In 1805, Lt. Col. Timothy Dix of Amherst, New Hampshire was granted a parcel of land deep within the imposing mountains of the Great North Woods. The land came with just one stipulation: Dix had five years to have the land settled by at least thirty residents. Dix named the town Dixville (fittingly enough) but didn't have too much time to make good on his promise, as he would become involved in…
There comes a time in every skeleton's death when, upon their being discovered in a grave hugging another skeleton, modern people start foaming at the mouth, guessing at what that relationship might have been. This is understandable and quite defensible from my perspective as a modern person. An embrace is a gesture that transcends however many centuries might separate us. Of course we might…
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Green-Wood Cemetery is the final resting place of luminaries such as Leonard Bernstein and Jean Michel Basquiat, but there’s at least one that might be incognito to most passersby due to the individual being buried under his birth name – Wuppermann – instead of his stage name Frank Morgan, an actor best known for portraying the Wizard of Oz in the eponymous 1939 film.
Francis Phillip Wuppermann…
Portrayed by Donnie Yen in the film series named after him and loosely based on his life, Ip Man was born to a wealthy family in Foshan, Guangdong province in 1893. Having taken up Wing Chun at age 13 under the tutelage of Chan Wah Shun, he moved to Hong Kong two years later to complete his schooling.
After seeing a police officer beating a local woman while heading to school with a classmate,…
In the valley of the Gauja River in Latvia—then Livonia—near the imposing Turaida Castle, a simple grave beneath a linden tree marks the resting place of a woman known as the Rose of Turaida.
Her name was Maija. According to legend, she was found as an infant after a 17th-century battle during the Polish–Swedish Wars, discovered in her dead mother’s embrace. She was raised by the secretary of…
The focal point of the beautiful Branitz Park near Cottbus consists of two pyramids: the Land Pyramid, modeled after the stepped shape of the Pyramids of Saqqara, and the Lake Pyramid or "Tumulus"—the burial pyramid. In front of the latter lies a tiny island featuring the gravestone of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau and his wife, Lucie.
Hermann von Pückler-Muskau commands respect as one of…
Visitors to the Arlington National Cemetery looking to visit the gravesite of Admiral Peary will appropriately find themselves at the farthest edge of the complex. Unexpectedly, however, one must walk to the far southwest end to reach the memorial for the famous North Pole explorer.
Robert E. Peary's ambitious expeditions to be the first documented person to reach the North Pole were deemed a…
Annie Springthorpe was born on the 26th of January 1867, married on the 26th of January 1887 and then died on the 26th of January 1897. So records the monumental Springthorpe memorial at Kew Cemetery, erected by Annie's grieving husband following her death ten years into their short-lived marriage.
Dr. John Springthorpe was professionally accomplished and utterly devoted to his young wife before…
Tucked back in a small field beside an elementary school, you’ll find a headstone for Bock Bock.
He was given as an Easter gift to a resident, and terrorized the kids at the school from 1957-1959. He was killed by a food delivery boy sometime in the summer of 1959.
The engraving on the stone reads as follows: The Easter chick of Eddie Baugh who grew up to be a mean Rooster who terrorized the…
In the commercial and political center of Lusaka lies a green space, across the street from the Cabinet Offices and surrounded by embassies. This park is the official cemetery for the presidents of Zambia. Ever since gaining independence from Great Britain, Zambia has been fortunate to have relatively peaceful and regular transitions of power, with generally free and fair elections with minimal…
Tucked into the quiet cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, overlooking the Tuscan coastline, lies the grave of Italo Calvino—an author whose imagination ranged far beyond the visible world. Unlike monumental tombs dedicated to literary giants, Calvino’s resting place is strikingly modest, almost deliberately so, echoing his lifelong resistance to grandiosity and rigid labels.
Calvino spent…
Tucked away in a copse of scrub oak in the Greenland Open Space is a solitary gravesite, surrounded by an imposing wrought-iron fence, sitting right off the side of Kipps Loop, a trail wandered by hikers and cyclists alike.
This is what remains of the old Palmer Lake Cemetery, also known as Greenmont Cemetery - the final resting place for residents of the town of Palmer Lake, a couple of miles…
Beneath a life-sized dolphin statue at the Dolphin Research Center in Marathon, FL lies Mitzi, the silver-screen legend who starred as the original Flipper series.
Her grave, marked by a plaque honoring her as "The Original Flipper," and a larger than life sculpture, is more than a roadside oddity; it is the spiritual heart of the facility and traditionally the first stop on every tour.
What…