Tag: graves
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August 13, 2008 05:22 PM EDT --
One of my favorite things to do is to walk through the local cemetaries. Some may say it's morbid or creepy, but it's actually a very peaceful, quiet place. Nobody bothers you and . . . more
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August 11, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
Tracking down African-American, Native American or racially mixed ancestors can be difficult, especially when these family . . . more
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July 01, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
"No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident; just as no Apollonian poet can perform his proper function unless he lives . . . more
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July 26, 2006 09:53 AM EDT --
Love your chocolate chip cookie? You're not alone. It is Cookie Monster's favorite cookie, (at least it was before he became Vegetable Monster).
Masterpiece Theatre's Alistair Cooke's . . . more
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April 15, 2007 10:20 PM EDT --
A poem for a poet and spiritual seeker, whose book The White Goddess contributed so much to my awareness of trees....
"On the One Theme"
for Robert Graves . . . more
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November 01, 2006 03:03 PM EST --
Dutch woman dies next to her own grave
Newspaper says 65-year-old likely died of a heart attack, was carrying will
Reuters
Updated: 4:58 a.m. ET Nov 1, 2006
AMSTERDAM - A Dutch woman, who had meticulously . . . more
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November 25, 2006 10:41 AM EST --
Stark silence engraved
Its initials in her pride
Squelching her remarks
Remarks intended to wound
Silenced victims in their graves
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July 03, 2008 03:06 PM EDT --
I love epitaphs, and here are some from a collection:
In a London cemetery
Ann Mann
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann
Dec. 8, 1767
In a Ribbesford, . . . more
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September 17, 2006 09:56 PM EDT --
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
As for the Greek theatrical tradition
Which represents that summer's expedition
Not as a mere reconnaissance in . . . more
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December 29, 2006 07:50 PM EST --
Yellow fever epidemic
According to my research the first outbreak of yellow fever in the state of Louisiana was 1832 which took 5000 lives as it's victims in the city of New Orleans alone. In 1853, . . . more
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May 08, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
They have laid her here somewhere,
Against this wall
Between the trees and weeds.
Scarce seems possible
Her bones could lie
So still and lost so long.
Move the weeds; look for the name.
Weather’s . . . more
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August 01, 2007 07:07 PM EDT --
Ever since I can remember I've had this strange attraction to cemeteries. It's hard to pass one by as I'm driving. I want to stop and wander between the headstones. . . . more
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December 04, 2007 03:33 AM EST --
I'm a little late on this one; I just read about it in the fall edition of SCAN: The Bulletin of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
"Although most of Norway experienced one of . . . more
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April 01, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
Leeville, La is about 45 minutes or so from my house, almost to the very end of our parish that extents out into the Gulf of Mexico. I found this cemetary since I started making deliveries way back in . . . more
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August 03, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
Today, my brother came to visit.
He lives in New York, but was in the area on business, and he did, well, what most relatives would do in that case, and that is to stop over.
While he was here, . . . more
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April 01, 2008 11:20 PM EDT --
I am a volunteer photographer for findagrave.com and this past weekend I was asked to take pics of three seperate grave markers all in the same cemetary. I found 2 of them but could not find one gentleman . . . more
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October 13, 2007 04:32 AM EDT --
Sorry on the delay guys. I just got my PC back today and had to call the cable company to get my modem working again.
Anyway our very first theme will be: Months. Any grave that you can locate with a . . . more
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October 19, 2007 01:22 AM EDT --
Welcome to Friday and the start of week two of our scavenger hunt! Thanks to all who participated in week one's challenge difficult as it was!
This week will be far easier I promise! This . . . more
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April 20, 2007 05:44 AM EDT --
Weird title I know, but it is the truth. I have grave's/hyperthyroidism and right now at 4 am it is attacking my body.
Around 3 am my thyroid started kicking out mega doses of thyroid horomone which . . . more
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April 25, 2007 05:57 PM EDT --
Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone Az.
Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Az.
There are Boothill Cemeteries all over the United States from . . . more
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