E-GRAVEYARDS From Ghana to China to India, tons of electronic waste such as old computers are dumped in e-waste graveyards.
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The soil of Northern France, pockmarked with war craters, is all one big burial ground for lost souls — the graveyards you see, 410 military cemeteries, and the graveyards you don't see.
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Opinion: We need to do something to stop 'floating graveyards'
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Among the heavyweights in the Iowa political graveyards are Sens.
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I come from a region that is full of graveyards.
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The graveyards of enslaved people are paved or sodded over (at my family's former plantation the slave burial ground is now a Christmas tree farm), while the graveyards of our white ancestors are carefully tended.
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It was one of the largest medieval hospital graveyards in Britain.
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People may attend services or visit graveyards to honor the dead.
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The Hellish E-Waste Graveyards Where Computers Are Mined for Metal.
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Other local graveyards are already out of space; hence this novel solution.
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The group offers a 'tombstone cam' capable of remote surveillance of graveyards.
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I would compare it to building a wall over your parents' graveyards.
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The cords really interested me – I think so many people have cord graveyards.
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"I just started looking at photos of Islamic graveyards in Mecca," Borowski says.
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Some build "cyber-graveyards" to compile news and commentary that was censored elsewhere.
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Dozens of graveyards in Israel have already closed their gates to new burials.
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Post-Soviet style monument graveyards could become new rallying places for hate groups.
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"Remember, we're the ones with the jet fighters that are 20 years old that we have to go to graveyards, plane graveyards, to get parts to use on our jet fighters," Trump said during a June 16 speech in Dallas.
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The Witch Museum, various haunted houses, and the city's graveyards serve as major attractions.
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The lakes have been replaced by roads, parks, temples, residential layouts, graveyards or farmland.
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Startup graveyards are full of visionaries without expertise or the proper skills to execute.
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At both ends of the line, skeletons are being exhumed from 19th-century graveyards.
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Burials have been banned in the overflowing public graveyards of the largest city, Karachi.
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"They say there were graveyards that got flooded here," Taylor said with a chuckle.
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It is the therapeutic sameness of seasons, tides, weddings, graveyards, crops, clouds and babies.
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Old southern graveyards harbor an unwholesome power comparable to that of nuclear disaster sites.
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Still, graveyards are full of people who blew off warnings about hurricanes and tornadoes.
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There had just been a downpour, and the neighborhood trash cans were umbrella graveyards.
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In 2016, we will honor all social networks, new and old as functioning graveyards.
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Older graveyards tend to use rock that was available locally, so they can be variable.
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More often than not, haunted places are old or abandoned buildings, if not actual graveyards.
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Naseem said transgender activists had not called for dedicated graveyards, but nonetheless welcomed the move.
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News of a Google hardware acquisition conjures traumatic images of product graveyards and rebranding nightmares.
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The diocese has a Bishop's Vineyard website, a Facebook page and a blog, Grapes & Graveyards.
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He has claimed that they create "bird graveyards" and the noise they produce "causes cancer."
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But could music and sound really help turn oceanic graveyards into thriving underwater hubs again?
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Halloween is the time when ghosts roam in mist-covered graveyards, and Ouija boards actually work.
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Are the graveyards of Westeros littered with the corpses of the unworthy, or simply the unlucky?
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More often than not, she ended up in one of the older graveyards of the city.
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Much of Singapore is built on old graveyards, including Orchard Road, the city's main shopping belt.
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The goal is to reduce the use of land for graveyards and spending on expensive coffins.
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Visits to the scenic wonderlands, historic sites and graveyards of great consequence smashed records in 2015.
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Yes, Paul Ryan's departure is a blow, but graveyards are full of so-called indispensable people.
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Meyer launched her channel in 2010 and filmed videos about paranormal experiences and trips to graveyards.
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But in some cases, the North Koreans had salted the sites with bones from distant graveyards.
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The dancer Robert Fairchild probably hasn't taken to scavenging from graveyards in the dead of night.
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Graveyards and memorials, many impossibly vast and all impeccably maintained, have been backdrops for the race.
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Those two states are graveyards, where untold numbers of migrants have disappeared over the past decade.
