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  • This would be good but the site really shouldn’t be monumentalized at all. There are alternative options.

    The Cadaver Synod

    the corpse …removed from its tomb …stripped of its …vestments …cut off the three fingers of the right hand that it had used in life for blessings, next formally invalidating all …acts and ordinations… The body was finally interred in a graveyard for foreigners, only to be dug up once again, tied to weights, and cast into the Tiber River.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod#Synod

    Benito Mussolini Interment and theft of corpse

    …buried in an unmarked grave …dug up… Over a period of sixteen weeks it was moved from place to place – the hiding places included a villa, a monastery and a convent – while the authorities searched for it. Eventually, in August, the body (with a leg missing) was tracked down to the Certosa di Pavia, a monastery not far from Milan… The authorities then arranged for the body to be hidden at a Capuchin monastery …where it remained for the next eleven years. The whereabouts of the body was kept a secret, even from Mussolini’s family.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini#Interment_and_theft_of_corpse

    or, simply, as Hunter Thompson’s obituary for Nixon reads:

    …he should have been buried at sea

    https://archive.ph/rbwXl


  • Deaths by Country

    Country | Military Deaths | Total Civilian and Military Deaths

    Albania 30,000 30,200

    Australia 39,800 40,500

    Austria 261,000 384,700

    Belgium 12,100 86,100

    Brazil 1,000 2,000

    Bulgaria 22,000 25,000

    Canada 45,400 45,400

    China 3-4,000,000 20,000,000

    Czechoslovakia 25,000 345,000

    Denmark 2,100 3,200

    Dutch East Indies – 3-4,000,000

    Estonia – 51,000

    Ethiopia 5,000 100,000

    Finland 95,000 97,000

    France 217,600 567,600

    French Indochina – 1-1,500,000

    Germany 5,533,000 6,600,000-8,800,000

    Greece 20,000-35,000 300,000-800,000

    Hungary 300,000 580,000

    India 87,000 1,500,000-2,500,000

    Italy 301,400 457,000

    Japan 2,120,000 2,600,000-3,100,000

    Korea – 378,000-473,000

    Latvia – 227,000

    Lithuania – 353,000

    Luxembourg – 2,000

    Malaya – 100,000

    Netherlands 17,000 301,000

    New Zealand 11,900 11,900

    Norway 3,000 9,500

    Papua New Guinea – 15,000

    Philippines 57,000 500,000-1,000,000

    Poland 240,000 5,600,000

    Romania 300,000 833,000

    Singapore – 50,000

    South Africa 11,900 11,900

    Soviet Union 8,800,000-10,700,000 24,000,000

    United Kingdom 383,600 450,700

    United States 416,800 418,500

    Yugoslavia 446,000 1,000,000

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war









  • Bonus @lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldIt was a dark time for all.
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    After holiday dinners, my grandpa would bust out the faux-leather bound Polaroid, mount it to a tripod and tell us all to stop moving, “It’s not a movie camera!” Then he’d be amazed it was almost ready 5 seconds later. Every single time.

    I remember when a flash was essentially an exploding bulb. Before me, they made a pop sound. In the 70s, there were cubes that rotated so you’d get multiple uses, IIRC. The real pros later had strobes but also, just bouncing the light off the ceiling and such cut down on the red eye which was really about light shooting directly into the eyes. That direct light also created harsh shadows and washed out features.