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  • A holy Sadhu man attracts a crowd on the Maidan in central Calcutta, India. Near some ballustrades built by the British during the last years of the Raj, the man is leaning forward on his knees and his head is buried in gravel. Practicing Tapas or Niyamas, is one form of Austerity that holy men like this perform to cleanse themselves of bad thoughts. It is a conservation of energy; an increase of power in the system by sense control; a process of positive-thought, self-imposed  hardships and inner-strength - all to gain a higher being for oneself. They might stand in cold water in winter, stand on or bury their heads in earth. Niyamas also breeds non-violence, truthfullness, non-stealing, moderation, non-possessiveness, purity, contentment, discipline, study and surrender.
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  • Celebrated grave for the Dublin-born playright and known homosexual, Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. 19th century Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde once quipped: "One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." He died in Paris at only 46, impoverished and broken down from years of being villified by Victorian society. He was buried at Père Lachaise with a modest tomb, but a memorial was later erected. Today the monument is covered in lipstick marks left by ardent visitors..
    pere_lachaise03-19-08-2012.jpg
  • Having just unearthed more bodies from layers of volcanic ash and pumice, an archaeologist's assistant pauses for a cigarette, kneeling beside a victim of the AD79 eruption of Mount Versuvius over the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. Buried beneath huge amounts of toxic material this person was suffocated and crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be removed from this site on top of a villa roof where, it is calculated, this citizen was one of the last to die, having climbed 4 metres above ground level to await its fate. The Italian man ears a red t-shirt and holds a pick that has scraped and brushed away the soil to reveal the human form which also shows another body beneath. Others litter the rooftop too proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
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  • In an archaeologists' shed at the site of further excavations in Pompeii, Italy, the bones of an ancient Roman citizen is spread out on a metal sheet after being uncovered from Volcanic ash and pumice. Pompeii was buried beneath metres of toxic material from Mount Versuvius in May AD79 and this person was suffocated then crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be examined for desease yielding clues as to its lifestyle and eating habits. The skeletal remains are clearly identifiable with spinal column vertibrae, one jaw still containing teeth and various pieces of bone have been recovered. Many bodies littered a rooftop here proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
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  • In the foreground a local dog lies down in the afternoon heat on rutted ancient Roman flag stones while in the background tourists walk down the old highway in Pompeii, Italy. Next to his exhausted body, the grooved ruts carved by wooden wheels can still be seen next to a large stepping stone which let chariots ride over the stone yet allowed pedestrians to step over the road. Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. It was completely buried during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD. The volcano covered Pompeii under many metres of ash, and it was lost for over 1,600 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, it is a main tourist attraction of Italy and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pompeii has become a popular tourist destination; with approximately 2.5 million visitors a year, it is the most popular tourist attraction in Italy.
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  • Celebrated grave for the Dublin-born playright and known homosexual, Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. 19th century Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde once quipped: "One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." He died in Paris at only 46, impoverished and broken down from years of being villified by Victorian society. He was buried at Père Lachaise with a modest tomb, but a memorial was later erected. Today the monument is covered in lipstick marks left by ardent visitors..
    pere_lachaise02-19-08-2012.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery07-09-07-2014.jpg
  • A desaturated cemetery landscape of flowers laid at a contemporary gravestones and in the distance, Victorian memorials.
    cc_norwood_cemetery01-12-09-2012.jpg
  • Modern English and ancient Latin marks the re-burial place of an unknown Roman girl near afternoon drinkers enjoying warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-05-17-07-2017.jpg
  • Cemetery in the Dolomites resort town of San Cassiano-St. Kassian in south Tyrol, Italy.
    san_cassiano05-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Wreaths and flowers on a grave for dad and Grandad in a London cemetery.
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  • The mud and soil of a grave for Grandad in a London cemetery.
    cemetery_grave01-25-02-2014.jpg
  • Visitors inspect the row of childrens' graves in the churchyard of St James, Cooling, Kent. Charles Dickens wrote about these graves in the opening of his famous novel Great Expectations. Dickens lived nearby in Higham and referred to this row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves. Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....' In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
    cooling_church01-02-06-2013.jpg
  • A plaster figure of Jesus draped with plastic beads and a crucifix at a gravestone in a south London cemetery.
    norwood_cemetery04-12-09-2012.jpg
  • The celebrated tomb of Polish-born composerFrédéric François Chopin in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in ?elazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, Chopin grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; he composed many mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20.
