Although Trumpeldor's name is properly spelt with tet ( ט ), it was here written with taf ( ת ) so as to produce the acronym.

Joseph Trumpeldor's memorial in Tel Hai

Though proudly Jewish, Trumpeldor's upbringing was more Russian than traditionally Jewish.

According to Aviel Roshwald, despite the " widespread " belief that these famous last words are apocryphal, " the irony is that the authenticity of the official story about Trumpeldor's final utterance is actually well-attested and not disputed by historians.

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

Catholic Christians too speak of heaven as unattainable by even heroic human effort and having been " opened " by the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Later, it became the abode of Hel, a goddess daughter of Loki, and the afterlife for her subjects, those who did not die a heroic or notable death.

Jerome devoted a very brief notice to Damasus in his De Viris Illustribus, written after Damasus ' death: " he had a fine talent for making verses and published many brief works in heroic metre.

His character Chris Ritter had a heroic death.

On his death he was lauded in the press, but was thereafter largely forgotten, while the heroic reputation of his rival Scott was sustained for many decades.

Later, it expanded to include those chosen by the gods, the righteous, and the heroic, where they would remain after death, to live a blessed and happy life, and indulging in whatever employment they had enjoyed in life.

However, Blessed Pope John Paul II, when deciding to canonize him, overruled the commission he had established ( which agreed with the earlier assessment of heroic charity ), wishing to make the point that the systematic hatred of ( whole categories of ) humanity propagated by the Nazi regime was in itself inherently an act of hatred of religious ( Christian ) faith, meaning Father Kolbe's death equated to martyrdom.

After his death, he was frequently the subject of heroic tall tales and works of fiction.

Though subtitled " The Life of Lou Gehrig ", the film is less a sports biography than an homage to a heroic and widely loved sports figure whose tragic and premature death touched the entire nation.

Finally, after a lament that he could not meet a heroic death in battle, he dies.

In that account, he describes with detail how Travis was heroic in his final moments, turning straight into the Mexican soldiers and facing his death with honor.

Schill's heroic death at Stralsund compelled him to return to Germany and, under the disguise of Aßmann, teacher of languages, be reached Berlin in December.

In Soviet times, before and after his death, the complexities in Gorky's life and outlook were reduced to an iconic image ( echoed in heroic pictures and statues dotting the countryside ): Gorky as a great Soviet writer who emerged from the common people, a loyal friend of the Bolsheviks, and the founder of the increasingly canonical " socialist realism ".

His heroic death further boosted his reputation in America.

Throughout the 19th century's romantic nationalism Charles XII remained a national hero, idealized as a heroic, virtuous young warrior king, and his fight against Peter the Great was associated with the contemporary Swedish-Russian enmity ( in the century following the king's death, Russia had through several wars won all of Finland from Sweden ).

Of Gaye, Murphy said in his letter sending his support to honor Gaye with a star, " Marvin is one of the few who neither grows smaller nor larger in death, but maintains a constant, almost life-like presence ", and cited Gaye as a " heroic and mystical figure among the elite of our business.

As her study demonstrates, over the last century the " Binding of Isaac " has morphed into the " Sacrifice of Isaac ," connoting both the glory and agony of heroic death on the battlefield.

His chief works were: an epic Thebais, an account of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and the war of the Epigoni ; and an elegiac poem Lyde, so called from the poet's mistress, for whose death he endeavoured to find consolation telling stories from mythology of heroic disasters ( Plutarch, Consul, ad Apoll.

Today, the heroic effort continues and the death toll rises.

He also wrote some charming odes, idylls and elegies, and a small epic poem Cissides und Paches ( 1759 ), the subject being two Thessalian friends who die an heroic death for their country in a battle against the Athenians.

On display are three representative works of the three main iconographic models used to represent the emperor: Augustus in a Toga, symbolising the emperor's religious and civil power ; Figure in a Cuirass, presented as the leader of the armies ; and Augustus or Tiberius in heroic Nude, depicted as a divinity after death.

Boursault then wrote a sequel, Esope à la cour ( Aesop at court ), a heroic comedy that was held up by the censors and not produced until after his death in 1701.

