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| x Choa Chu Kang Columbarium |
The Choa Chu Kang Columbarium is located within the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery Complex, in Singapore. It houses some 147,000 niches spread over 18 four-storey blocks. It was designed to be a place of peace for the departed and solace for those who visit...
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| x West Norwood Cemetery |
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Michel Emmanuel Rodocanachi |
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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| Panayis Athanase Vagliano | |||
| Mary Brough | |||
| Katti Lanner | |||
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| x Peter and Paul Cathedral |
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Catherine II of Russia |
The Peter and Paul Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the first and oldest landmark in St. Petersburg, built between 1712 and 1733 on Zayachy Island along the Neva...
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| Alexander II of Russia | |||
| Peter III of Russia | |||
| Nicholas I of Russia | |||
| Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia | |||
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| x Arlington National Cemetery |
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Albert Scott Crossfield |
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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| Gus Grissom | |||
| William Halsey, Jr. | |||
| Cordwainer Smith | |||
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| x El-Lisht |
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Senusret I |
Lisht or el-Lisht is an Egyptian village located south of Cairo. It is the site of Middle Kingdom royal and elite burials, including two pyramids built by Amenemhat I and Senusret I. The two main pyramids were surrounded by smaller pyramids of...
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| Amenemhat I | |||
| x Père Lachaise Cemetery |
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Pierre Jules César Janssen |
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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| Gaspard Monge | |||
| François Arago | |||
| Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville | |||
| Jim Morrison | |||
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| x Westminster Abbey |
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Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany |
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the...
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| Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain | |||
| George II of Great Britain | |||
| Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain | |||
| Frederick, Prince of Wales | |||
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| x Brompton Cemetery |
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Roderick Murchison |
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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| Charles Fremantle | |||
| George Godwin | |||
| Tim Rose | |||
| Gus Mears | |||
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| x Repton |
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Ethelbald of Mercia |
Repton is a village and civil parish on the edge of the River Trent floodplain in South Derbyshire, about 4.5 miles (7 km) north of Swadlincote. Repton is close to the county boundary with neighbouring Staffordshire and about 4.5 miles (7 km)...
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| Wiglaf of Mercia | |||
| x Glasnevin Cemetery |
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Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz |
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.
Prior to...
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| Maud Gonne | |||
| Arthur Griffith | |||
| Charles Stewart Parnell | |||
| Daniel O'Connell | |||
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| x Bellu |
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Dan Spătaru |
Bellu is the most famous and largest cemetery in Bucharest, Romania.
It is located on a plot of land donated to the local administration by Baron Barbu Bellu. It has been in use since 1858.
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| Constantin Titel Petrescu | |||
| Grigore Vasiliu Birlic | |||
| Nicolae Labiş | |||
| Ion Minulescu | |||
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| x Kensal Green Cemetery |
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Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom |
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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| Kitty Melrose | |||
| Catherine Hayes | |||
| Fanny Fitzwilliam | |||
| Thomas Allom | |||
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| x Saint Denis Basilica |
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Louis XV of France |
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis (French: Cathédrale royale de Saint-Denis, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis, previously the Abbaye de Saint-Denis) is a large medieval abbey church in the commune of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris....
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| Louis XIII of France | |||
| Henry IV of France | |||
| Louis VIII of France | |||
| Louis IX of France | |||
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| x Uppsala Cathedral |
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Gustav I of Sweden |
Uppsala Cathedral (Swedish: Uppsala domkyrka) is a cathedral located centrally in the city of Uppsala, Sweden. It dates back to the late 13th century and at a height of 118.7 m is the tallest church building in Scandinavia. Originally built under...
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| John III of Sweden | |||
| Catherine Jagiellon | |||
| Eric IX of Sweden | |||
| x Karrakatta Cemetery | James Mitchell |
Karrakatta Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery in the suburb of Karrakatta in Perth, Western Australia. Karrakatta Cemetery first opened for burials in 1899, with Robert Creighton. Currently managed by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, the cemetery...
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| Henry Brockman | |||
| Charles Harper | |||
| John Forrest | |||
| Alexander Forrest | |||
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| x Salem |
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George Peabody |
Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. The population was 41,340 at the 2010 census. Salem and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County. Home to Salem State University, the Salem Willows Park and the Peabody Essex...
