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    An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, "inscription"...
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  • "amatory" epigrams (one commemorative, six erotic, and one funerary); dedicatory epigrams; sepulchral epigrams, and dedicatory or descriptive epigrams. Typical...
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  • "Epigrams on Programming" is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. The epigrams are a series of short, programming-language-neutral...
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  • Look up epigram in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist, or a concise and witty statement. Epigram may also...
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    Martial (redirect from Martial's Epigrams)
    poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors...
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  • Signs and Epigrams is a solo album by pianist Sylvie Courvoisier which was released on the Tzadik label in 2007. In his review for Allmusic, Blair Sanderson...
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  • Epigram is a functional programming language with dependent types, and the integrated development environment (IDE) usually packaged with the language...
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  • The "Stalin Epigram", also known as "The Kremlin Highlander" (‹See Tfd›Russian: Кремлёвский горец) is a satirical poem by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam...
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  • Epigram (foaled 1949 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1952 Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious race and...
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  • Seventeen Epigrams were attributed to Homer in antiquity. They are preserved in a number of texts, including the Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus), the...
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    Epigram Books is an independent publishing company in Singapore. It publishes works of Singapore-based writers, poets and playwrights. Epigram was founded...
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    and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index...
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  • Epigram is an independent student newspaper of the University of Bristol. It was established in 1988 by James Landale, now a senior BBC journalist, who...
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    later presents in general. It also came to include xenia epigrams. A xenia epigram is an epigram commemorating hospitality or attached to a gift, sometimes...
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  • The Cyzicene epigrams are a collection of nineteen numbered Greek epigrams, each accompanied by a short prose preamble, which, together with a one-sentence...
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    discussion concerning the James Ossuary. An epigraph (not to be confused with epigram) is any sort of text, from a single grapheme (such as marks on a pot that...
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  • Bristol. While studying Politics there, he became the first editor of Epigram, the university's independent student newspaper. In July 2013, Landale...
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    Plato's other alleged epigrams) was actually written sometime after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become...
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    Narrative Children Epic Dramatic Verse novel National Lyric Ballad Elegy Epigram Ghazal Haiku Hymn Limerick Ode Qasida Sonnet Villanelle Lists Epic Groups...
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  • Coleridge(1772-1834), which includes fragments not published within his lifetime, epigrams, and titles such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. Third...
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  • Greek epigrams is largely based on works surviving in multi-author anthologies. The earliest known dateable anthology of epigrams is the Attic Epigrams collected...
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  • An epigram of Amazaspos (Georgian: ამაზასპის ეპიგრამა) is a poetic funerary epigram written in Ancient Greek on an inscription found at the Villa Medici...
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    Violet Florence Martin. The playwright and poet Oscar Wilde, noted for his epigrams, was born in Ireland. In the 20th century, Ireland produced four winners...
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  • I do not like (or love) thee, Doctor Fell is an epigram, said to have been translated by satirical English poet Tom Brown in 1680. Later it has been recorded...
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    to catch it was to symbolically show one's acceptance of that love. An epigram claiming authorship by Plato states: I throw the apple at you, and if you...
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