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This is a Cemetery...
A quick search reveals that many cemeteries around the world have used this poem on websites and immortalized the words on plaques on their grounds. This poem, in a few short lines, manages to convey all the reasons why cemeteries are so important, especially for the living. Unfortunately, credit is not often given to its author, Mary Lou Brannon.Vince and Mary Lou Brannon purchased the[...]
They Paved Paradise
There are many grave sites that are out of place today. Instead of moving them, some places simply choose to build around them and keep the grave and grave marker intact. While it may be an annoyance to some, most people just enjoy it as a quirk. The plots you have to drive around are not solely single headstones - you'll find mausoleums and even full-blown cemeteries in small plots of[...]
Curses, Traps and other Nasty Ways to Die
In ancient Egypt, Tomb Traps were employed much like our burglar alarms of today especially in the tombs of pharaohs and other well known and powerful people. Entrances to tombs were sealed after entombment which alone gave a pretty strong indication that visiting was not allowed.Unlike today's technological alarms that warn people that someone might be breaking in, tomb traps didn't[...]
Iced but Not Forgotten: Immortalizing the Russian Mafia
There's something morbidly disarming about the two cemeteries in the city of Yekaterinburg - in the industrial Uralmash area of Yekaterinburg is a tree-line necropolis of unusual headstones. Not a single one is traditional in the way that headstones have ever been seen. Many, if not all of them are[...]
Russia’s Hauntingly Mystifying City of the Dead
Making the journey requires a three-hour trek along serpentine roads winding through several hills. It is a place that is shrouded deep in myth and legend, but is also one of social civil strife. Located in one of Russia’s smaller regions of North Caucasus, there lies an isolated village dotted[...]
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