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After 70 Years, "Uncle Mike" is Reunited with his Family
Marcy Hanigan delights in sharing pictures of her mother and uncle. One rare and cherished photo shows Hanigan's mother, Grace, draping a protective arm over her younger brother Mike. Grace rarely spoke about her little brother.Lt. Mike Zanger was a Marine, a pilot in World War II who died as a[...]
The Great Stork Derby
Charles Vance Millar was a lawyer from Toronto with quite the reputation of being a practical joker. Millar who died on October 31, 1926 was never married and didn't have any close relatives. He was forced to get creative with his last will and testament, and that he did. Distant relatives fought his will in court for ten years but Millar had prepared carefully and they lost. In the[...]
The Architecture of Death Through the Eyes of a Taphophile
Tombstone tourist, cemeterian, cemetery hunter, cemetery historian, military, genealogical, and even preservationist-gravers – whatever you want to call them, it’s a grave case of taphophilia and these taphophiles share one common interest... their interest; their fascination; their obsession[...]
The House of Life
Toppled, over-crowded, and crumbling are the wildly scattered tombstones in one of Europe’s oldest Jewish cemeteries.The Old Jewish Cemetery, in the Jewish Quarter, Prague, was established in the 15th century. The cemetery is called “Beth Chaim” or House of Life and is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe (the oldest is in Worms, Germany). Along with the Old-New[...]
The Sky's the Limit - Even for the Dead
With large scale concerns such as global warming people are starting to realize that we must conserve our natural resources and do what we can to maintain nature in order to ensure there is a livable planet left for future generations. With these concerns in mind, there have been hundreds of scientists, meteorologists, designers and environmentalists working to develop new concepts that[...]
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