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Pauline Plotka, 25, in 1918. Plotka, a dress designer, shot and killed her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Dr. Anton Jindra, in 1918.
"Enoch Arden" is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's Poet Laureate.
The hero of the poem, fisherman turned merchant sailor Enoch Arden, leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain. During his voyage, Enoch Arden is shipwrecked on a desert island with two companions; both eventually die, leaving Arden alone there.
Enoch Arden remains lost and missing for more than ten years. He finds upon his return from the sea that, after his long absence, his wife, who believed him dead, is married happily to another man, and has a child by him. Not wanting to destroy his wife’s happiness, Enoch never reveals himself and dies of a broken heart. more
See also: Enoch Arden law, a legal precedent that grants a divorce or a legal exemption so that a person may remarry in the event of a spouse's prolonged absence.
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Maintenance by Mickoo737 on Flickr.
Anchor housing maintenance on the Maersk Kokura container ship.
St Clement is revered as a martyr: fourth-century accounts speak of his forced labour in the mines during exile to the Crimea in the reign of the emperor Trajan (98-117 AD) and his missionary work there which prompted the Romans to bind him to an anchor and throw him into the Black Sea. Sometime later, the accounts continue, the water receded, revealing a tomb built by angels from which his body was recovered. The relics of St Clement are preserved beneath the high altar of the basilica of San Clemente in Rome and the painting in this photo hangs in the refectory of the Dominican priory adjoining the basilica.
(size 2312 x 1722)