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Makeup Said Part Of Death Ritual For Royals In Ancient Mexican Civilization Of Teotihuacan
Death didn’t mean the end of beauty for pre-Hispanic civilizations in what is now Mexico. A new study finds that ancient Teotihuacans likely exhumed the dead and painted them with cosmetics during periodic remembrance rituals.
Where Not To Die In 2013
Think you don’t have to worry about estate taxes because of the new generous federal estate tax law? Not so, for families in 21 states and the District of Columbia where separate state levies are still a big concern.
(Source: infaithispeace)
Louisiana Cemeteries Sinking Along The Gulf Coast, Washing Away
Local residents say 11 cemeteries in Jefferson Parish have repeatedly flooded since Hurricane Katrina. In Lafourche, Terrebonne and Plaquemines parishes, more than a dozen others have succumbed to tidal surge. Some have more than 300 gravesites.
A Shocking Death, a Financial Lesson and Help for Others
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Men Twice As Likely To Lie About A Death To Get Time Off: Survey
Bereavement time has been used for vacation by 26 percent of workers surveyed and jury duty by 27 percent, according to a quarterly survey conducted by Adecco Group North America.
Phony funeral lands ex-mortician in prison
When the casket that was supposed to hold the earthly remains of “Jim Davis” was finally lowered into the ground, the only thing missing was the late Mr. Davis. The coffin had been weighed down to simulate the approximate heft of a corpse. And Davis was not inside the box.
Abney Park Cemetery, London
Oh, I’m sorry, Highgate, but I have a new favourite cemetery. As it’s one of the original ‘Magnificent Seven’, I knew it would be massive and mostly Victorian, but - having been to Kensal Green and Hampstead recently - I thought it might be like those; flat and open, with boulevards and over-the-top monuments. It’s not. It’s much more like Highgate, in that it’s rambly, dense, overgrown, a little ramshackle in places; with lots of little pathways and almost-hidden nooks. Even on a muddy, overcast December day it was beautiful.
Flanders Rushes To Repair Cemeteries Ahead Of Anniversary
About 2,000 headstones will be replaced with new ones, identical to the originals. Those to be replaced are marked in the corner with a small red X. Another 7,000 stones will be re-engraved. The rows of stones will be realigned into geometric perfection, the landscaping trimmed and renewed.
Oscar Wilde’s Tomb Sealed From Admirers’ Kisses
Recently, descendants of Wilde, the Irish dramatist and wit who died here in 1900, decided to have his immense gravestone cleansed of a vast accumulation of lipstick markings from kisses left by admirers, who for years have been defacing, and some say eroding, the memorial in hilly Père Lachaise Cemetery here. But the decision meant not only cleaning the stone, a flying nude angel by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, who was inspired by the British Museum’s Assyrian figures, but also erecting a seven-foot plate glass wall to keep ardent admirers at a distance.
The grave of Andrea di Mariano Casentini (1855-1870) in Il Cimitero degli Inglesi, Florence
Virtual grieving: Funerals via webcast
Can’t make it to the funeral of a loved one or friend because of the distance? Now all you need is an Internet hookup — and the secure link.
Jewish Tombstones Found In Greece's Thessaloniki
In a find that local Jewish groups have described as highly significant, Greek police said Thursday that hundreds of marble headstones and other fragments from Jewish graves destroyed during the Nazi occupation in World War II have been recovered.
