Digital tombstones: One Slovenian cemetery is experimenting with digital tombstones that can show pictures and video, and potentially link to a smartphone application for interactivity.
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The tombstones, made of Ukrainian basalt, retail for approximately $1000.
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Theirs are the tombstones that the nation must rally around.
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The grandmother was left to die between a pair of tombstones.
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RIP PeepsBut the Peeps tombstones are where I truly lost it.
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Whatever, you won't find any traditional tombstones or other funerary ephemera.
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Each new piece simultaneously resembles thorns from flower stems and tombstones.
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Jewish cemeteries, too, were largely neglected and filled with fallen tombstones.
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He never took anything from a graveyard or tampered with tombstones.
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In three, tombstones in a cemetery are seen from different angles.
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Just to move the granite tombstones we need a lot of energy.
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A woman looks at tombstones at a cemetery in Manila on Nov.
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Specifically, people are wearing black and holding tombstones describing what killed them.
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The tattoos appear to be identical tombstones, both displaying a dollar sign.
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The tombstones have the names of people who work at the bar.
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Sometimes he takes a walk among their tombstones and talks to them.
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Walking among them is like strolling through a graveyard of massive tombstones.
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In fact, they paved the road out of Krakow with broken tombstones.
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Teenage boys nearby slept off their highs on tombstones or in hammocks.
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For a few moments they regarded one another across the lichened tombstones.
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Their names have been recorded on Pages of Testimony, which serves as tombstones.
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Scrawled across the tombstones were causes of death from lack of health coverage.
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Once engines of economic opportunity, the vans are now tombstones for the disappeared.
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As long as Vollman clings to this wish, he's dallying among the tombstones.
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The estimate of 254-100 damaged tombstones was conservative and may grow, he said.
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Last month, tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia and St. Louis were found toppled.
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Think of them as seven-second-long tombstones to the best internet junkyard ever.
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He took me to this patch of overgrown tombstones, and I sucked his dick.
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Some of these graves are 250, 275 years old, and so are the tombstones.
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There are over 400 tombstones with names like Laddie and Schmelly inscribed on them.
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Many are the gravitational tombstones of stars that burned up their fuel and collapsed.
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But then I realized a fatal flaw in Facebook is they don't have tombstones.
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Merchandise from toys, medicine, gramophones, automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon.
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Some are casts from the wall that borders the park, which incorporates unused tombstones.
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Crews lifting one of vandalized tombstones at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City.
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Vandals toppled and damaged hundreds of tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia and St. Louis.
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A man pays his respects in front of tombstones at Piedrahita's old cemetery on Nov.
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Intended to be monuments to their owners' everlasting potency they serve mainly as their tombstones.
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Others are seeking help drafting invitations for happy occasions — or, conversely, crafting inscriptions for tombstones.
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Many are the gravitational tombstones of stars that have burned up their fuel and collapsed.
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WESTHOFFEN, France — Some of the forgotten tombstones in the old Jewish cemetery look suspiciously whitened.
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Squatters had encroached on the ninth-century cemetery, building houses and stealing its marble tombstones.
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They mysteriously vanished, but left behind hundreds of solemn anthropomorphic sculptures, most of them tombstones.
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And instead of pulverizing the tombstones, they are being cataloged and stored in a warehouse.
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Her great-grandparents have graves there, but she didn't immediately know whether their tombstones were affected.
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Outside St. Louis, a Jewish cemetery was desecrated: More than 100 tombstones were overturned and damaged.
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El-Messidi, who lives in Philadelphia, said it was surreal to walk among the fallen tombstones.
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Surprisingly, it's Cruella who helps, and she tells Regina that tombstones reveal where a person is.
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On the floor, there are three communal tombstones, behind which are as many as 3,500 lockers.
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They've also helped bury babies and veterans, providing funding for things like tombstones and travel costs.
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On the American side of the falls, we visited both women's simple tombstones at Oakwood Cemetery.
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The citizens of New London walked past the tombstones holding bright lamps, into the ramshackle mausoleum.
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In late February, a historic Jewish cemetery outside Philadelphia was vandalized, with nearly 853 tombstones overturned.
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Small, gray, plastic tombstones announced that Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf Man were all interred there.
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The groups, for example, suggest making cardboard tombstones, tissue-paper funeral wreaths, and Grim Reaper costumes.
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And to date, he's cleaned over 600 tombstones with each one taking about two or three weeks.
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Veeraraghavan said: "People have even used tombstones or statues that toppled over to estimate the ground motion."
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The family couldn't afford memorial stones for the children, so Holley carved makeshift tombstones out of sandstone.
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Vandals also damaged more than 100 tombstones earlier this week at a Jewish cemetery outside St. Louis.
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Period furniture filled with white, 3D-scaled models of tombstones, memorabilia, and found photographs adorn the space.
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The concrete barricades encasing public buildings like lugubrious tombstones have slowly come down, and checkpoints have thinned.
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In St. Louis on Monday, in a separate incident, vandals knocked over tombstones at a Jewish cemetery.
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"You could not even see the tombstones when I got there — any of them," Mr. deForest said.
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Now and then the undulations in the cemetery's brown grass revealed the gray-white tops of tombstones.
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Born in 1874 in Nashville's Edgehill neighborhood, Edmondson started out carving custom tombstones for friends and family.
