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Quiz Monkey |
General |
Inscriptions |
Epitaphs |
People (other) |
Coins and Medals |
Places |
In Fiction |
Died in 1989, aged 81; buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery; inscription on his gravestone includes the words "That's All Folks ... Man of 1000 Voices" |
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Mel Blanc |
"Skegness is so bracing": epitaph (on grave in Jersey) to |
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Sir Billy Butlin |
"Workers of all lands unite": on the tomb of |
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Karl Marx |
Had an inscription in Irish Gaelic on his tombstone in Sussex, translating into English as "I told you I was ill" (died in 2002, aged 83) |
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Spike Milligan |
"Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman": epitaph to |
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Capt. Lawrence 'Titus' Oates |
"Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare, / To digg the dvst encloased heare. / Bleste be ye man [that] spares thes stones, / And cvrst be he [that] moves my bones.": found on the grave of |
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William Shakespeare |
Died in 1998; wording on gravestone mysteriously changed in 2021, from "The Best is Yet to Come / Beloved Husband and Father" to "Sleep Warm Poppa" |
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Frank Sinatra |
'Born January 27 1850 / Died April 15 1912 / Bequeathing to his countrymen the memory and example of a great heart / a brave life and a heroic death / "Be British"': on a memorial to |
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Edward J. Smith (Captain of the Titanic) |
"Home is the sailor, home from the sea / And the hunter home from the hill" (the last two lines of his
poem Requiem, which he wrote as his own epitaph)
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
"Reunitey in the heavenly–bode – Deep Joy!" (at Long Buckby, near his home town of Daventry, Northants – buried alongside his wife Frances, who predeceased him by 8 years) |
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'Professor' Stanley Unwin |
"Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" (Reader, if you seek [his] monument, look around [you]): epitaph (in his most famous work) to |
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Sir Christopher Wren |
"Cast a cold eye / On life, on death / Horseman, pass by!" (the closing lines of his poem Under Ben Bulben – written a few months before his death) |
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W. B. Yeats |
"Let not the deep swallow me up" appears on the medals of the
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) |
"Arbeit macht frei" (work makes free): on the gates of |
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Auschwitz, Dachau (concentration camps) |
"Out of the strong came forth sweetness" |
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Lyle's Golden Syrup (tin) |
"Defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer": above the entrance to |
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The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales (Old Bailey) |
"We came in peace for all mankind": on a plaque that was left |
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On the Moon |
"Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" (Reader, if you seek [his] monument, look around [you] – an epitaph to the architect |
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St. Paul's Cathedral |
Colossus: "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" |
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Statue of Liberty |
"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by / That here, obedient to their laws, we lie": on a burial
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Thermopylae |
"They buried him among the kings because he had done good toward God and toward his house" |
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Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (Westminster Abbey) |
"Remember Winston Churchill": on a slab of marble on the floor of |
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Westminster Abbey |
"If you can meet with trimph and disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same" (lines from Kipling's If): in the tunnel, at the players' entrance to (world–famous sporting venue) |
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Wimbledon (Centre Court) |
Sign around Paddington Bear's neck, when he was found by the Browns at Paddington Station |
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