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The British cemetery home to Middle East poets, politicians and princes


Published date: 28 January 2021 10:32 UTC
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Last update: 1 month 2 weeks ago
About 30km southwest of London, the commuter town of Woking happens to be home to western Europe s largest cemetery. Its size isn t its only accolade; Brookwood cemetery has also been the resting place of some of the world s prominent thinkers, creators, activists and royalty.
They include Edward the Martyr, who briefly ruled the country in the 10th century and whose remains were moved to Brookwood in 1984; John Singer Sargent, the American portrait artist who painted several US presidents; and, for a time, Dodi El-Fayed, the entrepreneur who died in a car crash alongside Princess Diana.  ....

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Museum Notebook: Big bird farming in Whanganui


Museum Notebook: Big bird farming in Whanganui
17 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Made of white ostrich feathers and a white-painted wood frame with a silver embossed decoration, around 1910. Photo / Whanganui Regional Museum Collection ref: 1948.12.7
Made of white ostrich feathers and a white-painted wood frame with a silver embossed decoration, around 1910. Photo / Whanganui Regional Museum Collection ref: 1948.12.7
Whanganui Chronicle
By: Libby Sharpe
Alexander Allison farmed at Letham, about 11 kilometres south of Whanganui. His dairy operation was not paying, so he bought a pair of ostriches from South Africa to start a new enterprise. The birds arrived in Whanganui in 1904.
The Letham ostriches were not farmed for meat or eggs, but to produce ostrich feathers for fashionable hats, cloaks and dresses. ....

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