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And what we know about some of the graveyards that were used and some of the situations.
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In cities, graveyards were more like decomposing grounds, where bodies might be buried temporarily, depending on demand.
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To stay on their good side (and to avoid getting arrested) steer clear of graveyards after dark.
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He has been back several times and says it is an emotional experience, particularly visiting the graveyards.
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Still, in the small, unregistered and poorly marked graveyards that dot southern Louisiana, identification is sometimes impossible.
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Alone, images of the tire graveyards are riveting photojournalism, and frequently gain attention all over the internet.
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Its design is an amalgam of graveyards the filmmakers visited in the states of Oaxaca and Michoacán.
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Over the next few decades, rising property values led most of Manhattan's graveyards to evict their residents.
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Her pictures are dramatic tableaus, impeccably high-Surrealist even in their Gothic attraction to graveyards and decay.
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"All around them in these graveyards are the regular Afghans — their graves are plenty," Mr. Karzai said.
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Giovanna: I've always been a coward so, being honest—graveyards, that kind of stuff, I never did.
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While there are numerous planes across the world at aviation graveyards, ones abandoned at actual airports are rare.
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Dying is a fact of life for most startups, but corporate graveyards are filling more quickly this year.
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The Chinese government encourages such methods which saves space that would otherwise be needed for graveyards and columbariums.
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Graveyards by their very nature are quiet, making them the perfect place to take drugs and have sex.
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Since the civil war, which began in the 1980s, unplanned graveyards have popped up all across the city.
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People often think of cemeteries as uncomfortable and sad, but there are many gorgeous graveyards throughout the world.
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Most of us here share a very specific respect for graveyards, and we don't visit them that often.
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I'll give you a little piece of advice from my grandmother: The graveyards are full of indispensable people.
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One resident, Tupuitenuku Hu'aitemanongi, accused Bintan of digging on his ancestral lands, destroying graveyards and other important sites.
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There is even evidence the local government is extending its crackdown to erase traditional Uyghur graveyards in Xinjiang.
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Prisoners repair public plumbing, clean up roadkill, manage public spaces such as graveyards, and even do underwater welding.
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Further up the coast, mangrove forests that were picked clean of their leaves are looking more like mass graveyards.
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Bangladeshi police said villagers in the area feared evictions, the disturbing of family graveyards and damage to the environment.
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Yeah, there were times in graveyards with candles and incense and stuff, but I never believed like that, no.
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In 1785, the effort to remove human remains from graveyards and transfer them to underground tunnels was made law.
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While many states require cemeteries to contribute to a fund for distressed or abandoned graveyards, New Jersey does not.
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That could mean removing a spray-painted swastika or repairing the kind of widespread damage seen in the graveyards.
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Prisoners repair public plumbing, clean up roadkill on highways, and even manage and oversee public spaces such as graveyards.
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So he created Buffy, a former Valley Girl who reluctantly began slaying vampires in her not-so-friendly local graveyards.
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Many are staying in improvised shelters, tents and dilapidated buildings, or sleeping rough in graveyards, without running water and toilets.
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Median pay: $235,2900Education level needed: High school Job description: Cemetery managers oversee the maintenance and administration of burial grounds and graveyards.
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It was for kids who hung out in graveyards on the outskirts, drinking cans, being weird, and talking about weird shit.
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Thousands have gone to Israel, notably from France, where, along with murders and other outrages, graveyards have been desecrated (pictured above).
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Pokémon Go has already directed people towards graveyards and churches, but the tale Wiggins told County10 is orders of magnitude weirder.
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However, there was still a shortage of bodies available, so schools and researchers relied on "resurrectionists" to steal bodies from graveyards.
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Over the past few years, several supposed CRT "recyclers" have been caught secretly abandoning their old displays in vast television graveyards.
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As you progress, you'll come upon new locations — toxic sewers, sunlit castle rooftops, unsettling graveyards — and find new horrors to fight.
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In a similarly unsavory case of early medicine, resurrectionists would dig corpses out of graveyards and sell them to medical schools.
