About the Author: Nancy E. Brown is 82 years old (when submitted in 2004) and loves southwestern history. She and her husband, Clyde, and their family love to tramp around old mines,ghost towns, abandoned houses, and cemeteries. She and Clyde, at age 84, stay young by riding their 4...
in July, I’m going to visit (living!) relatives in the Detroit area and will hopefully come back with some new tombstone photos and stories. Most of my buried-in-the-USA relatives are in Detroit Catholic cemeteries, but my maternal grandfather’s...
The Location of Cemeteries 3. The Damming of the Nile 4. Egyptian Famines III. THE NILE IN RELIGION 1. The Nile as a God 2. The Nile in the Osirian Myth 3. The Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. The name employed in the Old Testament to designate ...
Contacting me: - Update I have temporarily cleared a small amount of space in my email box. However, spam continues to be a problem. To be sure you get through the filters,be sure to include the name of our citysomewhere either in the subject or the body of your email. You can conta...
But not far from it in the same burial-ground, which is really a cemetery separated from the parish church, and one of the oldest cemeteries in England, is another imitation quite differently brought out, but in principle essentially the same. FIG. 8.–AT DARTFORD. “To….Callow, died…...
Monuments, horse racing, cemeteries and a presidential home. Washington D.C. Arlington Va, Baltimore MD and Mt Vernon Clemmons State Forest, Clayton NC San Gabriel River Lakes-Lake Georgetown and Crockett Falls, Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas. San Gabriel River Lakes- The Bridges of Madis…...
Here’s the point I’m trying to make about General Henry Knox. Karen and I took a vacation up to Edgecomb, Maine. During the week, Karen found a mumber of places for us to go, mostly visiting a variety of lighthouses, historic sites, some ancient cemeteries (Karen knows that’s ...
For the past two semesters I’ve had little chance to lie around the house, but my dead skin cells have made a habit of it. Cells that once served a purpose have since sloughed off and gathered in tiny cemeteries beneath the furniture, on the ledges, and atop the light fixtures. It ...
I’ve seen gorgeous public park cemeteries, like Green-Wood in Brooklyn and Cave Hill in Louisville, but Vyšehrad is a world apart even from them. Although there are plenty of the moody monuments one expects from a historic cemetery — weeping angels, praying children, Jesus in his “ehh...
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