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  • I also find it interesting that we have Jewish Holocaust museums galore in this country, even though it was essentially a European event, while the United States Holocaust of the Indians goes officially uncommemorated.

    Archive 2005-11-01 sfmike 2005

  • I also find it interesting that we have Jewish Holocaust museums galore in this country, even though it was essentially a European event, while the United States Holocaust of the Indians goes officially uncommemorated.

    Indians, Politicos and Journos sfmike 2005

  • Of course such a miracle could not remain uncommemorated.

    The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 Various

  • So many thousands of men in the army gave their lives for their country, unknown and uncommemorated, that the body of one, unidentified, was chosen as a symbol for the rest, and buried with all the ceremony given to the most honoured dead of the nation.

    The Children's Book of London

  • From a thinker who deemed the time "out of joint," as Tacitus obviously did, and who, had he not possessed great strength of mind and character, might have lapsed into a gloomy pessimism, what noble words are these: "This I regard as history's highest function: to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds."

    Historical Essays James Ford Rhodes 1887

  • "This I regard as the historian's highest function," writes Tacitus, "to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds;" while Langlois and the majority of the scholars of Oxford are of the opinion that the formation and expression of ethical judgments, the approval or condemnation of Julius Cæsar or of

    Historical Essays James Ford Rhodes 1887

  • Northern loyalty, laid down before Petersburg a young life of understanding and pain, uncommemorated as to the gallantry of its end -- he had insistently returned to the front, after a recovery from first wounds, as under his mother's malediction -- on the stone beneath which he lies in the old burial ground at Newport, the cradle of his father's family.

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • The reign of Hsiâo, who succeeded to Î, is similarly uncommemorated; and the latest odes are of the time of Ting, when 100 years of the Khun Khiû period had still to run their course.

    The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 James Legge 1856

  • The anti-climax would be too palpable, and they and their doings must be left uncommemorated.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

  • This however was news to me while I was enjoying the show, which apart from the surreal and uncommemorated passing of Amy Whinehouse passed very happily indeed.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

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