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Look up: epigraph

  1. Epigraph
    An epigraph is an inscription carved on a stone, statue or coin.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. epigraph
    [n] - a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing 2. [n] - an engraved inscription
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. epigraph
    chapter heading,quotation on a title page or at head of chapter Category: Printing and publishing
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Epigraph
    Ep'i·graph noun [ Greek ..., from ...: confer French épigraphe . See Epigram .] 1. Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication. 2. (Literature) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/55

  5. epigraph
    1. Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication. ... 2. A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto. ... Origin: Gr, fr., cf. F. Epigraphe. See Epigram. ... Source: Websters Diction ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. epigraph
    noun an engraved inscription
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Epigraph
    An `epigraph` is any one of the following: * an inscription, as studied in the archeological sub-discipline of Epigraphy (archaeology) * Epigraph (literature) * Epigraph (mathematics)
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraph

  8. Epigraph
    • (n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication. • (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. epigraph
    epigraph (EP i graf') 1. An inscription on a building, monument, gravestone, etc. 2. A motto or quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, play, etc.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  10. epigraph
    epigraphy, epigraph, epigraphic 1. The science concerned with the interpretation, classification, etc. of inscriptions. Often in narrower sense: the paleography of inscriptions. 2. A motto or quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  11. epigraph
    a quotation, taken from another literary work, that is placed at the start of a poem under the title. For example, T. S. Eliot's 'Gerontion' begins with a quotation from Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure.
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r

  12. epigraph
    1. a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
    2. an engraved inscription

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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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