Tag: Grave
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BEETHOVEN’S MISSING EARS
I ran across a newspaper clipping that detailed the exhumation of Ludwig van Beethoven. I wasn’t aware he was ever exhumed, so I read on. The article from 1888 detailed the events surrounding what was his second and final exhumation, he was going to be moved to an honorary grave at Vienna’s main cemetery, Zentralfriedhof.…
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BURKE AND HARE: THE ORIGINAL BODY SNATCHERS
‘Burking’ is defined as the crime of murdering a person, ordinarily by smothering, for the purpose of selling their corpse. The word ‘burking’ is derived from a man who perfected this method, one William Burke. Along with his partner William Hare, the pair wreaked havoc for a ten month period in 1828 throughout the city…