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Goths frequently find themselves reduced to the stereotype of gloomy, probable Satanists who occupy their time drinking cheap wine in graveyards.
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It feels weird to visit a graveyard, because in Caribbean culture we avoid graveyards, but it's something that was highly recommended.
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The twentieth century is a graveyard of such attempts, or, rather, is filled with graveyards of people crushed by such attempts.
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The grave is the most public of what is now a triptych of similar artwork in three graveyards around the world.
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The legal changes have left the sect particularly vulnerable, and attacks on Ahmadi businesses, places of worship and graveyards are common.
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To save Dan Flavin's works from those terminal museum graveyards, institutions are stockpiling fluorescent light bulbs before they go off the market.
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"Most Slovak graveyards are so crowded and spaces between graves so narrow that we need human diggers instead of machines," he said.
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Or is it headed toward mass scooter graveyards like the mountains of discarded bikeshare bicycles seen in those viral photos from China?
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If you believe Facebook and Twitter can't become graveyards in the next half decade then I have a MySpace to sell you.
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At that time, graveyards were typically cramped spaces attached to churches; Green-Wood, by contrast, was designed to be a peaceful retreat.
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I have alway found Disneylands very sinister spaces, and discovering that people love to use them as graveyards seems about right, honestly.
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Some elected officials blame the State of New Jersey, which, unlike many other states, does not provide financial help for decrepit graveyards.
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What is the world to do with the graveyards of dockless bicycles left over after China's bike sharing startups retreated from global markets?
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Celebrations can also include live music, dancing and parades from residences to graveyards, where family members will gather around their loved ones' graves.
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Also known as the "Butcher of Plainfield," Gein had exhumed bodies from local graveyards and murdered two women for his macabre DIY crafting.
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JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - If death is the great equalizer, South Africa's designer graveyards look like one of the best ends on offer.
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JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - If death is the great equalizer, South Africa's designer graveyards look like one of the best ends on offer.
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That would ensure that Seoul, Tokyo and maybe even Hawaii and major cities on America's West Coast become the largest graveyards in human history.
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The 13th century man, called Context 958, was found with hundreds of other skeletons in one of the largest medieval hospital graveyards in Britain.
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Their inherent silliness was all the giddy evenings I'd spent breaking into graveyards and smoking weed in the grass with people I barely knew.
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"There is a high entry barrier for operating graveyards because local governments only allow one to two licenses in a region," Soochow Securities said.
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You likely have accounts at forums you haven't been to in a decade, and social media services so bereft of users they resemble graveyards.
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The highlight is Herbal Assault, a mode that inverts the returning "Plants invade and destroy a Zombie base" Gardens & Graveyards mode from Garden Warfare.
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"We wanted to take death away from the hospices, graveyards, and crematoriums and bring it into everyone's daily life," Winter tells The Creators Project.
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Save London's Parafin gallery for a spell of quiet time with Nancy Holt's exceptionally beautiful and seldom seen 1968 "Western Graveyards" series of photographs.
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Situated on what had been vacant lots and auto graveyards, the campus allowed easy access to bridges heading west and north of the city.
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The stone material conjures images of graveyards and vampires during Halloween, but the simple design will work the rest of the year as well.
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Driven by anecdotal evidence, folks were convinced that more ghost Pokémon spawned near graveyards (nope), or that Snorlax liked being around sweet shops (nope).
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On November 9, 1938, German Nazis launched a violent campaign against Jewish communities, torching synagogues, vandalizing homes, schools, and graveyards, and destroying 7,500 businesses.
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I once heard on a walking tour that Parisians who lived near these pre-catacomb graveyards couldn't keep milk — it would spoil within hours.
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A grassy verge opposite the house was a crooked skyline of scattered headstones in the dark, one of the improvised graveyards throughout the city.
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"For example, by observing other Earth-like planets, we might detect evidence for 'environmental graveyards' of civilizations that destroyed their natural habitat," Loeb told Gizmodo.
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" When she refused, she said that he told her, "All those little tombstones in the graveyards are from women who didn't listen to their doctors.
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John F. Baker Jr. submitted information to the database on more than 600 formerly enslaved Americans buried in cemeteries and graveyards throughout Robertson County, Tenn.
