Volunteers (and wreaths) are still needed to decorate veterans' headstones.
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Their headstones stand together in a cemetery in San Remo, Italy.
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The headstones were spray-painted sometime between midnight and 7 a.m.
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Within minutes, the graves were covered and marked by two headstones.
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Headstones are cracked, askew, even shattered, by nature or by vandals.
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The procession makes its way past row upon row of white headstones.
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It's a beautiful and historic cemetery with gorgeous tombs, headstones and mausoleums.
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Nor are extras such as headstones, flowers or fees for death certificates.
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Headstones are nearly covered by snow at Arlington National Cemetery, Saturday, Jan.
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CHICAGO — At Veronica Lopez's Sweet 16 party, children played among the headstones.
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Most of its burials had headstones with names, dates and sometimes epitaphs.
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Almost two decades later, the number of white headstones is still growing.
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I stood next to their headstones right outside the church's side door.
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He had to give clients the headstones and markers they had purchased.
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The Jewish community swung into action to repair the headstones, she said.
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The desecration of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
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I averaged out the dates on maybe 30 headstones and came up with an average age of death at about 18 or 19, though it wasn't uncommon to see headstones for people who died at 13 or 14.
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Headstones at the Eli Jackson Cemetery near the US-Mexico border in Texas.
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I can't say I care nearly as much about the other headstones here.
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The fading Fratesi and Mancini headstones stand like hieroglyphs of a lost civilisation.
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Then volunteers proceed to the various sections to place the wreaths on headstones.
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Or the ancient headstones in the cemetery, the oldest of which is 280.
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It is worth noting that one of those headstones is that of Cpl.
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Ms. Brunette said the vandal did not appear to target any specific headstones.
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Many of the headstones marked graves from the 1920s through 1940s, she said.
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As of Tuesday afternoon, the cemetery was able to reset about 50 headstones.
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Broken headstones pile up in a cemetery in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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But unlike headstones, monuments are communal by design, collective expressions of grief and remembrance.
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You couldn't simply plant grass in St. Louis and design the simplest of headstones.
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There might very well soon be military funerals with headstones that read 1998–2016.
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Today Ever Loved launches its online marketplace for caskets, urns, headstones and memorial jewelry.
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Headstones dot the landscape like the scattered timber of a wreckage on a beach.
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They were also obligated under Jewish law to replace the headstones with exact replicas.
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A man visiting his dad's grave at Mount Carmel Cemetery found three headstones kicked over.
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It's a comparison shopping and review site for funeral homes, cemeteries, caskets, urns, and headstones.
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Is Johns referring to the visitor in a cemetery looking down long rows of headstones?
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We drove by the Valley View Cemetery, stopping briefly to find the Clutter family headstones.
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There are no headstones in this hidden spot, reached through iron gates on Second Avenue.
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The standing monuments look like ranks of closed steel doors or staggered headstones, blocking movement.
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Ito's daughter were showing the neglect: weeds growing out of crevices, threatening to invade headstones.
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On Tuesday Macron visited a Jewish cemetery where dozens of headstones were desecrated with swastikas.
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He would know: In 2010, vandals broke into the cemetery and knocked down 200 headstones.
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They asked fellow Muslims to donate $20,000 in a crowdfunding effort to repair the headstones.
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Among the headstones are boldface names like Levi Strauss, William Randolph Hearst and Wyatt Earp.
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In an accurate but obvious metaphor, it's surrounded by a graveyard with crumbling, toppling headstones.
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Many of those buried didn't have proper headstones, only rocks with initials carved in them.
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A large bald patch amid the headstones in the Wintzenheim graveyard is testimony to the day in 1945 when the retreating Germans forced inhabitants of the village to dig up the headstones to be used as an anti-tank barrier against the advancing Americans.
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Unlike some of their contemporaries, Dillon feels Headstones had to work even harder to create buzz.
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I knew she couldn't be a Headstones fan, and it turned out she just loved Degrassi.
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A week earlier, at least 170 headstones were damaged at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.
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The group surveyed the area, which was for the most part restored, with headstones turned upright.
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Last week, vandals knocked over more than 100 headstones at a cemetery in St. Louis. 4.
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In late February, at least 170 headstones were damaged at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.
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Sunset Hill is a nondenominational cemetery and the vandalized headstones appeared to have been chosen randomly.
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Outside the church is a graveyard with headstones that date back to the late 19th century.
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The headstones had weathered, many becoming indecipherable and broken; the recessed federal shield filled with grime.
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Old headstones, smoothed by time, poke out of the earth like a jagged row of teeth.
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Inside its gates, weatherworn headstones — some dating from the 1680s — stand in the shadows of skyscrapers.
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After cleaning the graves and headstones, some decorate with flowers, marigold petals and light up candles.
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They chat, play cards and watch soap operas on TVs mounted near headstones or ornamental crosses.
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Vandals over the weekend destroyed about 100 headstones at a historic Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.
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In the cemetery of Baruta's 21990th-century church, headstones are heaped with mostly faded plastic flowers.
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Officers said they counted about 100 damaged headstones, which were most likely toppled sometime Saturday night.
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Washington is a large and predominantly Jewish cemetery, and many of its headstones bear Hebrew script.
