* December 28 – Virgil Earp is ambushed in Tombstone and loses the use of his left arm.

The gunfight, believed to have lasted only about thirty seconds, was fought between the outlaw Cowboys Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and his brother Frank McLaury, and the opposing lawmen Virgil Earp and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp, aided by Doc Holliday acting as a temporary deputy of Virgil.

Lawmen Holliday and Morgan and Virgil Earp were wounded.

On December 28, 1881, Virgil Earp was maimed in an assassination attempt by the outlaw Cowboys, and on March 18, 1882, they assassinated Morgan Earp.

Virgil Earp had been given the job of Deputy U. S. Marshal for the region around Tombstone only days before his arrival.

Clum and his newspaper tended to side with the local business-owners ' interests, and supported Marshal Virgil Earp.

Virgil Earp

James, Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan, and Warren Earp were a tight-knit family who had worked and served together as deputy marshal, marshal, sheriff, and saloon owners in several towns, among other occupations, and had moved together from location to location.

Wyatt, James and Virgil Earp, along with their wives, arrived in Tombstone during the initial period of its chaotic growth on about December 1, 1879 when there were only a few hundred residents.

Among those involved in the shooting, only Virgil Earp had any real experience in combat.

On July 25, 1880, Captain Joseph H. Hurst, of Company A, 12th Infantry, and Commanding Officer of Fort Bennett, asked Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp to help him track Cowboys who had stolen six U. S. Army mules from Camp Rucker.

Hurst brought four soldiers, and Virgil invited Wyatt and Morgan Earp, as well as Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams.

Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp, along with temporary federal deputies Wyatt and Morgan Earp, Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams, former Kansas Sheriff Bat Masterson ( who was dealing faro at the Oriental Saloon ), and County Sheriff Behan set out to find the robbers.

Ike Clanton later testified at the Spicer hearing that Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, and Morgan Earp had all confided in him that they had actually been involved in the stage robbery.

Wyatt and Virgil Earp rode with a sheriff's posse and tracked the Bisbee stage robbers.

Frank Stilwell had just arrived in Bisbee with his livery stable partner, Pete Spence, when the two were arrested by Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp for the holdup.

Released on bail, Spence and Stilwell were re-arrested October 13 by Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp for the Bisbee robbery on a new federal charge of interfering with a mail carrier.

Rapidity or ease of movement, plainness of expression, and plainness of thought are not distinguishing qualities of the great epic poets Virgil, Dante, and Milton.

The biographical tradition asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues ( or Bucolics ) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection was published around 39 – 38 BC, although this is controversial.

Virgil testified afterward that he thought he saw all four men, Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury, and Tom McLaury, buying cartridges.

Virgil and Wyatt thought Tom was armed.

Either Frank or Billy shot Virgil Earp in the calf ( Virgil thought it was Billy ).

Virgil Earp was shot through the calf, he thought by Billy Clanton.

Composer and music critic Virgil Thomson praised Fantasound which he thought offered " good transmission of music ", but disliked the " musical taste " of Stokowski, with exception to The Sorcerer's Apprentice and The Rite of Spring.

During the gunfight, Virgil Earp was shot through the calf ( he thought by Billy Clanton ).

* His Life of Virgil is thought to be based on a lost Vita by Suetonius, together with the preface and introduction of his commentary on Virgil's works.

A greatly expanded version of Servius ' commentary exists, however, which is supplemented with frequent and extensive extracts from what is thought to be Donatus ' commentary on Virgil.

Pope draws a parallel between these two critics and his own dunces by quoting John Dennis who thought it likely that Bavius " and Maevius had ( even in Augustus's days ) a very formidable Party at Rome, who thought them much superior to Virgil and Horace: For ( saith he ) I cannot believe they would have fix'd that eternal brand upon them, if they had not been coxcombs in more than ordinary credit " ( Dunciad Variorum ).

" Likewise, David West remarks in his discussion of the plague in the third book, Virgil is " saturated with the poetry of Lucretius, and its words, phrases, thought and rhythms have merged in his mind, and become transmuted into an original work of poetic art.

His stage name, thought up by Bobby Heenan, was meant as a jab against then-World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) wrestler Virgil Runnels, better known as Dusty Rhodes.

