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MIGKY
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 17:25 UTC (UK) »
OH! the little sparrow  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88&feature=related
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James R. Yeowell
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 17:31 UTC (UK) »
My namesake and distant relative is buried in Highgate Cemetery not far from where Karl Marx is buried.
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lesleyhannah
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 17:44 UTC (UK) »
Not famous, but certainly unique! Seen in Boxhill, Surrey.

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MIGKY
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 17:51 UTC (UK) »
Gulp! wonder what he did to be buried that way?

This could explain why?

" His religious beliefs are known to have put him in great admiration of his saintly namesake, St Peter. He venerated the saint's humility and always spoke of his desire to emulate him in his ideals of generosity and faith. It is known too that the Apostle's piety made him feel unworthy of receiving a similar death to Christ, requesting crucifixion on an inverted cross. It is far more likely therefore that Major Labilliere's faith made him wish to suffer a similar end, being interred in a similar manner"
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lesleyhannah
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 17:58 UTC (UK) »
I'd never seen that Migky - I often giggle when I think of the funeral party trying to keep straight faces as the coffin was lowered head first into the ground.
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MIGKY
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 18:00 UTC (UK) »
Then again they could have dropped the coffin, head first and got it jammed  and so left it Grin Grin
Great picture either way Smiley

There seems to be a few theories when you google his name.
Migky  Wink
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 19:08 UTC (UK) »
very odd thanks for that !! Shocked Shocked Shocked
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 19:16 UTC (UK) »
Evita.

Hibee

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GRACELAND
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #23 on: Friday 30 October 09 15:07 UTC (UK) »
 Cheesy  keep um coming
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"Don't be like nobody else or you'll be livin' a lie, and that ain't livin'."
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 31 October 09 16:02 UTC (UK) »
The grave of Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz) in New York City on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of his death on Halloween in 1926.

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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 31 October 09 18:16 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: johnnyboy on Saturday 31 October 09 16:02 UTC (UK)
The grave of Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz) in New York City on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of his death on Halloween in 1926.

Is he still in there?
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 31 October 09 18:57 UTC (UK) »
Hi Skb: Considering the legal difficulties that I will make for myself if I drive the few miles to the cemetery to find out (by exhuming him and testing any remaining DNA), I believe the best course is to assume that the answer is yes!  Wink

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ENGLAND, YKS: SLATER of Ovenden and Halifax; DRURY of Darton, Mapplewell, Sheffield and Halifax; DOBSON of Thornton (near Bradford); NEVILL(E) of Wigan, Lancs and Darton; MEGSON of Dewsbury; GARSIDE of Woolley and West Bretton. SCOTLAND: HENDRY of Who-knows-where-shire and Massachusetts, USA; HOUSTON of Lesmahagow and Glasgow and Massachusetts, USA; DEMPSTER of Lesmahagow; MEIKLE of Ayrshire, Hamilton, and Glasgow; COCHRAN of Hamilton.

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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #27 on: Saturday 31 October 09 19:04 UTC (UK) »
I haven't got any famous grave pics ... so am bascially 'book-marking' ... keep them coming; this is interesting stuff !
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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #28 on: Saturday 31 October 09 19:13 UTC (UK) »
A literary one ....

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Re: wow FAMOUS graves !!
« Reply #29 on: Saturday 31 October 09 19:22 UTC (UK) »
Is that Hawarth oldtimer? Is that the rectory in the background? Sorry for my ignorance, but never been there, but would love to.
Lesley
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