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Above, a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis where nearly 26 headstones were toppled over the weekend.
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Vandals also toppled dozens of headstones on Monday at a historic Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.
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We also find headstones, fragments and corners of which Erin spots beneath the carpet of ivy.
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Schoolchildren painted small rocks, which in Jewish tradition are placed on or near headstones as markers.
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He arranged for them to be placed on headstones in an older section of Arlington National Cemetery.
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Nancy and Franklin Rouse have placed wreaths on headstones at Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee since 2008.
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Vandals destroyed nearly 85033 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in St. Louis on Monday.
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We passed headstones of soldiers and Marines of all religions and ethnicities, a representation of American diversity.
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Vandals also toppled dozens of headstones yesterday at a historic Jewish cemetery in St. Louis. http://bit.
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The archives also include lists of pew owners and people whose headstones sit in the church yard.
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Police are still investigating who is responsible for toppling nearly 200 headstones in the University City cemetery.
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Brandishing a bullhorn at the cemetery, Pence thanked the governor and the workers who are repairing the headstones.
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This followed an incident in St. Louis, Missouri, in which vandals damaged 200 headstones at a Jewish cemetery.
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And over the weekend, dozens of headstones were found damaged and overturned at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia.
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Probst has taken photos of headstones and calculated that most people on Pitcairn live to about 90 years.
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At one Jewish cemetery in Staten Island, N.Y., 193 headstones were defaced with swastikas, smeared in yellow paint.
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But the residents of Wintzenheim, where Jews had lived since the 15th century, never put the headstones back.
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"It would be wonderful if the headstones could be restored and returned to the original graveyard," she said.
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Its gatehouse is crumbling, much of its fence is broken and many headstones have been toppled or vandalized.
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But after hundreds of Jewish headstones were toppled at one of the cemeteries, two Muslim activists stepped in.
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The court of public opinion was slow to grant validity, eventually yielding only to numbers tabulated in headstones.
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They rummaged through leaves, carefully inspected the headstones, and gingerly reached into tree trunks, hoping to find something amazing.
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More than 100 headstones were found damaged or pushed over at a Jewish cemetery in Missouri, among other incidents.
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The senators expressed concerns about the desecration of hundreds of headstones at Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia.
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In one instance, vandals toppled headstones of about 170 graves at a historic Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
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After touring the historic Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, the vice president delivered remarks condemning the vandalism of 154 headstones.
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Outside, a frustrated local artist installed a mock cemetery of banned works, with hundreds of titles inscribed on headstones.
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The headstones on the Africans' graves face east, looking toward a homeland they never returned to, and never forgot.
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Shortly after passing a floating casket tied to a mailbox, they came to a cemetery, its headstones partially submerged.
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And when Jewish headstones were vandalised in Missouri, Muslims chipped in a total of $125,000 to repair the damage.
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But in the middle of the cemetery were plain headstones for men who were extremely young when they died.
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More than 200 headstones were spray-painted with swastikas overnight on Friday at a cemetery in Illinois, KMOV reports.
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The William Vale rises from its two- and three-story surroundings like an opulent monument surrounded by nondescript headstones.
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"This was done during the Soviet times when headstones were used in all sorts of building projects," he said.
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Mohammad Sharaf installed 200 headstones for the censored titles in a plot of land beside Kuwait's Annual Book Fair.
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On the edge of town, a "martyrs' cemetery" of sandy graves and simple headstones stretched nearly to the horizon.
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Last month, a Jewish cemetery in Missouri was targeted when several headstones were broken and knocked to the ground.
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The sight of fractured headstones and overgrown weeds was so dismaying that she turned around and drove back home.
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Some reports estimated that nearly 500 headstones had been damaged, while police reports left the number at around 100.
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"Families were buying something — grave markets, headstones, burial vaults — and they wouldn't deliver it for six months," he said.
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The vases used for flowers atop the headstones were stolen sometime between December 6 and December 9, police said.
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Also over the weekend, over 150 headstones were toppled at a Jewish cemetery in Missouri, local news outlet KSDK reported.
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Also, vandals toppled about 170 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, over the weekend.
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Christmas arrived just in time this year for the group that lays holiday wreaths on headstones at Arlington National Cemetery.
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The tradition grew over the years until 2005, when a photo of wreath-bedecked headstones in the snow circulated widely.
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He was going to do a Headstones video and liked our work, and I just talked about Sam Peckinpah movies.
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For the upright headstones to be converted to flat ones, the bases of the stones had to be cut off.
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The activist previously helped organize a crowdfunding campaign to repair vandalized headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Earlier this month, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery while volunteers placed wreaths on headstones as part of Wreaths Across America.
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Lilacs bloom there in springtime, but late November was a nicely raw time to walk among the Biedermeier-period headstones.
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That means, judging by the headstones, there are more people residing in the New York Cemetery in New York, Tex.
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Dozens of headstones were found damaged and overturned at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia on Sunday, according to local reports.
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Only about a third of that has been recovered, including some which was hidden under headstones in a London graveyard.
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He said the authorities hoped to eventually remove the headstones but were hampered because it was a registered historical place.
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The Jewish cemetery, outside the ghetto, is startling, if only for its sprawl and large grassy areas, free of headstones.
