Cemeteries - About the Graves of prominent Personalities
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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'
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(November 03, 2024 10:20 AM)
jeffbauer716 November 03, 2024 07:12 PM
Member since November 3, 2024
Women have a hard time getting into the hall of fame because they are not as smart as men.
Of course.
Do you've enough posts now to get into full troll action, young socky? 🧦 -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(December 15, 2024 11:56 AM)
Freddie Mercury's Ashes
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Before his death in 1991, the Queen singer gave his ex-girlfriend Mary Austin instructions about how she should deal with his ashes.
Now there are new speculations as to where it could be hidden.
Were Freddie Mercury's ashes right under our noses all along?
Hardly any other person influenced Freddie Mercury's life as much as Mary Austin.
Even after their separation, both of them shared a very special friendship and also unconditional love.
It was only Mary Austin who was informed of his funeral plans.
In his final months, Freddie Mercury took Mary Austin aside and confided in her his final wish. A public funeral would've been appropriate for the Queen singer's life's work. But things turned out completely differently. Mercury wanted to rest in peace once and for all and that was only possible behind closed doors.
Mary Austin followed a Mysterious Plan
Fans now suspect that Austin assumed the best place to hide was in public and Mercury's ashes were hidden right under their noses the entire time. The singer had divulged funeral plans years before his death:
"If I want a pyramid in Kensington and can afford it, I'll have it."
As Mary later described, the opposite is said to have happened. One day after Sunday dinner he suddenly announced
"I know exactly where you want me to stay. But I don’t want anyone to know that because I don’t want anyone to dig me up."
That’s exactly what he said.
"I just want to rest in peace."
Mary Austin and Freddie Mercury
Mary Austin finally revealed that her friend's resting place will remain her forever secret.
"He didn't want anyone trying to dig him up, as has happened with some famous people. Fans can be really self-indulgent. He wanted it to stay a secret and that’s how it will stay."
She came up with a sophisticated plan. To avoid suspicion, Mercury's ashes remained in the crematorium for months, as Mary Austin reported. She later brought his ashes back home and kept them in his former bedroom. Even though Austin had moved into the house, she didn't use his bedroom.
"One morning I just snuck out of the house with the urn," she said. "It had to be a normal day so that the staff didn't get suspicious - because the staff gossip. You just can't help it. But no one will ever know where he's buried because that was his wish."
According to her own statements, Mary Austin put the Queen frontman's ashes in an inconspicuous plastic bag and finally set off alone. She probably didn't even let her usual driver accompany her.
Freddie Mercury's funeral service was held at West London Crematorium on November 27, 1991.
A pedestal there, like the famous statue on the shore of Lake Geneva, commemorates his life and work.
Fans continue to make pilgrimages to his London home in Garden Lodge, Kensington, where Mary still lives.
Under the Cherry Tree
Many fans now believe that Mary Austin's story is a complete fabrication to distract from the actual burial site. According to them, there's nowhere Mercury would rather be than in his own home. You remember how Mercury once said,
"When I'm old and gray and when it's all over and I cannot wear the costumes and jump around the stage anymore, I'll have something to fall back on, and that's this wonderful house."
Garden Lodge ended up being Mercury's refuge, chosen for him by Mary Austin herself when he asked her to find him a house. These were also the rooms in which the singer spent his last days when he became ill.
Queen and Mercury fans are convinced that Freddie remained in his beloved home even after his death.
The musician had a favourite place in the garden.
In his last months he often rested under a wonderful cherry tree.
Fans now suspect that Mary Austin actually scattered Freddie Mercury's ashes there.
https://www.rollingstone.de/freddie-mercury-queen-asche-mary-austin-2172391
December 12, 2024
Inside Freddie Mercury's Garden Lodge -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(February 22, 2025 02:19 PM)
Egyptian King discovered
First in more than 100 years
"Thutmose II has been unearthed."
Well, Tuthmose II. was a relatively insignificant pharaoh.
He died young, a good 3,500 years ago.
His wife and pharaoh Hatshepsut was very important.
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Egypt also experienced a long period of prosperity under her.
The discovery of Hatshepsut's sarcophagus would be a sensation!
I think that her mummy was already found (unrecognized) and her grave goods were used
shortly after her death (some hundred years later or so) for…err…another one.
In context of the discovery above, the magazin
GEO
linked to an article of December last year.
The so called
"Mummy Portraits"
are much younger and were made during Egypt's
'Greek-/Roman period'
.
Mummy Portraits - What Egyptians looked like 2,000 Years ago
They seem to sight the viewer directly from the afterlife.
More than 2,000 years ago, the custom of equipping mummies with realistic-looking portraits of the deceased was established in Egypt. Especially in the region around the Fayyum oasis west of the Nile, artists created works of great artistry that tell much about the lives of people at that time.
And about their deaths.
This mummy in its original condition from around 80-100 AD shows a mix of Greco-Roman painting and Egyptian burial rite. The portrait is mounted on a thin wooden panel and shows a man with a golden wreath and large, deep-set eyes. The fuzz above his upper lip suggests that he was barely older than his early 20s.
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https://www.geo.de/wissen/weltgeschichte/portraets-von-mumien-zeigen--wie-aegypter-vor-2000-jahren-aussahen--34633192.html
December 13,2024
Great article!
With many fantastic photos and background info.
A window into the past.
"Mummy Portraits"
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️ Funerary Painting of Roman Egypt
Edited: Exchanged the boring video with an interesting one.
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TaraDeS — 10 months ago(May 26, 2025 09:45 AM)
A new thread
about cemeteries here 
️ reminded me to this 
great thread.
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Politics/One-thing-the-government-does-better-than-private-sector.-3572512/
I don't want to be any more of a nuisance there.
So, enjoy the wonderful
Wu Ming
.
Wu Ming
is my other account, just for those who supposedly don't know yet.