Archive for cemetary
36 heures à Paris
Posted in Books, Travel with tags 36 hours in, Butte Montmartre, cemetary, Eiffel Tower, Japanese cuisine, La Villette, mass tourism, Notre-Dame-de-Paris, Paris, The New York Times on July 1, 2023 by xi'an
Il cimitero degli alpinisti
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags cemetary, Chiesa Vecchia, Dufourspitze, Italia, Italian Alps, Macugnaga, memorial, Monte Rosa, mountains on August 20, 2017 by xi'an
In the cemetery around Chiesa Vecchia in Macugnaga, at the bottom of Monte Rosa (and the other size from Zermatt), there is such a number of alpinists and guides buried there that the cemetery is called the cemetery of the alpinists. A memorial recalls deaths of local guides and climbers on the different routes of the Monte Rosa group [there is no Monte Rosa peak per se but a collection of 15 tops above 4000m]. Plus crosses and plaques on the church wall for those whose bodies were not recovered, according to a local guide. (Which sounds strange given that these are not the Himalayas! Unless these are glacier-related deaths…]
Ulam’s grave [STAN post]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags 17 equations That Changed the World, cemetary, Cimetière du Montparnasse, France, Henri Poincaré, Paris, STAN, Stanislas Ulam on July 27, 2014 by xi'an
Since Stan Ulam is buried in Cimetière du Montparnasse, next to CREST, Andrew and I paid his grave a visit on a sunny July afternoon. Among elaborate funeral constructions, the Aron family tomb is sober and hidden behind funeral houses. It came as a surprise to me to discover that Ulam had links with France to the point of him and his wife being buried in Ulam’s wife family vault. Since we were there, we took a short stroll to see Henri Poincaré’s tomb in the Poincaré-Boutroux vault (missing Henri’s brother, the French president Raymond Poincaré). It came as a surprise that someone had left a folder with the cover of 17 equations that changed the World on top of the tomb). Even though the book covers Poincaré’s work on the three body problem as part of Newton’s formula. There were other mathematicians in this cemetery, but this was enough necrophiliac tourism for one day.