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No gravestones rise from the ground and the remnants of several headstones are covered by leaves, weeds and poison ivy.
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Police reported that vandals damaged and destroyed about 85033 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery, according to CNN.
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The headstones were found damaged and overturned at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia on Sunday, according to local news reports.
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On Facebook, the cemetery said it aimed to publish the names of the interred whose headstones were damaged by Wednesday morning.
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Stone, as predicted, can't stay away from the case and sits in the background behind headstones, watching the ceremony from afar.
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He came on the road with the Headstones and saw it all, and we were just friends, we hit it off.
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Jewish headstones toppled in at least 3 cemeteries in 2017 》Fort Wayne IN; St Louis MO; & Philadelphia PA #RestInPeace pic.twitter.com/VaA46c11WF
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Reuters photo of the dayFrom Philadelphia A visitor to the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery records vandalized headstones lying on the ground.
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Beyond the fig tree were a number of weathered marble headstones from the old Canaan graveyard, lying flat on the beach.
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He looks out over the rows and rows of neatly arranged headstones, all the sons and daughters who are buried there.
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But there are no remains in this graveyard -- just clumps of grass stolen from opponents' fields and then buried beneath headstones.
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The chairs offer little in the way of comfort, but rather infer, by their bulk and gravitas, memorials or rough unworked headstones.
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It's tough not to bring up the band's glory days in the 20133s though, when Headstones were the bad boys of CanRock.
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The two men visited the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in University City, where at least 170 headstones were toppled and damaged.
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Callum really did the leg work and went on the road with the Headstones to really fucking dig deep and understand it.
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports employees at Sunset Hill Cemetery in neighboring Glen Carbon found swastikas on 150 to 200 headstones.
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This might help explain why you don't see as many crescent moons on headstones in places like Arlington and other veterans' cemeteries.
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"Too many headstones at the cemetery of the great reporters," Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, said in a tweet.
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A monument company will determine which headstones need to be reset and which need to be replaced, according to the Post-Dispatch.
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The shaded backgrounds resemble crayon rubbings, the kind kids use to capture on paper the patterns of leaves or coins or headstones.
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The NYPD are searching for three teenagers who vandalized headstones and spray-painted anti-Asian graffiti at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens.
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You can count their ballots by visiting any American cemetery in North Africa, Italy, France or Belgium and tallying the white headstones.
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Their bravery and sacrifice is chronicled in citations, medals and etched on headstones and remembered in street names and on postage stamps.
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"I liked his way of painting with real energy," Ms. Mouzaoui said as she took a break from washing other headstones nearby.
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On Saturday, groundskeepers made a shocking discovery: More than 200 monuments and headstones had been vandalized, each spray-painted with a swastika.
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And I visited cemeteries whose rows of headstones serve as a testament to just how many Syrian lives the ISIS fight claimed.
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Cats named Kim Novak, William Scott, and Gremlin, among others, are buried beneath marked headstones in the home's cat cemeteries in the garden.
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Amid the many Juma and Omar headstones, marriage had brought to this Muslim cemetery people with the last names of Miller and Horst.
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Over the weekend, the headstones at the graves of about 170 Jews were vandalized in the St. Louis area, the Washington Post reported.
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Vandals toppled more than 85033 headstones on Monday at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in University City, a suburb of St. Louis.
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He created a LaunchGood fund-raiser last year that collected $136,000 to repair hundreds of Jewish headstones vandalized in St. Louis and Philadelphia.
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The president, holding a black umbrella, made his way on Saturday among the headstones of the military veterans who are buried at Arlington.
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Their headstones stood side by side in good condition as late as 1971, when Mr. Ostrander snapped a photograph of the old cemetery.
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In an expanding graveyard in the Iraqi city of Najaf, a militia fighter, Hussein Allawi, pointed out the headstones of comrades killed abroad.
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Student Opinion Have you ever walked through a very old cemetery and noticed the headstones that mention more than just names and dates?
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By the mass graves — which hold coffins for up to 150 adults or 1,000 babies — anonymous white markers stand in lieu of headstones.
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Although some of the headstones in the church graveyard have masonic symbols on them, Trinity Church isn't affiliated with the organization, Lapinski said.
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A week after the vandalism in Missouri, the police in Philadelphia found about 100 toppled headstones at the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery there.
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An informal brigade of holiday wreath-layers hopes its ranks keep pace this year with a growing mission to adorn military headstones at cemeteries.
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Many grieving people feel an emotional connection to things that represent dead loved ones, such as headstones, urns and shrines, according to grief counselors.
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By fostering new life — a tree — death becomes less about cold headstones and more about a natural grave marker, says founding designer Raoul Bretzel.
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For men, the cemeteries are particularly arresting — suddenly, the skyscrapers that so perfectly encapsulate progress start to look like headstones to more you look.
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The newest wave of bomb threats comes after dozens of headstones were found damaged and overturned at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia this weekend.
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But at least some of the toppled headstones of Djulfa, which he had seen from his window during a train ride, were still there.
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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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A member of the Old Guard places American flags in front of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday in preparation for Memorial Day.
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He has hung the broken headstones that were separated from their grave sites around the cemetery's enclosed border, creating an installation of its own.
