Lindholm Høje is an Iron Age and Viking Age burial site in Denmark. It contains over 700 graves. The graves are arranged chronologically. The oldest graves from the Iron Age around 400 AD are at the top of the hill. Further down are the younger the graves.
The graves are shaped differently depending on whether it contains a man or a woman. The graves containing men are shaped pointy like viking ships or as a triangle, while women’s graves are round or oval. The Iron Age graves was covered with a mound, and the Viking Age grave was a cremation grave. The stones surrounded the area with inside which the deceased was cremated. (Source)
Jane Bolin, the first African-American woman to serve as a judge in the United States, the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department. She was sworn in as a judge in 1939.
For hundreds of years, a mystery surrounded the cathedral of Venzone, a small city in the province of Udine, Italy. Instead of decomposing normally, bodies buried in the tombs beneath the cathedral were perfectly preserved and still recognizable decades later, a fact which led the townspeople to periodically retrieve and commune with their dead loved ones. In modern times, scientists finally traced the source of this wonder to Hypha tombicina, a microscopic, parasitic fungus that rapidly dehydrates the bodies before decomposition can even begin. (Source)
and the Iraqi people welcomed the Americans with flowers. I wanted to set a historical event to teach Bush a lesson from the Iraqis, telling him you lied, we did not welcome you with flowers, and instead we are saying goodbye with our shoes.”
Muntaza Al Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who became known as the guy who threw a shoe at Bush and later ended up in jail for three years because of it.
