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Braslavski, who worked as a security guard, was taken from the Nova Music Festival after he stayed behind to save others. Information ...
In this Part 2 of Verdun in WW2, I travel just outside Verdun to Douaumont and the Douaumont Ossuary to look at the other WW2 ...
The Sedlec Ossuary is both macabre and mesmerising, its chandeliers and altars crafted from the bones of more than 60,000 people. Like many towns across Czechia, grapevines grow right in the ...
The Caiaphas ossuary is a rare relic that was found in a burial cave in Jerusalem in the early nineties. An ossuary is a type of chest used for storing the bones of dead humans – usually after ...
The remains of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was murdered in 2005, have been placed in an ossuary at a Limassol monastery. His mother, Andriana Nicolaou, who is currently in Jerusalem ...
Quite the opposite, in fact. But their votes count in this election, where about a third of the LaSalle—Émard—Verdun electorate appears undecided. “Why would we vote for you?” asked a man ...
“This was the tomb of a family of some wealth and perhaps even prominence. … One ossuary also held a bouquet of withered flowers.” Archaeologists found another example of a crucified heel 49 ...
Since then, they have been kept in an ossuary belonging to the Greek orthodox diocese of Limassol. The legal service had responded positively to the idea of Nicolaou’s bones being returned to ...