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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 2:59:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 3:01:51 GMT
I found this one particularly sad and wondered what the story had been for this woman. She died at age 28, but she had a baby at the age of 15. Looks like the baby only lived just over a week. Both are buried here.
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Post by bjd on Apr 12, 2010 6:57:03 GMT
I found the cemeteries in England nice and green. Some were in rather odd locations, like this one overlooking the bay in Whitby, Yorkshire This is in Filey, Yorkshire And Ripley
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Post by onlymark on Apr 12, 2010 11:43:50 GMT
bjd, I know the Whitby one well. A little south down the coast was a campsite I used many a time and would walk to the town past there. Isn't that where the ruin of the old Abbey or something is that the idea for Frankenstein was born?
And can I ask, what were you doing in Ripley? A bit close to home that is.
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Post by bjd on Apr 12, 2010 13:39:54 GMT
A few years ago, I spent week with my sister -- meeting part-way between where we live -- she in Canada, me in France. We stayed with friends of hers in Knaresborough, and visited Ripon, Ripley, Harrogate, York, Fountains Abbey and a bit of the coast. I didn't know anything about the Frankenstein legend -- the abbey ruins are just behind the cemetery.
It was very nice around there and we had lovely weather for the entire week.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 12, 2010 14:14:55 GMT
kerouac's Normandy pics at #11 remind me of some photos I took at Arlington National Cemetery (on slide film, so not being posted here). Only after the film came back from processing did I realize that along with all the white crosses, there were hundreds of green "negative space" crosses that I had captured unintentionally. Serendipity.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 14:48:18 GMT
bjd, those pics of the cemeteries are just breathtaking. It's easy to forget such how pretty some parts of the UK are. I know Yorkshire is meant to have some really scenic views and areas, just love that photo you took from the hill. Is there anywhere where you haven't been yet?
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Post by bjd on Apr 12, 2010 14:57:49 GMT
India, the Far East, Australia, etc etc -- too many places to list. You're right, Deyana, there are loads of really pretty places in Yorkshire.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 12, 2010 15:40:07 GMT
bjd, I was wrong, it was Bram Stoker and Dracula. Stoker spent the summer of 1890 in Whitby and it inspired him, so they say, to write Dracula who first set foot ashore (in the novel) in the form of a dog in Whitby harbour and sought refuge in the cemetery by the Abbey.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 12, 2010 16:51:16 GMT
There is a cemetery near the middle of Cairo for a lot of the servicemen and women who were injured in Egypt during WW II but then died in hospital in the capital. There are two sections to it, front and rear and there is a large empty area between them with a large cross. Those at the front are all the 'whites' who died. The rear is reserved for 'other nationalities' like Indians and Commonwealth nations. Even in death there was discrimination. Also, one old photo of part of the British cemetery at El Alamein. This place was where the advance of Rommel was finally stopped in his push to seize the Suez canal, cutting of the UK from Commonwealth supplies and eventually his aim was to reach the oil fields in Iraq that we relied on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 17:11:51 GMT
Military cemeteries often affect me more, just by knowing how young just about everybody was -- and also that the majority of them did not voluntarily choose to go to that place. And finally, the idea of being buried so far from one's home and family -- or not having a family at all -- is distressing to me.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 12, 2010 17:25:17 GMT
It is distressing to me as well.
bjd - great photos.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 12, 2010 17:53:41 GMT
If I should die, think only this of me; That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke. The Soldier.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 12, 2010 18:45:41 GMT
Sad.... I, too, have seen smaller cemetaries in faraway places such as Kenya. They are still kept well tended.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2010 11:00:13 GMT
For some reason the obelisk features prominently in many of the cemeteries in the NY,New England area. I'm not quite sure why...don't really see it too much down here. Anyway,I've always been fascinated by this shape and would like to have it featured in my garden someday.
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Post by bjd on May 26, 2010 11:32:02 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2010 16:06:53 GMT
What absolutely charming pictures! I love the contrast between the rustic simplicity of Casimira's photos and the gently aging elegance in Bjd's. The history notes about Poland are fascinating. About the obelisks ~~ I think they're less likely to be seen where mausoleums are taking up much of the space, as they do in New Orleans. It's also a matter of when the cemetery was established, as that Egyptian revival style was a feature of the first half of the 19th century. Cemetery aficionados might enjoy reading through this list of symbols.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2010 18:19:30 GMT
Yes, thank you for these great shots and addendum to BJD. And ,thanks Bixa for the link. I will surely peruse this as time allows.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2010 20:49:59 GMT
A WW2 hero buried in Luxembourg
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Post by fumobici on Jun 8, 2010 22:13:56 GMT
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Post by Jazz on Jun 18, 2010 0:30:54 GMT
A small graveyard in Gallipoli, Turkey to honour the Australian fallen of WW1. Given the terrain and blind orders from far away, it was doomed to be a slaughter. The Turks were on top of the hill as the boats arrived. Time passes and wounds heal...a memorial from the Turkish government, The above says, Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now living in the soil of a friendly country therefore, rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets, to us where they lie side by side, here in this country of ours... you, the mothers who sent them from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now living in our bosom and are now in peace. After having lost their lives on our land , they have become our sons as well.
Ataturk, 1934.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2010 11:02:31 GMT
That's such a sad poem, but true in it's words.
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Post by joanne28 on Jun 30, 2010 14:03:55 GMT
Wonderful pictures. I must learn how to post pics soon.
DH & I always visit cemeteries wherever we are. Last summer we found the grave of Stephen Leacock, who is buried in a tiny graveyard surrounding a small church right on Lake Simcoe. I now want to be buried there.
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Post by bjd on Jun 30, 2010 15:04:42 GMT
I just remembered I have these: Muslim cemetery in Mostar, Bosnia. You can see that most of those buried here are young and died in the early 1990s. This cemetery is right along one of the main streeets in the Muslim side of Mostar And these are some old tombs. If I remember correctly, the "turbans" on the tombstones meant the deceased were men.
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Post by bjd on Jun 30, 2010 15:07:39 GMT
And this is a cemetery in Dubrovnik, Croatia. In this section, all the tombs were alike and all the dead (mostly young men too) had died in 1992.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2010 16:40:28 GMT
Oh, those are so interesting, Bjd! And as you point out, it's impossible not to do the sad math -- the dates just jump out with their implications.
That said, if I'd looked at the last picture in #53 without having read your caption, I would have thought that the objects meant the deceased were onions.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2010 17:49:30 GMT
I remember one of the famous quotes from a government minister during the siege of Sarajevo, as the whole world looked on and did nothing. "If only a bomb would drop on the city and oil came spurting out!"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2010 5:08:02 GMT
Unlike most other places, the dead were buried where they fell at the Battle of Gravelotte during the Franco-Prussian war. All over the meadows and forests of the area, you can encounter single graves or little groups of two or three.
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Post by rikita on Jul 21, 2010 21:58:09 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2010 2:01:49 GMT
Yeek! Is that ze count's cape disappearing around the side of that tomb?
Incredible picture, Rikita -- what mood!
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