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  • Wide cobbled avenue in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs. Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the graves of those who have enhanced French life over the past 200 years. It is also the site of three World War I memorials.
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  • Tombstone to the French comic Leon Noel (1844-1913) in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
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  • Single red rose attached to the gates of the mausoleum for the Pulligny family in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
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  • Stained glass and arches in the Gothic mausoleum for the Albertin Deron family in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
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  • Decorated grave for singer and actor Gilbert Becaud, in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Gilbert Bécaud (1927 - 2001 was a French singer, composer and actor, known as "Monsieur 100.000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love". He remained a popular artist for nearly fifty years, identifiable in his dark blue suits, with a white shirt and "lucky tie"; blue with white polka dots.
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  • Among headstones and graves, two local children play in the unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Along with their pet Labrador dog who enjoys joining in on the fun, the children are playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
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  • Detail of burial plot for the Rothermere family in Holy Trinity Church, High Hurstwood, East Sussex.
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  • Detail of burial plot for the Rothermere family in Holy Trinity Church, High Hurstwood, East Sussex.
    rothermere_cemetery02-27-06-2010.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery04-16-05-2009.jpg
  • The Protor & Gamble detergents factory complex dominates the pre-Norman but restored St Clement's church at West Thurrock
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  • The Protor & Gamble detergents factory complex dominates the pre-Norman but restored St Clement's church at West Thurrock
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  • Modern English and ancient Latin marks the re-burial place of an unknown Roman girl near afternoon drinkers enjoying warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-04-17-07-2017.jpg
  • Cemetery in the Dolomites resort town of San Cassiano-St. Kassian in south Tyrol, Italy.
    san_cassiano03-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Detail of a memorial with the faded image of a child on an untended grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loire.
    civray_cemetery13-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of a memorial and artificial flowers on an untended grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loire.
    civray_cemetery11-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery10-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery08-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Visitors inspect the row of childrens' graves in the churchyard of St James, Cooling, Kent. Charles Dickens wrote about these graves in the opening of his famous novel Great Expectations. Dickens lived nearby in Higham and referred to this row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves. Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....' In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
    cooling_church02-02-06-2013.jpg
  • Visitors inspect the row of childrens' graves in the churchyard of St James, Cooling, Kent. Charles Dickens wrote about these graves in the opening of his famous novel Great Expectations. Dickens lived nearby in Higham and referred to this row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves. Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....' In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
    cooling_church04-02-06-2013.jpg
  • A cemetery landscape of flowers laid at a contemporary gravestones and in the distance, Victorian memorials in south London.
    norwood_cemetery01-12-09-2012.jpg
  • A plaster figure of Jesus draped with plastic beads and a crucifix at a gravestone in a south London cemetery.
    norwood_cemetery03-12-09-2012.jpg
  • A plaster figure of Jesus draped with plastic beads and a crucifix at a gravestone in a south London cemetery.
    cc_norwood_cemetery04-12-09-2012.jpg
  • Tomb of the punk singer and musician Mano Solo in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Mano Solo (1963-2010), Mano Solo developed other talents, including art. He designed the covers of some of his albums. He founded his own publishing imprint (La Marmaille Nue), which released two of his own books: a poetry anthology, Je suis là ("I am here") (1995), and a novel, Joseph sous la pluie ("Joseph in the rain") (1996). From 2001, Solo became interested in the Internet creating his own website around his artistic, social, and political interests, while encouraging his visitors to be creative themselves..Solo, who suffered from HIV/AIDS, was rushed to a hospital after a concert in Paris.
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  • Tomb for the Isabelle family in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
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  • Tomb of Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon (1747-1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist. Dominique was appointed first director of the Louvre Museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798-1801.
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  • The celebrated tomb of Polish-born composerFrédéric François Chopin in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in ?elazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, Chopin grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; he composed many mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20.
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  • Memorials to those whose remains occupy ashes vaults in the Columarium in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
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  • Detail of burial plot for the Rothermere family in Holy Trinity Church, High Hurstwood, East Sussex.
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  • Construction fencing among the historical Victorian headstones of Bunhill Fields cemetery in the City of London.
