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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

Cannibal suspect arrested next to sliced-up victim PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 19 December 2004
By Associated Press

CANCUN, Mexico -- Police in Playa de Carmen, just south of the Caribbean resort of Cancun, reported finding a suspect passed out next to the sliced-up remains of his companion, a man whose heart he had allegedly carved out and set to cook on a stove. The corpse was discovered Tuesday in a hut where the victim had been hung up to allow the blood to drain out of his body, according to Luis Herrera May, head of police investigations in Playa de Carmen, about 36 miles south of Cancun.

A passer-by alerted police after he saw the body hanging from the rafters of the hut; police arrested a man who inhabited the hut, tentatively identified as Amado de Dios Arias, 26.

Arias had apparently carved out the man's heart, and cut off ribs and slices of his thigh, to cook because he felt "curious" about how the flesh would taste, police reported.

Arias was apparently under the effects of sniffing glue when he allegedly killed the unidentified victim by hitting him on the head with a blunt object, possibly after a dispute over sex or money.

Police have two days before they must lodge formal charges in the case.

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2598330,00.html
 
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