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

Although the commentaries no doubt record much factual information about Virgil, some of their evidence can be shown to rely on inferences made from his poetry and allegorizing ; thus, Virgil's biographical tradition remains problematic.

Virgil seems to have suffered bad health throughout his life and in some ways lived the life of an invalid.

One, the Catalepton, consists of fourteen short poems, some of which may be Virgil's, and another, a short narrative poem titled the Culex (" The Gnat "), was attributed to Virgil as early as the 1st century AD.

Virgil makes use of the symbolism of the Augustan regime, and some scholars see strong associations between Augustus and Aeneas, the one as founder and the other as re-founder of Rome.

They are not all based on Greek tragedies, they have a five act form and differ in many respects from extant Attic drama, and whilst the influence of Euripides on some of these works is considerable, so is the influence of Virgil and Ovid.

It appears to be an imitation of Hesiod, and to have been imitated by Virgil in some parts of the Georgics.

The first human settlements date back to more than 700, 000 years, according to the dating of some Palaeolithic hand-made fragments recently recovered ; while the historical sources ( Livy, Virgil, Servius, Silius Italicus ) mention Anagni only once, the city had already been introduced into the Roman orbit.

Notably in this context, Iorga reserved praise for some who had supported the Central Powers ( Carol I, Virgil Arion, George Coşbuc, Dimitrie Onciul ), but also stated that actual collaboration with the enemy was unforgivable.

Virgil spent some time in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1877 with his younger brother Wyatt, though it is not certain if Virgil ever held any law enforcement position there.

The Crystal Palace Saloon and the Eagle Brewery beyond Virgil were struck by nineteen shots, three passed through the window and one about a foot over the heads of some men standing by a faro-table.

" For some time, the Earps, Doc Holiday, Tom Fitch and others who upheld and defended the Earps in their late trial have received, almost daily, anonymous letters, warning them to leave town or suffer death, supposed to have been written by friends of the Clanton and McLowry boys, three of whom the Earps and Holliday killed and little attention was paid to them as they were believed to be idle boasts but the shooting of Virgil Earp last night shows that the men were in earnest.

According to some writers it was founded by Acestes, and named after his wife Entella, a tradition to which Silius Italicus alludes, while others ascribed its foundation to Elymus, and Virgil represents Entellus ( evidently the eponymous hero of the city ) as a friend and comrade of Acestes.

In his Latin verse he often successfully imitated the classical models ; his comedies are not without freshness and vivacity ; and some of his versions and commentaries, particularly those on the Georgics and Bucolics of Virgil, though now well-nigh forgotten, were important contributions to the scholarship of his time.

In 1966 he published The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem, which, with his later diaries, has brought him some notoriety, as he is honest about his and others ' sexuality, describing his relationships with Leonard Bernstein, Noël Coward, Samuel Barber, and Virgil Thomson, and outing several others ( Aldrich and Wotherspoon, eds., 2001 ).

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

1963 models were the last Virgil Exner – styled Imperials, however Elwood Engel began applying some of his own touches to them, especially in the form of the redesigned base and Crown roofs.

In footage of the trial, Ceauşescu is seen answering the " tribunal " judging him and referring to some of its members — among them Army General Victor Atanasie Stanculescu and future Romanian Secret Service head Virgil Măgureanu — as " traitors ".

The knowledge of his role in the murder is too much for Virgil, who attempts to commit suicide after calling over Han under the premise of watching some pornography.

This generation links to the names of Csaba Gyorffy, Iuliu Jenei, Călin Gane, Marcel Goran, Pete Cadar, Caesar Ardeleanu, Adrian Hârlab and Virgil Grecea – a generation consisting of some of the most long term team members.

Virgil used other Greek writers as models and sources, some for technical information, including the Hellenistic poet Aratus for astronomy and meteorology, Nicander for information about snakes, the philosopher Aristotle for zoology, and Aristotle's student Theophrastus for botany, and others, such as the Hellenistic poet Callimachus for poetic and stylistic considerations.

It is impossible to know whether or not these references and images were intended to be seen as political in nature, but it would not be inconceivable that Virgil was in some way influenced by the years of civil war.