Trivia 7:
Grave News



While on display in London, the casket of Queen Elizabeth I of England mysteriously exploded on the night before she was to be buried. The coffin was destroyed, but the queen's body was unharmed.

Lightning shattered the tombstone of T.G. Brownell, who was killed by a bolt of lightning.

Jonathan Blake's epitaph has a picture of a foot on a pedal and it reads: "Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake; stepped on the gas instead of the brake."

A gravestone in Cooperstown, NY, was supposed to read: "Oh, Lord, She Is Thine," but the stonecutter ran out of room. It instead reads, "Oh, Lord, She Is Thin".

At the burial service of Captain Joseph Belain, the man who had dedicated his life to saving the carrier pigeon from extinction, a carrier pigeon flew in from the sea, perched on the bier, and stayed until the service was over.



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