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"If these are really the figurative tombstones of our earliest ancestors, the implications are staggering," Allwood said.
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For Professor Dean, these tombstones show the rich links between Southeast Asia and specific regions of China.
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Merchandise from toys, medicine, gramophones, automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon of its time.
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Breaches of burial rules by party officials, like building elaborate tombstones, will be investigated and "rectified," it says.
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Philadelphia-area Jews woke to a brutal sight on Sunday morning: tombstones overturned at the Mount Carmel Cemetery.
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Mock tombstones designating some of the more than 1,000 people who killed themselves in Washington state in 2017.
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Made from flimsy materials that would never float, they were "death jackets", Mr Flanagan wrote; tombstones in disguise.
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"I'd call my mom and she'd say, 'I can't talk we're Pinteresting tombstones,' " she explained to the audience.
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Officials will power wash the tombstones to remove the paint before a Memorial Day event scheduled for Monday.
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A dropout from Medellín's Universidad Autónoma, Escobar had gone into business selling stolen tombstones and contraband American cigarettes.
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To create cemeteries full of trees rather than tombstones, reduce waste, and create new life out of death.
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The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic has 12,000 tombstones, but an estimated 100,000 are buried there.
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It consists of a series of large-scale oil paintings that lean against the gallery walls like tombstones.
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Everywhere you turn, hills are flecked with tombstones, rising from the slopes like forests of slender white obelisks.
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In April 2017, tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest were vandalized the night before Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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"Forty-two tombstones, a hole in the fence, and this is the only section," he said last week.
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The stećci (or medieval tombstones) are carved from limestone and feature a wide range of decorative motifs and inscriptions.
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Temples, mansions and tombstones were ravaged, along with any artefacts or people associated with the bourgeois way of life.
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I would invite any doubters to go to Gettysburg, to the tombstones of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln.
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It was a hot but breezy day, with birds chirping and a few wild chickens strutting among the tombstones.
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I would invite any doubters to go to Gettysburg, to the tombstones of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln.
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The final toll included 89 medieval churches, 5,840 cross-stones — half of which were at Djulfa, and 22,5 tombstones.
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At first glance, it looks like a cryptic disused graveyard with odd tombstones laid out in a mysterious pattern.
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In the center of the lawn are a pair of white tombstones commemorating the civilian war dead of Shoreditch.
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A groundbreaking forensic report tracks Azerbaijan's recent destruction of 89 medieval churches, 5,20153 intricate cross-stones, and 22,000 tombstones.
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Or the boy cleaning tombstones in a war cemetery (below), while wearing a shirt with a skull on it.
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He looks around at all the memorials to him and to his family, and he sees tiny, shiny tombstones.
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Later on, I discovered that he had described the biographer as the shadow of the tombstones in the garden.
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In December, 2015, they spent what Skene Catling called a "holiday" in Dagestan, where Lowe scanned medieval Muslim tombstones.
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Then about four years ago, right before I started shooting "A Walk Among the Tombstones," it was the summer.
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Between 2100 and 269 tombstones were overturned and damaged Saturday night at the Mt. Carmel Cemetery in the Wissinoming neighborhood.
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Between 75 and 100 tombstones were overturned and damaged Saturday night at the Mount Carmel Cemetery in the Wissinoming neighborhood.
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The video opens with her erupting out of her gravesite as a zombie, flanked by tombstones of her ex-boyfriends.
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With no Jews left to tend to the graveyard, the rough-hewn tombstones were worn blank by wind and weather.
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"On Monday morning America awoke to discover that nearly 200 tombstones were toppled in a nearby Jewish graveyard," Pence said.
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Pulaski Co I-22017 & Mabelvale: Despite the involvement of a few 'Tombstones' we are glad the driver & overpass are okay.
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Chanting from a small chapel next to the school echoes past the tombstones of former patriarchs and the surrounding trees.
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In the Christian town of Bartella, the church bell rang again, and the local priest surveyed the desecration of tombstones.
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The architects of our great landmarks are often buried beneath the humblest of tombstones, or have no marker at all.
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As for burial sites, the cemetery is home to over 45,123 traditional tombstones, a tree burial garden, and a mausoleum.
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The game's goal, as tradition stipulates, is to keep morale high, while playing different activities — or you'll be writing tombstones.
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As Pompei is being excavated and restored, negative political messages are found on the fencing of homes and even tombstones.
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"If these really are the figurative tombstones of our earliest ancestors, the implications are staggering," Allwood wrote in the article.
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She was staring out over the recently cleaned graves, a slope of tombstones stretching to the vineyards beyond the village.
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Perched on tombstones and laid across grave markers were an assortment of Cubs caps and pennants, both new and vintage.
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With no campaigns and no war chests — but, in some cases, tombstones — they all came up short in the Dec.
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Its mail-order catalogues with merchandise from toys, medicine and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon.
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Kopatchinskaja battled on alone and then collapsed in defeat, as the back wall parted to reveal replicas of various composers' tombstones.
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At various points, it sold products like fishing tackle, tombstones, barber chairs, wigs and even a "Stradivarius model violin" for $6.10.
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"They are their own tombstones and their own mourners," Carr wrote of the remnants of trees that had been cut down.
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On August 3, the day of the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, McConnell's account tweeted a picture of tombstones.
