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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 for “"cemetery"”.
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The School On Cemetery Road
The school on Cemetery Road, a realistic picture of a small school in rural America, the reader meets and becomes involved with a variety of characters as well as their backgrounds, fears, dreams, successes and failures. This book brings together ordinary perople in an ordinary, almost bankrupt …
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Lapithos: the Upper Geometric Cemetery
… and unpublished material from the UpperGeometric cemetery, excavated in 1931-32, and to explore the topography of Early IronAge Lapithos and of the north coast. The investigation of the topography and of the cultural, social and economic landscape of the region takes on a broader perspective and …
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City of Kennesaw Cemetery: Preserving History
… Resources to begin underground imaging of their cemetery. The City contracted with Virtual Underground to do the imaging, plotting, and photography of headstones. The purpose of the underground imaging was to clarify where burials were made and in what section. Many of the burials in the cemetery …
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Ritual elements : a cemetery in Montana
"As pines keep the shape of the wind even when the wind has fled and is no longer there So walls guard the shape of man even when man has fled and is no longer there. " -- George Seferis. The walls we make are the culmination of choices. This thesis explores the intensification of an unbuilt …
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A cemetery proposal for cooperating municipalities
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1952.
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To continue (approaching the Woodland Cemetery)
This thesis examines the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, Sweden, designed and executed between 1914 and 1940 by the architects Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. The study consists of three parts. The first examines the significance of interment, of the return of the body to the realm of …
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An Anchoring Urban Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee
This thesis proposes an urban infill cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. By infilling seven blocks within the arts district of downtown Memphis with a new urban cemetery, further significance is given to both the city and the cemetery. Because it would be a newly built cemetery, it could initially …
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A cemetery at Jones Point Alexandria, Virginia
… negative responses associated with death. A new cemetery design which acknowledges the need for a place for acceptance, memory, and interaction with one’s feelings for those we have lost is the basis of this examination.
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Hollywood Forever: Culture, Celebrity, and the Cemetery
… Blanc, and Barbara La Marr, Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles has long served as a tourist attraction and a site of public memory. The touristic visit or pilgrimage to the cemetery can be, like the visit to a sanctioned memorial, a means of stitching oneself into the cultural past. This …
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On Ornament: A Catholic Cemetery for Philadelphia
… I came to choose the program of a catholic cemetery in Philadelphia. I hoped to explore what meaningful marks and arrangements of materials I could impart to this ephemeral world.
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A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE COURTNEY-ANDERSON CEMETERY
… Perry County, Mississippi, the Anderson Family Cemetery represents an abandoned turn-of-the-century Piney Woods cemetery. The cemetery is located on land once owned by the Courtney and Anderson families, who farmed the area until it was taken under eminent domain by the United States government …
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A cemetery for the City of New York
… the Bronx. This thesis proposes replacing that cemetery. Located at Riverside Park, this thesis proposes that the cemetery can be re-inserted into the public realm. Issues such as privacy, scale, individuality, and memory are confronted. By siting the cemetery in a park, connections are made …
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A Paleopathological Analysis of the Moran French Colonial Cemetery
<p>This research examines the health experiences of early eighteenth-century European immigrants to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Most were low-status individuals forcibly expulsed from France and brought to Biloxi to colonize Louisiana. Historical records report the immigration effort was poorly …
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HISTORICAL CEMETERY RESIDENTS UNEARTHED: REANALYSIS OF UMFC64 AND UMFC65
The suspected forensic case involving two skeletons whose identities have remained a mystery for 35 years is reexamined using bioarchaeological analysis. Methods for estimating sex, age at death, ancestry, stature, and pathology/trauma methods are applied in an effort to glean more information …
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HISTORICAL CEMETERY RESIDENTS UNEARTHED: REANALYSIS OF UMFC64 AND UMFC65
The suspected forensic case involving two skeletons whose identities have remained a mystery for 35 years is reexamined using bioarchaeological analysis. Methods for estimating sex, age at death, ancestry, stature, and pathology/trauma methods are applied in an effort to glean more information …
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Anadiplosis: In between Cemetery and City, Sacred and Secular
… commercial structures. However, as the Colonial Cemetery was existed before the city sprawled to its nearby area, resulting in two wards that have unique layouts that do not have a typical square. The cemetery, although filled with lawn and trees, has totally different functions and atmosphere …
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Wetwang Slack : an Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds.
This work is an examination of a large Iron Age cemetery which was excavated by the writer at Wetwang Slack on the Yorkshire Wolds between 1975 and 1979. The chief features which make this site exceptional are the large number of inhumation burials involved (446), the unusually good stratigraphical …
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Ancestral Analysis of the French Colonial Moran Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi
… 1723 and is the earliest known French Colonial cemetery in the United States. Historical records suggest that those interred likely represent immigrants from Western Europe as well as Africa who were relocated in an effort to colonize the Louisiana Territory. Given the variety of cultural …
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African American Mortality: A Biocultural Study of Missouri Cemetery Records
… Context of Origins, by focusing on a semi-rural cemetery which represents a spectrum of both rural and urban lifestyles; and 3) to compare and contrast the statistical mortality profiles with the narrative genealogies and histories. The rural and semi-rural cemetery’s reconstructed burial …
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