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  • Rotting in the undergrowth near the harbour at Newport, Pembrokeshire, North-east Wales, lies an old rowing boat. The timbers are succumbing to the weather and tidal waters of the River Nevern and the boat is barely afloat in the waterlogged terrain. Weeds and other vegetation is gradually overtaking its integrity and its wooden frame is host to an abundance of plant and wildlife. It can no longer serve as a vessel of the river as it is a wreck that nature is reclaiming and soon to hide completely from view.
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  • Overgrown tomb and gravestones are covered by ivy undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. On the left is a memorial ('With loving memory of Charlotte Catherine, the beloved wife ..") including an angel figure that leans over at an angle, probably caused by tree roots or perhaps by vandalism during the 50s and 60s when this land was left open for youngsters to commit criminal damage to stonework and carvings. During the cemetery's annual open day, there is an opportunity for the of the cemetery 'Friends' (society) to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young, to help preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery12-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Next to a freshly-dug grave covered with traffic bollards is a recent plot for a boy n Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery17-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Overgrown Victorian headstone, almost covered in undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery13-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery06-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery05-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Visitors browse through a book stall beneath tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery02-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Two young girls play around the grand Victorian memorial grave stones in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery09-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Cemetery in the Dolomites resort town of San Cassiano-St. Kassian in south Tyrol, Italy.
    san_cassiano04-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery09-09-07-2014.jpg
  • The tomb of Étienne-Gaspard Robertson in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763-1837), often known by the stage name of "Robertson", was a prominent Belgian stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria. He was described by Charles Dickens as "an honourable and well-educated showman". Alongside his pioneering work on projection techniques for his shows Robert was also a physics lecturer and a keen balloonist at a time of great development in aviation..
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  • Single red rose attached to the gates of the mausoleum for the Pulligny family in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
    pere_lachaise08-19-08-2012.jpg
  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society. .
    wales_cemetery02-15-06-1986.jpg
  • Construction fencing among the historical Victorian headstones of Bunhill Fields cemetery in the City of London.
    bunhill_cemetery03-26-05-2010.jpg
  • Pedestrians walk past imaginative social distancing markers and barriers using flower pots outside a local restaurant during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 11th July 2020, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
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  • A disabled elderly lady in a wheelchair is pushed  from a branch of Greggs during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 11th July 2020, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
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  • A detail of a window of an adult shop showing social distancing guidelines for responsible queueing customers during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, on 11th July 2020, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk,
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  • A lady wearing a face covering browses for collectable bargains in an antiques shop that is asking for its customers to wear appropriate face coverings during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, on 11th July 2020, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
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  • A lady wearing a face covering browses for collectable bargains in an antiques shop that is asking for its customers to wear appropriate face coverings during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, on 11th July 2020, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
    suffolk-47-11-07-2020.jpg
  • A disabled elderly lady in a wheelchair is pushed  from a branch of Greggs during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 11th July 2020, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
    suffolk-46-11-07-2020.jpg
  • A lady wearing a face covering browses for collectable bargains in an antiques shop that is asking for its customers to wear appropriate face coverings during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, on 11th July 2020, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
    suffolk-48-11-07-2020.jpg
  • A cross in sunlight shows the Katyn memorial set in a forest in Warsaw, Poland. The Katyn war cemetery is a Polish military cemetery located in Warsaw commemorating the massacre of Polish officers during the second world war although the town of Katyn is a small village near Smolensk, Russia. It contains the remnants of 4,412 Polish officers of the Kozelsk prisoner of war camp, who were murdered in 1940 in what is called the Katyn massacre. The soldiers were buried in six large mass graves. Until 1991 it was known that the Nazis were responsible but after the end of Communism did they Russians admit that Stalin's forces killed the Poles. There is also a Russian part of the cemetery, where an undisclosed number of victims of the Soviet Great Purges of the 1930's were buried by the NKVD. The cemetery was officially opened in 2000.
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  • WW2 Madingley American Cemetery is located in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery02-05-10-2000.jpg
  • WW2 Madingley American Cemetery is located in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery01-05-10-2000.jpg
  • The field of stelae of the outdoor Holocaust Memorial, a reminder of Jewish persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe during the second world war. U.S. architect Peter Eisenman's controversial design was chosen as a fitting tribute to the Jews that died before and during World War II as part of Hitler's plan to exterminate them. Eisenman's design is quite unique and has drawn both praise and criticism. Occupying about 205,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) of space near the Brandenburg Gate and just a short distance from where the ruins of Hitler's bunker is buried, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial is made up of 2,711 gray stone slabs that bear no markings, such as names or dates.
    holocaust_memorial01-05-04-2013.jpg
  • Pet dog with head buried in a public park litter bin, sniffs through litter.
