War Camel
If you wander about Vicksburg's Cedar Hill cemetery, you will come across a marker with a camel on it, or more appropriately, a dromedary. This is more than just an interesting image, for it actually remember a veteran of the U.S. Camel Corps who switched sides in the Civil War. The USCC was a prewar…
A mysterious child from northern Germany, portrayed by William Kent on the King’s Grand Staircase, became one of the sensations of the Georgian age, as Roger Moorhouse explains.
Teatro alla scala and Giuseppe Verdi's tomb in Milan Italy.
Lost photos of soldier David Cuthbert Thomas - Wales Online
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Turning Disparate Design Elements Into A Unified Whole
Artist, architect and architectural theorist John Hejduk (19 July 1929 - 3 July 2000) introduced new ways of thinking about space that are still highly influential in both modernist and post-modernist architecture today, especially among the large number of architects who were once his students. Inspired both by darker, gothic themes and modernist thinking on the human psyche, his relatively small collection of built work, and many of his unbuilt plans and drawings, have gone on to inspire other projects and architects around the world. In addition, his drawing, writing and teaching have gone on to shape the meeting of modernist and postmodern influences in contemporary architecture and helped bring psychological approaches to the forefront of design.
Now the mother-daughter duo that shared a close bond (and lived next to each other in Beverly Hills) have received their headstone on their graves. It's at the Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Cook County is dotted with dozens of small cemeteries that date back to when the first Europeans settled the area. One of them is Palos Oa...
Nancy Kerlin Barnett Grave, Indiana
photo via Roadtrippers On a rural stretch of County Road 400 in Amity, Indiana, the road splits around a small mound of earth located in the center of the
Paul Hogarth OBE RA (1917-2001). A major figure in Modern British Art. View and purchase signed original limited edition prints at Wetpaint Gallery Online.
Jerusalem One of the most-visited graves in Jerusalem belongs to Oskar Schindler, the German factory-owner and Nazi Party member credited with saving the lives of 1098 Jews during the Second…
The historic cemetery includes several significant grave sites, including one that belongs to an infamous witch who wreaked havoc on the city decades ago.
More than just fertile soil and flat terrain, Yazoo County is filled with amazing architecture, must-see sites, great shopping and dining, and more.
We continue our look back at the best British period dramas set in each decade of the 20th Century. Here our guest writer Elizabeth Niedbala, creator of the blog Land of 1,000 Movies, has some recommendations of
No road signs mark the way, and the area is noticeably absent of typical tourist trappings, yet this cemetery is the sacred resting place of one of the most famous Native American women in history.
See the Colonel William Barret Travis monument, Confederate soldier gravestones, distinctive Woodmen markers and more in this historic cemetery that dates back to 1853 in Chappell Hill, TX.
In July of 2013 we traveled to Mount Vernon to visit the home and grave site of our Nation's first president, George Washington. Not only is Mount Vernon an awesome location to visit, on the grounds are several burials that most people overlook.Watch the following video to find out more about all of the burials located at Mount Vernon.Mount Vernon is located at 3200 Mount Vernon Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121.Following his death on December 14, 1799, George Washington's remains were placed in a fami
