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...School graduate Kenneth L. Bresler, author of The Witch Trial Trail of Boston and the Harvard Witch Walk, the alumni made stops at houses named for Harvard men involved in the witch trials, as well as other sites in Cambridge including the old burial ground on the corner of Garden...
Down in the lowlands of France and Germany, the inhabitants' spiritual and social life was sufficiently developed so that they indulged in such time- consuming projects as the construction of burial mounds and complexes of standing stones. Some 500 years before Stonehenge, predecessors of the Celts near Locmariaquer in Brittany may have used the 385-ton stone Grand Menhir, now toppled and broken, for astronomical observations. The neatly aligned rows of standing stones at nearby Carnac may have served a similar purpose. Civil engineering existed around this time as well: researchers have found remnants of 5,000-year-old wooden...
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. todayin Atlanta at the Church of the Incarnation,followed by a burial service at the ZionMissionary Baptist Church Cemetery
...September 20, the French people voted in favor of the Maastricht Treaty on European unity. Now all that remains is to give it a proper burial...
Sifting daily through the rubble, teams of archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that the burial ground -- the only such pre-Revolutionary cemetery known in the U.S. -- is one of the most significant discoveries of the century. Studies of children's skeletons, for example, indicate that as much as 50% of New York City's slave population died at birth or within the first years of life...