#lives lost

[retroboldphotography]

After the Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, Ca, an artist came to the area and would paint these portraits of people who died in the fire. He would only do a few portraits at a time as it took a toll on him mentally. Eventually, the remnants of these structures would be torn down and the portraits are forever gone.

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[erin-hart]

[bonnie-bee-bonnie]

Today in 1966, a terrible tragedy struck a small village called Aberfan in Wales when a school filled with children was wiped out by a collapsing soil tip.

Aberfan was a small village surrounded by seven mountains of coal waste. The seventh spoil pile began in 1958 and was 111 feet high. It had been built up on ground with several springs emerging from the ground, a big no no.

After a period of heavy rain, the spoil pile began to saturate, and at 9:15 began to move. 110,000 cubic meters of slurry tore downhill into the village, taking out Pantglas Primary School.

116 children, some while still sat at their desks along with 28 adults.

[daydreameilyah-art]

[shakespearenews]

A Connecticut woman who became famous for her gritty and colorful performances of Shakespeare on the streets of a college town has died of the coronavirus

“Her performance of Shakespeare was her holding onto her substance, that last vestige of a healthy self,” DiGennaro said...

“I like the bloody gore ones. I know ‘Romeo and Juliet’ but I don't recite it on the street ... People's favorite, when I'm on the street and they stop by with their kids, they want to hear ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Macbeth,’” [Margaret Holloway] said in the documentary, sitting on the edge of stage, dressed in a sweater and brown pants. “It's their money so they get to hear what they want to hear.”

[sarcasticbookdragon]

Remember those lost on that cold cold night so long ago.

1,517 lives were snuffed out in that freezing water