The Dupaquier family tomb’s marble closure tablet features an ornate relief carving depicting a winged hourglass encircled with a floral wreath.  The hourglass is surrounded by a snake eating its tail (ouroboros), a symbol of immortality.

St. Louis Cemetery #3, New Orleans, La.

Cremated.

There are a number of points in this manifesto that I'm 100% behind.

#BindependenceDay

Born in England in 1820, Hannah Guillan worked as a teacher/manager at the Georgia Academy for the Blind (Macon, Ga.) for 46 years. Opened in 1852, the school is still in operation today. Hannah died on June 1, 1898. Buried at Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Ga.

If you haven't already, sign up for Geoff Simmons and Loughborough Road SW9 history's The People of Streatham Cemetery. Conducted research there previously and there are some interesting people resting there.

Countries with the best health care systems, 2024:

1.🇹🇼 Taiwan
2.🇰🇷 South Korea
3.🇦🇺 Australia
4.🇨🇦 Canada
5.🇸🇪 Sweden
6.🇮🇪 Ireland
7.🇳🇱 Netherlands
8.🇩🇪 Germany
9.🇳🇴 Norway
10.🇮🇱 Israel

Where is UK? fight for your NHS
#nhs #fifenhs #scotland

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Hooray! Congrats Emma Flint @emmaflint.bsky.social📚💀💙🖤💙📚

Legend. He produced many of the artists I used to pay back in my past life in the music industry.

What a beaut

From my local charity shop, and a Zola I've not read (I'm a fan), but not going to lie, a purchase largely motivated by the cover 🤣 Sounds and looks like a 70s sitcom.

Those monuments... ❤️

BOOM.

Italian boxing legend Nino Benvenuti was born #OnThisDay in 1938 - Olympic Welterweight Champion 1960, World Light Middleweight Champion 1965 - 1966, World Middleweight Champion 1967 and 1968 - 1970.

How Gardening Neglected Victorian Graves Brought Community to a Philadelphia Cemetery

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Well, do you?? #archaeology ✨️

My July 2019 Iowa Road Trip ends with Part III of my series on Iowa City, Iowa's Oakland Cemetery. You'll read about James & Louisa Carleton, who lost all six of their children. Also included is two-term Iowa governor Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (1813-1894). bit.ly/4aTNHxo