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| Patrick Francis Bresnahan | |||
| John Phillip Rilley | |||
| x Abney Park Cemetery |
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Thomas Wilson |
Abney Park in Stoke Newington, in the London Borough of Hackney, is a historic parkland originally laid out in the early 18th century by Lady Mary Abney and Dr. Isaac Watts, and the neighbouring Hartopp family. In 1840 it became a non-denominational...
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| James Braidwood | |||
| John Morison | |||
| William Booth | |||
| John Pye Smith | |||
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| x Tatoi |
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Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark |
Tatoi, located 5 km north of Athens's suburbs, and 27 km from the Athenian Acropolis was the summer palace and 10,000 acre estate of the former Greek Royal Family, and the site of George II of the Hellenes's birth. The area is a densely wooded...
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| Paul of Greece | |||
| George II of Greece | |||
| Constantine I of Greece | |||
| Alexander of Greece | |||
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| x Owens Cross Roads | Paul L. Bolden |
Owens Cross Roads is a town in Madison County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the town is 1,521.
Owens Cross Roads is located at 34°35′10″N 86°27...
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| x Winchester |
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Alfred the Great |
Winchester (archaically known as Winton and Wintonceastre) is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a...
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| Egbert of Wessex | |||
| William II of England | |||
| Harthacanute | |||
| Ealhswith | |||
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| x Cumberland |
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Robert Bruce, jure uxoris Earl of Carrick |
Cumberland ( /ˈkʌmbərlənd/) is a historic county of North West England, on the border with Scotland, from the 12th century until 1974. It formed an administrative county from 1889 to 1974 (excluding Carlisle from 1914) and now forms part of Cumbria....
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| x Norwalk |
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John D. Magrath |
Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County. The city is part of the New...
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| Daniel J. Shea | |||
| x Winchester Cathedral |
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William II of England |
Winchester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral situated in Winchester, Hampshire, England. The cathedral is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe....
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| Harthacanute | |||
| Edwy of England | |||
| Ælfweard of Wessex | |||
| Richard, Duke of Bernay | |||
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| x Mendes |
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Nefaarud I |
Mendes (Μένδης), the Greek name of the Ancient Egyptian city of Djedet, also known in Ancient Egypt as Per-Banebdjedet ("The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet") and Anpet, is known today as Tell El-Ruba (Arabic: تل الربع).
The city is located in the...
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| x Roskilde Cathedral |
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Louise of Great Britain |
Roskilde Cathedral (Danish: Roskilde Domkirke), in the city of Roskilde on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark, is a cathedral of the Lutheran Church of Denmark. The first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick, it encouraged the...
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| Sweyn I of Denmark | |||
| Frederick II of Denmark | |||
| Margaret I of Denmark | |||
| Christian X of Denmark | |||
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| x Svetitskhoveli Cathedral |
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George XII of Georgia |
Svetitskhoveli Cathedral (Georgian: სვეტიცხოვლის საკათედრო ტაძარი, svet'icxovlis sak'atedro t'adzari; literally, "the Living Pillar Cathedral") is a Georgian Orthodox cathedral located in the historical town of Mtskheta, Georgia, 20 km (12 mi)...
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| David VII Ulu of Georgia | |||
| Rusudan of Georgia | |||
| David VI of Georgia | |||
| Demetrius II of Georgia | |||
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| x Riddarholmskyrkan |
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Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden |
The Riddarholmen Church (Swedish: Riddarholmskyrkan) is the burial church of the Swedish monarchs. It is located on the island of Riddarholmen, close to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. The congregation was dissolved in 1807 and today the...
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| Charles XIV John of Sweden | |||
| Charles XV of Sweden | |||
| Gustav III of Sweden | |||
| Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden | |||
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| x Mausoleum of Augustus |
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Augustus |
The Mausoleum of Augustus (Italian: Mausoleo di Augusto) is a large tomb built by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 28 BC on the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy. The Mausoleum, now located on the Piazza Augusto Imperatore, is no longer open to tourists,...
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| Claudius | |||
| Nerva | |||
| Octavia Minor | |||
| Nero Claudius Drusus | |||
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| x Brookwood Cemetery |
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Hamid Mirza |
Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in western Europe.
Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, was established by the London...
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| Dorabji Tata | |||
| Dugald Drummond | |||
| Naji al-Ali | |||
| Muhammad al-Badr | |||
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| x Fulda |
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Conrad I of Germany |
Fulda (German pronunciation: [ˈfʊlda]) is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (Kreis).
