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While it is sad to see when something has been damaged, or that something once meaningful has been neglected, there is also a certain aesthetic quality to them. They often give the impression of having some incredible story to tell, if they could just talk. Here some that caught my [...]

Mount Carmel is a Roman Catholic cemetery that was consecrated in 1901. It's located right across the street from Queen of Heaven, which it combined operations with in 1965. While many nationalities can be found at both, Mount Carmel is predominantly Italian, and Queen of Heaven is predominantly Slavic. [...]

These should speak for themselves... (Except for the Frank Grimes one, you must be a die hard fan of "The Simpsons" to get it). No disrespect is meant to any individuals- I frequently find amusement in plays on my own name;  my father was unintentionally named after a hobbit in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

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