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Bone and Garden

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The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

“If life must not be taken too seriously,” wrote Samuel Butler, “then so neither must death.”

January 13, 2006July 18, 2013 | Oddities

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