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Munich's Bizarre 'QR Codes On Graves' Mystery Finally Solved
Some social media users claimed that it was a viral marketing stunt while others suspected vandals or even a tech-savvy artist making a statement.
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Forced To Live "Among The Dead": Displaced Gazans Seek Shelter In Cemetery
Displaced again and again by Israel's military offensive on Gaza, Mahmoud Amer and his family have now pitched their tent close to gravestones in a cemetery in Rafah, the last place of relative safety in the ruined strip of land.
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Divers Discover Underwater Hospital And Gravestone Off Florida Keys
The grave belongs to a civilian who worked as a labourer at Fort Jefferson.
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Man Asks For Leave "To Pay Respects To Ancestors," Boss Demands Gravestone Pic As Proof
A section of social media users in Hong Kong are outraged by an employer's odd demand made in response to a man's request for a leave.
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16 Graves Belonging To Minority Community Vandalised In Pakistan: Report
Sixteen graves of the Ahmadi community in Pakistan's Punjab province have been allegedly desecrated by religious extremists for using Islamic symbols on gravestones at a cemetery, a spokesman of the minority community said on Wednesday.
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"RIP Internet Explorer": Gravestone By South Korean Engineer Goes Viral
A South Korean engineer built a gravestone for the Internet Explorer, the web browser retired by Microsoft this week, and its photos is now gaining traction on social media.
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A Fish Cemetery In Kerala Has Gravestones With Single-Use Plastic Bottles
Cemeteries are commonly built for humans, but in Kerala, they are made for fishes too. They are not just tombs made up of cement or mud, but iron frames that raise their heads to the sky and are filled with single-use plastic bottles.
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Free Weddings, Gravestones In Turks' Plan To Boost Lira
Convert your hard currency to Turkish lira and you could enjoy a free wedding package, a meal and a loaf of bread. Or even a gravestone.
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US Man Tending to Gravestone Dies After it Falls on Him
An American man decorating his mother's grave for Easter died Monday when the headstone fell and crushed him, a newspaper said.
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Man in Tamil Nadu lays foundation stone for his graveyard
In a bizarre incident, a 52-year-old man in Tirunelveli arranged a feast for relatives and friends for laying the foundation stone of his graveyard on Friday.
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The Ashes: Aussie media write off England ahead of Perth Test
The Sydney Morning Herald splashed a picture of a gravestone on its back page, looking ahead to the game that begins Friday and suggesting that England are dead and buried.
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Whitney Houston's tombstone reads I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston's final resting place has been marked by a new gravestone which features the lyrics to her most famous song, I Will Always Love You.
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Facebook campaign wins a young child a soccer gravestone
A church in western Germany has bowed to public pressure and allowed the parents of a soccer-mad nine-year old boy who died from a brain tumour to erect a gravestone with a ball logo after a Facebook campaign spawned more than 100,000 angry messages.
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British TV star's gravestone removed amid sex abuse claims
The gravestone of Jimmy Savile, one of Britain's biggest TV stars in the 1970s and 1980s, was removed overnight Tuesday-Wednesday and will be sent to a landfill site as police probe a string of sex abuse allegations.
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'Bar-coded gravestones to keep in touch with departed souls!'
When scanned on a smartphone, the square codes, known as Quick Response or QR codes, launch a website which contains a biography of the deceased.
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Munich's Bizarre 'QR Codes On Graves' Mystery Finally Solved
Some social media users claimed that it was a viral marketing stunt while others suspected vandals or even a tech-savvy artist making a statement.
-
Forced To Live "Among The Dead": Displaced Gazans Seek Shelter In Cemetery
Displaced again and again by Israel's military offensive on Gaza, Mahmoud Amer and his family have now pitched their tent close to gravestones in a cemetery in Rafah, the last place of relative safety in the ruined strip of land.
-
Divers Discover Underwater Hospital And Gravestone Off Florida Keys
The grave belongs to a civilian who worked as a labourer at Fort Jefferson.
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Man Asks For Leave "To Pay Respects To Ancestors," Boss Demands Gravestone Pic As Proof
A section of social media users in Hong Kong are outraged by an employer's odd demand made in response to a man's request for a leave.
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16 Graves Belonging To Minority Community Vandalised In Pakistan: Report
Sixteen graves of the Ahmadi community in Pakistan's Punjab province have been allegedly desecrated by religious extremists for using Islamic symbols on gravestones at a cemetery, a spokesman of the minority community said on Wednesday.
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"RIP Internet Explorer": Gravestone By South Korean Engineer Goes Viral
A South Korean engineer built a gravestone for the Internet Explorer, the web browser retired by Microsoft this week, and its photos is now gaining traction on social media.
-
A Fish Cemetery In Kerala Has Gravestones With Single-Use Plastic Bottles
Cemeteries are commonly built for humans, but in Kerala, they are made for fishes too. They are not just tombs made up of cement or mud, but iron frames that raise their heads to the sky and are filled with single-use plastic bottles.
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Free Weddings, Gravestones In Turks' Plan To Boost Lira
Convert your hard currency to Turkish lira and you could enjoy a free wedding package, a meal and a loaf of bread. Or even a gravestone.
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US Man Tending to Gravestone Dies After it Falls on Him
An American man decorating his mother's grave for Easter died Monday when the headstone fell and crushed him, a newspaper said.
-
Man in Tamil Nadu lays foundation stone for his graveyard
In a bizarre incident, a 52-year-old man in Tirunelveli arranged a feast for relatives and friends for laying the foundation stone of his graveyard on Friday.
-
The Ashes: Aussie media write off England ahead of Perth Test
The Sydney Morning Herald splashed a picture of a gravestone on its back page, looking ahead to the game that begins Friday and suggesting that England are dead and buried.
-
Whitney Houston's tombstone reads I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston's final resting place has been marked by a new gravestone which features the lyrics to her most famous song, I Will Always Love You.
-
Facebook campaign wins a young child a soccer gravestone
A church in western Germany has bowed to public pressure and allowed the parents of a soccer-mad nine-year old boy who died from a brain tumour to erect a gravestone with a ball logo after a Facebook campaign spawned more than 100,000 angry messages.
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British TV star's gravestone removed amid sex abuse claims
The gravestone of Jimmy Savile, one of Britain's biggest TV stars in the 1970s and 1980s, was removed overnight Tuesday-Wednesday and will be sent to a landfill site as police probe a string of sex abuse allegations.
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'Bar-coded gravestones to keep in touch with departed souls!'
When scanned on a smartphone, the square codes, known as Quick Response or QR codes, launch a website which contains a biography of the deceased.
