| 24 Jan 00 |
Finally got around to adding a few more. New fictional last word
entries: Agamemnon, Prince
Andrie Bolkowski, Boxer, Cassandra,
Clytemnestra, Giles
Corey, Raul De Baere, Dido,
Enkidu, Grandfather
of the Invisible Man, Midge Kelly, Miles,
Captain John Miller, My
Baby, Johnny Nolan, Pusher,
Don Quixote, Jean
Valjean. New epitaphs: Eleazer
Albee, Robert Burns, Nicolaus
Copernicus, Gustavus III, Wild
Bill Hickok, Robin Hood, Menkaura,
Lester Moore, Major
John Pitcairn, Babe Ruth. New
real farewells: Lyndon Baines Johnson,
General Douglas MacArthur (update),
Samuel Pepys, Red
Skelton. New fictional farewells: Blanche
Dubois, Sam Spade. |
| 1 Mar 99 |
Subdivided epitaphs into three pages. Added many new epitaphs:
Nick Adams, Alexander
the Great, Gracie Allen and
George Burns, King Arthur, Henry
Ward Beecher, Wallace Beery, Busby
Berkeley, Rupert Brooke,
William Bligh, Richard
Ira Bong, William H. Bonney, Captain
Maurice James Butler, Walter Camp,
Alphonse
Capone, Bette Davis, Jefferson
Davis, Arthur Conan Doyle (updated),
Douglas Fairbanks, Marshall
Field, W.C. Fields, Robert
Frost, Rene Gagnon, Jackie
Gleason, Hi Jolly, John
Gillespie Magee, H.L. Mencken,
Carrie Nation, Bonnie
Parker, Buford Pusser, Buddy
Rich, David St. Hubbins, Phil
Spector's father, Jonathan Swift,
Samuel
Wilson, Virginia Woolf, and Sir
Christopher Wren. |
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21 Jan 99
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New entries: Genghis Khan, George
Gordon (Lord Byron), Gregory VII,
Che
Guevara, Alexander Hamilton,
Mata
Hari, Saint Lawrence, Meriwether
Lewis, Jean-Paul Marat, Sal
Mineo, James Mulligan, Nostradamus,
Lee
Harvey Oswald, George Reeves, Frederic
Remington, Madame Roland, Babe
Ruth, George Sanders, Sitting
Bull, Leon Trotsky, and Karla
Fay Tucker. Updated entries: Nathan
Hale, Sir Thomas More, Horatio
Nelson, Francois Rabelais, Sir
Walter Raleigh, John Sedgwick, and
Dutch
Schultz.
While I find it difficult to believe, at least a dozen people have sent
e-mail asking me to tell them a little about myself and why I started collecting
last words. I became interested in last words years ago in junior
high school after reading A Tale of Two
Cities. If you are really interested in my background, you
can read read a short
bio at my work site. |
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26 Oct 98
|
New entries: Lenny Bruce, Princess
Diana, Thomas Edison, Edward
VII, George Eugel, Douglas
Fairbanks Sr., W.C. Fields, James
Forrestal, and Sigmund Freud.
Updated entries: Franz Ferdinand, Frederick
William I, Stonewall Jackson. |
| 21 Aug 98 |
New entries: Georges Chavez,
Erskine
Childers, Thomas Cranmer, Bing
Crosby, Georges Cuvier, James
Dean, Jacques DeMolay, Jessica
Dubroff, and Isadora Duncan.
Updated entries: Charles I and
George
Danton.
Attempted to stop netminder from sending update notices when the only
changes made to the web site are server-sided. |
| 6 Aug 98 |
New entries: John Jacob Astor,
Tallulah
Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, Anne
Boleyn, John Wilkes Booth, Nazi
war criminals, and
Buckey O'Neill.
Updated entries: El Alamein, The
Alamo, and John Barrymore. |
| 1 Jul 1998 |
New entries: Atli Asmundson,
Jenny
Cavalleri, Henry Clay (will), Diana
(will), High Priest, Jake
Holman, Captain Hook, Invisible
Man, John Merrick (the Elephant Man),
Marilyn
Monroe (will), and Frank Sinatra (will
information) |
| 19 Jun 1998 |
Associated the website with  ,
allowing visitors to purchase books, vhs tapes, and cds related to many
entries. |
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20 Feb 1998
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New entries: Leonard Bernstein,
Giacomo
Cassanova, Anton Chekhov, Kurt
Cobain, George M. Cohan (farewell),
Calvin
Coolidge (will),
Egon Friedell, James
Garfield, Doc Holliday, Cotton
Mather, Eugene O'Neill, Edgar
Allan Poe, the U.S. Presidents |
| 5 Dec 1997 |
New entries: Thomas Becket, Amelia
Earhardt, Archduke Franz Ferdinand,
Johnny
Frank Garrett, Richard Halliburton,
Conrad
Hilton, Joan of Arc, Al
Jolson, Franz Kafka, Richard
A. Loeb, Huey P. Long Jr., Mishima
Yukio, Sir Thomas More, Franklin
D. Roosevelt,
Florenz Ziegfeld, and
Jan
Zizka |
| 4 Nov 1997 |
Nothing yet. The site is brand new. I do have, however,
another 120 or so quotes that that I'll be posting in future. |
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