In a culture that usually removes death from the public domain, such different places share a common link as scenes strongly associated with the loss of life, he says.

BBC: 'Dark tourism' study centre launched by university

The professor said her report had noted that the circular might have been more explicit, but the death in Altnagelvin was not in the public domain and there was concern that there could be a breach of confidentiality.

BBC: Health Committee

Verne books are freebies for publishers, since European and U.S. law puts previously published work into the public domain 70 years after an author's death.

FORBES: Eerily Prescient

The domain name identity crisis is worrisome right now because of the recent untimely death of Jon Postel, the guru of Internet names and numbers.

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