Cemeteries - About the Graves of prominent Personalities
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(September 23, 2024 06:56 PM)
WarrenPeace September 24, 2024 02:55 AM
Member since October 19, 2021
Looks like it is some artist who made them based on pics and they were in a gallery.
Ok, it's not that important.
That wasn't really the topic anyhow. -
WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(September 23, 2024 07:04 PM)
Well, I was curious as to the bust and I appreciate the insight you shared about it getting stolen.
I also found out that it was not orig. part of the grave.
An add on by an artist fan.
Also nice to see that area was cleaned of the graffiti and hope it stays that way.
"Please vote to preserve the unique character of Warren…" - Robert Duvall -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(September 23, 2024 08:41 PM)
WarrenPeace September 24, 2024 04:04 AM
Member since October 19, 2021
Well, I was curious as to the bust and I appreciate the insight you shared about it getting stolen.
I also found out that it was not orig. part of the grave.
An add on by an artist fan.
Also nice to see that area was cleaned of the graffiti and hope it stays that way.
That reminds to another grave and the stolen stele (candle holder).
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https://www.filmboards.com/t/Pets-and-Animals/Oldies-but-Goldies---Dance-on-Graves-
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ir001 — 1 year ago(October 08, 2024 06:15 AM)
Graves are for us more than for the people that are in them, to look at and consider where they might be. So it is fitting that celebrities should have creative graves, there is nothing wrong with that.
I like making slideshow movies, see
https://littlebits3.com -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(October 08, 2024 06:26 AM)
ir001 October 08, 2024 03:15 PM
Member since April 12, 2023
Graves are for us more than for the people that are in them, to look at and consider where they might be. So it is fitting that celebrities should have creative graves, there is nothing wrong with that.
Thanks for your late and insightful explanation. 🫂 -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(October 24, 2024 02:49 PM)
Because of
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
in France
wanted to know what Louis XIV's 
grave looks like.
https://www.filmboards.com/t/The-Walking-Dead%3A-Daryl-Dixon/Is-anyone-watching-the-Book-of-Carol%3F-3538743/
Of course, I would
NEVER EVER
bomb it, that was a dirty joke!…shame on me.
Soooooooooo, here's THE KING and his grave:
Louis XIV. (1638-1715)
Saint Denis Basilique, northern suburb of Paris, France
His grave doesn't look particularly spectacular for a
SUN KING
.
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I completely forgot that there was a
'small'
Revolution (1789–1799) after his death.
Fortunately, this article explains the details:
https://partylike1660.com/the-plundering-of-the-royal-tombs-of-saint-denis/
(good read with pictures)
And because this article
describes the Saint Denis Basilique so beautifully,
I know where to go next time in Paris.
🤎
Vive la France! -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(October 24, 2024 07:51 PM)
Elle October 24, 2024 11:53 PM
Member since August 30, 2023
You’re so cultured.
You would never find anything like this in America.
Yah yah, feel free to kid me…
"so cultured"
. 🤨
Inspired by the lanters-walking,
dElle
?
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Travel-and-Recreation/Walking-with-Lanterns-
-Laternelaufen-3539081/
You may not find King's graves in the USA.
But there's an impressive old cemetery with an even more impressive church in VA.
The church has beautiful Tiffany windows!
What touched me the most was the story of someone's aunt.
She wasn't allowed to be buried next to the love of her life, even though she lived with him for decades. Just because she was black and he was white. Both are buried there in the cemetery, in different areas.
Blandford Church & Cemetery - Petersburg, Virginia
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Elle — 1 year ago(October 24, 2024 09:46 PM)
Wow!! Nice! I didn’t know about this cemetery. I never lived in VA, just drove through. I thought only New Orleans had the cool graves!
The US has some beautiful Catholic churches.
Had Lincoln not been killed racism probably would have been eradicated! VA was the main slave trading area with monuments celebrating the fact. Racism in the South and Mid-Atlantic still is pretty strong.
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(October 25, 2024 02:58 AM)
Elle October 25, 2024 06:46 AM
Member since August 30, 2023
Wow!! Nice! I didn’t know about this cemetery. I never lived in VA, just drove through. I thought only New Orleans had the cool graves! The US has some beautiful Catholic churches.
Had Lincoln not been killed racism probably would have been eradicated! VA was the main slave trading area with monuments celebrating the fact. Racism in the South and Mid-Atlantic still is pretty strong.
Racism in the North of the USA is still pretty strong too.
And I never lived in VA either, it was just a visit. -
MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(October 24, 2024 08:05 PM)
I suppose that some people like that sort of thing.
Personally, I'd sooner check out where and how they lived.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(October 24, 2024 08:21 PM)
MissMargoChanning October 25, 2024 05:05 AM
Member since August 27, 2018
I suppose that some people like that sort of thing.
Personally, I'd sooner check out where and how they lived.
And that's exactly what fascinates me about cemeteries.
The graves show so much about the people and their sometimes dramatic lives.
Children who died long before their parents.
Or entire families at almost the same time (epidemics?).
And also what the article's author in my OP wrote:
For me, the appeal lies more in the cemeteries as a whole.
In their differences and special features, their small streets and large avenues.
Cemeteries are even better parks and a little handshake with history. -
MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(October 24, 2024 08:25 PM)
There you go. This sort of thing interests you and others…
You have answered your question.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(October 24, 2024 08:31 PM)
MissMargoChanning October 25, 2024 05:25 AM
Member since August 27, 2018
There you go. This sort of thing interests you and others…
You have answered your question.
Yep, I've answered the question for myself long ago.
It's still strange to me when fans kiss gravestones from top to bottom.
Or hold strange cemetery ceremonies, preferably around midnight. -
MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(October 24, 2024 08:39 PM)
That is strange. Sad too, when you consider that these fans/fanatics didn't really know these celebrities.
It's one thing to admire someone for their abilities as an artist, actor, athlete…
It's another if you worship at their gravestones. I'd say that something is missing in their life.
Just my opinion.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(October 25, 2024 03:21 AM)
ASS-BOO SHEET October 25, 2024 06:51 AM
Member since August 6, 2024
i agree. if someone i cared about was doing that, there would be some kind of intervention to be done.
Little stalker ASS had to wag in its stupid ass again. -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(November 03, 2024 09:24 AM)
Fascinating Death Masks of Famous Historical Figures
Featured in this Video
(partly questionable whether they are the real ones):
00:00 Famous Death Masks, Intro
00:40 Dante Alighieri death mask brought to life
01:17 Abraham Lincoln
01:40 Benjamin Franklin
02:04 Cosima Wagner
02:28 Dante Alighieri
02:51 Queen Elizabeth I
03:15 Felix Mendelssohn
03:40 Franz Liszt
04:04 George Washington
04:27 Gustav Mahler
04:52 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
05:16 King Ludwig II of Bavaria
05:39 Lorenzo de Medici
06:04 Ludwig van Beethoven
06:28 Mary Queen of Scots
06:52 Napoleon Bonaparte
07:15 Ned Kelly
07:40 Oliver Cromwell
08:04 Richard Wagner
08:28 Theodore Roosevelt
08:52 William Shakespeare -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(November 03, 2024 10:11 AM)
jeffbauer716 November 03, 2024 06:25 PM
Member since November 3, 2024
Very cool. Maybe you will be on this list some day.
Very cool reply within a minute from a new…err…account.
Yah, there should be more women in the
'hall of fame'
.