Epitaph News

 
Epitaph: Teacher shared love of dance
Glens Falls Post-Star
Editor's Note: Every life has a story. In this column we pay tribute to people who have died recently. Pat Jones tapped her way into the lives of her students. The former South Glens Falls dance teacher died of pneumonia Feb. 9. She was 85.


 
NBA@2: A (Memphis) Grizzly Epitaph
HoopsWorld
By Bill Ingram Coming into the 2011-12 NBA season, few teams faced the soaring expectations that the Memphis Grizzlies faced. Sure, the Chicago Bulls, Oklahoma City Thunder, Miami HEAT and Los Angeles Lakers were expected to contend, ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Spike Milligan's epitaph 'I told you I was ill' voted UK's favourite
Telegraph.co.uk
Comedian Spike Milligan's infamous epitaph “I told you I was ill” has been named the nation's favourite, according to new research. The Goon Show creator, who died in 2002 aged 83, received nearly two thirds of the vote in the new survey.
Famous Last Words: Nation Votes For Spike Milligan's 'I Told You I Was Ill'Huffington Post UK
'I told you I was ill' named Britain's favourite epitaphAol Money

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'Women of Spoon River' featuring Lee Meriwether in Gloucester
Milford Daily News
Published in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters' “Spoon River Anthology” is a collection of epitaph poems describing the lives of the inhabitants of the fictional small town of Spoon River, Ill. Lee Meriwether was the understudy for “Spoon River Anthology” on ...
Gloucester Stage gala features three Miss AmericasGloucester Daily Times

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Foreign Policy (blog)
David Ignatius' epitaph for Pakistan
Foreign Policy (blog)
Longtime grasshoppers know I am a big fan of the commentary of David Ignatius. So, no surprise, I think he is right in his comments on how Pakistan has blown it over the last decade: Pakistan is losing the best chance in its history to gain political ...

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Washington Times
Why the Facebook IPO failed
Washington Times
Putting the epitaph on a company that just went public would be totally premature, especially in this case. Mark Zuckerberg is a bright young man who took an idea and became a billionaire. Yet when Facebook dropped from its $38 IPO price to $32, ...

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Rest in peace King, Premier will come to your grave
The Hindu
Denied a pen and paper, the exiled and imprisoned Bahadur Shah Zafar had used a burnt stick to write his epitaph on the walls of the garage in which he gave vent to his loneliness in death — “Padhne faatehaa koi aaye kyon, koi chaar phool chadhane ...