http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/graves/ en-us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:12:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374022/posts Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) is criticizing the new ethics office that recommended he be reviewed by the House ethics panel. Graves issues a statement Thursday thanking the House ethics committee for dismissing the charges against him and lashed out at the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). Graves struck early by releasing the statement before the ethics panel publicly announced that it had unanimously dismissed the complaint against him. Graves lashed out at the OCE in his statement, accusing it of investigating an anonymous complaint and looking into a matter that even if true did not violate House ethics rules. “I... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374022/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:12:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373212/posts Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is facing mounting pressure to intervene in an intense dispute between an outside ethics office she pushed through the House and the full ethics committee. The stakes are high for the future of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), a new entity Democrats created to help police lawmakers. Its board members and top staff are threatening to resign if the ethics committee doesn’t meet a deadline the OCE believes is critical to its role, according to several sources within the ethics community. Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said the Speaker believes cooler heads will prevail and the... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373212/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:09:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339166/posts She was dumped by a boyfriend who no longer wished to follow her around the world. She found herself heartbroken and sick and finally went to a doctor who said he had news -- at 39, she was with child. Impossible, she replied: Throughout her previous 17-year marriage she tried repeatedly to get pregnant, The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339166/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:29:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258118/posts JERUSALEM – Palestinian Christians in a normally quiet village are reeling from a series of grave desecrations this week that they say are indicative of intimidation tactics from the town's growing Muslim population. "Christians don't feel free anymore. Our way of life is changing while the Muslim population grows," a local Christian told WND. The Christian would only give his first name, Anis, for fear of Muslim retaliation if he speaks out. He pointed out there are several other Anis's in his village, Jisna, which is located near the West Bank city of Ramallah. This week, 70 Christian grave sites... wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258118/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 02:38:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257736/posts On this Memorial Day, thousands of small American flags will fly in cemeteries near your home, next to the headstones of men and women who defended this country. Flags also will decorate the thousands of graves at Arlington National Cemetery as well as sacred ground throughout Europe and the Pacific that bears long, straight rows of ivory-white crosses and stars. Many of the young Americans who rest under these simple markers did not live past the age of 19 or 20. There also are tens of thousands of equally young men who fought gallantly for this country during World War... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257736/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 12:36:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2220353/posts MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Construction workers at a city lot in downtown Montgomery stumbled upon numerous bodies Tuesday morning. KLTV 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2220353/posts#comment Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:20:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2215598/posts Clues to the mysterious deaths of 57 Irish immigrants came first from a secret file that had been locked in a vault until 1970. The men, who sailed from Ireland in 1832, arrived in Chester County to work on the railroad. They died about eight weeks later, most of cholera. Until the file was read six years ago by two brothers, both historians, the immigrants were the stuff mostly of legend and ghost tale. On Friday, another milestone in their story was found in East Whiteland Township. An archaeology research team based at Immaculata University in Chester County uncovered 90... Philly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2215598/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:29:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2202145/posts The remains of a woman's skull with a rock thrust into its jaws is evidence of the mediaeval fear of vampires, Italian anthropologists have claimed. Scientists found the skull, with its mouth agape and a large slab of rock forced into its mouth, while excavating a mass grave dating from the Middle Ages on an island near Venice. Female "vampires" were often blamed for spreading the plague epidemics through Europe, said Matteo Borrini of Florence University. Wedging a rock or brick into the mouth of a suspected vampire was a way of preventing the person from feeding on the bodies... Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2202145/posts#comment Mon, 9 Mar 2009 00:13:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2192465/posts COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Two historic cemeteries in Colorado Springs face a troubled future -- and not because the death rate is slowing. Denver news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2192465/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:09:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136771/posts A United Nations human rights expert will travel to the Twin Cities next month to listen to Hmong families upset about the desecration of graves in Thailand. The expert will hear testimony about the unearthing of hundreds of graves where thousands of Hmong refugees once lived. The site is near a Buddhist temple in Thailand. The hearing will be at the University of Minnesota, where the Human Rights Program has taken up a project to study and help resolve the issue. KSTP.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136771/posts#comment Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:41:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134753/posts Police in northern Baghdad found a mass grave Tuesday that contained the remains of 15 people, an Interior Ministry official said. The grave was in a house under construction in the Ur neighborhood, which used to be controlled by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. Authorities were attempting to determine who the victims were and when they died. In other incidents, two bombs in a car exploded in Nineveh province's Sinjar area Tuesday. A civilian was killed and 11 were wounded, authorities in Mosul said. A roadside bomb exploded in front of the western Baghdad house of an Electricity... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134753/posts#comment Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:05:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094421/posts (Republican) Graves' for Congress new campaign video 'The Axis of Taxes' newly released on YouTube: Promo: "Kay Barnes raised over $1 billion in new taxes as a liberal big city mayor..." YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094421/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094055/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Justice Department investigation finds former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves of the Western District of Missouri was forced out because of opposition from Missouri Sen. Kit Bond's office. The report by the department's internal watchdog says Bond's legal counsel, Jack Bartling, asked the White House at least twice in 2005 to remove Graves. Bartling told investigators that he wanted to remove Graves because of conflicts between the staffs of Bond and Graves' brother, U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, a Republican who represents northwest Missouri. Bartling said Rep. Graves' operation "did not run business" the way that Bond's office... http://www.ky3.com/news/local/29895159.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094055/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:56:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083075/posts When Paul C. Sereno went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Sahara, his career took a sharp turn from paleontology to archaeology. The expedition found what has proved to be the largest known graveyard of Stone Age people who lived there when the desert was green. The first traces of pottery, stone tools and human skeletons were discovered eight years ago at a site in the southern Sahara, in Niger. After preliminary research, Dr. Sereno, a University of Chicago scientist who had previously uncovered remains of the dinosaur Nigersaurus there, organized an international team of archaeologists to investigate what had... New York Times Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083075/posts#comment Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:21:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037494/posts snip...Tens of thousands of skeletons that lie hidden beneath the streets, houses and offices of London have been revealed for the first time on a map, in a collaboration between the Museum of London and The Times. snip...Another skeleton was found with a metal spike lodged in its spine. Its owner, a man who was buried in Smithfield, East London, in about 1350, was probably hit with an arrow or spear, but the attack did not kill him. He survived only to catch bubonic plague in his late thirties or early forties. “Somehow the injury didn't cause an infection,” Mr... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037494/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:02:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019003/posts Ramhormoz graves may be Elamite royal burials: experts TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) -- A team of archaeologists studying two graves discovered in the city of Ramhormoz in southern Iran said that they bear their remains of a girl and a woman who were most likely members of an Elamite royal family. The team led by Arman Shishegar was assigned to carry out a series of rescue excavations in the Jubji region of the city in Khuzestan Province in May 2007 after the Khuzestan Water and Waste Water Company stumbled on two U-shaped coffins containing skeletons of a girl and a... Mehr News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019003/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 03:12:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012261/posts HARTLAND, Vt. (AP) — The 130-acre property was exactly what Michel Guite and his family wanted: an old Vermont farm with mountain views, rolling hills and meadows. There was, however, one wrinkle: The property included a small family cemetery — with the grave of a War of 1812 veteran — surrounded by a fence on a scenic knoll. His proposal to move the graveyard so he can build a house and barn has set off protests. The town has passed a resolution aimed at blocking the move, a descendant of one occupant of the graveyard is trying to fight him... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012261/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 01:05:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1802473/posts Exodus 3 1 Meanwhile Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There an angel of the LORD appeared to him in fire flaming out of a bush. As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush, though on fire, was not consumed. 