Comments on: The Dead http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/03/the-dead/ A Peculiar, Yet Refreshing, Blog Sun, 20 May 2012 11:11:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: bbbeard http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/03/the-dead/#comment-15 bbbeard Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:43:37 +0000 http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/03/the-dead/#comment-15 Well, this put me in mind of an ossuary we visited in Bulgaria as part of our XVII IMO tour. IIRC, it contained the remains of combatants from a Bulgarian-Turkish conflict from the nineteenth century. I think the ossuary was in a cathedral in Sofia, but my recall is fuzzy on this point. And as far as West Side Story is concerned, I can see the connection with ossuaries. The only musicals I've ever enjoyed were the ones with Joan Solomon in them.... Well, this put me in mind of an ossuary we visited in Bulgaria as part of our XVII IMO tour. IIRC, it contained the remains of combatants from a Bulgarian-Turkish conflict from the nineteenth century. I think the ossuary was in a cathedral in Sofia, but my recall is fuzzy on this point.

And as far as West Side Story is concerned, I can see the connection with ossuaries. The only musicals I’ve ever enjoyed were the ones with Joan Solomon in them….

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