Showing posts with label gravesites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gravesites. Show all posts
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Wild boy's bones

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The British government has taken measures to protect the grave of a famous feral child, " Peter the Wild Boy ." He was brought f...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Helen Sclair

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Here is Helen Sclair ( 1st image, a screen grab from a 2008 interview on WTTW Chicago ), here ( 2nd image ) is a close-up of her grave marke...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Head of Henri IV

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Well-loved King Henri IV of France (1553-1610) narrowly escaped the death suffered by thousands of Protestants who had gathered for his we...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

Ulysses S. Grant, postmortem

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The 1st photograph shows American Civil War general and 18th president Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) in the prime of life and the 2nd photogr...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Roadside memorials

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Roadside memorials ( descansos , as they are known in the American southwest) are those impromptu shrines that take shape at the site of a ...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Grave and golem

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Today we have a guest post by Loren Rhoads . For 10 years, Loren edited the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity . Morbid Curiosity Cur...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

Scrabble creator

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I joined a Scrabble group in the senior community where I am living and I thought I was in trouble when the first person to sit at my tabl...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Skellies

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A few months ago, I was contacted by a researcher named Paul who was heading to Peru. Despite the fact that I was unable to provide any i...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Five dog stories

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In honor of my friend Deb's birthday, my post is about dogs this morning. The top photo is a skye terrier named Bobby, who was acquired...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Shakespearean insults

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My good friend Deb. reports that my newfound enchantment with the octopus leaves her rather cold. In addition, the thought of my imminent mo...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Franklin Expedition

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I just watched a very interesting program about the ill-fated Franklin Expedition airing on Discovery HD . Sir John Franklin, his two ships...
Saturday, October 11, 2008

Sam Pickering update

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Pleased to become a part of my Cabinet, Samuel Pickering shared with me an essay he had just finished writing about Karrakatta Cemetery, wh...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Funeral Museums

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Among my favorite interests are museums and things morbid, so it is particularly gratifying when I can kill birds with stones (as opposed to...