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The World’s Extinct Animals Cemetery - Guo Geng created a cemetery for extinct animals in the Nanhaizi David's Deer Park in Beijing
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Broken Wand Ceremony for Magicians who have passed - Houdini's grave, located in Queens, NY has the crest of the Society of American Magicians inscribed on it. Every November since he died, the Society holds a broken wand ceremony at his gravesite.
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This cemetery is located in the Pimentel District of the province Chiclayo in Peru The lives of the deceased come to life on tombstones throughout Peru as gravestones and mausoleums here are like no others around the world. For years Peruvians have painted them with images that best portray the lives of the deceased.
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flower beds filling each burial plot in cemeteries #Swiss #lovely #flowers
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"Wheresoever She Was, That Was Heaven To Me"..... Crystal Springs Cemetery, Benton Harbor, Michigan
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At the time of Hattie’s death, only whites were allowed to be buried in the cemetery, so her final wishes to be buried there were ignored. Instead, she was buried in the Rosedale Cemetery. Hattie was an American Actress, famous not only for her role of Mammy in Gone With the Wind, but as the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award. The monument stands at the Hollywood Forever cemetery, erected in 1999 by the new owners as a sort of apology for not honoring her f
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Hair of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, clipped from her head at the opening of her tomb in 1784 encased in a locket.
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Marc Burckhardt, ‘Himmelsblick (Heaven’s View)’, acrylic and oil on wood, 2010.
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Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 West Cemetery in Amherst,Massachusetts
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The grave of Marie Taglioni, covered in ballet-slippers in Cimetière Montmartre, Paris. Marie Taglioni was the daughter of the Italian choreographer Filippo Taglioni. Her slender figure lived up to the romantic idea of a perfect body and would become the leading ballerina of the romantic era.
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Julie Wasylow wondering if she pre-wrote this obit before her passing...or dear son A.J. is a tad less perfect than he portraits himself. As humorous as this is - it's kinda pathetic too!!
Real-life Grave of the Fireflies: Stoic Japanese orphan, standing at attention having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, Nagasaki, by American photographer, Joe O’Donnell 1945
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// Gold locket with the hair of Queen Marie Antoinette: British Museum
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Elizabeth I burial is in Westminster Abbey, her sister Mary is buried beneath her in this tomb.
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The Corpse Flower -- bizarre, beautiful, and captivating.
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Wow...no gentle words here. DEAD. Truthfully, I think the design is beautiful.
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This was made in the weeks after 9/11/01. It is dedicated to all those who died . It is made of silver, polished nautilus shell, curly maple and opal.
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Deb Kuhns Thank you for posting this lovely piece!!
These handprints represent women who comitted Sati (alternatively, suttee), “a funeral practice among some Hindu communities in which a recently-widowed woman would either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.”
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Vintage French advertising poster for funeral flowers.
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Now I lay me down to sleep... Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Boston MA.
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sobbed for a few days after this one.
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john lennon's glasses. he was wearing these when he was shot.
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Mr. Ike Towell was a man of strong convictions, an announced atheist, strictly honest in his every dealing, an open enemy to strong drink and tobacco, fearless a nd courageous. He was a unique character in some ways. About a year ago he had a tombstone placed at his grave, and a few days ago he bought his coffin and left full instructions as to his funeral.
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persephone sunset moonstone Funeral services for Mr. Ike Towell were held here Friday morning at Odd Fellows Rest. Criminal District Judge Whit Boyd of Houston, reading the service which consisted of a last message written by Mr. Towell and directed to be read by some one "not afraid that lightning would strike during the service."
persephone sunset moonstone "Especially do I want to impress the fact upon the people that one child was born, passed through the years of youth, grew to manhood, lived a tolerably respectable life, reached old age, died and could be buried without the assistance of the clergy."
persephone sunset moonstone "My religion consists of doing right and loving justice. I affirm that all men should tell the truth and pay their debts. I do not believe in any God, devil, ghost or savior and I have opposed tobacco, whiskey, gambling, lying and stealing practically all my life. If any one of the clergy ever calls my name after death I insist that he speak the truth about me, a thing I have never known a preacher to do about a dead disbeliever. The clergy have never been able to bribe me with the promise of a beautiful home in a fictitious heaven nor bluff me by their everlasting punishment in a hell of fire and brimstone."
Julie Wasylow you write very eloquently and i appreciate both your views and your position. i too am non main stream `religion`. In a beautiful garden one works hard to be ànti`weeds...let not the pursuit of weed freedom consume the garden. :)
His grave in Evergreen Cemetery has a likeness of his bearded face with the inscription "Persecuted for wearing the beard."
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persephone sunset moonstone Joseph Palmer was a veteran of the War of 1812 who later joined the Fruitlands commune in Harvard, Mass. started by Amos Bronson Alcott, Charles Lane and other Transcendentalists in the 1840s
persephone sunset moonstone Palmer wore a full beard, which was very much out of fashion since Colonial times. He was the only man in Fitchburg, Mass. with a full beard when he moved there in 1830. He was so reviled for doing so that people would throw stones at him and break the windows of his house. His pastor refused him Communion.
persephone sunset moonstone In 1830 he was jumped by four men who threw down and attempted to forcibly shave him. In the process of defending himself, Palmer stabbed two of the men. Palmer was charged for committing an unprovoked assault and was fined, which he refused to pay on principle. He was jailed in the Worcester city jail for non-payment and the prison guards and other prisoners also attempted to shave off his beard by force.
persephone sunset moonstone After much bad publicity in the press he was to be released, but Palmer refused to leave the prison unless he could receive a proclamation that it was perfectly acceptable to wear a beard. No such proclamation was forthcoming and Palmer was forcibly removed from the prison by being tied to a chair and carried out. Palmer became a celebrity and worked for the Temperance and Abolitionist movements. He appears as the character Moses White in Louisa May Alcott's story Transcendental Wild Oats.
Inscription: Adverse to the plow. Prone to the fiddle and jug.
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