Gipsy (dog)
Gipsy (died November 1879) was a large, long-lived Newfoundland dog which belonged to American artist Lemuel Wilmarth and his wife, Emma Belinda Barrett. The couple did not have children and were close with the dog, such that upon his death at the age of 23, the couple requested he be buried in their plot in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. They had a casket made, with Gipsy's name on a silver plate, and held a funeral for the dog, with a hearse and carriages. According to ''The New York Times'', "the body was laid out in orthodox style, and had its front limbs placed in position, as if begging, and tied up with white satin ribbon." Wilmarth was quoted saying "No one could help loving Gipsy ... 'None knew her but to love her. None named her but to praise.' Why, I assure you she was almost human, and we miss her dreadfully." News of Gipsy's death was covered in several newspapers, including a story in which Gipsy saved Mrs. Wilmarth from drowning some years before his death ...
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The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with significant concentrations in the Americas. In the English language, the Romani people are widely known by the exonym Gypsies (or Gipsies), which is considered pejorative by many Romani people due to its connotations of illegality and irregularity as well as its historical use as a racial slur. For versions (some of which are cognates) of the word in many other languages (e.g., , , it, zingaro, , and ) this perception is either very small or non-existent. At the first World Romani Congress in 1971, its attendees unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Romani people, including ''Gypsy'', due to their aforementioned negative and stereotypical connotations. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Roma originated in ...
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