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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.

Bosnian ex-president's tomb damaged in explosion PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
August 11, 2006
By Daria Sito-Sucic

SARAJEVO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - An explosion damaged the tomb of Bosnia's wartime president Alija Izetbegovic in Sarajevo's old town in the early hours of Friday, police said. "The tomb of Bosnia's first president, Alija Izetbegovic, was damaged by an explosive device," a duty officer told Reuters. Political leaders expressed outrage and the chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency said the blast was an attempt to destabilise the country.

He said the explosion occurred about 3:05 a.m. (0105 GMT). No one was injured and nearby buildings were slightly damaged.

Izetbegovic, a Muslim who led Bosnia to independence from former Yugoslavia and in the ensuing 1992-95 war against the separatist Bosnian Serbs, died in October 2003 and was buried at the martyrs' cemetery alongside Muslim fighters.

The state prosecutors' office said the explosion left a crater 70 cm (28 inches) wide and destroyed part of the headstone. The former president's remains were not damaged, it added.

"There is a...suspicion that the criminal act was conducted to harm Bosnia and Herzegovina bearing in mind the significance of its first presidency chairman," it said in a statement.

Sulejman Tihic, the Muslim chairman of the tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, said in a statement: "The desecration of...the late Alija Izetbegovic's grave is a loathsome terrorist and criminal act."

He added: "This is an attack on Bosnia and Herzegovina, peace and co-existence but also an attempt to destabilise the situation in our country."

Bosnian Serb and Muslim leaders have begun an aggressive campaign for the Oct. 1 election, accusing each other of trying to harm their respective national interests.


http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L11425553
 
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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch over man's mortality.

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