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  • Young men watch a ball fly over their heads into the distance during a spontaneous game of cricket routinely held (in the 1990s) among the tombs and mausolea of dead British Raj officials and family members, buried in Victorian-era Park Street cemetery, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India. The Park Street cemetery was amed “Park Street” after the private deer park built by Sir Elijah Impey around Vansittart’s garden house. The cemetery (opened in 1767) served as a burial ground for the European expatriates who were settled in Calcutta during the colonial period. The cemetery was closed in 1840 due to lack of burial space and is now a heritage site, preserved by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
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  • Individual tombs and family mausoleums, on 14th July 2016, at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal. Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres) is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the west part of the city in the former Prazeres parish. It was created in 1833 after the outbreak of a cholera epidemic. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large mausoleums built in the 19th century. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Individual tombs and family mausoleums, on 14th July 2016, at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal. Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres) is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the west part of the city in the former Prazeres parish. It was created in 1833 after the outbreak of a cholera epidemic. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large mausoleums built in the 19th century. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Individual tombs and family mausoleums, on 14th July 2016, at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal. Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres) is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the west part of the city in the former Prazeres parish. It was created in 1833 after the outbreak of a cholera epidemic. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large mausoleums built in the 19th century. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_lisbon-120-14-07-2016.jpg
  • Individual tombs and family mausoleums, on 14th July 2016, at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal. Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres) is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the west part of the city in the former Prazeres parish. It was created in 1833 after the outbreak of a cholera epidemic. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large mausoleums built in the 19th century. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_lisbon-119-14-07-2016.jpg
  • Graves and fading flowers overlook the Ponte 25 de Abril<br />
bridge and the district of Alacantara in the western Portuguese capital, on 14th July 2016, at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal. Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres) is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the west part of the city in the former Prazeres parish. It was created in 1833 after the outbreak of a cholera epidemic. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large mausoleums built in the 19th century. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_lisbon-117-14-07-2016.jpg
  • Tombs and mausoleums in Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres), the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large structures built in the 19th century
    portugal_lisbon-123-14-07-2016.jpg
  • A memorial to city firemen among tombs and mausoleums in Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres), the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large structures built in the 19th century
    portugal_lisbon-115-14-07-2016.jpg
  • A memorial to city firemen among tombs and mausoleums in Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres), the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large structures built in the 19th century
    portugal_lisbon-116-14-07-2016.jpg
  • Tombs and mausoleums in Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres), the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large structures built in the 19th century
    portugal_lisbon-122-14-07-2016.jpg
  • Tombs and mausoleums in Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres), the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large structures built in the 19th century
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  • Tombs and mausoleums in Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres), the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large structures built in the 19th century
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  • Dulwich Village burial ground. Created by Edward Alleyn and consecrated on Sunday 1st September 1616 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot (1562-1633).  Richard Shaw, the owner of a splendid house named Casino who was solicitor to Warren Hastings during the latter's long trial in Westminster Hall occupies the largest tomb. The most notable burials are the thirty-five Dulwich victims (out of a total of forty-two) of the Great Plague of 1665 who were buried in unmarked graves.
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  • Dulwich Village burial ground. Created by Edward Alleyn and consecrated on Sunday 1st September 1616 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot (1562-1633). The most notable burials are the thirty-five Dulwich victims (out of a total of forty-two) of the Great Plague of 1665 who were buried in unmarked graves.
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  • William Blake's poem London is written in the pavement at Bunhill Fields, the place in the City of London where the poet is buried. London is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. William Blake was a poet and artist who specialised in illuminated texts, often of a religious nature. He rejected established religion for various reasons, including the failure of the established Church to help children in London who were forced to work. Blake lived and worked in the capital, so he was arguably well placed to write clearly about the conditions people who lived there faced.
