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valkyrie_lisa
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Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Colorado, USA
draghkar wrote:
welcome Valkyrie-lisa
lemme be the 1st to welcome you..
D.
Thanks!
I read up on the last case and Layla's LJ. I'm excited!
Does anyone have a spare scooby snack? I'm hungry.
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:42 pm
Puppy_Zwolle
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Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 969 Location: Not Zwolle anymore. really no kiddin'
There you go. Now sit nice and no drooling.
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:39 pm
Flidget Jerome
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Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 308
Layla's blog has updated.
(And thank you for the compliments on the fanart! )
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:39 pm
Drewbear
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Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Arlington, TX
The poem on the tombstone in the last pic is an excerpt from "The Bivouac of the Dead" by Theodore O'Hara. Apparently, it is/was used quite frequently on gravestones for Confederate soldiers. Arlington National cemetery had a page about it , complete with full text and some history about the poem.
Can anyone determine what the music score inscribed in the same tombstone is? Maybe the title or composer?
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:08 pm
ItWasntMeISwear
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Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 503 Location: Illannoys, USA
I believe it's "TAPS".
http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiGSTAPS;ttTAPS.html
On an odd note... "TAPS" is also short of "The Atlantic Paranormal Society", the group featured in the Sci-Fi channels "Ghost Hunters". Completely OOG, but interesting none the less.
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:30 am
Puppy_Zwolle
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Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 969 Location: Not Zwolle anymore. really no kiddin'
Oldskool pics. Most were scanned in as far as I can tell. But some appear to be digitally taken. fi: "Nihil sine Deo" 11.jpg.
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:34 am
Obes
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Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 329 Location: England
Is it just a typo... or does 'end' instead of 'went' mean something?
Obes.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:17 pm
Drewbear
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Is it just a typo... or does 'end' instead of 'went' mean something?
I suspect that it's a typo, considering the accidental inclusion of "m" in eternal at the end of the page.
I was taking another look at the photos and have a couple of questions. First, what the hell is that pile of debris in the third pic? I doubt that it's a gravesite considering how trashy it is in comparison to the rest of the graveyard. Second, since 11.jpg is apparently the only digital one & it's the only one with Layla making an appearance in it, I presume that there's something special about the pic. I've tried uncamouflaging it, but have had no luck.
Finally, I was taking another look at the last pic and noticed that it's dated 1861-1865. So let us pause a moment and sorrow for the child.
ETA: The bible verse on the "nihil sine deo" gravemarker is 1 Corinthians 15:57 : "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:15 pm
tallerbird
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Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Birmingham,UK
[quote="Drewbear"]
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Finally, I was taking another look at the last pic and noticed that it's dated 1861-1865. So let us pause a moment and sorrow for the child.
It is not a grave but a memorial. 1861-1865 is the US civil war so it is a memorial to fallen soldiers i guess.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:49 pm
Puppy_Zwolle
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Drewbear wrote:
First, what the hell is that pile of debris in the third pic?
Cutdown tree that sprouted again.
As far as I can tell: 11.jpg and 15.jpg are digitally taken pics. (in other words, probably taken by "you know who". The others scanned and likely not taken by "YKW".)
If somebody was wondering if the "Nihil Sine Deo" was photoshopped in (I was) I doubt it. If so somebody went "above and beyond". Even the perspective is flawless (and thats the hardest to get right. Still is has a unnatural feel to it.
Wiki wrote:
Nihil Sine Deus.
Translation: "Nothing without God." used as a motto by the German Hohenzolern royal family-Sigmaringen dynasty. The *Nihil Sine Deo formula was the motto of the Kingdom of Romania as ruled by the Hohenzolern Sigmaringen (1878 - 1947).
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:06 pm
HyperBorea
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Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 63 Location: Undisclosed
What are the little spots in the top right area of 4.jpg?
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:46 pm
draghkar
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looking at the pictures it seems that there are some "older" and scanned ones and some digital ones. Further more there are some pictures that can be grouped:
18.jpg is the text on the plate of the statue in 15.jpg (or so it seems)
9.jpg contains the same lake as in 14.jpg
13.jpg is the same path as 12.jpg
14.jpg, 13.jpg 16.jpg are at least taken on the same day, according to the moody drooly scenery.
will look at the picture more tomorrow..
Greetz,
Draghkar
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:29 pm
Puppy_Zwolle
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HyperBorea wrote:
What are the little spots in the top right area of 4.jpg?
If you look closely most of them have these although not as bright as this. Seen many times on scanned 'oldskool'-pics.
But as this is an ARG... probably some code behind this. Constellation, gridcode, 'connect the dots' -code. Dunno yet.
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:58 pm
draghkar
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Great observation hyperborea,
I see more of those dots in that picture... but i see some on the other pictures as well..
However,
In 1.jpg, there is a grave with the inscription "my mother"
Enlarging this picture shows a lil bit of an edge, just like it has been photoshopped or so.
Can anyone confirm?
And another question:
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I mentioned a couple of days ago that James and I end to the local cemetery (Mt. Hope) and took pictures. Here are the 17 best of them. Yes, this page loads slowly.
Why would Layla say that she posts 17 pictures while there are 18 of them posted?? Typo? or a hint? Is there maybe one of them that she didnt take herself?
was just wondering..
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:55 am
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draghkar
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Did some research on the mt hope cemetery in rochester and found some kewl things:
a picture gallery
several essays and reports on people buried there especially researching the headstones and grave markers.
online exhibition
more grave descriptions
The pond that is in the pictures is probably called the "bank of lilly pond"
Greetz,
D.
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:52 am
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