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But nearly everything else, apart from a few tombstones, is much later, from what we think of as the modern age.
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You may have grown up with Greek restaurant pizza or New Jersey bar pies or Domino's delivery or frozen supermarket Tombstones.
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A late shot shows tombstones of the deceased, with construction trucks ("the monster's playthings") driving on higher ground in the distance.
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"On Monday morning America awoke to discover that nearly 85033 tombstones were toppled in a nearby Jewish graveyard," Pence said Wednesday.
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Its mail-order catalogs with merchandise ranging from toys, medicine and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon.
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The latest spate of destruction came over the weekend at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia, where 75 to 100 tombstones were toppled.
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If you think you might be a disruptive presence, maybe wait until the gates reopen to take your stroll through the tombstones.
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Jen Armbruster, 33, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, was touched by Lumish's work and wanted to help tell the stories behind the tombstones.
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Pat Toomey's office Tuesday, lying on the sidewalk holding signs in the shape of tombstones (Toomey is leaning toward supporting the bill).
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According to the Times, 37 tombstones were spray-painted with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti at a cemetery near Strasbourg, France.
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Other black landmarks that have long since disappeared are commemorated with remembrances embedded in the sidewalk like tombstones to a forgotten culture.
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — There are 219 tombstones and 21725 footstones in a two-acre cemetery in the middle of a residential neighborhood here.
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Missing from the 522-page "Encyclopedia" are the 89 medieval churches, 5,840 intricate khachkars, and 22,000 tombstones that Ayvazyan had meticulously documented.
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Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.
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Obey Mapupa, who makes tombstones in Mbare, a poor suburb of Harare, says that business should be good: more people are dying.
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Here are just some of those incidents: At Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia and outside of St. Louis, tombstones were overturned and damaged.
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I don't think I gave "A Walk Among the Tombstones" enough credit, because we were talking about it before we started recording.
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News of the disturbed tombstones came amid a series of bomb threats and vandalism targeting Jewish institutions, including cemeteries, schools and community centers.
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A stonemason in the northwestern province of Bursa is offering free tombstones to clients who convert 2,000 dollars, according to the newspaper Hurriyet.
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Each episode was written and directed by Scott Frank (A Walk Among the Tombstones), while Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven) serves an executive producer.
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The "Merry Cemetery" in Romania takes a lighthearted approach to death with colorful tombstones, while a sacred temple in Japan honors Buddhist traditions.
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The sacred land holds over 200,000 tombstones, according to the Travel Japan website, including the grave of Kobo Daishi, who founded Shingon Buddhism.
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Père Lachaise, the city's largest cemetery, is a Gothic maze of tombstones, in the Twentieth Arrondissement, that covers more than a hundred acres.
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Strolling among the tombstones in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, the brothers were not the least bit morbid, excitedly trading stories and barbs.
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Sears began opening hundreds of stand-alone retail stores, some with soda fountains, dentist's offices and pet shops alongside tombstones and farm tractors.
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Here are just some of those incidents: At a Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia and outside of St. Louis, tombstones were overturned and damaged.
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Mucha was born in 22017 in southern Moravia, and initially found work by lettering tombstones and painting portraits, murals, and scenery for theatres.
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MORE than 150 tombstones were toppled or damaged at Chesed Shel Emeth ("The truest act of kindness"), a Jewish cemetery in University City, Missouri.
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You see them, he wrote, on fifth-century north African tombstones, on coins from Rhodes, in Persian miniatures and in Dutch still-life paintings.
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Together, the chairs resemble tombstones in a cemetery, their diverse forms suggestive of colorful personalities but their whitewashed surfaces unifying and stark, yet tranquil.
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More than 100 tombstones were toppled over, and some were cracked in half, at the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia late Saturday, police said.
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" Despite all this talk of crime and tombstones, of schools and stolen lives, he did not once in his speech say the word "guns.
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Barely legible tombstones date back 200 years and include the names of veterans from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
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But Lumish, a cleaning company owner, aims to refurbish the memories – and the gravestones – of America's heroes whose time-worn tombstones have started falling apart.
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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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His heart beats, the music swells, and he erases their names from the tombstones so they can hold hands and skip through the portal together.
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Nearly 40 tombstones and a monument to Holocaust victims were defaced with swastikas this week at a Jewish in France, The New York Times reported.
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The desecration of the tombstones also comes a month after the French government reported a sharp rise in anti-Semitic acts in France this year.
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Erect penises with military tombstones flying US flags — steel wool serving as both botanical and pubic "bush" — hybridize antiwar sentiments by ridiculing testosterone-fueled aggression.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The dead are often visually absent from our cemeteries, buried below the ground with tombstones representing the invisible remains.
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Among tombstones, he summons the saddest, grimmest thoughts he can — deaths of family members, of friends, of Tofu — as a means of cleansing his thoughts.
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They walked along slippery flagstones that had been worn smooth over centuries of use, and stepped on the flat tombstones of departed pre-Reformation monks.
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Now neglected and overgrown, it offers an incredible array of tombstones, statues and shrines just four miles north of downtown banks, malls and regional headquarters.
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The lush vegetation made us feel cut off from the thriving modern city, while the tombstones were beautiful in their own right, even without explanations.
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The earlier sculpture had a funereal air about it, as if the slabs were tombstones, and brought to mind Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
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None of these overlaps or isolations seem arbitrary, but appear to refer to rows of tombstones, as I suggested in my previous article on this subject.
