Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens It may be a reviewer's cliche to raise the point about judging a book by its cover but in this case one certainly can -and the cover is a good one. On a portrait photograph of a flat landscape, the title and author's name are posit...
theatre performances,art galleries – anything goes!A "normal" tourist can visit some parts of Paris's tunnel system,such as the underground cemetery,where you can see the bones of about six million Parisians.The bodies came from cemeteries above the ground two centuries ago when the city ...
At a time when many forecast the demise of History, pilgrimages to the cemeteries of the Great War continue to grow in size and number. This paper asks who undertakes such journeys, why they go and how they respond to these 'sacred' and historic places. Through interviews and surveys it ...
RailroadsDesertsGhost TownsTrainsObject Cemeteries Know Before You Go Since nearly every single salt flat tour company in town visits the Train graveyard at roughly the same time in the late morning to early afternoon, it can easily get drowned out with crowds of people, ultimately disenchanting th...
Two of those who helped to create and maintain the war cemeteries we now see in France and Flanders were the Bicknell brothers from London. Ernest Hugh Bicknell and his brother William George were born in Battersea, the sons of William George Bicknell, a butcher, and his wife Emily (née ...
Only five years afterwards the old statute fair produced a riot between civilians and soldiers, and then in 1854, the year in which the first interments were made in the general and church cemeteries, there were bread and bonnet riots. As these incidents occurred before Luton had a local new...
(the rate of living had never been very high)was raised to such proportions that those who could beg, borrow or steal the money necessary for a short sea voyage moved hashly to foreign shores.The others remained behind, nursing their grievances, tending their cemeteries and living on a diet...
In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of t... DW Lloyd - 《English Historical Review》 被引量: 127发表: 1998年 Aspects of upbringing influence assimilation among the children of ...
The morphological evolution of Chinese urban cemeteries from the perspective of fringe belt:A case study of Nanjing The urban cemetery is the material carrier of citizens'view of life and death,and it also evolves with time as a special part of the urban form.Since the r... H Deng,M Li...
Hear the stories of how the first settlers entered this area when the Native Indians were still using the land. This area was a large mountain community. We will have the opportunity to see physical structures used for farming, cemeteries, and beautiful streams along the way. ...