Quotes from "Tuesdays With Morrie"

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Thursday, October 4, 2007

Historical Trivia: Ten Most Fascinating Tombs in the World

If you're a history buff like me, you'll like this. The photos add a lot of flavor to this collection. You can post this to your blog, too, by simply clicking the button in the lower right hand potion of the Clipmarks frame below.
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Newgrange

The burial mound of Newgrange in County Meath, Ireland
it is the also the world’s oldest surviving building (it’s older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt)

Tana Toraja

Sulawesi, Indonesia
the strange part
the funeral ceremony is often held weeks, months, or even years after the death

Westminster Abbey

London, United Kingdom
Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and Alfred Tennyson
Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Ernest Rutherford were all interred there

Giza Necropolis

Egypt
the base sides have a mean margin of error of only 2 1/3 inch (58 mm)!

Valley of the Kings

a burial ground of ancient Egyptian pharaohs

Catacombs of Paris

a network of underground tunnels and rooms that used to be Roman-era limestone quarries

Terracota Army

Xi’an, China
the burial ground of Qin Shi Huangdi, the First Emperor and the unifier of China

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo

Palermo, Italy

Sedlec Ossuary

Sedlec, Czech Republic

Taj Mahal

Agra, India
October 1st, 2007
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