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The authorities scanned video surveillance, but it did not cover the southeast corner of the cemetery, where the headstones had been overturned, she said.
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An odd image flashed in my mind of the headstones at Arlington, all those little rectangles, each one a reminder of sacrifice and loss.
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And the cemetery that Mulder and Guy talk in is filled with headstones commemorating people who worked on the original series who have died.
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The effort, organized by Muslim American activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi, was launched this week to fund the repairs of the toppled headstones.
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So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it's a woman's right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned.
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The only signs there was once life here were the tiny spice bottles we found washed ashore, broken pieces of pottery and even cracked headstones.
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On Religion ROSS, N.D. — Richard Omar drove his pickup truck through the cemetery gate and pulled to a stop in sight of the scattered headstones.
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It was polished to a high luster from a pockmarked and eroded stone found in a derelict warehouse of headstones just outside the cemetery gates.
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The headstones are in the cemetery's oldest section, with many of the plots dating from the late 1800's to mid-1900's, she said.
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Two more names were found using headstones: Israel Morris and Sarah M. Rogers, who was 3 years, 9 months old when she died on Nov.
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According to someone who saw the illustration, there was a graveyard behind them with headstones representing the number of people executed in their jurisdiction that year.
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Police responded to the scene Sunday morning after receiving a complaint from a man who said that three of his relatives' headstones had been knocked over.
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To save on grass cutting costs and to create a more parklike appearance in the cemetery, officials decided during the Great Depression to alter the headstones.
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Port Arthur's upper-class overseers called it Isle of the Dead or Isle de Mort, and they were buried with headstones on the island's highest point.
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She would comb headstones for stories — taking note of a bunch of children who died in the same year, or a woman's grave off by itself.
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Then they ran into the adjoining graveyard, where grass grew on rows of graves marked with white headstones or plastic signs bearing photos of the deceased.
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As of late Sunday afternoon, officials said there were still a few headstones in need of touching up but that they would be ready by Monday.
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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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Amid the fallen headstones and mounds of trash, drug dealers sold their wares, prostitutes solicited clients, homeless people set up camp and stray dogs ran wild.
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His campaign has also tweeted a photo of a graveyard with Democratic efforts marked on the headstones, including the name of McConnell's Democratic competitor Amy McGrath.
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Rabbi Shawn Zevit of Mishkan Shalom Synagogue said he and a member of his congregation went to the cemetery and counted "a few hundred" headstones knocked over.
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The vandalism comes less than a week after a similar incident at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis where vandals toppled and damaged more than 100 headstones.
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Philadelphia police estimate 230 to 220 headstones were toppled Saturday night at Mount Carmel Cemetery, though people who visited the cemetery say the number is much higher.
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You can see traces of visitors' interactions in the flowers, cards, stuffed animals, and even jewelry left beside the chairs — more marks that liken them to headstones.
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One complaint said that in September 2015, a new Jeep Grand Cherokee in Leonardtown, Maryland, rolled forward and struck headstones in a cemetery causing $1,500 in damage.
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More than 200 headstones were spray-paint with swastikas during Memorial Day weekend at a cemetery in Illinois — which houses the graves of more than 85033,300 veterans.
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The cemetery, just an idea then, is now filled with over 252,260 white headstones fanning out from a granite memorial listing the 216,372 names of the victims.
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A century ago, the scientist Karl Pearson was studying cemetery headstones when he noticed something peculiar: Husbands and wives often died within a year of one another.
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Before last night's game against the Mariners, the team held a funeral out in centerfield, complete with glove coffin, headstones, and Father Brian McCann leading the service.
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And only California and New York have more so-called green cemeteries, which bury people without embalming, caskets and headstones and leave land wild rather than landscaped.
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The police in Philadelphia found about 100 toppled headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Sunday, less than one week after a similar discovery was made in Missouri.
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When the Jordanian government occupied these historic Jewish sites, they destroyed all the remnants of Judaism, including synagogues, schools and cemeteries, whose headstones they used for urinals.
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By week's end, heartbroken families and friends had begun to lay loved ones to rest in Magnitogorsk's Left Bank Cemetery, where the headstones were heaped in snow.
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There's also the jubilant folk art of Romania's "Merry Cemetery," where, starting in the 1930s, local carver Stan Ioan Pătraș crafted individualized headstones for the local dead.
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Little Army still retains that piss and vinegar Headstones built their reputation on, but it also sounds as if they're doing it more out of love than anything.
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Eric Greitens, Pence stopped by Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery in University City -- where a vandal or vandals toppled and damaged more than 100 headstones in the past week.
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But a glimmer of hope: after nearly 103 headstones were toppled at a Jewish cemetery, the local Muslim community launched a fundraiser to help fix the damage. 3.
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While the family photos were appropriately somber and respectful, the actress and her husband, Josh Kelley, also snapped various photos at monuments and other headstones in the area.
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Police said on Sunday about 100 headstones had been toppled at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, about a week after a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis was vandalized.
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The Philadelphia Police Department on Monday called the cemetery desecration in its city an "abominable crime that appears to target these particular headstones," but it also urged patience.
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Even dead McMullen County residents can take advantage of the windfall: Residents have expanded efforts to fix and clean up headstones in Hill Top Cemetery, Kreider-Dusek says.
