WORLD HISTORY
ETYMOLOGISTS' ABBREVIATIONS
BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
POETIC FIRST OR LAST WORD
EUROPEAN ARTISTS
200
'The allies began the invasion of Italy on July 10, 1943 by landing on this island'
Sicily
200
'No longer in use:
obs.'
obsolete
200
'The rather tall monument on his grave mention that he was President & Chief Justice of the U.S.'
Taft
200
'Last word of Poe's "The Raven"'
nevermore
200
'Soon after arriving in Tahiti in 1891, he took a native girl named Tehura as his wife'
Gauguin
400
'In 1606, Willem Janszoon landed on Cape York Peninsula, becoming the 1st European to visit this continent'
Australia
400
'An ancient language:
Skt.'
Sanskrit
400
'Pictured here, this actor and marine was a relative of Arlington's original landowner, Robert E. Lee'
Lee Marvin
400
'First word of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"'
\'Twas
400
'This Norwegian's first masterpiece, "The Sick Child", recalled the death of his sister Sophie due to tuberculosis'
(Edward) Munch
600
'In 1885 this country's Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his own personal property'
Belgium
600
'A form of a word:
dim.'
diminutive
600
'No "bull"--this Fleet Admiral who won many battles during WWII was buried at Arlington in 1959'
Halsey
600
'Last word of Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night"'
light
600
'This "Second Of May" artist lived in a villa outside Madrid called "The Deaf Man's House"'
Goya
800
'Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of this "dark" Serbian terrorist group'
the Black Hand
800
'A text:
O.E.D.'
Oxford English Dictionary
800
'The headstone of this man who died in 1986 reads, "Father of the Nuclear Navy"'
(Hyman) Rickover
800
'Last word of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"'
difference
800
'His "School of Athens" covers one wall of the Stanza Della Segnatura, a room in the pope's private quarters'
Raphael
1000
'The Pragmatic Sanction gave this Holy Roman Empress the legal right to inherit her father's territories'
Maria Teresa
1000
'A dialect of Southern France:
Prov.'
Provençal
1000
'In 1988 this African-American explorer's remains were moved to Arlington & reburied near Robert Peary'
Matthew Henson
1000
'First word of Dryden's epitath for his wife'
here
1000
'Members of this Flemish family of artists were nicknamed "Peasant", "Velvet", & "Hell"'
the Bruegels
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