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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.
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
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.
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
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In 1973, approximately 1,700 gravediggers at 47 cemeteries in the New York metropolitan area went on strike due to disagreements over the terms of a new labor contract. The strike, which initially only affected Cypress Hills Cemetery, began on April 12 and had spread to every cemetery whose workers were represented by the Cemetery Workers and Greens Attendants Union Local 365 by June 10.
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 ...
There are 24 Medal of Honor recipients buried in the cemetery, including three men who received the award twice. Although Cypress Hills was established to honor Civil War veterans, its grounds include the graves of soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War , Spanish–American War , Korean War and Vietnam War .