Showing posts with label exhumation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exhumation. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

An eviction and an exhumation

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Leather Man, New England, 19th c. (1st image, another image here ) A man of unknown identity and uncertain age was a well-known itinerant in...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Elephant exhumation

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Next month, Welsh archaeologists will determine if the rumors are true. Is there really a Victorian circus elephant buried behind a pub in T...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Portrait sitter

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The bust above isn't bad work, considering it was done not from life, but from death . Georges Danton (1759-1794) returned from a missi...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Tycho Brahe

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Yesterday, a team of archaeologists, doctors, chemists and medical anthropologists from Sweden, Denmark, and the Czech Republic raised the 4...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Willie Lincoln

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William Wallace (1850-1862) was his father's favorite . Abraham and Mary Lincoln had already lost one child, Edward Baker (1846-1850), b...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Martha's Vineyard

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Seeing all the news reports yesterday of hurricane Earl 's track toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina (where I used to vacation) and...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Unknown soldiers

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The numbers of unidentified casualties of wars around the world are represented by the remains of unknown soldiers entombed elaborately, gua...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Cemetery scandal

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A more pleasant post about cemeteries will follow tonight or tomorrow, but first I want to focus on the cemetery scandal near Chicago which ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Exhumation

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was an English painter and poet, and co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . He married Elizabeth Sid...
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Monday, March 2, 2009

Belle Gunness

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I was introduced to the story of Belle Gunness (1859-1908?) at the AFI Silverdocs 2006 film festival. Norwegian filmmaker Anne Berit Vestby...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday

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Today, as you may have heard on the news, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln . There have been cel...
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