An ironic hit for Nostradamus!
C10.Q74
Au revolu du grand nombre septiesme
Apparoistra au temps jeux d'Hacatombe,
Non esloigne du grand eage milliesme,
Que les entres sortiront de leur tombe.
**Verse Translation by Peter Lemesurier**
When mighty Number Seven shall quit the stage,
At time of Games Olympic, ’fore their eyes,
Not long ere dies the great Millennial Age,
Those who have entered graves shall from them rise.
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Navy dead held hostage in row over grave fees
By Kate Connolly in Nea Ionia
(Filed: 19/07/2003) -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/19/wgrave19.xml
For more than 70 years, the graves have nestled in their own walled
compound in the foothills of Mount Pilion, home of the mythical
centaurs, the stark marble headstones shaded from the fierce heat by
graceful cypresses.
But now this most peaceful of resting places for British servicemen
faces the ultimate indignity. The Greek authorities are threatening to
dig up the bodies and dispose of them unless the British Government
pays tens of thousands of pounds.
Authorities at Nea Ionia in central Greece plan to transform the
town's main cemetery into a park in time for the Olympic Games in
August next year.
They are demanding £33,000 to exhume the British servicemen who were
killed during military exercises off the coast of nearby Volos in 1929
and in back payments for tending the graves.
British military officials yesterday reacted with astonishment to the
demands made by the Greeks.
"The amount they're demanding changes according to who you talk to and
it's all a bit messy," a spokesman from the British Army's casualty
and compassionate unit said.
"The Greeks are members of the European Union and Nato and one would
expect them to operate accordingly. Obviously we're experiencing some
glitches in that department."
The servicemen - from the Royal Marines and Royal Navy - were killed
on July 26, 1929, when a turret on the cruiser Devonshire anchored off
the Adriatic Coast exploded, killing them instantly.
The town's authorities argue that the men's graves were neglected for
years by the British Armed Forces, a claim rejected by the Army
spokesman.
"We have tended them all this time, cutting the long grasses once a
year and keeping the snakes at bay, but we have never heard anything
from the British authorities - no money, nothing," said Constantinos
Morfoyiannis, the vice-chairman of Nea Ionia's graveyards council.
"Even the Germans removed their dead soldiers from World War II back
in the 1960."
The graveyards council insists that if Britain does not respond to its
demands for payment it will be forced to "throw the bodies out".
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the cemetery
authorities have said that they will hold the bodies "hostage" until
they have received the money. British officials are holding back the
payment until they have investigated the legality of backdating
graveyard fees more than 10 years.
The hope is to bury the soldiers in Phaleron War Cemetery in Athens
where hundreds of other British servicemen and women killed in the two
world wars are buried.
"I'm sorry this dispute has been drawn out," said 80-year-old Antonis
Georgeou, a retired railway worker who recalled the shockwaves the
Devonshire accident sent through the town. "They should take the lads
back to Britain where they can rest in peace."
Under Greek law, due to a shortage of real estate, all publicly owned
grave plots are typically dug up after three years and the remains
interred in steel vaults.
Cremation is illegal in Greece according to the teachings of the Greek
Orthodox Church which deems that burning bodies amounts to condemning
souls to hell.
The Orthodox Church, which earns a substantial amount of its income
through burials and exhumations, is opposing attempts to legalise
cremation.
The dispute is set to rank along other heated Greek-British disputes
such as the fate of the Elgin Marbles, and a row over British "plane
spotters" who were last year accused and later cleared by a Greek
court of spying.
--
Gary S
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| User: "sUSAn" |
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| Title: Re: Greeks plan Olympic park on Cemetery |
16 Oct 2003 09:47:19 PM |
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Gary S. reported:
Navy dead held hostage in row over
grave fees By Kate Connolly in Nea
Ionia
(Filed: 19/07/2003) -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh
tml?xml=/news/2003/07/19/wgrave19.xm
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The Orthodox Church, which earns a
substantial amount of its income
through burials and exhumations, is
opposing attempts to legalise cremation.
Ah-ha!
That figure$!
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| User: "Peter Lemesurier" |
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| Title: Re: Greeks plan Olympic park on Cemetery |
17 Oct 2003 02:55:31 AM |
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:00:49 +0100, Gary Somai
<gary@somai.fsworld.co.uk> either wrote or (if so marked) quoted:
An ironic hit for Nostradamus!
C10.Q74
Au revolu du grand nombre septiesme
Apparoistra au temps jeux d'Hacatombe,
Non esloigne du grand eage milliesme,
Que les entres sortiront de leur tombe.
**Verse Translation by Peter Lemesurier**
When mighty Number Seven shall quit the stage,
At time of Games Olympic, ’fore their eyes,
Not long ere dies the great Millennial Age,
Those who have entered graves shall from them rise.
--
Navy dead held hostage in row over grave fees
By Kate Connolly in Nea Ionia
(Filed: 19/07/2003) -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/19/wgrave19.xml
For more than 70 years, the graves have nestled in their own walled
compound in the foothills of Mount Pilion, home of the mythical
centaurs, the stark marble headstones shaded from the fierce heat by
graceful cypresses.
But now this most peaceful of resting places for British servicemen
faces the ultimate indignity. The Greek authorities are threatening to
dig up the bodies and dispose of them unless the British Government
pays tens of thousands of pounds.
So there you are -- that proves it, then! ;)
--
Peter
http://www.nostradamus500.com
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| User: "HeWhoComing" |
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| Title: RE Re: Greeks plan Olympic park on Cemetery |
10 Jun 2004 09:38:18 PM |
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:55:31 +0100, Peter Lemesurier
<lemesur@bengalwipeyethisoutvillas.demon.co.uk> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:00:49 +0100, Gary Somai
<gary@somai.fsworld.co.uk> either wrote or (if so marked) quoted:
An ironic hit for Nostradamus!
C10.Q74
Au revolu du grand nombre septiesme
Apparoistra au temps jeux d'Hacatombe,
Non esloigne du grand eage milliesme,
Que les entres sortiront de leur tombe.
**Verse Translation by Peter Lemesurier**
When mighty Number Seven shall quit the stage,
At time of Games Olympic, ¢fore their eyes,
Not long ere dies the great Millennial Age,
Those who have entered graves shall from them rise.
--
Navy dead held hostage in row over grave fees
By Kate Connolly in Nea Ionia
(Filed: 19/07/2003) -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/19/wgrave19.xml
For more than 70 years, the graves have nestled in their own walled
compound in the foothills of Mount Pilion, home of the mythical
centaurs, the stark marble headstones shaded from the fierce heat by
graceful cypresses.
But now this most peaceful of resting places for British servicemen
faces the ultimate indignity. The Greek authorities are threatening to
dig up the bodies and dispose of them unless the British Government
pays tens of thousands of pounds.
So there you are -- that proves it, then! ;)
What do you expect for barbarian thieves who make parties on the
Holy stolen marbles of Parthenon
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