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| x Glasnevin Cemetery |
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Glasnevin Cemetery (Irish: Reilig Ghlas Naíon), officially known as Prospect Cemetery, is the largest non-denominational cemetery in Ireland with an estimated 1.5 million burials. It first opened in 1832 and is located in Glasnevin, Dublin.
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| x Montmartre Cemetery |
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Montmartre Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786, as they presented health hazards....
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| x Highgate Cemetery |
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Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. It is designated Grade I on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. It is divided into two parts, named the East and West cemetery....
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| x Passy Cemetery |
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The Passy Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Passy) is a cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schlœsing in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
In the early 19th century, on the orders of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, all the...
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| x Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In the early 19th century, the only authorized cemeteries within the city of Toronto (then known as York) were limited to the members of either the Roman Catholic Church or...
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| x La Recoleta Cemetery |
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La Recoleta Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de la Recoleta) is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, Raúl Alfonsín, and several presidents of...
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| x Arlington National Cemetery |
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Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general...
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| x Fairview Lawn Cemetery |
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Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a Canadian cemetery that is perhaps best known as the final resting place for over one hundred victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Officially known as Fairview Lawn Cemetery, the non...
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| x Novodevichy Cemetery |
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Novodevichy Cemetery (Russian: Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site....
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| x Dean Cemetery |
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The Dean Cemetery is a prominent cemetery in the Dean Village, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
It stands on the site of Dean House (built 1614), part of Dean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by Sir William Nisbet, who became in 1616 Lord Provost of...
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| x Powązki Cemetery |
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Powązki Cemetery (Polish pronunciation: [pɔˈvɔ̃skʲi]; Polish: Cmentarz Powązkowski), also known as the Stare Powązki (English: Old Powązki) is a historic cemetery located in the Wola district, western part of Warsaw, Poland. It is the most famous...
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| x Ford Park Cemetery |
Ford Park Cemetery is a 34.5-acre (140,000 m) cemetery in central Plymouth, England, established by the Plymouth, Stonehouse & Devonport Cemetery Company in 1846 and opened in 1848. At the time it was outside the boundary of the Three Towns and was...
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| x Green-Wood Cemetery |
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Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, Kings County , New York. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, it lies...
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| x Kensal Green Cemetery |
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Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in Kensal Green, in the west of London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Inspired by the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and founded in 1833 by the barrister George Frederick Carden, Kensal...
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| x Holy Cross Cemetery |
Holy Cross Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery at 5835 West Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California, United States, operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Opened in 1939, Holy Cross comprises 200 acres (81 ha). It contains...
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| x Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery |
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries refers to two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of California. The original cemetery is located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The...
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| x Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery |
The Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 22601 Lassen Street, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. It is the resting place for several movie stars such as Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Grahame and Stephen Boyd.
Oakwood Memorial Park is...
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| x Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica |
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Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery is located at 1847 14th Street in Santa Monica, California, United States.
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| x San Fernando Mission Cemetery |
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The San Fernando Mission Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located at 11160 Stranwood Avenue in the Mission Hills community of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, near the San Fernando Mission.
The cemetery has been operated by the Los...
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| x Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery |
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Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 10621 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood, California.
The cemetery has a special section called the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation that is the final resting place for a number of...
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| x Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles |
The Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, located at 4201 Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. It is also called "New Calvary Cemetery" because the original 1896 cemetery on North Broadway...
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| x Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery |
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 660 Thompson Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. It is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville.
Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery, there are many prominent members of the country music genre...
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| x Gettysburg National Cemetery |
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The Gettysburg National Cemetery is a Gettysburg Battlefield site designated as a district of the Gettysburg National Military Park. Originating as an 1863 state-owned "national cemetery" with Union reinterments from Battle of Gettysburg graves, the...
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| x Woodlawn Cemetery |
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Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and is a designated National Historic Landmark.
A rural cemetery located in the Bronx, it opened in 1863, in what was then southern Westchester County, in an area that was annexed...
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| x Camas Cemetery |
Camas Cemetery is a cemetery in Camas, Washington that was first used in 1860.
The Camas Catholic Cemetery, also known as Dead Lake Cemetery, was located on NE Lake road near Lacamas Lake. In 1984 the graves from there were moved to the Camas...