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Opening with the fabulous DON'T SASS ME, he salts his grid with newbies like LEMON TORTE (yes, please!), HOLDS A SALE, OLIVER REED, HEADSTONES, SHOE ADDICTS, KREMLIN INC.
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His monument stands at the center, surrounded by other monuments and headstones for his father, his wife and children, and assorted relatives — with plenty of room to spare.
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In one video, he talks about how some of the headstones have a hole at the bottom, where the soul is said to appear when the dead arise.
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Vandals destroyed about 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, the latest sign of anti-Semitism amid a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers.
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In his defense, it was a famous cemetery in an Ewok-worthy forest on Mount Koya known for gimmicky headstones in the shapes of rockets and coffee cups.
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This episode couldn't have ended anywhere but a graveyard, and sure enough, Carol and Rick gaze out over rows and rows of makeshift headstones in this week's final moments.
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Walking around the cemetery, brushing off the headstones, I tried to imagine the lives of those interred around me: parents and children, husbands and wives, pharmacists, shopkeepers and engineers.
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The episode drew almost immediate comparison to a similar discovery last Monday in University City, Mo., where more than 150 headstones were toppled at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery.
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Many of the fallen headstones are adorned with the Star of David and inscribed in Hebrew, offering tender glimpses into the lives buried there: beloved daughter, dear mother, loving father.
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" Local rabbi Yosef Goldman went on Facebook to say community support was immediate, writing: "Members of the local Ahmadiyya Muslim Community have showed up to help us right the headstones.
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" Pence thanked residents for their efforts to restore the toppled headstones and said, "There is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.
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Last week, at least a dozen headstones were toppled at a Jewish cemetery at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, New York, following similar incidents in St. Louis and Philadelphia.
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Eleven Jewish community centers across the U.S. received bomb threats, and more than 100 headstones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, MO, over the weekend, Buzzfeed reported.
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Headstones, each bearing the name and grave number of the victim scribbled in red ink on both sides, were unloaded from vehicles and carried on people's backs up the hill.
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That same day, police officers in a St. Louis suburb discovered that nearly 200 headstones at a Jewish cemetery had been ransacked in what appeared to be a targeted attack.
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And across the United States, there have been fights to preserve historical black cemeteries that have plainly visible headstones but have been abandoned, neglected or threatened by development or gentrification.
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Yes, we hear echoes of "Leaves of Grass" in the arresting Chapter 19 of "Jack Engle," when the narrator pauses to contemplate the inscriptions on the headstones at Trinity Church.
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Walking the lush, quiet grounds, perusing different headstones of the over half-million people interred (including Samuel Morse, Boss Tweed and Jean-Michel Basquiat) provided a sanctuary from the city.
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Upon closer inspection, dozens of fallen headstones bore environmental hints that they had been down for some time, with thin layers of dried grass and dirt in their exposed crevices.
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The cemetery was vandalized in May, when about 70 headstones, some dating to the early 19th century, were broken or pushed over, the Historic Batavia Cemetery Association said in a statement.
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On February 20, it was discovered that more than 100 headstones had been toppled at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in the St. Louis suburb of University City, police said.
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Trump, who has stacked himself up against Lincoln, had headstones as a scenic backdrop for an interview with a Fox News pundit in which he called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi names.
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Here are some of the key stories CNBC is following this hour: Crews are cleaning up a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia after vandals knocked over hundreds of headstones this past week.
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When Rhoads reaches Baguio Public Cemetery, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, we've been reading about "modern" cemeteries (allotted plots, specific headstones) that are still hundreds of years old.
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She wanted to mark the anniversary of the first world war and honour the lives lost, and was struck by the space constraints of both headstones and the social media site.
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If only I had wept from the eyes instead, my streaming face would have matched the setting—big and pompous mausoleums, tiny headstones reading only "mother"—and the work at hand.
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The graves were in an overgrown area and some of the headstones were toppled over, said Mr. Johnson, who is the city's first openly gay male speaker and is H.I.V. positive.
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Children can stroll through the Extinct Animal Graveyard, which has headstones for vanished species like the dodo and the Steller's sea cow, and encounter owls and vultures in a bird presentation.
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The pet cemetery, a tree-shaded mound behind the residence, with three headstones, pays tribute to the family's Norwegian Elkhounds — Dandy (1974-1986), Trygvie (1986-1996) and Tory (1996-2011). Mrs.
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A caisson pulled by white Percherons carried the fallen soldier's coffin, draped with a flag, to his family, past the long, straight rows of marble headstones emblematic of Arlington National Cemetery.
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Rather, many powerful male professionals in New York during the 1700s were also part of the Free Masons, and when they were buried at Trinity Church, their headstones included Masonic symbols.
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The rows of headstones crashed into each other like waves cresting, covering nearly every inch of the cemetery green in Queens as we zoomed past it at 26 miles an hour.
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The cemetery is more than 100 years old, and Ms. Feigenbaum said the headstones had been made of marble, granite and other materials and hand-carved with English, Hebrew or Yiddish.
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Just over the last few days, we've seen a slew of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the country and the desecration of over 100 headstones at St. Louis' Jewish cemetery.
