Beachy Head
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Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England. It is situated close to Eastbourne, immediately east of the Seven Sisters.
Beachy Head Lighthouse under the cliff
Belle Tout Lighthouse
Phone box and sign advertising the Samaritans at Beachy Head.
Beachy Head from the air, with Beachy Head Lighthouse at its foot.
Friedrich Engels
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Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best known for his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx, with whom he co-authored The Comm
Beachy Head
…We sailed by Beachy, by Fairlight and Dover, And then we bore up for the South Foreland light. The ashes of German social scientist and philosopher Friedrich Engels, one of the fathers of communism, were scattered off the cliffs at Beachy Head into the Channel, as he had requested. Human remains discovered in the…
Engels in 1877
Engels's childhood home in Barmen, Prussia, a town which he later described as the "Zion of the obscurantists".
Self-portrait of Engels at age 19 in 1839
Sketch by Engels depicting the Berlin Freien, 1842