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  • The stern of Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at Portsmouth. We look up at the rear of Britain's most famous warship from the Napoleonic war era and see the windows of Nelson's cabins and rooms - the location where the battle of Trafalgar was planned and where Nelson died on that day in 1805. Victory took Nelson's body to England where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 6 January 1806..HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. After Trafalgar, she served as a harbour ship, moved in 1922  to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She is the flagship of the First Sea Lord and is the oldest naval ship still in commission
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  • Wearing braces, striped shirt and sitting on a block, a young lawyer studies a legal book during a mid-morning break in the Inner Temple in the historic City of London. The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice which may call members to the Bar and so entitle them to practise as barristers. The Temple was occupied in the twelfth century by the Knights Templar, who gave the area its name but was heavily bombed during the Blitz of 1940-1 and the reclining marble memorial to predecessor, John Hiccocks who held the office of Master in Chancery between 1702 and 1723 (d 1726) behind the young law student is marked by the partially-demolished Goldsmiths Chambers on the north side of Temple Church where Hiccocks is buried. An assortment of potted red plants add to an otherwise dark courtyard
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  • A passing jet airliner flies overhead, above the cross of a family mausoleum, on 14th July 2016, at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal. Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres) is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the west part of the city in the former Prazeres parish. It was created in 1833 after the outbreak of a cholera epidemic. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large mausoleums built in the 19th century. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Detail in the British Museum of an Assyrian relief. Assyrian kings competed to outdo each other with carved reliefs on interior walls. This tradition began with King Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859BC) at Nimrud. In 612BC Assyrian cities were looted and destroyed by Babylonians and Medes and the sculptures were buried until discovered by British and French archaeologists in the 19th century. As a result, London and Paris have the largest collection of Assyrian reliefs outside Iraq.
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  • St Columba's church at Gruline, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The building of St Columba’s at Gruline was begun in June 1873, the cost being divided between Captain Parr of Killiechronan and Colonel Greenhill-Gardyne of Glenforsa House. The church was completed in December 1873 and the first service held there in June 1874, with 26 people present for the English service in the morning and 47 for the Gaelic service in the evening. The church and the adjacent burial ground were consecrated on Sunday 4th July 1875 by Bishop George Richard Mackarness (1823 – 1883). It was the first church to be consecrated in Mull for some centuries. There are memorial plaques to these two benefactors on the walls of the nave. In 1893 the Gruline Estate was sold to William and Mary Melles. Much of the woodwork in the church was carved by Mary Melles, including the pulpit and reredos. Daphne Margaret Gough, Mary Melles’s grand-daughter was the only person, it is believed, to have been baptised, confirmed, married and have her ashes buried at Saint Columba’s.(http://www.grulinechurch.org.uk)
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Gantries and tracking equipment in the wasteland..Rocket gantries and tracking equipment left to rust in the back yard of NASA scientist Charles Bell. Assorted rocket paraphenalia. At the very back of the auction site, a whole jungle of Apollo and Shuttle junk was buried in the undergrowth having been forgotten there for decades. Here we see gantries and tracking (communications) structures.
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  • English visitors pay respects to commonwealth war dead at the Poziere cemetery near Albert, where those killed in the Battle of the Somme are buried or are rememberd..
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  • Flowers laid to commemorate poet and artist WIlliam Blake (1757 ? 1827) who is buried elsewhere in Bunhill Fields cemetery, City of London
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  • Set in a field of corn, but once the scene of heav fighting in the first world war, a visitor leaves the tiny cemetery of Redan Ridge near the village of Serre-les-Puisieux where British war dead from the Battle of the Somme are buried.
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  • The tombstone of Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton of the 7th Hussars who helped defend the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo, 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Cotton survived the battle and returned to the area to lead battlefield tours, dying in 1849, interred here then re-buried elsewhere in 1890.The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The tombstone of Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton of the 7th Hussars who helped defend the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo, 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Cotton survived the battle and returned to the area to lead battlefield tours, dying in 1849, interred here then re-buried elsewhere in 1890.The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A customized caravan sits in the damp woods at the Faslane Peace Camp, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Matt Bury, 52, is one of the camp's 10 full time residents and has been living in this trailer for a year. Painted harlequin-styled diamonds adorn the walls of the van in a personal artistic statement. Calor gas bottles lie on the ground and weeds grow around this semi-permanent site. Faslane Peace Camp is a makeshift political activists' site alongside HM Naval Base Clyde where Trident nuclear deterrent missiles and Vanhuard Class submarines dock. The camp has been occupied continuously, in a few different locations since 12 June 1982. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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