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Posts tagged cemetery

The grave of an ant…

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St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 (New Orleans)

…or so AI informed me when I asked whose grave this is. Moral of the story: you can’t trust AI.

Cementerio de Sayulita

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Cementery in Sayulita near Playa De Los Muertos

Garden of Remembrance

Dohány Street Synagogue Garden of Remembrance

Dohány Street Synagogue’s Garden of Remembrance (Budapest, 2018)

Just a week to go until forty-something percent of the voting population of the USA goes out and votes for a fascist. The USA is not alone as today’s photo comes from another country which is forgetting history.

Throwback Thursday

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黒田家墓所 – Kuroda Family Graves (June 2013)

Throwing it back to the 17th Century today.

To the victor belong the spoils! Back in the early 17th Century, Japan was going through some changes. The Kurodas backed Tokugawa and were rewarded with Fukuoka. Three Kurodas were buried here on the Tochoji grounds, and a little over 300 years later a giant cube of an office building was built to look down at their graves.

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Kuroda family grave sign

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

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Punchbowl Cemetery (Oahu, Hawaii – December 2017)

雑司ヶ谷霊園

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Ikebukuro (June 2010)