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Cross Bones Graveyard
London, England is home to the Cross Bones Graveyard, also known as the single women's churchyard which dates back to medieval times. It was a place where prostitutes were buried. In those days prostitutes were excluded from Christian burial and were put to rest in unconsecrated grounds. The actual age of the graveyard is unknown but in 1598 John Stow, an English historian, wrote about[...]
The Lonely Funeral
In Amsterdam, every year, up to 20 people will die completely alone or anonymous. Without friends or family to draw up an appropriate service for their sendoff, in most places they could be given at best a quiet cremation or quick burial but in Amsterdam, there is a civil service that gives a respectful funeral to anyone without family or the money to hold one.For over 20 years, civil[...]
The World's Extinct Animals Cemetery
In 1998, an animal protector named Guo Geng went to work at The Nanhaizi David's Deer Park in Beijing. While working as an animal expert and volunteer at the park, he came up with the idea to build a cemetery for extinct animals within the park.As a child, Geng took great interest in nursing injured or sick animals back to health and making small cemeteries for them if they died. He had[...]
Bridge to Paradise
The Mexican city of Xcaret has something very unique about it. Its cemetery, called the Bridge to Paradise, is world famous. Full of symbolism, this place has seven levels, one for each day of the week, 365 tombs surrounding the cemetery itself representing the days of the year, and 52 steps in its entrance representing the weeks of the year. Inside the cemetery are found some very[...]
An Atheist's Mystery Revealed
Pestilence, War, Famine and Death, these are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but put them in the same room with the iconoclastic, masterful rhetorician and incomparable critic Christopher Hitchens, and these four mythical entities wouldn't stand a Hitch-slap chance when it comes to mincing words.Wavy-haired, brooding and aflame with wit and righteous anger, as a writer, journalist[...]
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