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 Younger Futhark inscription on the stone bears a commonly seen memorial dedication, but is followed by an encoded runic sequence that has been described as " mysterious ," and " an interesting magic formula which is known from all over the ancient Norse world.

On the exterior wall of the " Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades ", where Laennec wrote Mediate auscultation, near the entrance of the hospital in 149, Rue de Sèvres, there is a marble memorial tablet with an engraved portrait of Laennec and this inscription: " Dans cet hôpital Laennec découvrit l ' auscultation.

Within the front entrance to the City hall, there are several memorial placards related to the WW1 Battles and in particular, one has the inscription ' MONS WAS RECAPTURED BY THE CANADIAN CORPS ON THE 11th NOVEMBER 1918: AFTER FIFTY MONTHS OF GERMAN OCCUPATION, FREEDOM WAS RESTORED TO THE CITY: HERE WAS FIRED THE LAST SHOT OF THE GREAT WAR '.

Such Communion Tables often bear the inscription: " Do This in Remembrance of Me ", which they believe indicates Holy Communion as being a memorial rather than a sacrament.

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

The main feature of the memorial is a 15 ' black, granite obelisk that has the following inscription on it " May this hallowed ground honor the sacrifice of America's finest veterans, civilians, and their families-past, present, and future.

The courthouse grounds feature a towering Confederate soldier memorial, erected in the early 20th century by the United Daughters of the Confederacy ( UDC ), topped by a Confederate soldier facing northward, and bearing the following inscription honoring Confederate casualties of war: God holds the scales of justice ;< p > He will measure praise and blame ;< p > And the South will stand the verdict ,< p > And will stand it without shame .< p ></ br > Oh, home of tears, but let her bear < p > This blazoned to the end of time ;< p > No nation rose so white and fair ,< p > None fell so free of crime .< p >

In his honor, a bronze memorial was erected in the Louisana State Museum with the inscription: " To honor Norbert Rillieux, born at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 1806 and died at Paris, France, October 8, 1894.

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.

According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of Reiki to over 2000 people during his lifetime, and sixteen of these students continued their training to reach the Shinpiden level, a level equivalent to the Western third, or Master / Teacher, degree.

* There is a memorial tablet, with an inscription by Archbishop Benson in Truro Cathedral ;

A memorial at Tuamarina cemetery was erected in 1869 to commemorate the European casualties of the incident, with the names and the occupations listed on the inscription.

For example, the stone of Virring in Denmark had the inscription þur uiki þisi kuml, which translates into English as " May Thor hallow this memorial.

The first appearance of a tomb with a memorial inscription ( to Daphnis ) amid the idyllic settings of Arcadia appears in Virgil's Eclogues V 42 ff.

* Many houses rebuilt after World War II show a memorial plaque with the inscription " Destroyed 1943-...

In retaliation Isbul campaigned along the Aegean coasts of Thrace and Macedonia and captured the city of Philippi, where he set up a surviving memorial inscription set up in a local church.

Those events were described in a memorial inscription for the zera-tarkhan Onegavon who drowned in the Tisza river.

Another memorial inscription, for kopan Okorsis who drowned in the Dneper, testifies to military activities along the north-eastern border dating as early as 824.

Many sources ( Chatalski and Tarnovo inscriptions ) and memorial inscription are preserved, which testify for the reconstruction of Pliska, the building of a new palace with a large throne room and a temple of Tangra.

His memorial inscription reads:

A copy of the inscription on the original memorial, which perished in the Great Fire, has been placed above the site of the original vault.

The inscription on the memorial, in Polish, English and Welsh, reads: " In memory of the Polish soldiers and their families, for whom a return to a Free Poland was not given, who rest here and in other cemeteries in Wales ".

To this day the field is a square in Lisbon called Terreiro Salgado (" the salty ground "); on its corner stands a shame memorial with an inscription just below waist height, overlooked by no saints ' statues on niches-this disposition effectively converted the memorial into a popular pissoir.

An inscription on a stone built into the wall of a summer house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages.

There, in October or November, 1485, near the falls of Ielala, he left an inscription engraved on the stone which testifies of its passage and that of his men: " Aqui chegaram os navios do esclarecido rei D. João II de Portugal-Diogo Cão, Pero Anes, Pero da Costa.

The best-preserved Latin inscription surviving from the Greek East, the edict survives in many versions, on materials as varied as wood, papyrus, and stone.

Its king Chandrabhanu used it as a base to attack Sri Lanka in the 11th century, an event noted in a stone inscription in Nagapattinum in Tamil Nadu and in the Sri Lankan chronicles, Mahavamsa.

His grave was unmarked until 1966 when a stone was erected with the inscription Kurt Schwitters – Creator of Merz.

The stone inscription tells us that, the kirants probably ruled Nepal about 1000 years ago.

Egyptologists use the word for texts and representations inscribed in stone that have been scraped away, either completely or partially, often with a plaster filling being applied, and then a new inscription carved on top.

In Phrygia a number of funerary stone inscriptions use the term Chrestians, with one stone inscription using both terms together, reading: " Chrestians for Christians ".

In 1789 the stone was visited by King George III along with his queen and an inscription was added to the stone commemorate the visit.

The terms of this treaty, including the fixed borders between the two countries, are recorded in a bilingual inscription on a stone pillar outside the Jokhang temple in Lhasa.

On 11 November 1985, Blunden was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey The inscription on the stone was written by fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

The inscription on the stone is a quotation from the work of a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

An engraving on an eye stone of onyx with an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II

Their eighteenth-century maul with its 1827 inscription claiming that it was used by Wren for the foundation stone of St. Pauls, belonging to the Lodge and on display in the Freemasons ' Grand Museum, corroborates the story, which is debatable mainly because it would have been in the interests of the Lodge and the Craft to fabricate it.

The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow war poet, Wilfred Owen.

Soon after, they would find themselves before a stone portal, the ossuary entry, with the inscription Arrête!

In 1998, excavations discovered the " Arthur stone " which has added to Tintagel's Arthurian lore though historians do not believe the inscription refers to King Arthur himself.

The inscription can be read as ' Aelnat fecit hanc crucem pro anima sua ' ( Ælnat made this cross for good of his soul ) ( the back of the stone has the names of the four evangelists ): the name of this man is Saxon ( together with Alfwy mentioned in 1086 he is the only Anglo-Saxon recorded in connection with the area ).

Transcription, in the context of cuneiform, is the process in which an epigraphist makes a line art drawing to show the signs on a clay tablet or stone inscription in a graphic form suitable for modern publication.