Thus, for instance, in “ The Dream of the Rood ” Christ is presented as a " heroic warrior, eagerly leaping on the Cross to do battle with death ; the Cross is a loyal retainer who is painfully and paradoxically forced to participate in his Lord's execution.

After many injuries, he dies a heroic death at the hand of the Saxon King Cerdic in single combat at the Battle of Badon Hill.

The location allowed him good hunting, and access to aristocratic houses where his recent heroic reputation from the campaign made him an honoured guest.

Twentieth century authors have occasionally made use of the heroic couplet, often as an allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries.

Heinlein made quick work of altruism as a false virtue in Stranger in a Strange Land and mentioned John Galt — the hero in Rand's " Atlas Shrugged "-- as a heroic archetype in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

On 11 June 1304, with both of them having witnessed the heroic efforts of their countrymen during King Edward's siege of Stirling Castle, Bruce and William Lamberton made a pact that bound them, each to the other, in “ friendship and alliance against all men .” If one should break the secret pact, he would forfeit to the other the sum of ten thousand pounds.

The citizens made an heroic stand by the temple of Sarpedon, as night falls the Roman army conquers the city.

Bossuet, accordingly, made a heroic attempt to grapple with origins and causes, and in this way, his book deserves its place as one of the very first of philosophic histories.

His most famous role, however, was heroic — that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series.

" The song " John Brown's Body " made him a heroic martyr and was a popular Union marching song during the Civil War.

The fame of Lucian's works in the 18th century, as well as the generally well-known tradition of Greco-Roman heroic homoeroticism, made it natural for theatre audiences of that period to have recognized an intense, romantic, if not positively homoerotic quality, to the relationship between Orestes and Pylades.

In 1944-45, Japanese Teishin Shudan (" Raiding Group ") and Giretsu (" heroic ") detachments made airborne assaults on Allied airfields in the Philippines, Marianas and Okinawa.

The fame of Lucian's works in the 18th century, as well as the generally well-known tradition of Greco-Roman heroic homoeroticism, made it natural for theatre audiences of that period to have recognized an intense, romantic, if not positively homoerotic quality, to the relationship between Orestes and Pylades.

In Superman v2, # 16 ( April 1988 ), a new Supergirl debuted as a man-made lifeform made of synthetic protoplasm created by a heroic Lex Luthor of a " pocket continuum ".

His brigade made a heroic stand on Henry House Hill to protect the rear of the retreating Union Army.

The central perspective is perpendicular to the picture plane, made more emphatic by the dim arcade behind, against which the heroic figures are disposed as in a frieze, with a hint of the artificial lighting and staging of opera, and the classical colouring of Nicholas Poussin.

The same device also made Torque ( temporarily at least ) a heroic good guy.

Owen became a joint author of the Vance-Owen Peace Plan, in January 1993, which made a heroic effort to move away from the presumption of ethnic partition.

A few hours after the French Union defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles made an official speech depicting the " tragic event " and " its defense for fifty seven days and nights will remain in History as one of the most heroic of all time.

Antonio Canova's heroic marble nude of Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker made 1802-10, holding a gilded Nike in the palm of his right hand, and standing 3. 45 metres to the raised left hand holding a staff.

: A most heroic poem, and beautifully made.

He is made to appear a “ heroic German lord, one who dies to save his troops ”.

Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including " quarreler ", " rude ", " sullen ", " surly " and " heroic ".

" Originally derided, William Hogarth and other British writers made Bull " a heroic archetype of the freeborn Englishman.

His heroic role in the revolution and military skill, along with his conciliatory politics toward Shia, Sunnis, Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians, made him extremely popular among the people.

“ Mulier sancta ,” she personified the Church and many virtues – Humility, Justice, Fortitude, Chastity ( the opposite of Holofernes ’ vices Pride, Tyranny, Decadence, Lust ) – and she was, like the other heroic women of the Hebrew scriptural tradition, made into a typological prefiguration of the Virgin Mary.

She discovered heroic fantasy fiction while in college, “ I read Tolkien when it made its first big sweep in the colleges back in 1966.