Category: Accident

• The Astral Cemetery

  

  Look Up. With the launching of the latest set of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites from California last night (that had everyone from myself to BBC Newsreader Sophie Raworth looking to the sky for a glimpse of a project that aims to bring internet coverage to every corner of the planet), I fired up an astronomy…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  April 23, 2020

  Accident, Cemeteries, Exploration, History, Science

  Alouette I, Defunct, e.Deorbit, Elon Musx, Envisat, European Space Agency, HUBBLE, Pollution, Sally Ride, Satellites, Space Junk, SpaceX, Telescope, Vanguard 1

• Killed By A Coffin

  

  It’s an image that does the rounds on social media from time to time. I’m not the first to share it and it’s one of the initial images I found when I began my immersion into cemetery history. Kensal Green was the second cemetery I visited for this blog and its not an event you’d…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 2, 2020

  Accident, Biography, Cemeteries, History, London, Medicine

  Accident, funeral, gothic, Highgate Cemetery, history, Illustrated London News, Kensal Green Cemetery, Killed by a Coffin, Tragedy, UCL, Undertaker