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Margaret "Maggs" Williams grew up visiting cemeteries, taking rubbings of tombstones, and having minor brushes with ghosts — "thinking you hear something or see something," she says.
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Ancestry said its researchers looked at everything from church records, censuses, land deeds, newspaper announcements and tombstones to establish the link between Cumberbatch and Conan Doyle.
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There are a couple of spots on the fringes of the woods where the overgrowth is denser and the tombstones more ravaged by time and neglect.
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In his series The Unknown Anonymous (2011), he photographed such unmarked graves; for his installation "Death Sentence (Memorial)" (2011–13), he lays out blank marble tombstones.
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France italy By The New York Times In Westhoffen's cemetery, 107 tombstones were defaced; in the one in Quatzenheim, a village to the east, 96 were.
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In the past police have found narcotics hidden inside tombstones for the Virgin Mary, a statue of Jesus Christ, and even a concrete sculpture of a snail.
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Ahead, we've rounded up some of the funniest tombstones we could find on Instagram (which means some of them may have been Photoshopped, but so be it).
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"It's unbelievably disrespectful, just a shame," Judy Sipkin, who rushed to the cemetery on Tuesday to survey any damage to her relatives' tombstones, told the Post-Dispatch.
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Holley figured out that he was a talented sculptor while fashioning ad-hoc tombstones for his sister's two young children, who had died in a house fire.
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Theatrics and props, such as empty coffins and tombstones, had been weapons of choice in the group's protests before—they rapidly communicated messages and were media magnets.
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Walking down abandoned streets or through untended cemeteries where the tombstones listed like loose teeth, it was as if they were the last living people on earth.
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At the end of the row, a perpendicular alley offered a sight line to the brown field of tombstones and, beyond it, the buildings in Al Quds.
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The film spurred two sequels, and a TV spinoff, and opened the door for other roles like Non-Stop, A Walk Among the Tombstones, and Run All Night.
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Some of the figures before which Mr Schama pauses are themselves works of art, such as the circling hares that appear on tombstones in Satanow, now in Ukraine.
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MARIBOR, Slovenia (Reuters) - A firm in Slovenia are giving tombstones a 21st-century makeover, with 48-inch interactive screens that can show pictures, video and other digital content.
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The tombstones date to the 12th century and are treasured in the Balkans for their unique decorative symbols and carvings, often linked to the medieval Kingdom of Bosnia.
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In 2015, vandals desecrated 250 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France days after four Jews were killed in an attack on a kosher grocery in Paris.
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Pat Toomey's office in Philadelphia, demonstrators gathered for a "Tuesdays with Toomey" protest, where several people laid down on a sidewalk holding signs in the shape of tombstones.
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Naoko Kinoshita, a member of the Rurikoin's public relations team, led me through to a floor with three different communal tombstones, reminding me that photography was strictly forbidden.
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Like tumbled tombstones marking the graveyard of self-referential Modernism, the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon presents a remarkable set of remembrances to ponder.
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The graveyard of companies whose anthropological guesses were too wrong to pivot to rightness, or who couldn't / wouldn't do so fast enough, is full to bursting with tombstones.
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His meaningless pledges to revive the "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones" that he mourned at his inauguration ignore the promise American manufacturing holds in the real world.
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WATERBERG, Namibia — In this faraway corner of southern Africa, scores of German soldiers lie in a military cemetery, their names, dates and details engraved on separate polished tombstones.
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Most recently, it was McConnell's campaign Twitter account that celebrated the metaphorical deaths of his opponents with a photo of tombstones in the midst of last weekend's bloodshed.
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" And he sees punitive tariffs as a way to stop foreigners from selling us stuff, and thereby revive the "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape.
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You've made a couple of my favorite movies, "A Walk Among the Tombstones" is a recent one, "Out of Sight" is one of my all-time favorite movies.
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Instead, I thought about the tombstones off to the side of the stage, and the graves outside and all around during that long twilight walk to the catacombs.
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Sears dates back to the late 1880s and its mail-order catalogues with merchandise from toys, medicine and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon.
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Similarly, in "Rewriting on the Tomb" (2013), which hangs alongside the single-channel video "Pilgrimage to History" (2013), Harsono rubs Chinese characters from tombstones in memory of the deceased.
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A New York City Police Department hate-crime task force had been investigating whether the damage to the granite and marble tombstones at Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn was intentional.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Free haircuts, scientific funding, fish and tombstones are among the incentives being offered to Turks who answer President Tayyip Erdogan's call to convert their dollars to lira.
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In 2015, vandals desecrated 250 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France only days after four Jews were killed in an attack on a kosher grocery in Paris.
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Cherry red and cream advertisements above the Bond Clothing Store in Times Square contrast with the tombstones and angel sculptures in a Queens cemetery running parallel to the skyline.
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As a child, I spent a lot of time in old New England cemeteries, wandering around the tombstones, looking at the design and shape and arrangement of these things.
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He was working on a series of photographs of young men alongside pictorial tombstones from a military cemetery of boys who had been killed in the war with Azerbaijan.
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He's not there to put flowers on a loved one's grave, but instead spends his time cleaning tombstones for veterans' who have no visitors, according to The Florida Times-Union.
