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Grave template, topped with the handle of a scythe.Church of St. Michael, Garway, England. Gravedigger with shovels, during the Siege of Sarajevo. Fossor (Latin fossorius, from the verb fodere 'to dig') is a term described in Chambers' dictionary as archaic, but can conveniently be revived to describe grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three centuries of the Christian Era.
This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.
The Gravediggers, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet; Gravedigger Jones, in the Harlem Detective novels by Chester Himes; Grave Digger, in the Gold Digger series of comics; Gravedigger (comics), several characters in DC comics; The Grave Digger, in Bones
I’ve met gravediggers, priests, magicians, bodybuilders, miners. I even booked two dates back-to-back at the same café Voices: Everything I learnt from going on 100 dates with 100 men
A soldier from a graves registration unit attempts identification of a skull during World War II. Mortuary Affairs is a service within the United States Army Quartermaster Corps tasked with the recovery, identification, transportation, and preparation for burial of deceased American and American-allied military personnel.
Name Notability References Francis S. Bartow: Confederate States of America political leader, and military officer during the early months of the American Civil War [48] Joseph Bryan: U.S. Representative from Georgia who served in the 8th and 9th U.S. Congresses (from 1803 until his resignation in 1806) [49] William Bellinger Bulloch
African American Vernacular English, or Black American English, is one of America's greatest sources of linguistic creativity, and Black Twitter especially has played a pivotal role in how words ...
Those who practiced the act of body snatching and sale of corpses during this period were commonly referred to as resurrectionists or resurrection men. [1] Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom , who often worked in teams and who primarily targeted more recently dug graves, would be hired in order to provide medical institutions and ...