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"So we have a very comprehensive look at the entire ruin itself, and also the site," Condo said, noting that the historic headstones and old trees alongside the church are also included.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Three youths overturned and broke a number of headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest, police said on Tuesday, in an incident that drew condemnation from Romania's small Jewish community.
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The money, he says, has also been used to buy marble headstones, the kafan used to wrap the bodies, and special oils ordered from Turkey that are used to perfume the shroud.
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The other prop headstones at the picnic poked fun at the things McConnell has "killed," like Judge Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court, and things he plans to defeat, like socialism.
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The cemetery lay on private property that was for sale; a real estate agent had told Grayson that the site contained only seven graves with marked headstones, none of which read Higginbotham.
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Arlington National Cemetery provides a good example of the kind of nondiscrimination the government should be aiming for: Federal rules allow for a wide array of religious and nonreligious symbols on headstones.
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At a cemetery, there are concrete vaults, coffins made from exotic materials, and headstones that have been transported from across the country; perpetual mowing, irrigation, and leaking toxins become one's environmental legacy.
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On Election Day last year, stickers became a tribute when voters went to Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx and stuck them on the headstones of suffragists buried there, like Elisabeth Cady Stanton.
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Two Muslim activists, Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi, asked Muslims to donate $20,000 in a crowdfunding effort to repair hundreds of Jewish headstones that were toppled near St. Louis last week.
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What separated him from all of the other butt flingers of the world is that Dillon did his share from stage, which he commanded as the frontman for Canadian hard rock heroes Headstones.
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A vandal or vandals toppled and damaged more than 100 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in the St. Louis suburb of University City within the past week, police said Monday.
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Vandals destroyed about 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, and Jewish Community Centers in several U.S. cities received a number of bomb threats that were later determined to be hoaxes.
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Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world, is seven miles east of Ypres: row upon row of white headstones arranged in a semicircle so big it looks like an illusion.
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Ito had also given away the tablets from the family's Buddhist altar — the miniature headstones considered so precious that many Japanese would scoop them up before running out of a house on fire.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - An ethnologist and photographer are trying to recover a lost chapter of Poland's past by marking the sites of now vanished Jewish cemeteries with transparent 'headstones' and taking photographs of them.
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One such headstone marks the grave of a man named James Leeson, and it has a cryptogram that, when deciphered, reads "Remember Death" — a common warning used on 18th-century headstones, Lapinski said.
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Below the statue and the cliff where it is mounted stand the neat graves of 66 fallen Soviet soldiers, as young as 19, with headstones bearing black stars, not the usual Communist red.
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" He can take a lesson from Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, who issued a statement immediately after the cemetery vandalism: "My heart breaks for the families who found their loved ones' headstones toppled this morning.
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More than 150 headstones were spray-painted with swastikas at a southwest Illinois cemetery overnight as the cemetery was getting ready to honor those who died while serving in the military for Memorial Day.
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Members of the Muslim-American in St. Louis community have banded together to repair damages at a century-old Jewish cemetery in their city after nearly 200 headstones were found toppled over on Monday.
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Earlier in the day, McConnell's own social media team posted a controversial photo of fake headstones, one featuring the name of Amy McGrath, who is campaigning for the Democratic nomination to run against McConnell.
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He said someone from the Parks Department took the headstones from the cemetery in the early 1980s and placed them against a gate near the Van Cortlandt house, possibly to protect them from vandalism.
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Headstones at three different churches in the Greenwood area claim to mark his resting place — the final riddle of a man whose brief, turbulent life became a cipher nearly as sensational as his songs.
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In the nearby Sandy Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, broken headstones, some more than a century old, floated across the burial ground when the nearby Lumber River and its tributaries crested, historically, during Matthew's torrential rains.
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RELATED: Empathy and action: Muslims unite to help fix vandalized Jewish cemeteries Members of the Muslim community in St. Louis have started a fundraising effort to help pay for the toppled headstones to be repaired.
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He does not talk about the thousands and thousands of immigrant names that fill the Vietnam Wall in Washington or that are carved on so many headstones in every US military cemetery around the world.
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This wasn't the first questionable image from the picnic, either: Mitch McConnell's social media team posted a photo of fake headstones — including one for Amy McGrath, one of McConnell's Democratic opponents — earlier in the day.
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"It puts a little thrill in you when you're walking around at night to see the spooky mausoleums and the headstones," said Bottum as he toured the ornate burial ground in New York's Bronx borough.
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Responding to a report of vandalism at the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery in northeastern Philadelphia, the police said a man told them that three headstones belonging to his relatives had been knocked over and damaged.
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Also on Monday, the police in University City, Mo., near St. Louis, were investigating vandalism at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery where 170 to 200 headstones were toppled, according to its executive director, Anita Feigenbaum.
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Ben and Jerry have an honest-to-god cemetery dedicated to their discontinued flavors and—if we don't clean up our collective act—climate change could add another two dozen headstones to that Flavor Graveyard.
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In Dowell's image "The Proper Headstones," cotton bolls sprout among the tombstones, as if to conjure up the ghosts of people whose bodies helped to build the church without compensation in life or recognition thereafter.
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"Upon their arrival at the listed location, responding officers were met by the complainant, who reported that (3) three headstones belonging to his relatives were damaged, due to being knocked over," police said in an email.
