Michaelangelo’s sculpture of Mary, holding Jesus’ body after he was crucified is heartbreaking. The way Jesus’s head is cradled in Mary’s arms and how his arm hangs limp bought tears to my eyes. Sadly, a crazed Austrailian geologist came in with a hammer in 1972 and began destroying...
We pass all the important sights: the island’s oldest house, built as a wedding present for Jethro Coffin and Mary Gardner Coffin in 1686. It has been restored after lightening struck the house, splitting it in two; the Old Windmill (1746); the Quaker cemetery where there some 5,000 pe...
Michael weighing souls, Christ, Virgin Mary (trying to alleviate judgment), St. John, apostles. The people who are damned are on the right; the left has people who will go to heaven. Then you walk through a room of tapestries – the largest series of seven tapestries, woven at Tournai ...
Mary Baker Eddy House is a beautiful historic landmark located inLynn, Massachusetts. Home of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy between 1875-1882. W.E.B. Dubois Boyhood Homesite(satellite map) W.E.B. Dubois Boyhood Homesite is a significant historic site found in Great Barrington, Ma...
After poisoning her father by putting arsenic in his tea in 1751, Mary was convicted and hanged for murder, but in the century since her death people all over Henley have claimed to see her ghost. In 1969, the Kenton Theatre played host to a run of performances of The Hanging Wood, ...
Same could be said forEdinburgh’s Old Town. Travellers come from all over the world to wander the Royal Mile on a misty Scottish morning as they make their way to the castle on high. But many don’t know that it was once the stage for a tragic love story between Mary, Queen of Sc...
The Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod 180 votes Experience a trailblazing workplace comedy set in the world of TV news with this classic sitcom. Following Mary Richards, played by the legendary Mary Tyler Moore, and her journey through the male-domi...
We decided 9 months was a perfect age to take our baby on her first overseas trip. Having always wanted to travel in Greece, we were pleasantly surprised at the inexpensive plane tickets on Norse Atlantic Airways, even in August. So after a bit of due diligence and comparison shopping, we...
Since then, many other people have claimed to see the ghost of Lincoln, including British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill. Allegedly, Churchillsaw Lincoln’s ghostafter stepping out of a bath in the White House. 3. RMS Queen Mary (Long Beach, California) ...
For each attraction or locality, the parent borough is shown in brackets after its name. You can view an annotated map of the London boroughs onthis page. Where a place straddles two or more boroughs, they are named in order of local significance. ...