One hundred and fourteen words are carved into the stone, listing Burris's accomplishments, several of them obscure.
Stone pulls together his accomplishments as a philoturk, a philologist, controversialist and narrative historian to sweep his readers along a short crash course in Turkish origins, their history and current challenges.
By Michael Schulman January 8, 2009 The tombstone of Roland Burris, age seventy-one, carries the Illinois state seal and is etched with the words "Trail Blazer," along with a list of positions held (first African-American Illinois attorney general and state comptroller) and an adjacent stone ranking "Other Major Accomplishments".
(Photograph: Eric Allix Rogers) The tombstone of Roland Burris, age seventy-one, carries the Illinois state seal and is etched with the words "Trail Blazer," along with a list of positions held (first African-American Illinois attorney general and state comptroller) and an adjacent stone ranking "Other Major Accomplishments".
The tombstone of Roland Burris, age seventy-one, carries the Illinois state seal and is etched with the words "Trail Blazer," along with a list of positions held (first African-American Illinois attorney general and state comptroller) and an adjacent stone ranking "Other Major Accomplishments".
As an example I started on my Bachelors Degree and was very excited to be taking this large goal on for the accomplishment and as a stepping stone to building my future.
Their brick or brick-cut stone-faced walls, excellent mortar, and other structural and stylistic accomplishments are still visible in buildings more than a thousand years old from Catalonia to Germany.
Stone heads the Virtual Worlds group at Microsoft, whose principal accomplishment to date is two products given away free on MSN.
It begins by summarizing the accomplishments of the preceding seismological observations, which provided the stepping-stone ideas on how to construct the first strong motion accelerograph.
His accomplishments are inscribed in runic on a huge gravestone at Jelling, one of the so-called Jelling stones.
