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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 .
A monument of Dżok the dog in Kraków captured in 2006. Despite the initial lack of favour of the city authorities, many organizations (including the Kraków Society for the Care of Animals and nationwide media based in Kraków), well-known people (Zbigniew Wodecki, Jerzy Połomski, Krzysztof Piasecki [], Krzysztof Cugowski) and many inhabitants of Kraków contributed to the creation of the ...
Epitaph: The Dog of the Decade [5] Uga V ("Uga IV's Magillicuddy II", 1990–99) – Won one Peach Bowl ( 1998 ). He was named in honor of Dan Magill , longtime Georgia tennis coach and Sports Information Director, and in honor of Magillicuddy I, who served as interim mascot for one game after Uga IV's death.
In antiquity, Greek and Latin epitaphs for animals, either real or in jocular fiction, constitute a traditional Hellenistic poetic theme. Epigrams in the seventh book of the Greek Anthology commemorate a dolphin, a cicada, a partridge, a swallow, a jay, an ant, a grasshopper, a rabbit, a horse, and, most famously, a Maltese toy-dog. [2]
Epitaph on the base of the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι-(epi-) 'at, over' and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb') [1] [2] is a short text honoring a deceased person. Strictly speaking, it refers to text that is ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John W. Thompson joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 1.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he will nominate Mehmet Oz, a former Pennsylvania Senate candidate and TV personality, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "He is an ...
Men in the Off Hours is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcaeus, Alcman, Catullus, Hesiod, Sappho and others). [1] The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems. [2]