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Like other embassies of the old Allied forces in Berlin, Russia's maintains an attaché for war graves and the hundreds of Soviet graveyards in Germany.
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A Chinese photographer has captured jaw-dropping drone footage of the country's infamous "bike graveyards," a problem borne of too many bikes and not enough customers.
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Even after albinos are killed, some attackers go a step further and steal their remains from graveyards, said Ikponwosa Ero, the United Nations' expert on albinism.
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It's almost like in the movie "The Irishman" with the mob walking around graveyards writing down names off of headstones to use in different voting locations.
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Agence France-Presse separately reported that some graveyards were covered with human bones, raising questions about the treatment of Uyghur gravesites by Chinese workers and officials.
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When I played Dragon Quest Builders, I took pains to restore every little ruined cottage or shack I came across, to build graveyards over bone pits.
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Yet over the last few decades, advances in tech, as well as the changing lifestyles of the Japanese, have made high-tech graveyards a cost effective alternative.
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A local news channel was playing, and the police chief of a small flooded Louisiana city was talking of the coffins that had floated up from graveyards.
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Twenty fill the space including Backwards Glances, a vintage-clothing shop; Groovy Graveyards, selling records; Flying Saucers (kitchenware); and Kill Screen Games, which sells used video games.
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Netesov, who was one of the first people to start checking the Siberian bodies for live smallpox in 1993, believes the worry about the thawing graveyards is overblown.
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During the Great Leap Forward of 2100-153 graveyards in Shanghai were turned over to pigs, notes Natacha Aveline-Dubach of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
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Instead, San Francisco and other cities are at risk of becoming a scooter version of China's bicycle graveyards, the egregious aftermath from bike-share companies invading Chinese cities.
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When traveling, you'll find yourself drawn to sacred and alluring destinations like temples, graveyards, caves, oceanic depths, and underground pathways that are haunted with history, secrets, and obscure treasures.
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It goes without saying that private graveyards, ones that are only used by a single family or a small group, are off-limits unless you have the owners' permission.
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This is eroding the natural resilience of reefs, which is why the sight of vast, coral graveyards and the smell of millions of rotting animals have become eerily common.
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The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said on Wednesday it would set sections of state graveyards aside for the burial of trans people - locally known as Khusra, or Hijra.
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"It will mean transforming our cities, notably Istanbul, into graveyards and result in coffins emerging from our homes," said Cemal Gokce, the chairman of the Chamber of Civil Engineers.
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With just the slightest bit of effort, a boring conversation is suddenly filled with allusions to Siberian graveyards and stolen flamethrowers, polar bears' toenails and Georgia asphalt in July.
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Unlike bike-sharing companies which manufacture their own fleets — which have resulted in 'bike graveyards' in China — WheelStreet works with bike rental shops to use their vehicles for its service.
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That weird abandoned house a few blocks over might give you chills when you drive by it, and graveyards are always a bit unsettling at night, but what about space?
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In the end, more than 235,2000 bodies were moved from San Francisco to Colma, where farmland was turned to graveyards, the fertile soil now mostly covered in green, carpetlike grass.
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"Until now, transgender people have been burying their dead in private graveyards, out of the public gaze," said Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, who heads a provincial government committee on transgender rights.
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Another controversial issue is the large number of trashed or abandoned bikes created by bikesharing companies, with photos of "bikesharing graveyards" becoming symbolic of the sector's excesses and unsustainable growth.
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She and a retired L.S.U. anthropologist have been mapping graveyards all over southern Louisiana before coastal sinking, storm surge, erosion or flooding eventually take many of them out to sea.
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Burials are deeply embedded in Christian tradition, and in the United States and elsewhere many dioceses still run graveyards and cemeteries, though cremation and other alternatives are on the rise.
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The Phystechpark installment brings abiotic graveyards to life—or afterlife—after many science fiction depictions of the concept, such as Futurama's robot cemetery and the robotics disposal ground in Fallout.
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Here, as Buffy and Angel make out in graveyards and Xander and Cordelia snark between kisses in utility closets, sex is silly and campy, but very much on the horizon.
