If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

The regulations require the inscription of each individual ( male or female, adult or child ) on a separate card ( fiche ).

Each adult is held personally responsible for assuring his inscription and obtaining an identification card which must be shown on demand.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

A runic inscription on a fibula found at Bad Ems reflects Christian pious sentiment ( and is also explicitly marked with a Christian cross ), reading god fura dih deofile ᛭ (" God for / before you, Theophilus!

* 1864 – The U. S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

The inscription on Aeschylus's gravestone makes no mention of his theatrical renown, commemorating only his military achievements:

In Athens, Paul visits an altar with an inscription dedicated to an unknown god, so when he gives his speech on the Areopagos, he proclaims to worship that same unknown god whom he identifies as the Christian God.

Pope Martin V protested in vain against the inscription on the sarcophagus: " John the former pope ".

The Black Madonna of Tindari, with the inscription NIGRA SUM SED FORMOSA.

Madonna as Sedes Sapientiae, middle Italy 1199, poplarwood, original colours, inscription: Anno Domini 1199, in the month of January.

The inscription on the coins is in Medieval Greek, and the English translation of the inscription is: " Madonna, please help Sermon, the duke ".

He went down to the river and found a native stone that he smoothed, then he carved this inscription: “ Mrs. S Chambers, Sep 3rd 1845 .” It remains one of the few Oregon Trail gravestones in existence.

In 1950, the last paper copy of the joke is sealed under a monument bearing the inscription " To the Unknown Joke ".

Marcello Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).

Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).

The Tonyukuk inscription, a monument situated

Memorial to gay and lesbian victims of National Socialism | Memorial " to the gay and lesbian victims of National Socialism " in Cologne: The inscription on the left side of the monument ( to the viewer's right from the angle depicted ) reads " Totgeschlagen – Totgeschwiegen " (" Struck Dead – Hushed Up ").

An inscription in Japanese on the front of the monument reads, ( Soul Consoling Tower ).

Fellows could not read the Lycian inscription, except for one line identifying a person of illegible name, to whom the monument was erected, termed the son of Arppakhu in Lycian, equivalent to Greek Harpagos.

* Near Wamsutter, Wyoming, on the Continental Divide along old U. S. 30, a monument was erected in 1938 to Henry B. Joy, the first president of the LHA, with an inscription describing Joy as one " who saw realized the dream of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

An inscription reads: " Upper Canada has dedicated this monument to the memory of the late Major-General Isaac Brock, K. B.

A monument to the men lost in the disaster bearing this inscription stands in the cemetery in Caister and there is a pub called the " Never Turn Back " that is named after the incident.

A monument had been placed in Jedwabne in the 1960s with the inscription: “ Site of the Suffering of the Jewish Population.

The inscription on the monument is in English and reads " Dedicated to the people of the Corridor by the veterans of the 101st Airborne Division, in grateful appreciation of their courage, compassion and friendship ".

The inscription on the monument is in English and reads " Dedicated to the people of the Corridor by the veterans of the 101st Airborne Division, in grateful appreciation of their courage, compassion and friendship ".

An inscription on the monument lists the twenty-six Swiss officers who died on 10 August and 2 – 3 September 1792, and records that approximately 760 Swiss Guardsmen were killed on those days.

The inscription on the monument to the first Emperor of Russia near the St. Michael's Castle reads in Russian " To the Great-Grandfather from the Great-Grandson ".

A Latin inscription on the monument identifies him simply as " Father of twelve children and thirteen books "; a second inscription, in English, gives a brief chronicle of his life and ends by stating that " His laste wordes thy kingdome come, thye will be done.

In June 1992, a monument to Chagall was erected on his native Pokrovskaja street and a memorial inscription placed on the wall of his house.

This impressive concrete faced monument featured a fine bronze letters, plaque and related inscription summarising the site's history from 1907 – 57 and was originally located at the North end of the aerodrome, was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 2002 then relocated and restored in a new position just east of the River Wey on the museum site to make way for the new Mercedes-Benz World complex which opened in 2006.

The monument contains an inscription, part of which reads:

A carved granite monument — a book with an inscription to Jim Fixx from the people of Northeast Scotland — now stands in Hardwick Memorial Park in Hardwick, Vermont.

Above it was erected in 1677 by Col. Robert Fortescue a mural monument with a biographical inscription in Latin.

His original gravestone with its Latin inscription has disappeared ; but in 1843 a new monument was erected over the spot, called Lusamgärtchen ( Lusam garden ), today sheltered by the two major churches of the city.

* In 1890, a group of Seattle pioneers led by Arthur Armstrong Denny set up a monument over his grave, with the inscription " SEATTLE Chief of the Suqampsh and Allied Tribes, Died June 7, 1866.

The area was previously open plain: the Donner party passed through on its way to California in 1846 and a pioneer cemetery marker in Hastings bears an inscription taken from Tamsen Donner's journal: " The country between the Blue and the Platte is beautiful beyond compare.

He is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California, where the inscription on his gravestone is designed to resemble the Goodson-Todman / Mark Goodson Productions logo.

Its official seal bore the inscription " Fiat Lux "— let there be light — the same slogan later adopted by the University of California.

The gold badge was capped with the image of a grizzly bear and bore an inscription that proclaimed Dr. W. F. Carver as “ Champion Rifle Shot of the World .” Following his success in California, Carver went on tour giving exhibitions of shooting prowess, which included endurance contests as well as target competitions.