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| x Calvary Cemetery, Queens |
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The Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Queens has the largest number of interments of any cemetery in the United States with more than 3 million burials. The offices of Calvary Cemetery are located at 49-02 Laurel Hill Blvd. in Woodside in the New...
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| x Mount Holly Cemetery |
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Mount Holly Cemetery is the original cemetery in the Quapaw Quarter area of downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, and is the burial place for numerous Arkansans of note. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been nicknamed "The...
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| x Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery |
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Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near Cabot in northern Lonoke County, Arkansas and is the site of Confederate military camp where 1,500 Confederate soldiers died during an epidemic during the fall of 1862.
Camp Nelson...
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| x Conway Cemetery Historic State Park |
Conway Cemetery State Park is a 11.5-acre (4.7 ha) Arkansas state park in Lafayette County, Arkansas in the United States. Located on the former cotton plantation grounds of James Sevier Conway, the cemetery serves as Conway's final resting place....
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| x Saint-Vincent Cemetery |
Saint-Vincent Cemetery (Fr:Cimetière Saint-Vincent) at 6, rue Lucien-Gaulard in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France was opened on January 5, 1831. It was Montmartre's second cemetery, built after the Cimetière du Calvaire had been filled. It is...
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| x Mount Hope Cemetery |
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Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, founded in 1838, is the United States' first municipal rural cemetery. Situated on 196 acres (793,000 m²) (0.3 square miles) of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the...
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| x Batignolles Cemetery |
The Batignolles Cemetery (French: Cimetière des Batignolles) is a cemetery in Paris, located in the Épinettes district, in the northeastern part of the 17th arrondissement.
Extending over nearly eleven hectares, slightly larger than the Montmartre...
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| x Père Lachaise Cemetery |
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Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, [simtjɛːʁ dy pɛːʁ laʃɛːz]; officially, cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres)), though there are larger...
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| x West Norwood Cemetery |
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West Norwood Cemetery is a 40-acre (16 ha) cemetery in West Norwood in London, England. It was also known as the South Metropolitan Cemetery. One of the first private landscaped cemeteries in London, it is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries of...
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| x Mount Auburn Cemetery |
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Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery" or "rural cemetery". With classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain, it marked a distinct break with Colonial-era burying grounds and church-affiliated...
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| x La Cambe |
La Cambe is a military war grave cemetery, located close to Bayeux, France. Presently containing in excess of 21,000 German military personnel of World War II, it is maintained and managed by the German War Graves Commission.
La Cambe was originally...
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| x Lychakivskiy Cemetery |
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Lychakiv Cemetery (Polish: Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie; Ukrainian: Личаківський цвинтар, translit. Lychakivs’kyi tsvyntar) is a famous and historic cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.
Since its creation in 1787 as Łyczakowski Cemetery, it has been the...
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| x Rasos Cemetery |
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Rasos Cemetery (Lithuanian: Rasų kapinės, Polish: cmentarz Na Rossie w Wilnie) is the oldest and most famous cemetery in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is named after the Rasos district where it is located. It is separated into two parts, the...
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| x Angelus Rosedale Cemetery |
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery at 1831 West Washington Boulevard Los Angeles, California, in the historic West Adams District a short distance southwest of Downtown.
It was founded as Rosedale Cemetery in 1884, when Los Angeles was a small...
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| x Waverley Cemetery |
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The Waverley Cemetery opened in 1877 and is a cemetery located on top of the cliffs at Bronte in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. It is noted for its largely intact Victorian and Edwardian monuments. The cemetery contains the graves of many...
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| x Vagankovo Cemetery |
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Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery (Ваганьковское кладбище), established in 1771, is located in the Krasnaya Presnya (Красная Пресня) district of Moscow. It is the burial site for a number of people from the artistic and sports community of Russia and the old...
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| x Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a cemetery located on Bedford Street near the center of Concord, Massachusetts. The cemetery is the burial site of a number of famous Concordians, including some of the United States' greatest authors and thinkers,...
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| x Metairie Cemetery |
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Metairie Cemetery is a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits, on Metairie...