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Richard W. Beatty, of Brentwood, has long incorporated the noose into his elaborate Halloween decorations, which he said also included half a dozen tombstones and several ghostly figures on wires.
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Hopefully the cemetery is cleared up, and the tombstones fixed, and everything about the Mansion will get back to normal — you know, delighting adults and giving little kids a spook.
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This means coffins are made of locally sourced wood or cardboard, and tombstones will be replaced by wooden grave markers, which the city will provide and renew every 10 years.
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Past the cottage, way out into the rows of tombstones, is a coffin-sized rectangle of fresh grass, which was several shades darker than the surrounding lawn this past spring.
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Its composition — an anti-hierarchical stack of volumetric shapes, several of which resemble tombstones — could serve as a template for Philip Guston's ungainly piles of shoes, books, lightbulbs, and eyeballs.
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JABALIYA, Gaza Strip — He lay down among the tombstones in a cemetery beside his grandfather's house, his cousin said, in what passes for child's play in the grim reality of Gaza.
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There are the dumb cardboard tombstones, the fake cobwebs, and the battery-powered zombie heads that let out a terrifying scream whenever you pass in front of the sensor or whatever.
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"We know there was slavery in both the United States and Brazil, but look at us now, white and black, together in this place," she said while pointing to the tombstones.
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But the tech graveyard is filled with tombstones of former technology giants that failed to innovate: AOL, Yahoo, Gateway, Nokia... Tim Cook could continue to successfully lead Apple for some time.
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Peek in on an average day and you are likely to witness Mr. Decar emerge from a vertical coffin to officiate a ceremony in a chapel flooded with fog and tombstones.
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Built in 1922, and now neglected, the 213-acre site packed with tombstones, statues and shrines has become a pilgrimage point for Singaporeans trying to reconnect with their country's vanishing past.
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Verify that you are working with a credible business when paying for services, plots or tombstones, and discuss what will happen if they are no longer able to fulfill the contract.
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Orcas circle the bay in search of unsuspecting sea lion pups, two trawler wrecks cling precariously to the rocky shore, and the cemetery's tombstones are engraved with German and Nordic surnames.
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The vandalism left families wondering whether their loved ones' tombstones were affected, what it will take to repair the damage and whether their heritage had anything to do with why it happened.
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"You never knew I took this picture I heard what you said to mommy & daddy and they heard you," Detore captioned a picture of Raiola standing in front of their parents' tombstones.
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Just over a week after the vandals attacked, a tour of Chesed Shel Emeth reveals volunteers repairing and cleaning large tombstones in what was once a very Jewish suburb of St Louis.
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He scanned the field for a moment before pointing about a hundred yards out, beyond a stand of pine trees, toward a sunny plot of faded gray tombstones arrayed in a row.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads KARACHI, Pakistan — Tombstones rise out of the earth lining the pathway in front of Frere Hall, a colonial building and surrounding park in Karachi's bustling downtown.
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It's "lit," too, with throngs of skeleton-faced American tourists stumbling between tombstones, drawn to the coastal region by the movie Coco, the endless fountains of mezcal, and bottomless pits of mole.
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They were gossiping softly about the election and its aftermath, but, once we were through the gates, passing thousands of tombstones, listening to the thud of ceremonial cannon fire, they went quiet.
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Sears dates back to the late 1880s and its mail-order catalogs with merchandise from toys, medicine and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon of its time.
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Sears dates back to the late 1880s and its mail-order catalogs with merchandise from toys, medicine, and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon of its time.
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But the recent wave of toppled tombstones and threats against Jewish centers in the United States has at least as many worrying that his rise may also not be good for Jews.
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"In the Roman world, in Italy and in Egypt too, when people died their tombstones were usually painted bright colors, because they wanted people to read their names and remember them," said Person.
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He'll rip up his contract with Rumple in exchange for Emma's help, and then he'll erase all of their names from the tombstones so they can leave in a portal back to Storybrooke.
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She reasons that Regina would definitely not allow that to happen, but he shrugs and reveals his plan to trap all the heroes down there — all of their names are now on tombstones.
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The actor slimmed down for his role in 2014's A Walk Among the Tombstones, in which he played a drug trafficker desperate to find the men who kidnapped and killed his wife.
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One for Helmann the Great, the "Napoleon of Necromancy," pictures the conjurer reading a colossal Mysteries of Magic tome held up by two demons, while tombstones in the background spell out his name.
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In his inaugural address, the 26th president presented a dark vision of a nation exploited by Washington elites, of "children trapped in poverty" and "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones" across the country.
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Because some of them are ghostly gray, and others mere silhouettes filled in with more feathers, skulls, or tombstones, it can take minutes of staring to notice just how simple the pattern is.
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In the San Michele cemetery, relatives of the deceased typically tend the tombs, and on a recent afternoon Venetians of various ages brought fresh flowers, brushed off tombstones and fought off ravenous mosquitoes.
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A shadowy company with a mission of "Constant Vigilance" is selling hidden cameras and listening devices to government agencies that are disguised as rocks, trees, tombstones, vacuum cleaners, and even baby car seats.
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"Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation," Trump said in laying out his vision of hellscape America.
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At his inauguration, Trump painted a picture of a nation in decline, marked by "American carnage" such as "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape" and marauding criminal gangs plaguing major cities.