The Benedictine monastery of Fulda was founded in 744 by Saint Sturm, a disciple of...
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| x Old San Juan |
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Ángel Rivero Méndez |
Old San Juan (Spanish: Viejo San Juan) is the oldest settlement within Puerto Rico and it is the historic colonial section of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Old San Juan is located on a small and narrow island which lies in the north coast, about 35 miles ...
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| x Narbonne |
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Philip III of France |
Narbonne (French pronunciation: [naʁ.bɔn]; Occitan: Narbona; Latin: Narbo) is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It lies 849 km (528 mi) from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Once a...
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| x Cave of the Patriarchs |
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Sarah |
The Cave of the Patriarchs or the Cave of Machpelah (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ha-Machpela (help·info), trans. "cave of the double tombs"), is known by Muslims as the Sanctuary of Abraham or Ibrahimi Mosque (Arabic: الحرم الإبراهيمي, Al-Haram...
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| Abraham | |||
| Isaac | |||
| Jacob | |||
| Rebecca | |||
| x Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon |
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William Shakespeare |
The Collegiate Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon is a Grade I listed parish church of the Church of England in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
It is often known simply as Holy Trinity Church or as Shakespeare...
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| Anne Hathaway | |||
| Susanna Hall | |||
| John Hall | |||
| x St Andrews |
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Constantine II of Scotland |
St Andrews (Scots: Saunt Aundraes, Scottish Gaelic: Cill Rìmhinn) is a former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, named after Saint Andrew the Apostle. The town is home to the University of St Andrews, the third oldest university in...
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| Óengus I of the Picts | |||
| James Sharp | |||
| x Stuttgart |
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Oskar Schlemmer |
Stuttgart (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʊtɡaɐ̯t]) is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 (December 2008) while the metropolitan area has...
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| Antonia Visconti | |||
| Prince Frederick of Württemberg | |||
| x Princeton Cemetery | Grover Cleveland |
Princeton Cemetery is located in Borough of Princeton, New Jersey. It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church. John F. Hageman in his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey refers to the cemetery as: "The Westminster Abbey of the United States."
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| Richard Stockton Field | |||
| George Ball | |||
| Charles B. Alexander | |||
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| x Darmstadt |
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Alice of the United Kingdom |
Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.
The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any...
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| Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine | |||
| Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse | |||
| Princess Elisabeth of Hesse | |||
| Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse | |||
| x Missouri |
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Darrell S. Cole |
Missouri (/mɨˈzʊəri/) (nickname The Show Me State) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri is the 21st most extensive and the 18th...
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| Jack A. Davenport | |||
| Daniel Boone | |||
| George Phillips | |||
| Ova A. Kelley | |||
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| x Kremlin Wall Necropolis |
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Kliment Voroshilov |
Burials in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow began in November 1917, when 240 pro-Bolshevik victims of the October Revolution were buried in mass graves on Red Square. It is centered on both sides of Lenin's Mausoleum, initially built in wood in...
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| Matvei Zakharov | |||
| Vasily Sokolovsky | |||
| Fyodor Tolbukhin | |||
| Rodion Malinovsky | |||
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| x Katarina kyrka |
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Sten Sture the Elder |
Katarina kyrka (Church of Catherine) is one of the major churches in central Stockholm, Sweden. The original building was constructed 1656–1695. It has been rebuilt twice after being destroyed by fires, the second time during the 1990s. The Katarina...
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| x Prospect Hill Cemetery | Reuben Gaylord |
Prospect Hill Cemetery, located at 3202 Parker Street in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska, USA. It is Omaha's oldest pioneer cemetery. It is between 31st and 33rd Streets and Parker and Grant Streets.
While laying out "Shinn's...
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| Dan Allen | |||
| Anna Wilson | |||
| Frederick Metz | |||
| Augustus Hall | |||
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| x Sorø |
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Olav IV of Norway |
Sorø is a town in Sorø municipality in Region Sjælland on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in east Denmark. The population is 7,764 (1 January 2012). The municipal council and the regional council are located in Sorø.
Sorø was founded in 1161 by...
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| x Highgate Cemetery |
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Shura Cherkassky |
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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| Alexander Litvinenko | |||
| Frances Polidori | |||
| Thomas Sayers | |||
| George Wombwell | |||
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| x Kew |
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Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge |
Kew is a village in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London.