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| x Linwood Cemetery |
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Linwood Cemetery is located in Dubuque, Iowa. It is located on Windsor Avenue in the north end of Dubuque.
The cemetery is one of the main cemeteries in Dubuque. Originally established for the Protestants of the city, the cemetery now serves members...
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| x Lake View Cemetery |
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Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery located on Seattle, Washington, Capitol Hill just north of Volunteer Park. It is named for its view of Lake Washington to the east. It was founded in 1873 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery.
The cemetery contains the...
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| x Mount Royal Cemetery |
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Opened in 1852, Mount Royal Cemetery is a 165-acre (668 000 m²) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The burial ground shares the mountain with the much larger adjacent Roman...
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| x Brompton Cemetery |
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Brompton Cemetery is located near Earl's Court in South West London, England (postal districts SW 5 and 10), in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is managed by The Royal Parks and is one of the Magnificent Seven. Established by Act of...
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| x Fernhill Cemetery |
Fernhill Cemetery, originally known as the Rural Cemetery at the time it opened in 1848, is located at 200 Westmorland Road in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Renamed Fernhill in 1899, the 125 acre (0.5 km²) cemetery has a special section for...
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| x Camp Hill Cemetery |
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In 1844 Camp Hill Cemetery on Robie Street in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada replaced the city's first cemetery known as the Old Burying Ground that had been established almost 100 years earlier in 1749. Originally run by private company,...
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| x La Chacarita Cemetery |
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Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is known as the National Cemetery and is the largest in Argentina.
The cemetery is in the barrio or district of Chacarita, in the northern part of Buenos Aires. Its main entrance is on Avenida...
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| x Kanchanaburi War Cemetery |
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The Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (known locally as the Don-Rak War Cemetery) is the main Prisoner of War (POW) cemetery associated with victims of the Burma Railway. It is located in the town of Kanchanaburi, Thailand, and is maintained by the...
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| x Vladslo |
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Vladslo German war cemetery is about three kilometres north east of Vladslo, near Diksmuide, Belgium. Established during World War I, the cemetery holds 3,233 wartime burials. In 1956, burials from many smaller surrounding cemeteries were...
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| x Mount Calvary Cemetery |
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Mount Calvary Cemetery is one of the two main cemeteries for Catholics in the Dubuque, Iowa area. The cemetery is located at 1111 Davis St, Dubuque, Iowa. It is in the northern part of the city. The cemetery is located near two other cemeteries - St...
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| x Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery |
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The Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery (Chinese: 五指山國軍示範公墓, literally Wuzhi Mountain National Military Model Public Cemetery) is Taiwan's most prominent military cemetery. The cemetery is located on Wuzhi Mountain (五指山) in Xizhi, New Taipei City and...
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| x Mount Olivet Cemetery |
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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located at 10378 Military Road in Key West, Iowa approximately 4 mi (6.4 km) south of Dubuque. It is one of the two large Catholic cemeteries located in the Dubuque area. The cemetery is located near...
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| x Key Hill Cemetery |
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Key Hill Cemetery, (OS grid reference SP059882), originally called Birmingham General Cemetery, a Nonconformist (non-denominational) cemetery, is the oldest cemetery (not being in a churchyard) in Birmingham, England. It opened on 23 May 1836....
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| x Protestant Cemetery, Rome |
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The Protestant Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero protestante), now officially called the Cimitero acattolico ("Non-Catholic Cemetery")and often referred to as the Cimitero degli Inglesi ("Englishmen's Cemetery") is a cemetery in Rome, located near Porta...
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| x Tower Hamlets Cemetery |
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery is a cemetery located in the East End of London; its nearest tube station is Mile End. The cemetery opened in 1841 and closed for burials in 1966. It is now a nature reserve, and other land has been added to the park,...
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| x Graceland Cemetery |
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Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian era cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road. The...
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| x Mount Carmel Cemetery |
Mount Carmel Cemetery is located in Wyandotte, Michigan in the United States. Established in 1864, Mt Carmel Cemetery is currently an active and open cemetery. The original cemetery was 10 acres (40,000 m) holding over 8,000 interments. An...
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