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Monday's bomb threats follow an incident over the weekend where 20163 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia were knocked over, in what local and state officials have described as an act of vandalism.
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Monday's bomb threats follow an incident over the weekend where 100 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia were knocked over, in what local and state officials have described as an act of vandalism.
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Bosnia's Civil Affairs Minister Adil Osmanovic announced on Monday that a committee of the U.N. Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had recognized the unique and universal cultural value of the tombstones, known as stecci.
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"Look around you: This is the Alessandro effect," said the Gucci chief executive, Marco Bizzarri, standing on the catwalk his house had built on the centuries-old tombstones of the great and good of England.
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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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A view from the ground shows a more somber reality -- scores of granite and marble tombstones, toppled and damaged in a historic Jewish cemetery at a time tensions in the nation's Jewish communities are already high.
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In one Halloween-themed demo, it's a combination laser gun and fishing rod; you break apart tombstones by pulling the gun trigger, then "hook" the ghosts that come out and pull them into a holding container.
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In 1941, the elder Borglum died, financing dried up, plans to carve the torsos of the presidents to the waist were abandoned and Del Bianco returned to Port Chester, where his company carved hundreds of tombstones.
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"There is no doubt that radical Islam is a danger in the world," Rubio said, adding that those who visit Arlington National Cemetery will see "crescent moons," on the tombstones of fallen Muslim-American service members.
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Examining different tombstones and how people or their families have chosen to be remembered via a slab of stone or whatnot is very interesting to me, and the phrases that they choose to be remembered by.
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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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Against these personal moments are views like the lobby of South Dakota's Yankton State Hospital with its grandly neoclassical marble staircase, and an unused coffin resting alongside numbered tombstones, the common system in which patients were buried.
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Likened by Ruble, accurately, to tombstones, these banal interior views insinuate that the resurgent resident evils of racism, nationalism, and white supremacy may well be on the march thanks to our failure to make peace with these ghosts.
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"How can anyone say this was not a genocide?" said Nura Suljic, 57, pointing at endless rows of white marble tombstones in the flower-shaped Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica, where more than 6,300 victims are now interred.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The giant, gently sloping hill at the center of Makomanai Takino Cemetery in Sapporo, Japan is dotted not with tombstones but with lavender plants — 22017,212 of them, growing in neat, concentric circles.
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In Kruszyniany the following year, vandals painted anti-Muslim slogans, a pig and a red X on the 18th-century mosque and vandalized the adjacent cemetery, painting wartime resistance symbols and covering Islamic religious script on Tatar tombstones.
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Stronger recent arrivals are Judit Reigl's foreboding "Guano (Menhir)" of 1959-5353; Ilona Keseru's pink, red and purple wall hanging, inspired by tombstones but resembling open mouths, from 1969; and a handsome shaped abstract painting by Robert Mangold.
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American factories and their workers would become less competitive in the global market, adding new victims to the "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation" that Mr. Trump deplored in his Inaugural Address.
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While public cemeteries often have long waiting lists, tombstones at private ones can cost from 500,000 yen ($4,000) to multiple millions, with the location and type of tombstone bumping up prices, according to former funeral director Yusuke Wada.
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Andrew Lumish of Land O' Lakes, Florida, spends most of his waking hours scrubbing down the tarnished and moss-covered tombstones in historic cemeteries around Tampa, exposing the essential information of a life story just waiting to be rediscovered.
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A World Heritage listing for 70,000 medieval tombstones spread across four countries that emerged from Yugoslavia's bloody break up in the 1990s was praised on Monday as a rare example of successful cooperation between the former foes.
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Trump, a real estate developer, has particularly focused on manufacturing, lamenting during his inaugural address last week about "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation" and vowing to boost U.S. industries over foreign ones.
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Trump, a real estate developer, has particularly focused on manufacturing, lamenting during his inaugural address on Friday about "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation" and vowing to boost U.S. industries over foreign ones.
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" McConnell's reelection campaign has reveled in the senator's reputation as the "grim reaper," posting on Twitter over the summer a picture featuring tombstones, two of which were dedicated to socialism and the Green New Deal and another reading "R.
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As much as I'm a fan of all the bite-sized candy and sweets Halloween brings, this year I'm planning on celebrating the spookiest season with a bigger treat: 3-D pumpkins, skulls, and tombstones all made of cake.
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On June 19, the film "Cinta Amarilla" — a documentary about the artist Beatriz González's "Auras Anónimas," an installation of 8,957 tombstones in the central cemetery of Bogotá, Colombia — is to begin screening in one of the Shed's gallery spaces.
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After four decades dressing in the color from head to toe, the 67-year-old Bosnian has had tombstones made for herself and husband Zoran — whom she married wearing a red gown — from a special red granite imported from India.
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Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.
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Tombstones from Hudson's Bay Company have their white wooden fences draped with unused pieces of hunted creatures, a sign of respect by the Cree for these animals, and a reminder of the long encroachment on their homeland by European settlement.
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Some of the tombstones identified by Human Rights Watch put the ages of death at 18, but further investigations by the group found that the children who had died had lied about their age in order to join the Fatemiyoun Division.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On today's Memorial Day in the United States, the tombstones honoring those who died while in the military service will be decorated with flags throughout the country, particularly in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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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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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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With paintings of the departed from the 19th century, daguerreotype photographs of the dead, and marble tombstones, the exhibition considers posthumous portraiture in the US in all its forms, particularly as a medium for preserving memory, no matter how brief the life.