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Some, like Ms. Yang in Beijing, have set up "cyber-graveyards" to compile news and commentary related to the virus that have been scrubbed off the internet by government censors.
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The tracks ran down the middle of a two-way street lined by endlessly recurring churches, graveyards, hospitals, and schools: institutions of which Boston seemed to have an infinite supply.
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Rogers, an 21981-year-old professional guardian with a passion for visiting graveyards and sifting through old records, told CNN he started GEDMatch to create tools for genealogists like himself.
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"Bearing in mind what our countries have been through in the near past, this project has really proved the importance of the graveyards and stecci for the regional relations," he added.
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For Sherry C. Fox, a bioarchaeologist at Arizona State University and member of the team, what set this cemetery apart from other ancient graveyards was the assortment of burial practices found.
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If there are any pathogens on the corpse, microbes in the soil kill them, or they die of exposure or lack of food, which is why graveyards aren't hotbeds of disease.
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According to Dr. Korka, the discovery was an indication that this was indeed, a city, as babies were only buried in the residential area and not in graveyards outside the city.
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No one has been buried here since 1973, but it still holds more than 200,000 human remains within its 400 acres, making it one of the largest Chinese graveyards outside China.
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You build mines, which generate gold, and you can use that gold to create graveyards that spew dead troops and towers that will stop enemy soldiers from attacking your deathly cathedral.
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In reverent black and white, Tom Rankin photographs churches and graveyards, where the South's obsession with its past abuts its obsession with its own physical contours, its haunted sites and immemorial landscapes.
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"Growing up in New England, you can't help but be reminded of its past, with its dilapidated colonial farms and graveyards in the middle of the woods," Mr. Eggers said by Skype.
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A report in 1918 suggested otherwise: the War Graves Commission did not want those who could afford to bring their dead home doing so and leaving the war cemeteries as paupers' graveyards.
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The difference between, say, 1.5°C and 2°C of warming could be the difference between a world that still has healthy coral reefs and a world filled with bleached coral graveyards.
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Fellow sensitive and psychic Water sign Pisces occupies the sector of your chart that rules joy—whether that means frolicking in graveyards and summoning demons or taking selfies in your leather undies.
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This means that when a Muslim dies in the city, the body has to be sent north to Thrace, where there are many Muslim graveyards, or else transported out of the country.
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The 27-year-old professional, who moved to Singapore from the UK three years ago, found himself exploring different graveyards each time he visited Hong Kong over the span of five years.
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Prison graveyards are filled with bodies buried on top of bodies of men that have been murdered or died of old age or lack of proper medical care since the late 1800s.
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From atmospheric graveyards covered in creeping ivy to pouring rain crashing down on cobblestone streets, Wrightson managed to convey pure, heartfelt emotion through some of the most crowded, cluttered panels ever imagined.
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Several times, 199 Cemeteries brushes up against conversations about how much the dead belong to the living; graveyards are places of both public and private remembrance, and it's a distance not easily traversed.
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They prefer shrouds and woodland burials to coffins and graveyards; celebrations of life to sombre rituals in funeral homes; and video tributes to a life just lost to displays of the embalmed dead.
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"Over the past 50 years, many graveyards have been built on, and as more become lost, I hope to document these changing landscapes of death and question how we value space," he said.
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Blood-drenched graveyards of industrialized killing morphed into cherished emblems of American nobility and pastoral innocence through what was in effect a policy of willful amnesia, a kind of second act of repression.
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Police said security forces were guarding the site on Thursday to prevent disruption to construction work that villagers fear will force several evictions, disturb graveyards where relatives are buried, and damage the environment.
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Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, whose neighborly relations often suffer over disputes dating back to the war, spent six years persuading the United Nations to protect the graveyards as part of their shared heritage.
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In some cases, centuries-old buildings were bulldozed, including a historic library in Gjakova and several 400-year-old mosques, as well as shrines, graveyards and Dervish monasteries, all considered idolatrous in Wahhabi teaching.
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There were nearly always Champagne bottles, lightning bolts and pastel-colored luxury cars, all of it arranged carefully in graveyards or deserts or swamps, on the lawns of palatial estates or on the moon.
