| Albee,
Eleazer |
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Eleazer Albee
Born in Rockingham, Vt.
Died in Stamstead [Quebec] Aug. 28, 1864
He went into Voluntary Banishment from his
Beloved Native Country, during the Reigning
Terror in the Third Year of the
Misrule of Abraham the First |
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| Bligh,
William |
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Sacred
To The Memory Of
William Bligh, Esquire F.R.S.
Vice Admiral Of The Blue,
The Celebrated Navigator
Who First Transplanted The Breadfruit Tree
From Otahette To The West Indies,
Bravely fought The Battles Of His Country
And Died Beloved, Respected, And Lamented
On The 7th Day Of December, 1817
Aged 64
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For more information:
William Bligh |
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Recommended Reading:
The
Bounty Trilogy by Charles Nordoff |
| Bong,
Richard Ira |
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America's Ace of Aces |
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For more information:
Top Gun |
| Boulanger,
General Georges and Marguerite de Bonnemains |
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Marguerite de Bonnemains
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Georges Boulanger
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Marguerite, See you soon |
Could I really live two and a half months without you |
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General Boulanger used the discontent in France following
the Franco-Prussian War to support a near attempt to overthrow the government.
When his mistress, Marguerite Bonnemains, died in 1891, Boulanger personally
chose her epitaph. Two and one half months later, he returned to
her grave and shot himself in the head. |
| Burns,
Robert |
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To the Memory of
Robert Burns the Ayrshire Bard
who was born at Doonside
On the 29th of January 1759,
and died at Dumbries
On the 22nd of July 1796
O Rabbie Burns, the Man, the Brither
And art thou goune--and gone for ever;
And has thou crossed that unknown river,
Life's dreary bound?
Like thee, where shall we find anither
The world around?
Go to your sculptur'd tombs, ye Great,
In all the tinsel trash of state;
But by thy honest turf I'll wait,
Thou man of worth.
And weep the sweetest poet's fate,
E'er lived on earth. |
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For more information:
Robert
Burns: 1759-1796 |
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Recommended reading:
Robert
Burns (Scottish Writers Series) |
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Recommended listening:
The
Songs of Robert Burns, Vol 1 and 2 |
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| Butler,
Maurice James |
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Sacred To The Memory Of
Captain Maurice James Butler,
Royal Irish Rifles.
Accidentally Shot Dead By His
Batman On The Fourth Day Of
April, 1882
'Well Done, Thou Good And
Faithful Servant'
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Recommended reading:
Tales
From the Mess by Miles Noonan |
| Castlereagh,
Viscount Robert Stewart |
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Posterity will ne'er survey
a nobler grave than this.
Her lie the bones of Castlereagh
Stop, traveler, and piss. |
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Castlereagh's epitaph is said to have been written by Lord
Byron. For more information:
Congress
of Vienna Personalities |
| Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor |
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Stop, Christian passer-by:
Stop, child of God,
And read, with gentle breast. Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he--
O, lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C.--
That he who many a year with toil of breath
Found death in life, may here find life in death:
Mercy for praise--to be forgiven for fame--
He ask'd, and hoped through Christ. Do thou the same. |
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For more information:
S.
T. Coleridge Homepage |
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Recommended reading:
The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, illustrated
by Gustave Dore |
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