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Editorial As the destructive coal mining process known as mountaintop removal ebbs in Appalachia, it is leaving behind what amounts to its own grim field of tombstones: A grossly disfigured landscape pocked with decapitated mountains standing flat as mesas and inhospitable to forest restoration.
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Physics Prize: Gábor Horváth, Miklós Blahó, György Kriska, Ramón Hegedüs, Balázs Gerics, Róbert Farkas, Susanne Åkesson, Péter Malik, and Hansruedi Wildermuth, for discovering why white-haired horses are the most horsefly-proof horses, and for discovering why dragonflies are fatally attracted to black tombstones.
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Meanwhile, McConnell also came under fire this weekend after his Team Mitch campaign tweeted a photo of a mock graveyard that featured tombstones for his political opponents, including socialism, Merrick Garland and Amy McGrath, who is currently running to replace him in the senate.
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The Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania said 10 tombstones had been damaged in the incident, which occurred on the night of April 23/24, adding that "this act of grave vandalism and anti-Semitism saddened and revolted the whole Jewish community in Romania".
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Other forms of upgraded cemeteries feature traditional temples rebuilt as multi-storey buildings, which rely on car park-style conveyer belt tech to transport burial urns from storage facilities within the building to a few communal tombstones as and when they are are requested.
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We found history going much further back in the form of a reconstituted Neolithic cave at the Musée Historique et Archéologique, a rich cache of ancient stones, which houses a menhir from 4,500 B.C., the tombstones of local gladiators and fragments of lavish Roman mosaics.
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Now in the chapel's graveyard, trees were torn out at their roots, 2400-year-old tombstones were cracked or knocked over entirely, ripped sections of Venetian blinds rattled amid branches, and a 211-inch-thick blanket of papers, debris, and ash coated the ground.
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He spoke of the need for unity with Americans who live with "the crime and the gangs and the drugs," terms that he has often used to describe minority communities but that in this case extended to those living among the "tombstones" of factories.
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LONDON — French officials paid their respects Friday at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg, where 37 tombstones and a monument to Holocaust victims had been defaced with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti in the same week that a deadly attack that shook the nation.
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" As for the linkless Lit Shot's ubiquity on Twitter, he said, "We're delighted that people enjoy creating and sharing their own deal 'tombstones' with screenshots, and we're happy to have the focus remain on the author and their deal rather than on us as the reporting site.
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In February, following evidence from a forensic report reported on in Hyperallergic, the government of Azerbaijan was found to have ordered the destruction at least 89 medieval churches, 0003,840 intricate cross-stones, and 22,000 tombstones in Nakhchivan, an autonomous republic situated in between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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His vocal cycle "Tombstones," which the singer-composer Julia Holter has recorded for Human Ear, alludes to DJ Screw's remix of UGK's "One Day" and to Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" (the line "All the way from New Orleans to Jerusalem" has been slowed to a crawl).
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Edmonson's sudden visibility follows the template that has governed so many self-taught artists who meet with renown — the sculptor, whose career making tombstones had begun only in his fifties, was "discovered" by an influential tastemaker, whose validation catapulted him from the margins to the center.
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Throughout her poems appear such images as internet news feeds, cyborgs, department stores-cum-tombstones, investor suicides, womanizing literary critics, and the world's lightest motorcycle, which together intimate her various shades of ironic detachment as well as sober-faced reflections on the cruel realities of late late-capitalism.
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One section over, in the center of the bottom row, the artist seems to slowly dissolve into an abstraction, and on the far right, in "Electronic Graveyard No. 2," the tombstones appear to be giant iPhones, presumably allowing us to download the life contained therein onto our own devices.
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Photo by 'dwboso' via RedditBased on the computer game that dates all the way back to 1971 (say what?) the card game version comes with trail cards, calamity cards, supply cards, and a dry-erase board full of tombstones so you can mark down which players have died.
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Framer for Steve Miller and Bannon … Via WashPost, "Words Donald Trump said for the first time in any U.S. inaugural address": bleed … carnage … depletion … disagreements … disrepair … flush … infrastructure … Islamic … lady … landscape … overseas … ripped … rusted … sad … solidarity … sprawl … stealing … stolen … subsidized … tombstones … trapped … trillions … tunnel … unrealized … unstoppable … urban … wind-swept.
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" Mr. Trump's view of the United States was strikingly grim for an Inaugural Address — a country where mothers and children are "trapped in poverty in our inner cities," where "rusted-out factories" are "scattered like tombstones across the landscape" and where drugs and crime "have stolen too many lives.
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Whimsically nicknamed "Blood Cemetery" because of Abel and Betsy Blood's tombstones, Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis, New Hampshire, is home to one unusually specific phenomenon, among the other run-of-the-mill ghost stuff like floating orbs: There's a hand carved into Abel's headstone, its index finger pointing to heaven.
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"It's a peaceful place with courtyards, green lawns and a pond, and a highlight is seeing the names of more than a thousand scholars inscribed on tombstones," said Eva Van Truong, a native of Vietnam and managing director of the Reverie Saigon, an upscale hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.
