Carnegie wanted to praise his assistants even on his tombstone. He wrote an epitaph for himself which read: " Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself" .
King Ethelred the Unready made have let the Danish to invade and destroy much of England, but at least he gave the English speaking world one of its most popular names.
Liu Tingxun tells us this, and a great deal more besides, in a glowing obituary that he had commissioned himself and which was buried along with his ceramic entourage.
Oh, the line was, and Chase appreciates this, my tombstone was going to read four for four, indicating all four kids went to UF, but now it's going to have to say three out of four ain't bad.
The sad thing, of course, is that he was probably the only one who was convinced that he actually kept his honor because all other people, well, found him a disrespectful man.
For everyone else, it's a births and deaths column for British consumerism, announcing the arrival of some objects and acting, for others, as their epitaph.