MetaFilter posts tagged with graveyard

I'll never let go

shakespeherian — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:32:05 -0800

Archaeologists find graveyard of sunken Roman ships. Information on how such a shipwreck is discovered available from the Aurora Trust site.

Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara

homunculus — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:00:29 -0800

Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara. "How a dinosaur hunter uncovered the Sahara's strangest Stone Age graveyard."

Decaying photos

parudox — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:48:08 -0800

Decaying memorial photos at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

The Graveyard

brundlefly — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:06:03 -0800

The Graveyard: Walk through the graveyard. Sit for a spell. Walk back out again. [via Jay Is Games] "Buying the full version of The Graveyard adds only one feature, the possibility of death. The full version of the game is exactly the same as the trial, except, every time you play she may die."

A grave situation

dersins — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:49:52 -0800

ukgraves.info has thousands of photographs of cemeteries and gravestones all over the UK, from City of London to the Kirk of Lammermuir, and random points in between.

Boatyard of Broken Dreams

dersins — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:26:03 -0800

Staten Island Ship Graveyard. A fascinating gallery of photographs of abandoned and decaying ships.

Derelicts vs. Cannibals

breezeway — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:19:52 -0800

Planes check in but they don’t check out. At boneyards across the country, derelict airliners await cannibalization, destruction, or possible restoration.

The Elephant's Graveyard

SPrintF — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:22:32 -0800

Goodbye, Norma Jean. Norma the elephant was killed by a stroke of lightning. Seventy years earlier, though, Topsy was electrocuted by Thomas Edison, to "demonstrate" the danger of alternating current. Only a few years later, Mary was sentenced to death by hanging, to the amusement and edification of onlookers. It's rough being an elephant in America.

The green book of death

languagehat — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:43:24 -0800

Where Iraq's desaparecidos wound up. This is about Iraq, but it's not about the war. It's about a graveyard, its manager, and his "awful green book." The reporter is an Arab, which makes a difference, as you can see in the striking last sentence of this paragraph:

All of the dissidents buried at the Kirkh Islamic Cemetery were once held at Abu Ghreib prison, the country's largest and most notorious jail, from which Hussein released nearly 10,000 inmates last October. When word of their release came, the prisoners—from petty thieves to political dissidents, and all kept in horrendous conditions—overran the guards and stampeded the iron gates. Abu Ghreib is also the name given to Iraqi fathers who no longer have children.