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According to the group's report, some of the children's epitaphs identify their place of death as Syria, while some tombstones bear the inscription "defender of the shrine" — a reference to Sayyida Zainab, an important shrine in Syria revered by the Shiite sect of Islam, to which many Afghans and Iranians belong.
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We entered through a gate some distance away, and the first thing we saw were row after row of identical tombstones, the graves of Jewish soldiers who died fighting for Romania in World War I. Near that, we found the grave of Samuel Joseph Zuckerman, Iancu's father, my great-uncle.
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Democrats have been frustrated so far by their inability to create more pressure on McConnell to take up any of the House-passed bills; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a news conference last week where she brandished a chart showing "McConnell's graveyard" of bills that he had blocked, complete with miniature tombstones.
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He is both comforted and repelled by the changes: The skyscrapers promise growth, but he rues each missing mulberry and olive tree; the old movie theater, now a burnt-out husk, its charred seats looking like rows of tombstones; a dried-up river that was once filled with pink-and-white fish.
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The galaxy, Thousands of fireworks Reflecting the stars, Asleep in space The tombstones of Earth His tall frame was coiled up His demeanor self-effacing He said I'm in a room, Flooded with light, It's a fantasy About finding a way out Of the 65-year silence I want to surprise them.
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In "Ex Gurus," her first commercial gallery solo in New York, Ms. Verzutti uses raw bronze, gold in color, as canvas; combines papier-mâché with concrete; and in "Cemetery Inline," makes a bumpy Carl Andre floor piece resembling a ragtag row of tombstones from chunks of cobblestone, unbaked clay and papier-mâché with color added.
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Quiet and subtly haunting, the images, with no human subjects, picture empty fields with tall lonesome trees backlit by the glow of distant industries; empty benches in a park; a rabbit figurine staring out into a clump of trees; wispy fog floating over fields; and white tombstones set in a frame of green weeds and trees.
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" Taking the oath of office in the midst of an economy near full employment and historically low crime, Trump spoke of "rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation," and "crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
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The grave is passed down the generations and the upkeep of these tombstones and yearly maintenance fee are shouldered by living relatives, who will try and pay their respects as often as they can, or more likely during special occasions such as Obon—a three-day Japanese Buddhist festival during the summer that honors ancestral spirits.
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His description of "American carnage" in his Inaugural Address — complete with "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape," impoverished mothers and children, crime, drugs that "robbed our country of so much unrealized potential" — struck a nerve with millions of voters who feel left behind by a country buffeted by demographic, technological and social change.
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When Donald Trump, during his downbeat Inaugural Address, conjured an "American carnage" that left "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation," and "crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential," what was he describing but a national apocalypse, a Hades in Chicago and at the border?
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The group, Human Rights Watch, said it had verified the deaths of eight Afghan children in Iran, who were recruited and ultimately died fighting for the Fatemiyoun division in Syria, by inspecting tombstones in cemeteries in Iran, cross-referencing them against the names of fighters reported dead in Iranian news reports, and by speaking to the families of several of the teenagers.
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When Mr. Trump spoke about "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation" in his Inaugural Address, people like Donald Bonk, a local economic development consultant, assumed that Mr. Miller — who grew up in California but spent summers in Johnstown — was writing about the old Bethlehem Steel buildings that still hug long stretches of the Little Conemaugh River.
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In this crystalline exhibition, nearly every gallery exhales its own delicious breath, offering up concentrated views of Penn's innovative still-life and fashion work for Vogue; his portraits of cultural luminaries and tradesmen, as well as of indigenous Peruvians; his nearly abstract close-ups of voluptuous nudes; and his colossal cigarette butts, with their tragicomic evocations of Roman columns, tombstones and even corpses.
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John CornynJohn CornynTensions rise in Senate's legislative 'graveyard' Congress feels heat to act on youth vaping Senate passes legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters MORE (Texas), another GOP senator who is up for reelection next year, railed against "Schumer's graveyard" during a floor speech — a play on Democrats' dubbing the Senate a "legislative graveyard" — while standing next to a poster with tombstones detailing what legislation Schumer has killed.
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We then match the name to one of the names written on the tombstones, and, as instructed on the card, dig into the dirt to reveal the English name of the person being memorialized (they were all opposing the Assad government), and then lie down on top of the "grave" to hear the man or woman's story, which seemed to be whispered from under the earth.
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Museums & Galleries In this crystalline exhibition, closing on July 30, nearly every gallery exhales its own delicious breath, offering up concentrated views of Penn's innovative still-life and fashion work for Vogue; his portraits of cultural luminaries and tradesmen, as well as of indigenous Peruvians; his nearly abstract close-ups of voluptuous nudes; and his colossal cigarette butts, with their tragicomic evocations of Roman columns, tombstones and even corpses.
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But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
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According to Trump, America is a terrible and fearsome place: [M]others and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
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"Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential," he said, before drawing a deep breath through his clenched nostrils.
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But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
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As the show moves along, it retraces a brilliant, productive career of nearly 70 years, revealing the unwavering consistency of a vision fixed on form and beauty in their many guises: extensive fashion work for Vogue; portraits of cultural luminaries and tradesmen, as well as of indigenous Peruvians and New Guinean tribesmen; nearly abstract close-ups of overly voluptuous nudes; and colossal cigarette butts magnified to suggest Roman columns, tombstones and even corpses.
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