3 So Moses decided, "I must go over to look at this remarkable sight, and see why the bush is not burned." 4When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1802473/posts#comment Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:39:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1989030/posts Archaeologists uncover unique cremation graves By ÄŒTK / Published 20 March 2008 Prostejov, South Moravia, March 19 (CTK) - Czech archaeologists have uncovered unique cremation graves in Prostejov that date back to the Neolithic period of the Linear Pottery culture and that indicate that people believed in human soul's existence 7,000 years ago already, daily Mlada fronta Dnes wrote Wednesday. The graves were uncovered during construction of a new industrial zone on the eastern edge of the town. "This is the first cremation burial site of the Linear-Pottery-culture to be uncovered on Czech soil. Below it there are skeleton graves... Prague Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1989030/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:35:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984737/posts Irish and Dutch vessels found in Scottish graves Evidence that some of our prehistoric ancestors travelled considerable distances has come from two graves in Upper Largie, near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute. One grave contained three distinctive beakers which Alison Sheridan, of the National Museums Scotland, describes as belonging to an early, international style, best paralleled by finds from the lower Rhine region of the modern-day Netherlands. Radiocarbon dates of 2500-2280 BC from hazel charcoal from within the grave confirms an early Bronze Age date. Though no bone was found because of the acidic nature of the local soils, the... Current Archaeology http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984737/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:04:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983628/posts Greek workers discovered around 1,000 graves, some filled with ancient treasures, while excavating for a subway system in the historic city of Thessaloniki, the state archaeological authority said Monday. Some of the graves, which dated from the first century B.C. to the 5th century A.D., contained jewelry, coins and various pieces of art, the Greek archaeological service said in a statement. Thessaloniki was founded around 315 B.C. and flourished during the Roman and Byzantine eras. Today it is the Mediterranean country's second largest city. Most of the graves — 886 — were just east of the city center in what... AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983628/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960903/posts Dig at homes site uncovers skeletons of eight monks By Nicola Fenwick BURIAL SITE: Mark Randerson, of Durham University's archaeology department, with two of the monks uncovered at the site in Northallerton ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered the complete skeletons of eight Carmelite monks. The excavation in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, also revealed that the town's priory is unique, because its layout differs from all other known Carmelite priories and monasteries in Europe. Housing developer Castle Homes owns the site and will be building a residential development there. But it has given assurances that the design of the building will ensure the preservation... The Northern Echo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960903/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:01:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953208/posts Dozens of gravestones at a Jewish cemetery near Norridge were desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti in an attack that Cook County authorities are calling a hate crime. The vandalism caused an estimated $100,000 damage to 57 tombstones scarred with spray-painted swastikas, other symbols and slurs that included "Aryan Power" and "white power." "To see the physical damage and the disrespect for people who are dead, it's so sad," said Phil Ferkel, executive director of Westlawn Cemetery. Several vandals -- described as "cowards who ply hate" by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart -- apparently invaded the cemetery last weekend. "What they did... Chicago Sun Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953208/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:50:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940326/posts ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 16, 2007 – They came from around the country, some with tears in their eyes, putting holiday demands on hold to honor veterans most never knew. In a few hours in freezing temperatures, about 3,000 volunteers yesterday placed more than 10,000 balsam fir wreaths with blazing red bows on graves at Arlington National Cemetery here. “I wish I could lay one on all of them,” said Charles Wright, a Vietnam War Marine veteran and commander of the Kansas City Composite Squadron, a civil air patrol unit. “This is a tribute I’ll remember forever.” Morrill Worcester, owner... America Supports You http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940326/posts#comment Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:58:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888958/posts Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice "Quarantine" Island Maria Cristina Valsecchi for National Geographic News August 29, 2007 Ancient mass graves containing more than 1,500 victims of the bubonic plague have been discovered on a small island in Italy's Venetian Lagoon. Workers came across the skeletons while digging the foundation for a new museum on Lazzaretto Vecchio, a small island in the lagoon's south, located a couple of miles from Venice's famed Piazza San Marco (see a map of the Venetian Lagoon). The island is believed to be the world's first lazaret—a quarantine colony intended to help prevent the spread... National Geographic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888958/posts#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:22:50 GMT