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"On the heels of bomb threats and hate crimes against dozens of Jewish community [centers] across the United States, a historical Jewish cemetery was vandalized this past weekend when over 100 headstones were damaged," they wrote.
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And the hate has spilled over into actual violence: In the last week alone, hundreds of headstones were vandalized at two Jewish cemeteries—roughly 170 in Missouri and some 100 more in Philadelphia this past weekend.
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The resting ground in Rehovot in central Israel is a typical Israeli military cemetery: rows upon rows of simple, uniform, rectangular plots covered by tiny manicured garden beds and headstones engraved with each soldier's basic information.
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Muslim-Americans offer support After the Jewish cemetery in St. Louis was vandalized, Muslim-American activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi launched a fund-raising effort to help pay for the toppled headstones to be repaired.
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One of the capital's most prominent churches, the Evangelical Reformed Church, which is ecumenically related to the American Presbyterian denomination, has its main front steps formed of headstones from Jewish cemeteries, some with Hebrew inscriptions clearly visible.
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Renaldas Vaisbrodas, the executive director of the Lithuanian Jewish Community association, a national group, said he expected the church's Jewish headstones would eventually be returned, as part of a process happening throughout the city with such artifacts.
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Although the lines of marble and granite headstones appear uniform, overwhelmingly carved with Christian crosses, look closer and you might spot an atomic whirl circling an "A" for atheist, an infinity symbol, or a Shinto torii gate.
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Yet in Green-Wood, where ballet dancers have cavorted among the headstones and plays have been put on beside the tombs, no irreverence is intended with the presence of an art installation alongside actual graves and grief.
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The house was built in 1003 atop what had once been the Odd Fellows Cemetery, and the city's residents living on old cemetery properties occasionally still find bone fragments, chipped marble and, sometimes, even headstones in their yards.
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In one Insider employee's 8th grade sex ed class in an Atlanta suburb, "they had us make a graveyard in the hallway where we made and decorated headstones for people who had died from STDs," the employee said.
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There have been at least 100 bomb threats against Jewish community centers so far in 203, and just in the past two weeks, people have knocked over headstones at Jewish cemeteries in New York, Pennsylvania, and St. Louis.
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Old Guard soldiers take part in "Flags-In," an annual event where small American flags are placed in front of more than 240,000 headstones of US service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on May 23.
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ROWS of black marble headstones mark the graves of those who died in the Sharpeville massacre of 6.43, when South African police fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing 26.4 of them including James Buti Bessie, who was 22014.
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He walked slowly and alone amid the rows of low white headstones in the shape of crosses and Stars of David, gently resting a white rose on about a dozen and stopping to pray silently before saying the Mass.
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Fearing things wouldn't get better on the road, he ended Headstones and headed to Northern Ontario, where he took a job as a lumberjack in a bid to get clean, which is what he's been doing for the last 14 years.
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Mark Johnson, the cemetery's grounds superintendent, told BuzzFeed News the swastika, a symbol often associated with anti-Semitism or Nazism, was spray-painted in black on 150 to 200 headstones, as well as on an old office building and the mausoleum.
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Today, as more Pakistanis invest in headstones and concrete shrines to protect remains, gravediggers in desperation sometimes seek out old-style earthen mounds, and a few place remains on top of bodies that were laid out just a few months earlier.
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Free to use and open 24 hours a day, it sits in a kiosk on a busy traffic island between the stately brick buildings of Harvard Yard and the weathered headstones in the Old Burying Ground, which dates to 1635.
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The tearful Bishop rushed to videotape over 228 Azerbaijani soldiers armed with sledgehammers, dump trucks, and cranes as they destroyed the sacred site, pounding the intricately carved sacred medieval headstones into rubble and then dumping their pulverized remains into the river.
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On over 200 headstones, Sharaf engraved the names of books including the Nahj al-Balagha, the Divine Comedy, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and many more deemed unfit for public consumption.
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It stands prominently in front of the men's graves, their names chiseled on their headstones in simple block letters — C. A. Hollingsworth, H. Faulks and L. Galloway among them — alongside their regiments and home states, frequently Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi.
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They have to clean the main street of the cemetery and the narrow hallways, they throw away the dry flowers and old wreaths, they build the vaults, they load up the service trucks with garbage, they make headstones, and they repair monuments.
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They include the murder of an elderly Jewish woman in Paris by a neighbor who was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" after the crime, and the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in Alsace last month in which dozens of headstones were covered with swastikas.
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The commission, choosing not to favour one religion or denomination, stated that the next-of-kin could choose an inscription, so long as it was in the Roman alphabet and no more than 66 characters so as "to avoid unduly crowding the headstones".
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In the Poltergeist, he portrayed real-estate developer Mr. Teague who built a California housing community on top of a former cemetery which spawned the iconic moment in which Teague reveals he only removed the headstones from the graveyard but not the bodies.
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To add to my moroseness I went into the graveyard, with fresh headstones bearing the names of loved ones: grandparents, fathers, mothers, even a children's section—all engraved with sad, store bought messages, some exactly the same as the one adjacent to them.
