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 ".

We went into Mrs. Monmouth's library, which had low bookshelves all along the walls, and above them a Modigliani portrait, a Jackson Pollock twelve feet long, and a gorgeous Miro with a yellow background, that looked like an inscription from a Martian tomb.

Upon his tomb lies the following inscription:

Risdon also stated that the original tomb bore an inscription: " They fyrste that fyndes and bringes mee to my grave, The priorie of Plimstoke they shall have ", but no sign of this has ever been found.

Borgia was originally buried in a marble tomb beneath the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Viana with an inscription " Here lies in little earth one who was feared by all, who held peace and war in his hand.

Some examples of Cirth writings are the inscription on Balin's tomb in Moria and the inscriptions on the top of the title pages for The Lord of the Rings.

The Latin inscription on their tomb, " Regno consortes & urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis ", translates to " Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection ".

Siloam Inscription, lintel inscription, found over the doorway of a tomb, has been ascribed to his comptroller Shebna.

The labyrinth retains its connection with death and a triumphant return: at Hadrumentum in North Africa ( now Sousse ), a Roman family tomb has a fourfold labyrinth mosaic floor with a dying minotaur in the center and a mosaic inscription: " Enclosed here, he loses life " ( Kern 169 ; Kerényi fig. 31 ).

The Latin inscription on their tomb, Regno consortes et urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis ( affixed there by James VI of Scotland when he succeeded Elizabeth as King James I of England ) translates to " Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection ".

A plain tomb was erected in his honour at Brixellum, with the simple inscription Diis Manibus Marci Othonis.

The following inscription honoring Sixtus was placed on his tomb in the catacomb of Callixtus by Pope Damasus I:

The inscription on Gerbert's tomb reads in part Iste locus Silvestris membra sepulti venturo Domino conferet ad sonitum (" This place, at the advent of the Lord, will yield to the sound the last trumpet the buried members of Sylvester II ", mis-read as " will make a sound ") has given rise to the curious legend that his bones will rattle in that tomb just before the death of a Pope.

The tomb of Descartes ( middle, with detail of the inscription ), in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris

The tomb of Shah Jahan bears a calligraphic inscription that reads ; " He traveled from this world to the banquet-hall of Eternity on the night of the twenty-sixth of the month of Rajab, in the year 1076 Hijri.

Seven years later, on the anniversary of what would have been her 100th birthday, her husband placed an inscription on her tomb that read in part:

Many monuments were erected, and an inscription on his tomb door declares the king had " spent his life in fashioning the images of the gods ".

On the southern wall of the sanctuary is the tomb and epitaph he erected for himself and his wives, detailing in a lengthy Latin inscription his ancestry and accomplishments, including his role as peacemaker between the Christian nations of Europe and a curiously altered portion detailing his curbing of heresy.

Beit Lehi also contains the oldest known Hebrew writing of the word “ Jerusalem ” It's written as the inscription “ I am YHWH thy Lord.

It contains an inscription known as the " Ordinance of Caesar " that outlines the penalty of death for those who violate tombs or graves.

The gravestone of Urania of Worms, who died in 1275, contains the inscription " who sang piyyutim for the women with musical voice.

During this period, the Myazedi inscription, which contains identical inscriptions of a story in Pali, Pyu, Mon, and Burmese on the four sides was carved.

Beneath the library where Henry was last seen, Indiana and Elsa discover catacombs and the tomb of a knight of the First Crusade, which also contains a complete version of the inscription that Henry had used, this one revealing the location of the Grail.

In the round chamber, which is below the entrance to the shaft, there are three stone slabs, the middle one of which contains a partial inscription of Sura 2, verse 255, from the Qur ' an, the famous Ayatul Kursi, Verse of the Throne.

It contains the inscription by Austin Dusty Miller, " Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge.

A marble tablet from the 3rd c. BC found in Ialyssus contains an inscription about the regulations for visitors to the temple of Alectrona.

Her realm is a chaotic, constantly changing mass of colors and strange objects and shapes, and contains a sundial with the inscription " Tempus Frangit " (" time breaks ," a Latin pun on the phrase " Tempus Fugit ", " time flees ".

The Ochiltree County Courthouse contains the inscription on one side, " Dedicated to Justice for All Mankind.

In his home village, the public hall contains a memorial inscription to him.

A special commission appointed by the Szczecińsko-Kamińska Metropolitan Curia has deducted, on the basis of historical records and an inscription on the pillar, that the urn indeed contains the heart of Carl Loewe.

The latter inscription contains also the forms magisterles ( nom.

The monument contains an inscription, part of which reads:

Joining onto the arcade itself are, in succession, the crypt of the martyrs Calogerus and Parthenius and the double cubiculum of Severus, which contains a rhythmic inscription ( dated to no later than 304 ) in which a bishop of Rome ( at that time Marcellinus is first called pope and first openly professes belief in the final resurrection.

The first one on the right, decorated on the outside with paintings of funereal banquets and the miracle of the calling out of Cerasa's demons, on the inside contains paintings ( including a ceiling painting of a Gorgon's head ) and inhumation burials and has a surviving inscription reading " Marcus Clodius Hermes ", the name of its owner.

The second ( 1604 – 1619 ) and third coinages show a rose instead of the king's bust on the obverse, with the inscription, while the reverse contains a thistle surrounded by the inscription — May God guard these united ( kingdoms ).

The silver pennies of this reign bear the combined heads of the two monarchs facing right on the obverse with the inscription — William and Mary by the grace of God, while the reverse still contains the crowned " I " which now represented only the denomination, with the inscription — King and Queen of Great Britain France and Ireland.

To be rebutted or challenged, a notarial act must be subjected to a rescissory action called an improbation action ( inscription de faux ) to prove the act contains errors or has been maliciously altered, interlineated, edited, or falsified.

Although the valley contains both Nationalist and Republican graves, the tone of the monument is distinctly Nationalist and anti-Communist, containing the inscription "¡ Caídos por Dios y por España!

The Carmen Arvale is preserved in an inscription of AD 218 which contains records of the meetings of the Arval Brethren, but is in a more archaic stage of Old Latin, likely not fully understood any more at the time the inscription was made.