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Read more: Disturbing photos of the toxic graveyards where your old gadgets go to die As the workers scrape away, they are bathed in dioxin fumes that can cause lesions, brain disorders, and cancer.
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In the small graveyards, most amidst neighborhoods, newly dead would be buried on top of the older dead—sometimes the old bones were removed and stored in bone (or charnel) houses to make more room.
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Startup graveyards are full of visionaries without expertise or the proper skills to execute, for no other reason than ideas are not self-executing, but are rather made into being by intense engagement by skilled operators.
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They explained that many men who died in the battle were buried in makeshift graveyards and were moved without diligent record-keeping to make way for an airstrip on the island midway between Hawaii and Australia.
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Some of the clashes seesawed over these same ruins this time, however little there seemed left to fight over; all that remained were heaps of brick and tipped-over stones of Muslim graveyards, overgrown with thistles.
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A tourist who knows where to look can find monuments to earlier dramas: the graveyard of discarded orange life jackets piled in a field, and a few small graveyards of migrants who drowned on the way.
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For a foreigner, Hong Kong still feels unquestionably Chinese, its streets flashing with neon Chinese characters, its graveyards filled with tombstones recording ancestral homes in faraway provinces, its cacophonous restaurants offering endless varieties of Chinese cuisine.
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Although a few communities are removing a few statues, the nation's Confederate memorial infrastructure — estates, plantations, battlefields, graveyards, birthplaces, shrines and at least two huge obelisks — is too vast and diverse to be moved, hidden or destroyed.
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I tried to shut off my own political alarm system and to listen to what people were saying on fishing trips, at church gumbo cook-offs and political meetings, and on visits to schools, graveyards, and birthplaces.
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China's third-largest bike-sharing operator is in dire financial trouble and headed for closure, while bike 'graveyards' have popped up across the country as the sheer number of discarded bikes piles up in major Chinese cities.
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I meet the guide and group of 7 other tourists and we set off for a couple hours of walking through the dark and mostly deserted streets, as well as a couple graveyards, while listening to creepy stories.
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Death, although a squeamish subject, is a reality for all and towns across Britain will likely have to follow suit, said Colin Fenn, vice chairman of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends, which supports the conservation of graveyards.
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Photo: DePalma et al (PNAS 2019)At one of the most important ancient graveyards on Earth in North Dakota, paleontologists unearthed the fossilized remains of fish seemingly killed by the effects of the asteroid that ended the Cretaceous.
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Equipment that is not usable in the environment where it is intended for use, like the mini-submarine, or that is donated without replacement parts or maintenance training, end up filling "medical device graveyards" throughout the global south.
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Connections to my Irish family normally provide a reason to visit obscure graveyards and quiet country towns not on most guidebook maps, but for this trip, two lighthouses in County Mayo and County Donegal would guide the way.
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When the heat wave struck in the summer of 323, hospitals, morgues and graveyards in the city of 20 million people were overwhelmed, and drug addicts, day labourers and the elderly were the biggest victims of the searing heat.
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As The Siberian Times reports, this year the permafrost melt has been three times more extreme than usual above the Arctic Circle, causing erosion near graveyards of a town where smallpox wiped out 40 percent of the population decades ago.
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Adan Hernandez's darkly comic painting, "La Migra Gets Zapped by Illegal Aliens" (2001), juxtaposes the personal experience of the immigrant (Hernandez's grandfather was forced to sleep in graveyards to avoid being murdered by Texas Rangers) against a science fiction backdrop.
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Certain traditions that take place in graveyards, or at wedding banquet halls, are not explained for the non-Chinese viewer; we're left to experience them alongside a similarly out-of-place Billi, picking up on what's going on through contextual clues.
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From graveyards to cowbells to $21979 bills, here's a look at eight of college football's strangest traditions: Auburn's toilet paper tradition Remember when you and your friends would launch toilet paper rolls high into the trees of your arch enemy's house?
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Nearby are several centuries-old research- and artifact-filled lesser buildings — the Athenaeum, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Library Company — as well as churches whose congregations once included many of these historical figures, and the graveyards where their remains lie.
