Word: churchyard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Babies were no longer born dead in Nagyrev. They died a few days later, of cholic. In Nagyrev churchyard sprang up a whole row of little graves, all beautifully cared for, for they belonged to Nagyrev's best families...
...Caldbeck churchyard the sentimental sportsmen, primed for song, were shocked to find that persons unknown had covered the historic tombstone of John Peel with sheet iron, obliterating his name, and the fox, hounds and horn graven thereon...
Inclosed in a special sarcophagus, the body is to be re-interned in the famed Invaliden Churchyard at Berlin. It is reported that President von Hindenburg and, so far as possible, "every living German War hero" will participate in the funeral...
Thither, last Easter, went A. Van Horne Stuyvesant, as the Stuyvesants have always gone, to assure themselves that the grave of their ancestor, Peter Stuyvesant, was in good keeping. But this year, Mr. Stuyvesant and his family left the churchyard without leaving their individual checks for $900 at the church. That was the beginning of the end of the classic dances instituted by Dr. William N. Guthrie which brought upon him the Episcopal admonition of William T. Manning, Father in Christ...
History. In the early 1600's the Thirty Years' War* ravaged Bavaria in which lies Ober-Ammergau. War was followed by the Black Plague, which was worse. To avert the plague, the Ober-Ammergau villagers, meeting in a churchyard, vowed to "enact the Passion-tragedy in honor of the bitter sufferings and death of our dear Lord" every tenth year forever. Fulfillment of the vow began with a play given in the churchyard...