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Accompanied by uniformed soldiers, the president carried an umbrella amid the tombstones as he viewed wreaths laid by volunteers as part of "Wreaths Across America Day," a national event in which volunteers adorn headstones of fallen veterans around the country with holiday wreaths.
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Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, for example, have brought a preference for polished headstones of black granite with photorealistic depictions of the dead — a stark contrast to the plainer, timeworn stones with Hebrew lettering favored by Jews of earlier generations.
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The stage, littered in some battlefield scenes with headstones, is often framed by smoky projections to make action look as if it's taking place in an antique postcard — an effective device, especially during ephemeral scenes like the ones at the Kronprinz's chalet.
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At the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in northeastern France, the largest American military graveyard in Europe, 14,246 white headstones mark the burial places of United States First Army soldiers who perished in the final, 47-day campaign that ended with the armistice.
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Though the activists do not have cost estimates yet, Mr. El-Messidi said on Monday that the money raised would most likely be enough to repair the graves near St. Louis and in Philadelphia, where about 100 headstones were toppled on Sunday.
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In a sign of the bungling that eventually led East Germany's Communists to their fall, the remains of the Soviet veterans named on those headstones were not transferred here in the 543s, but only in 2006 after the mistake came to light.
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During their 20-minute visit Thursday afternoon, the first couple laid flags in section 34 of the cemetery, placing flags on the headstones of Frank Buckles, who was the last living World War I veteran, among others, according to the White House press pool.
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Outside on the clear, crisp December day, anti-Trump protesters set up row after row of mock cardboard headstones on the Capitol lawn, representing the "Senate legislative graveyard" of House-passed bills that have gone on to die in the GOP-controlled upper chamber.
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If President Trump and Mr. Kelly want to save this country from threats of violence, how about keeping an eye on those white supremacists who go about kicking down headstones in a Jewish cemetery, threatening Jewish centers, and harassing blacks, Muslims and anyone who isn't white?
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Dana Fried, a Google employee, posted this photo of a graveyard, with headstones for Reader and many other now-dead Google services, which is apparently set up in the main lobby of the company's Seattle campus in honor of spooky season: Not sure whether spooky or just sad?
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Next, they stood in front of the "Graveyard of Dead Lesbian Feminist Ideas and Organizations," a group of surprisingly realistic Styrofoam headstones for bygone institutions like the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, the gay gene, and the Lexington Club (a now defunct San Francisco bar), all perched on a lazy Susan.
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I found it eventually (and it was quite beautiful), only to discover upon my return that I wasn't the only stray metalhead who'd found myself among its tranquil headstones and blooming, well-kept graves; apparently, years before, a group of SWR attendees had drunkenly stumbled in and smashed up the joint.
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The man, Alzado M. Harris, 19203, was sentenced to three years of probation in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Thursday for toppling 21920 headstones in the cemetery in University City, Mo., in February 21940, a spokeswoman for the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney's office, Josi Nielsen, said on Monday.
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Bobby Henon, a Philadelphia council member who represents the Wissinoming neighborhood, where the cemetery is located, tweeted Monday that the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council says it will replace the headstones for free and the International Brotherhood of Eletrical Workers Union Local 203 has offered to install additional lighting and security cameras.
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"We would go to villages in what is now northwestern Poland, and old ladies who knew where the remains of the German cemeteries were would volunteer to take us there," he said, adding that the women would sometimes even get down on their hands and knees to clean moss off the headstones.
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Over the weekend, more than 150 headstones were vandalized at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City — one of multiple instances of anti-Semitic threats that led President Donald Trump to explicitly condemn anti-Semitism and sparked a response from two Muslims, who started a fundraiser to help the cemetery make repairs.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE made an unscheduled stop at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday to honor fallen veterans as families and volunteers placed wreaths on headstones.
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He and first lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE placed flags at headstones in Section 34, the resting place of Army Gen.
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Over the next few weeks, I thought of her many times — this woman who takes her small boat to Uppards almost every day, weather permitting, to walk the beach, stepping gingerly over fallen headstones while searching for bottles and buttons or taking a moment to appreciate the blooms of a dying rosebush planted by someone (an ancestor?) more than a century ago.
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In a letter to Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE sent Thursday, Wolf pointed to desecration at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, where more than 500 headstones were toppled and damaged.
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That moment of personal connection with someone else's work is certainly not the only reason to look at art, but it is a good one, and it's hard at work in Getting Real, as we worry about the impending global pandemic that will probably kill us all or to think about our own pets, decades gone and buried under painted-rock headstones in our dads' backyards.
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I watched an atheist give an invocation before a town board she had previously sued for violating the First Amendment, attended a Veterans Day ceremony held by a pagan priestess who successfully sued the federal government to approve the Wiccan pentacle for placement on national cemetery headstones, and sat on a 9-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a goat-headed occult figure that the Satanic Temple wants to put up on government property someday.
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Nearly every dish tasted good, in one way or another, although more than one juxtaposed something unquestionably delicious with other things that turned up empty-handed to the flavor party: wonderful lobster in a bittersweet sauce of malted barley syrup and butter with a dull white spill of tapioca; exceptional brined scallop, sauced with yuzu and a tea made from Douglas fir tips, with unexciting ovals of white asparagus standing up like marble headstones in a cemetery.
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