Jeez, I don't know about you, but I have had a time going online looking for how to rid yourself of creepy ask.com and blekko search bars that show up. I have Firefox and google home page. To the right of the address bar either ask.com or blekko would appear at the little search bar. Just to the left of where it says "Blekko" or "ask.com" there is a drop down arrow. Click on it and remove them from there with the delete option. It's like picking off ticks after a walk in the woods--those crappy little add-ons!
(funeral memento - above - with woven hair of the dead included) Giving up our dead is never an easy task and it doesn't matter what region of the world or what era you grew up in, it's full of rituals and also many superstitions. Let's have a look at how we have handled death - (cemetery bell system - above) During the cholera epidemic in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, people feared being buried when they weren't completely dead. Many reported digging up graves of loved ones to find signs they fought inside the coffin to get out. As this would nearly be an impossibility with the weight of the earth on the coffin and lack of oxygen, the rumors did start hysteria. Patents were put out for these bells that would allow the newly awakened buried person to pull a string, ring a bell above ground that the groundskeeper could hear. Imagine how freaking chilling that would be to actually hear one go off? I had an idea for a zombie story about that but never got aroun...
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