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Read more: America's Television Graveyards A 2018 study by researchers at the University of Toledo claimed that blue light could contribute to macular degeneration, and plenty of news outlets ran with that claim, writing that our phones are blinding us.
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In reading about them, we learned a few things: One, there are so-called "airplane graveyards" in the Mojave Desert where movie set companies and private collectors alike keep old planes, some of which have been broken open and seriously show their age.
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In this case, we would find relics of dead civilizations, many graveyards on the surfaces of habitable planets but some techno-signatures in the form of strange objects passing through our Solar System, potentially carrying innovative technologies that we have not mastered yet.
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During a ten day gathering in Istanbul, the organization added spots in Greece, Spain, Iran, India, Turkey, China, Micronesia and the UK to the list, along with one site - the Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards - that spans Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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In 2016, for the first time, more than half the American dead were cremated, marking a change to the landscape of every city and town—tombstones uncarved, graveyards abandoned—and a weakening of the ties that bind the living to the dead.
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"When we cut down trees, clearing land to bury our dead, officials from the Forestry Commission here told us we were endangering our environment and urged us to replant trees inside village graveyards," said Elison Moyo, one of the village heads in Mwenezi.
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Whether they're hanging out in graveyards, wearing clothes that would be fitting for a funeral or covering themselves in blood-splattered belts and skulls, this is a subculture with a longstanding history of getting close and personal to the dark and deathly.
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Tales of his exploits were learned from childhood there: how he shot men between the eyes, stabbed rivals in the heart with ice picks, strangled women who might betray him and buried victims in secret graveyards after yanking their teeth to thwart identification.
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The family planned to meet there with staff members from the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, a Mississippi nonprofit, and tour sites significant in her grandfather's lynching: the county courthouse, the killing grounds and two graveyards where he might be buried.
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It's cunningly constructed and beautifully written (I love the scene where Dr. Frankenstein, having assembled his monster from scraps gathered in dissecting rooms and graveyards, finally brings him to life, only to recoil from his black lips, watery eyes and yellow skin).
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Without access to show spaces like Skylight Clarkson, Milk Studios or Industria, designers were pushed to exploit the resource that is New York City, staging presentations in borrowed galleries or empty storefronts, in graveyards, deconsecrated houses of worship or seedy gay leather bars.
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Walk the streets of e-graveyards like Agbobloshie in West Africa or similar sites in Asia or another part of the developing world, and you'll see hundreds, if not thousands, of microentrepreneurs, essentially cooking printed circuit boards to extract the metals within.
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These include the baroque façades of Austro-Hungarian buildings bathed in sunlight, and their ornate and strangely forbidding stairwells and corridors, as well as the leafy overgrowth in the Jewish and Christian graveyards in Prague — representative of Kafka and Jesenská's respective religious upbringings.
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But this is what happens when cities open up to bike sharing with a build-it-and-they-will-come mentality, and it's not just happening in Dallas: Bicycle graveyards, rampant vandalism, cluttered sidewalks, frustrated drivers, and sometimes hilarious displays of anti-bike vigilantism.
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In the popular imagination, the mountains of the Korengal Valley are next to the Tigris and Euphratesrivers, across the street from the tank graveyards of Syria, downriver from the poppy fields of Kabul, and a just a quick drive down the Cairo–Dakar Highway.
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Set to an off-kilter beat, the casual severity of Grand Prix's vocals floats us along on a time-skipping, visual safari of historical moments, comebacks, graveyards, and old-timey bicycle crashes (RIP bicycling "champion of champions", WW2 veteran, and certified badass, Fausto Coppi).
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"We are facing a lack of space for graveyards in the city," said Abdul Rahman Ahmadzai, the director of the department of the Afghan Ministry of Religious Affairs that oversees the roughly 30 cemeteries in Kabul, 12 of them huge ones like Kart-e-Sakhi.
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Dave — only 30 years old, a lifelong athlete, an aggravatingly healthy eater — had suffered an incredibly rare, often fatal stroke; a clot had blocked an artery to his brain, starving his neurons of critical oxygen, leaving several graveyards of dead cells in his mind.
