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Started by Malthus, July 10, 2017, 01:10:54 PM

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Malthus

#30
July 12, 2017, 01:19:54 PM
I forgot to add this pic of the "blank" inscription plate on the crying devil monument.

Why make a monument with no inscription? Weird.

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The Brain

#31
July 12, 2017, 01:27:07 PM
Inscriptions aren't exactly free.
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viper37

#32
July 13, 2017, 10:00:49 AM
compared to the monument itself?   :hmm:
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Razgovory

#33
July 13, 2017, 10:23:55 AM
Maybe the monument was built before the person died.
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Malthus

#34
July 13, 2017, 11:02:49 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 13, 2017, 10:23:55 AM
Maybe the monument was built before the person died.

I'm not certain it was intended as an actual individual grave marker. For one, it was built right next to the road into the cemetery. My impression is it was one of those markers you occasionally see that mark some group, society, fraternity or issue. The graveyard is full of those (often for obscure - to me at least - societies).

Example: The Canadian Order of the Woodmen of the World memorial. 

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Malthus

#35
July 13, 2017, 03:44:35 PM
Don't you just hate it when people bother you when you are trying to read a good book?  ;)

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

The Brain

#36
July 13, 2017, 03:53:23 PM
When I sit and read history books crippled chicks always come up to me and beg me to let them blow me.
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Malthus

#37
July 13, 2017, 04:07:41 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 13, 2017, 03:53:23 PM
When I sit and read history books crippled chicks always come up to me and beg me to let them blow me.

Yes, but have you ever immortalized this scene in stone?  :hmm:
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garbon

#38
July 13, 2017, 04:22:58 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 13, 2017, 04:07:41 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 13, 2017, 03:53:23 PM
When I sit and read history books crippled chicks always come up to me and beg me to let them blow me.

Yes, but have you ever immortalized this scene in stone?  :hmm:

All lived history matters.
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#39
July 14, 2017, 02:09:27 AM
Quote from: Malthus on July 13, 2017, 04:07:41 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 13, 2017, 03:53:23 PM
When I sit and read history books crippled chicks always come up to me and beg me to let them blow me.

Yes, but have you ever immortalized this scene in stone?  :hmm:

No. :(
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Syt

#40
July 14, 2017, 02:56:58 AM
I don't have my Vienna Central Cemetery photos anymore (really need to go again some time), but here's a few examples.





"Uniting" herself with death:









But there's also the really sad ones.

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Malthus

#41
July 14, 2017, 08:12:44 AM
Wow! Those are some awesome pics!  :cool:

I would love to see the cemeteries of Vienna. By all accounts, they are amazing.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Syt

#42
July 14, 2017, 08:28:42 AM
Vienna Central Cemetery is by far the largest, with more "residents" than live in the city. Lots of 19th century sculptures, too.











It's multi-confessional and has Jewish, Orthodox, Buddhist, Muslim, and other sections.

http://www.viennatouristguide.at/Friedhoefe/Zentralfriedhof/Plan/B_Rest/gruenX.jpg

It's home to wildlife, and it's a wonderful park.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#43
July 14, 2017, 08:30:10 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Central_Cemetery

QuoteThe Vienna Central Cemetery (German: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and is the most famous cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Malthus

#44
July 14, 2017, 08:58:29 AM
Well, I'm sold.

I've always wanted to go to Vienna, and this is the icing on the cake!  :)

Seriously, I may do a vacation there in the next year or so. The central cemetery will definitely be on the itinerary. There is so much to see in Vienna, I imagine, that the only problem will be getting enough time ...
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius
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