Because Miller is a highly precocious reader, he knows that a hapless, alcoholic, half-mad, football-loving, wildly charismatic English teacher named Frederick Exley immortalized Watertown in "A Fan's Notes," the 1968 novelistic memoir that immortalized Exley as a one-book wonder.
From Arina Rodionovna Yakovleva, his old nurse, a freed serf (immortalized as Tatyana's nurse in Yevgeny Onegin), he heard Russian folktales.
His family name, Minamoto, is Genji in Chinese (Gen being the Chinese reading of the symbol for Minamoto), and it is immortalized as the embodiment of ancient courtly ways in The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) by Murasaki Shikibu, one of the world's earliest and greatest novels.
The bloodshed in Kishinyov was immortalized in verse by Hebrew poet Haim Naḥman Bialik.
She was later immortalized as Madame Nelly in J.W. von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister.
A popular American species is the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus); in Europe there is the similar willow tit (P. montanus), immortalized by Gilbert and Sullivan.
His was the name under which the immortalized Romulus was worshipped, and his festival fell on the same date that Romulus was said to have ascended to the gods, perhaps to assume the identity of Quirinus.
Direct operations often become immortalized as "great raids," capturing the imagination of the public and politicians for their daring and audacity, immediate results, and seeming decisiveness.
The Caen Canal bridge was soon immortalized as Pegasus Bridge, named after the insignia of the 6th Airborne Division.
Despite its critics, the page itself has been immortalized (kind of) in an XKCD comic, view-able in the Alt text that pops up when you mouse over one of its images.
His contribution is immortalized in Up at Oxford, a memoir published in 1992 by his acquaintance and fellow Balliol man, the Indian writer Ved Mehta.
