100 years later: Alan Seeger's global commitment lingers

Edit Palm Beach Post 03 Jul 2016
... 8, 2016, an information board with a photograph of Alan Seeger guides visitors through the French National Necropolis of Lihons, in Lihons, France....

Rookwood Cemetery board placed under administration, CEO sacked, price rises on hold

Edit Canberra Times 01 Jul 2016
Secret board meetings, breaches of legislation, and unfair price rises at Rookwood cemetery will see the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere undergo another major shakeup ... ....

Rookwood Cemetery board placed under administration, price rises on hold

Edit Canberra Times 01 Jul 2016
Secret board meetings, breaches of legislation, and unfair price rises at Rookwood cemetery will see the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere undergo another major shakeup ... ....

Decisive action taken to set up Rookwood for the future [PDF] (NSW Department of Primary Industries)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jul 2016
(Source. NSW Department of Primary Industries) Blair med rel - Decisive action taken to set up Rookwood Cemetery for the future Niall Blair. Minister for Primary Industries Minister for Lands and Water ... Three trusts manage Rookwood Cemetery - the Catholic Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, the Rookwood Necropolis Trust and the Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Trust ... MEDIA. Siobhan McCarthy . Minister Blair ... Original document ... (noodl....

Top 8 Upcoming Games in July 2016

Edit GamingBolt 30 Jun 2016
July isn’t exactly the most bustling month when it comes to video games (and what a coincidence – June wasn’t exactly all that hot either) ... There’s plenty to look forward to, especially as we roll into one of the busiest periods of the year. Ghostbusters. We know what you’re thinking ... Get hyped. Furi ... Necropolis ... That’s cause for attention but Necropolis is more than a deviation from the norm ... Obduction ... ....

Egan: A little kid tells the lesson of Canada, in memory, old bones

Edit Canada Dot Com 29 Jun 2016
History — at least the living kind — is a little kid with no memory of great events reminding elders of cherished things carelessly forgotten ... To race ahead, Nadine will join Probert on Thursday at the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, where an ordinary military gravestone will mark the final resting place of "Arthur Roy Brown, DSC, Captain RAF, 1893-1944 within this cemetery and Edythe Monypenny, Loving Wife, 1896-1988." ... Happy Canada Day....

Gold coins, skeletons dug up in Pompeii site

Edit The Hindu 25 Jun 2016
The excavation of that and a second ancient shop started in May near a necropolis in the Herculaneum port area ... Keywords. Pompeii site ....

Skeletons, coins found in dig of ancient Pompeii shop

Edit The Himalayan 25 Jun 2016
ROME. Italian and French archaeologists have discovered four skeletons and gold coins in the ruins of an ancient shop on the outskirts of Pompeii, officials said Friday ... Three gold coins and a necklace’s pendant were scattered among the bones ... The excavation of that and a second ancient shop started in May near a necropolis in the Herculaneum port area ... Excavations continue ... Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were ancient Roman towns ... ....

Pompeii Discovery: Archaeologists Find Gold Coins, Human Remains in Ancient Roman Shop

Edit Inquisitr 25 Jun 2016
Italian and French archaeologists excavating a site at Porta Ercolano, just on the fringes of the popular ancient Roman city of Pompeii, have made a discovery of the remains of four people and gold artifacts. According to the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii, the discovery was made in a shop near the necropolis at Porta Ercolano, where some of the most distinguished citizens of Pompeii were laid to rest ... Vesuvius erupted....

A look back at the CN Tower's rise

Edit Toronto Sun 25 Jun 2016
While the CN Tower, along with Old City Hall, the TTC streetcars, the Island ferry boats and police officer on horses, have become iconic features of our city most of us take it pretty much in stride. After all it’s been there pretty much forever. Well, not really ... Next Thursday a special event will be held at the city’s Necropolis burial ground (200 Winchester St.) one of the most renowned airmen of the Great War Captain A....

Necropolis PC Release Date, Collector's Edition Unveiled

Edit GamersHell 24 Jun 2016
Unlike other popular roguelikes, Necropolis features a combat system based on timing and animation ... Necropolis ill be published on Steam by Harebrained Schemes on July 12th....
photo: Creative Commons / Qfl
Pompeii, with Vesuvius towering above. The ruins of Pompeii are situated at coordinates 40°45′00″N 14°29′10″E / 40.75°N 14.48611°E / 40.75; 14.48611, near the modern suburban town of Pompei.

Archaeologists Find Skeletons, Gold Coins In Buried Pompeii Shop

Edit WorldNews.com 24 Jun 2016
In the workshop was an oven that archaeologists think might have been used to make bronze objects.The excavation of that and a second ancient shop started in May near a necropolis in the Herculaneum port area. Archaeologists are puzzling over what kind of business the second shop did ... tomb of an adult, complete with funerary vases ... Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were ancient Roman towns....

Uzbekistan's magnificent cities: where Soviet style meets Islamic heritage

Edit The Guardian 24 Jun 2016
From Tashkent to Samarkand and Bukhara, travel writer Caroline Eden believes Uzbekistan offers a dazzling mix of traditional style and a modern outlook ... Twitter. Uzbekistan is changing fast ... But it’s not all modernisation ... Samarkand has the architectural heavy-hitters (the necropolis Shah-i-Zinda, Tamerlane’s mausoleum Gūr-i Amīr, Registan square); Bukhara is best for atmosphere and shopping; and Khiva for its fantastic small museums ... ....
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