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REVIVAL OF PORTUGUESE  Nov 8th 2018 ECONOMIST  These days Manuel Machado has a spring in his step. The school of which he is headmaster, Escola Portuguesa de Macau, is the only one in the southern Chinese city that still follows the … Continue reading →

FORCED LABOUR IN COTTON HARVEST Nov 8 2018 ECONOMIST In some ways, there is nothing surprising about the videos that have been doing the rounds on social media in Uzbekistan. In one, farmers and local officials in a district near … Continue reading →

Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds. It is a specific type of the general practice of excarnation. It is practiced … Continue reading →

TANA TORAJA is an area best known for its peculiar fascination with the dead. Life for the Torajans revolves around death and their days are spent earning the money to send away their dead properly in elaborate, brutal and captivating … Continue reading →

The Flanders area of Western Wallonian is full of WWII war cemeteries. The Allied cemeteries are common and full of visitors but I was the only person as this German one. After the war, there were 678 German military cemeteries … Continue reading →

This Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral (St. Mungo’s Cathedral). Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. Typically for the period only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every … Continue reading →

The ordinary cemetery is taken to new heights by the obsessive Danes. Small, narrow hedges separate individual plots. Gravestones can be typical headstones or more often stones with unfinished backs lying on the ground. Not uncommonly there are two and … Continue reading →

VIA APPIA. The first 90km section of this road was laid in 312 BC and then extended in 100 BC to reach Brindisi on Italy’s southern Adriatic coast. It has long been one of Rome’s exclusive addresses, a beautiful cobbled … Continue reading →

The Cambodian Killing Fields are several sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of … Continue reading →

History. Palermo’s Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The bodies were dehydrated on the racks of … Continue reading →