Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will nobly perpetuate his name. It is a monument which, though less conspicuous than the structures of brick or stone which commemorate the famous names of the past, has the advantage of transcending the limitation of a local habitation. Thucydides has told us that the whole earth is the tomb of famous men, and it is, indeed, fitting that so rare and munificent a patron of good learning should leave behind him a world-wide memorial. --London Times...
...great name in the Tyrol. Bearded, barrel-chested Tyrolean Patriot Andreas Hofer, most faithful friend of the House of Habsburg, captured Innsbruck twice from French and Bavarian troops during the Napoleonic wars, was captured by Italian troops and executed at Mantua in 1810 under Napoleon's orders. His tomb is a shrine for Austrian patriotism. From the Tyrol too comes Franz Hofer, an Austrian Nazi. No friend of the Habsburgs, eager to see his country absorbed by Ger- many, Nazi Hofer unwittingly added 8,000 men to the little Austrian Army, and brought the active support of France...
...died in the late 1870's, grave-looters stole his body from the St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square, held it for ransom. To this day no one knows whether it was successfully ransomed. In the Garden City, L. I. Cathedral, which Stewart built , is a tomb bearing his name. But the inscription reads: '"He is not here, he is risen...
Strangest of all, most of the tales were true. So memorable was Queen Marie that Negroes still go by thousands to a nameless tomb in New Orleans' St. Louis Cemetery No. 3, scratch crosses on the crumbling cement and bricks. Official records list her as having been buried in her 80's in another tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, back of the Southern Railway's Terminal Station, in the heart of the oldtime redlight district. Many a Negro, an occasional white, still believes that if he scratches a cross on the nameless tomb...
...days later. Theologians hold that her body & soul were reunited, her Jewish burial garments cast off and herself taken into Heaven, unlike Jesus Christ "who went up thither by His own power." By an apocryphal tradition, the Apostles were miraculously assembled by God to see Mary's empty tomb. But no record of such an event has been found. The Church recounts such traditions only to keep them alive, knowing well that no historian could make the Assumption seem more glowing and real than the imagination of the pious or the brush of a great painter. Celebration...