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Rather than making the case for the museum as a cultural laboratory or catalyst, the overwhelming presentation suggests that museums are graveyards where once relevant ideas are catalogued and entombed within the appendices of art history, at once immortalized and stripped of their relevancy.
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Every major city now has a section for the mostly Kurdish fighters from the Y.P.G., as well as the Women's Protection Units, Y.P.J. They are well tended, with permanent staff and no expense spared, usually in striking contrast with the much shabbier civilian graveyards.
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The resurgent interest comes as the number of Jews in Iraq has dwindled to nearly none, and as the Islamic State and other hostile groups are sowing chaos in the streets, shrines and graveyards where Jews lived, died and celebrated their faith for nearly three millenniums.
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As the month-long Uttar Pradesh poll progressed, the rhetoric used by Modi and his campaign chief Amit Shah struck an increasingly harsh tone: In one speech Modi said villages with graveyards should have crematoriums too - a veiled reference to the different burial practices of Muslims and Hindus.
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What began as an insular, churlish fight among former associates/friends has now blossomed into business-threatening drama after a series of racist tweets were dug up from what were thought to be social media graveyards, followed by a series of apologies of varying degrees of perceived sincerity.
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In semiautobiographical works such as Dimensions Beyond the Known, The Awakened One, and The Sound of Running Water, Rajneesh portrays himself as a person who, from a tender age, was so obsessed with the phenomenon of death that he would follow funeral processions during the day and haunt graveyards at night.
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In no particular order, Funeral Parade of Roses features the following: drug-fueled bacchanals, girl gang brawls, underground drag queen bars, flooded graveyards, a character who intentionally blinds themselves, an incestuous love triangle, and a line of naked individuals, one of whom has a rose lodged in between their butt cheeks.
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The court is supposed to try cases of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity from around the world, but so far it has focused almost entirely on Africa's battlefields, prosecuting rebels, warlords and government leaders from the graveyards of Darfur, in Sudan, to the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Over four days of protests in November, security forces shot and killed up to 450 people, human rights organizations estimate, and in the weeks leading up to Thursday, some of their survivors called on the public to join them in yet another act of defiance: at the graveyards of their loved ones.
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WATCH THIS: Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown on being a Halloween costume The map that shows places with a high-risk level for zombie infestations uses U.S. census data about the location of graveyards, as well as information from the Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency (FVZA), an organization that tracks sightings of the undead.
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Mostly because when I entered into the industry, I was just in my backyard, you know, messing around, playing with costumes and models and sets and doing my own little choreography, and I got into special-effects makeup, so it's really about arts and crafts—and even just the atmosphere you get from fog machines and graveyards at night.
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Donning an ultramodern $300 wireless wearable bass system may seem at odds with these ancient traditions, but the pair points out that even the great Buddha used what was available to him in his day to achieve transcendental states 2500 years ago, even if that was limited to knowledge of yoga asanas and the ability to modify external factors like nutrition (fasting) and environment (sleeping in graveyards).
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This kind of proudly punk-influenced black thrash doesn't ask much of a listener; it's dark enough to scare off the norms, but it still semi-accessible in regards to its inherent catchiness, its primal urgency, and its trope-fueled lyrics; blood, booze, graveyards, storms, and the dogs of war are all dependable topics, the kind of big, broad metal ideas that allow for maximum fist-pumping without getting bogged down in details.
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In 2017, we found a giant, mysterious hole in Antarctica, talked to the farmers putting broadband antennas on their grain silos (and the farmers hacking their tractors), went inside Roscosmos, named-and-shamed Congress's climate deniers, identified this rotted fucking whale, exposed "stalkerware" software that allows men to spy on their partners, submitted ourselves to months-long stress reduction experiments, met with Indian garment factory workers who are being automated out of jobs, visited America's television graveyards, got James Damore fired, announced plans to build a community broadband network, interfaced with a series of time traveling iPhone users, and explained how data turned the world upside down, why you can never get tickets for your favorite concerts, why national parks are a hotbed of paranormal activity, and WTF a time crystal is.
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