Tag: monuments
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January 07, 2009 02:17 PM EST --
This post, as well as this group, is dedicated to my friend, Pam, who began a business called Grave Matters in my hometown of Franklin, La.
A few years ago, some folks stopped at my . . .
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August 02, 2006 07:41 AM EDT --
Now that you know all about Prague and its fascinating fountains and Pools of Piss, you'll have greater appreciation of the rainy weather that appears in the picture below. Whenever I looked . . .
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January 26, 2009 03:32 PM EST --
Thorpe, Jim (James Thorpe), 1888-1953, American athlete, b. near Prague, Okla. Thorpe was probably the greatest all-round male athlete the United States has ever produced. . . .
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December 21, 2007 06:28 PM EST --
Winter in the nation's capital. What could be more delightful than enjoying the beauty of Washington in winter? Crisp air, a touch of snow, and blue skies amid the backdrop of national . . .
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January 15, 2009 10:21 AM EST --
The Jackson Burial Plot
Today (December 30, 2008), was another meeting of the Mantua Cemetery Walkers and boy did we visit an incredibly odd cemetery. The Jackson Burial Plot in Pepper Pike, Ohio. . . .
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February 10, 2008 10:17 PM EST --
A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
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January 11, 2008 07:59 PM EST --
After a bit of an extended vacation, our new them will be unique monuments. This is pretty much open to interpretation, but anything that seems different from most monuments and memorials will be accepted. . . .
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December 23, 2007 08:35 AM EST --
It's really no sacrifice at all, to give of oneself
when another is in such dire a need
Think of a dusty book upon a dusty shelf
one that is begging of you to read
It's really no sacrifice . . .
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August 14, 2009 11:59 AM EDT --
There are two monuments at our local Airport. They are both in honor of Viet Nam war Heros
The first one is for LT Brown. He died when his plan was shot down.
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July 16, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
Last weekend my husband and I took a ride out East to Sag Harbor. It is a very quaint old town with a beautiful harbor that is rich in history.
This is the Sag Harbor - North Haven Bridge. You drive . . .
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May 03, 2007 10:45 AM EDT --
Manassas or Bull Run – doesn’t matter which name you give the place. It remains the site of two bloody battles during the War Between the States.
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January 19, 2008 04:27 PM EST --
As suggested by stephanie, Proud new MeeMee to Alaiya and Choupic, G week thirteen's theme will be Hobbies . Any monument that depicts or has a inscription having to do with a hobby is acceptable. . . .
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August 05, 2009 06:11 PM EDT --
The side of the hill rising from Farewell St. is blanketed by the old colonial cemetery, the Common Burying Ground. The top of that hill is occupied by Island Cemetery, Newport's monument to Victorian-era . . .
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February 01, 2008 12:30 PM EST --
Talking about critique in
the Gather Essentials: Books group
again this week, I remembered
an old set of variations on a famous
ode of the Latin (Roman) writer
Horace (Quintus Horatius . . .
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August 07, 2009 07:05 PM EDT --
In the course of editing the photos for the post on Island Cemetery I did what I always do with my photos - I converted them to black & white. Adobe Photoshop™ has some really excellent . . .
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November 08, 2007 03:42 PM EST --
We humans are, by nature, curious creatures. . . Ostensibly, we inherited this trait as one of the most dominant characteristics of the primates from which we descend. “Curiosity killed . . .
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August 28, 2009 12:15 AM EDT --
Enter a world unknown to all but the 1000 plant, 330 bird and 103 mammal species who reside in Sian Kaán Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. This 5280 square kilometer natural . . .
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September 03, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
The James A. Garfield Monument is the final resting place of the 20 th President of the United States of America and his family. This is one of Lake View’s most famous monuments and was . . .
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June 06, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
In 329 BC, when Alexander the Great first laid eyes on the cosmopolitan city of Samarkand, he said, "Everything I have heard about [Samarkand] is true, except that it's more beautiful than I . . .
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August 08, 2009 12:03 AM EDT --
Here is a great resource if you have any family members that may have been buried overseas.
American Military Monuments Commission
www.abmc.gov
It covers 24 overseas military cemeteries with . . .
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