Kew is best known for being the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens, now a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace. Kew is also the home of Domesday Book...
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| Thomas Gainsborough | |||
| Richard Levett | |||
| x Leicestershire |
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Richard III of England |
Leicestershire (/ˈlɛstəʃɪər/ or /ˈlɛstərʃər/ or /ˈlɛstəʃə/; abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the...
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| Leicester Smyth | |||
| Lady Elizabeth Stanley | |||
| x Abel's Hill Cemetery | John Belushi | ||
| x Rancho Palos Verdes |
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Edward A. DeVore, Jr. |
Rancho Palos Verdes (sometimes abbreviated RPV) is a city in Los Angeles County, California that was incorporated on September 7, 1973. The population was 41,643 at the 2010 census. Rancho Palos Verdes translates from Spanish as Green Mast Farm or...
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| x The Woodlands Cemetery |
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John Joseph Abercrombie |
The Woodlands is a National Historic Landmark District on the western banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It includes a magnificent federal style mansion, a matching carriage house and stable, and a garden landscape that in...
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| Sidney George Fisher | |||
| George H. Crosman | |||
| David B. Birney | |||
| Anthony J. Drexel Biddle | |||
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| x Avery Island |
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Walter Stauffer McIlhenny |
Avery Island (historically French: Ile Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, it is about three miles (5 km) inland from Vermilion Bay, which in turn opens onto the...
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| x Woodlawn Cemetery |
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Marilyn Miller |
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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| Olive Thomas | |||
| Andrew J. Rogers | |||
| Royal H. Weller | |||
| William H.H. Stowell | |||
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| x West Point Cemetery |
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John T. Thompson |
West Point Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the grounds of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. It overlooks the Hudson River, and served as a burial ground for American Revolutionary War soldiers and early West Point...
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| Charles Pomeroy Stone | |||
| Thomas J. Wood | |||
| George Sykes | |||
| Hamilton S. Hawkins | |||
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| x Mount Vernon |
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George Washington |
Mount Vernon, located near Alexandria, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first President of the United States, George Washington. The mansion is built of wood in neoclassical Georgian architectural style, and the estate is located on the...
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| Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis | |||
| x Spring Grove Cemetery |
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Manning Force |
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres) is a nonprofit garden cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the second largest cemetery in the United States and is recognized as a U.S. National Historic...
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| Godfrey Weitzel | |||
| Robert Reily | |||
| Alexander McDowell McCook | |||
| Edwin Stanton McCook | |||
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| x Persepolis |
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Artaxerxes III of Persia |
Persepolis (Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 Pārsa, Takht-e Jamshid or Chehel Minar) was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE). Persepolis is situated 70 km northeast of the modern city of Shiraz in the Fars Province of modern Iran. In...
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| Darius III of Persia | |||
| x St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle |
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Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales |
St George's Chapel is the place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom. It is both a royal peculiar and the chapel of the Order of the Garter. The chapel is governed by the Dean and Canons of Windsor.
The chapel is located in the...
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| Edward VII of the United Kingdom | |||
| Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife | |||
| Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom | |||
| Charles I of England | |||
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| x Faversham Abbey |
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Eustace IV of Boulogne |
Faversham Abbey was a Cluny style monastery immediately to the north-east of the town of Faversham in the county of Kent in England.
It was founded by King Stephen and his queen, Matilda I of Boulogne, in 1148. A party of monks from Bermondsey Abbey...
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| Matilda of Boulogne | |||
| Stephen of England | |||
| x Frogmore |
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Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein |
The Frogmore Estate or Gardens comprise 33 acres (130,000 m) of private gardens within the grounds of the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in the English county of Berkshire. The name derives from the preponderance of frogs which have always...
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| Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | |||
| Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein | |||
| Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught | |||
| Edward VIII of the United Kingdom | |||
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| x Mirow |
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Augusta of Cambridge |
Mirow (German pronunciation: [ˈmiːʁoː]) is a city in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte in southern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
Mirow lies in the middle of the Mecklenburg Lake District (Mecklenburgische Seenplatte) on the...
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| x Vilnius |
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Vytautas the Great |
Vilnius ([ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ( listen); see also other names) is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 554,060 (838, 852 together with Vilnius County) as of 2011. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the...
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| Alexander Jagiellon | |||
| Vilna Gaon | |||
