famous for robbing the rich and giving to the poor, though some accounts suggest he may have kept much of his ill-gotten gains. Before being boiled in oil, he saved his infant son at the cost of his own life. Nathan Hale – United States, a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary ...
Luna, for example, is a name from Roman mythology and is the number 10 ranked name for baby girls. Others, like Eleuthia, have never cracked the top 1,000 list of boys ’ or girl s’ names in ...
The name of the unlikely heroine in Dickens’s Great Expectations, Estella is a pretty choice with Latin origin, and (yep, you guessed it) the meaning is ‘star.' 28. Aster
The name of the unlikely heroine in Dickens’s Great Expectations, Estella is a pretty choice with Latin origin, and (yep, you guessed it) the meaning is ‘star.' 28. Aster
Al-Hallaj (858–922, ashes scattered in the Tigris, imprisoned and executed after requesting "O Muslims, save me from God" and declaring "I am the Truth") Ali Hujwiri (1009–1072/77, buried in Lahore , Pakistan , author of Kashf ul Mahjoob , spread Sufism throughout the Indian Subcontinent ) [ 5 ]
In 1876 Rassundari's autobiography Amar Jiban (My Life) was published. [8] The book is in two parts, the first of which, consisting of sixteen shorter compositions narrated her autobiography. The second part, published in 1906, contained fifteen shorter compositions, each preceded by a dedicatory poem. [9]